Went to see 2 exhibitions today: "Drawn By Light" at the Science Museum and Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. Two amazing shows and going to these ALWAYS inspire new ideas (photos from over 100 years ago CAN do that!). One thought did cross my mind: What do I do with my images? Put them on Facebook? Put them on here? Enter competitions at my Camera Club? Wouldn't it be cool to get something on a wall at the Sony World Photography Awards?? Now obviously, I'm not an idiot and I do realise the chances of actually getting picked are remote BUT there's always belief! I know one thing for certain: if I didn't enter, my images would definitely not be on that wall. Are there other reasons, other than "cool"? Yes, the thrill of seeing work up with other people I admire; (Ahem!) exposure - I've recently had a couple of conversations with people about the photos that I want to take and the type of photography I would like to do means that I have to make things happens myself...
So fingers crossed and if there's a future post on this subject then it's good news, if not it's time to pull the finger out and produce even better stuff!