Lightmancer
Legend
- Location
- Sunny Frimley
- Name
- Bill Palmer
...everything goes right?
Not only did I, after two years of hard graft, launch my mobile app for people caring for elderly relatives (CareHound, available now on Google Play and shortly on the App Store in the UK, on Twitter @CareHoundUK and Facebook "CareHound" )...
But I also won a camera.
With this very picture:
View attachment 188936...which of course I have shown here before.
The irony is this. I was in Venice that day to participate in "The Leica One Challenge" a competition I created in my days on the LUF; the rules were simple - one hour, one location, one camera, one lens, 36 exposures, one entry, one winner.
Frustratingly I took this photo an hour before the competition was due to start, on a Panasonic, so it was ineligible.
Fast forward to today. A few weeks ago I entered a competition, on Instagram, run by Leica Camera and the Gentleman's Journal magazine. They were seeking a travel shot.
I knew I was down to the last five, from 850-odd images entered, but you could have knocked me down with a feather when today I found out I had actually won by opening the parcel.
Here's the thing. The One Challenge prize fund that day was about 80 Euros. Today I won a camera whose RRP is more than ten times as much...
I never win anything, but on all fronts, today has been a GOOD day, so please forgive me if I...
Not only did I, after two years of hard graft, launch my mobile app for people caring for elderly relatives (CareHound, available now on Google Play and shortly on the App Store in the UK, on Twitter @CareHoundUK and Facebook "CareHound" )...
But I also won a camera.
With this very picture:
View attachment 188936...which of course I have shown here before.
The irony is this. I was in Venice that day to participate in "The Leica One Challenge" a competition I created in my days on the LUF; the rules were simple - one hour, one location, one camera, one lens, 36 exposures, one entry, one winner.
Frustratingly I took this photo an hour before the competition was due to start, on a Panasonic, so it was ineligible.
Fast forward to today. A few weeks ago I entered a competition, on Instagram, run by Leica Camera and the Gentleman's Journal magazine. They were seeking a travel shot.
I knew I was down to the last five, from 850-odd images entered, but you could have knocked me down with a feather when today I found out I had actually won by opening the parcel.
Here's the thing. The One Challenge prize fund that day was about 80 Euros. Today I won a camera whose RRP is more than ten times as much...
I never win anything, but on all fronts, today has been a GOOD day, so please forgive me if I...