Striving Amateurs

About Striving Amateurs

Welcome to Striving Amateurs.

This group is for both amateurs and professionals alike; the idea is to encourage sharing of technique and constructive critique and be a friendly place to post your work and get some feedback.

Feel free to post any (safe) photos you have, especially one's where you've explored a new technique or method whether you're learning or consider yourself to be an expert in the area - its good to share!

The discussion pool is open for anyone to start up their own topic so if you have something you want to chat about, go for it! Please feel free to invite people you respect or admire as flickrites to the group and if you're interested in helping to promote and encourage the group to flourish then check out this discussion and you could become a moderator: click here

Please comment on other peoples photos and if you're using Firefox and have Greasemonkey installed - check out the Flickr Buddy Icon Reply and Flickr Refer Comment scripts.

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Congratulations to Michael for winning the self portrait competition.

Congratulations to [ derek ] for winning the Autumn competition with this fantastic time lapse shot:


Here's the two winners from the creative cutlery competition:
Votes totted up and joint winners are number 4 and 6 :)
whitney5544:


Gary Mellor:


Here's the two winners from the Landscapes comp
naked_dave


And ...
tjmorrison2




Here's the competition winning photo from the Night time competition, stay tuned for the next competition soon!


Well done to Garry Mellor1 for winning the first competition - Black and white. Here's the winning image :o)

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Check out the most recent recognition thread for TwistedTeen; here's a sample of one of her fantastic photos. Check out the thread here.





The last recognised member of the group ~K~ has some great photo's and has been explored quite a few times as well - nice work! Check out the Recognition thread here. Here's one of her pictures that Onken bio-pot particularly liked:





One of the picture's from the previous and first ever Recognition threads, this one's from Onken bio-pot below. Check out the thread here for more pics. The picture below, just goes to show you don't need an SLR to take a great photo!


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