Small Print Competition

Birmingham Street Scene

Every year Badby Photo Club has a small print competition which I think is a great idea.  Everyone can enter up to three pictures of any subject, they don’t have to be mounted, the only rules are that they are no bigger than 7″x5″ and that they have been taken in the last two years.  Then everyone gets three votes and the one with the most votes wins.

The thing I like is that you get such a wide variety of subjects entered each time, and it gives everyone a chance to show something different.

I was lucky enough to win last time, this was one of my entries this year which came second – I was very pleased, the photo that won was the one I wish I had taken.

I took this photo when killing time in Birmingham city centre – the title I gave it was “Something old, something new and the sky was blue”.  I think I surprised people at the club with this shot – they are used to my bees and butterflies, not urban scenes.

The photo was taken with my EOS 400d handheld with my kit lens on  – 17-85mm (at the time it was that or the macro lens) set at 17mm, I think I had a polarising filter on to take advantage of that fantastic sky, and the settings were f/10, ISO 200, 1/125 secs.