I really can’t tell you what an exciting weeks it’s been. After weeks of an aching neck and shoulder I made the decision to stop trying to edit on my lovely MacBook Pro – but invest in the desktop iMac. So here I am, tap tapping away on this truly enormous 27″ screen. Well, practically the first message I received on this huge beast was the news that my picture had won the Jane Austen Shoot photography competition!! It’s the first time I’ve won anything, and the first time I’ve ever entered a picture of mine for any competition. And not just that, but it was there, in a gallery of some truly exquisite photographs! The day itself (as you will discover in a future blog post) was brilliant and organised so well by Melissa Love Design – – it was like winning a prize just to be there. Congratulations to the other winners, Liesel Cheney, Tracey Barrow and Anna Wilmot Bowkis  – your pics were beautiful!

My winning picture! The Picnic Scene

So how did it come about that here I am, winning a photography prize? Surely this was never in the stars for the girl who went off to study Philosophy and thought she would end up in a really academic job? Well, there is an amazing person in my photography world who I hold responsible for this. I first joined Flickr because it was a convenient way to get in touch with an old friend I’d lost contact with! After a while I began to look around and came across the photographs of Kerry Harrison. Well, they were breathtaking. And I started to study and started to learn, and before I knew it I was the owner of a DSLR.

It has indeed been a stunning week – and everything stunning about it has been to do with photography. So thank you Kerry for luring me into this world.