Back in July, I won a Gold medal for an image I created. I started entering Salons last November (for the uninitiated, these are International Competitions, run by different countries around the world ) Great fun - but a little costly! There are up to 5000 competitors entering each Salon - so competition is tough, and just getting an acceptance is cause for great excitement!
I really hadn't expected to get any acceptances, let alone an AWARD!
Anyway - this was the winning image!
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| The Banjo Busker |
The picture is a composite: that is - two images put together. The graffiti was in a tunnel in southern Ireland and I had to press myself hard against the opposite tunnel wall and use my widest angle lens to capture it. Even then I had to "patch" in some detail along the lower edge to finish it off - and then flipped it left to right.
The busker was in the street playing his banjo - but was very shy, and wouldn't look up. As it turned out, I think that was for the best. I had to cut the busker out, and then place him in the scene, with the graffiti-man apparently having been woken up by the "noise"!
I loved the end result - and fortunately, so did the judges in Slovakia!
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