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The Luna Omakase restaurant is situated within the Los Mochis restaurant in the City of London. It is so different to anything I have experienced before. My husband enters many competitions and this was one of his best wins (courtesy of Hot Dinners). We were treated so well, nothing was too much - from pre-dinner drinks to fresh mint tea to finish. We had 12 dishes, mostly fish but also some caviar and Wagyu beef all paired with four types of sake. There were just ten diners in a private room.

Click on an image below to go to that gallery to see the dishes.

The river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest covered 1600km and 68 locks. We travelled over the continental divide on a canal and then the river changed its flow direction from the North Sea to the Black Sea. The idea of connecting these two bodies of water was considered many centuries ago and only came to reality in 1992.

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These photos were taken on a trip by river in and around Bordeaux. It is a lovely city with lots of interesting things to do. The area is known for its wines and they didn't disappoint.

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Photos from my Great Rail Journeys trip to northern Italy are now ready to view in my new gallery.
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I won the Landscape of the Year cup at my camera club tonight with my image of the Matterhorn. It is printed on a slightly textured, matte paper from Paper Spectrum.

It's been a long time since I won the Projected Digital Image of the Year competition but 2022 was the year to change that. The white-capped albatross was taken off the southern island of New Zealand on a lovely clear day a few years ago. The birds came close to the boat for the chum they got. Taken on a 70-200mm lens at the 70mm end.

Just published this completes the trilogy of books created from a trip Cambodia, Loas and Vietnam back in 2008.
Click on this link to see the book

Just published is my book of a river cruise along the rivers and canals of the Netherlands and Belgium.
It contains a lot of history as well as photos.
Click this link to see my Amsterdam to Antwerp book.

The Smethwick salon is always a prestigious salon to get acceptances in so to get an award too, I was truly thrilled. Yes, it's that same one again!!! I now have six international awards for this image! Mustn't grumble!

My other acceptances were :

The 2020 Nordic Circuit comprised a salon in Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden. The same set of eight images were shown to each jury in each country. I got eleven acceptances across the board with the image below getting two awards - a FIAP Ribbon Monochrome in Finland and an NSFF Bronze Monochrome in Sweden.

I got three accepted images in the 2nd Lisboa International Exhibition of Photography. The acceptance mark was 21 - I also got 8 x 20s - so near yet so far away! I am thrilled with the Honourable Mention for the image below - a mono and I don't think of myself as a mono photographer. Maybe I should!

Also accepted in Lisboa were:

This new book contains photo essays of two railway journeys - the Andean Explorer, from Puno to Cusco in Peru and the Rocky Mountaineer from Vancouver to Calgary in Canada.
Originally I'd made the photos from these two journeys into audio-visual presentations. During the Covid-19 lock-down I took the opportunity to put them into book form.

The Digital Image of the Year competition was judged via the Zoom conference call system. My image, below, 'Snow Covered' was runner-up.

The 2020 German circuit comprised four salons. My set of 16 images were judged at the four salons with the result that I achieved 20 acceptances (out of my 64 total possibles) with one of them "Afternoon Rain" getting an Honourable Mention award - see below
Click on the image below to go to my Exhibition Acceptances page.

I've just made a new book. My first print talk is now in print and can be viewed by clicking on the orange link below.
It covers my first five years in camera club photography, my CPAGB panel and some London Salon acceptances.
The First Five Years and Beyond

The Natural History competition was judged remotely this year due to the Coronavirus meaning the club has stopped meeting. I was not the winner this year but of the other six awarded images (commended and highly commended), three of them were mine. Each member could enter a maximum of three images so yes I was pretty pleased.

This circuit of three international salons was organised by Serbia - one salon took place in Serbia and two salons took place in Montenegro. Themes were natural history; photo travel; woman; colour and mono. I got ten acceptances and 2 honourable mentions for 'Afternoon Rain' and 'Bubbles over Backstroke'.
Click on one of the awarded images below to go to my Exhibition Acceptances page.

After the club's AGM held on 17th June 2019, trophies and certificates were presented. I knew I'd won the Print Theme and also the Landscape trophies but didn't know I'd won the Bellworthy Trophy for the best results across three competition - the Print Open, the PDI Open and either Print or PDI theme, whichever gave the higher score.

This was a very close competition with the final three places being just three points apart and just one point separated second and first place. Each entrant put in three prints and the aggregate scores determined the winner
These are my three images. Two are those I entered into the Landscape competition and the third is an Indian chital deer.

The Landscape print competition attracted numerous entries from the club members ranging from sunrises, mountains, city and canyons. My 'A bleak mid-winter' was chosen as the winner. My minimalist print 'Twig and rocks' was highly commended. My three entries are below.