The biggest catch of this contest, the top winner will get a chance to win a Photo Clinic in New Zealand under the lead of a professional photographer. It's a 7 days Photography trip to experience the Mount Cook – New Zealand’s highest peak.The 3 themes are Change, Dreams and Freedom. We are given 3.5 hours to shoot each theme. Me and Siew as usual not knowing what are the winning prizes until we reached there. But we both know what our real purpose was to have fun hehehe :)
The organiser display some of the interesting shots taken by the contestants. Some were quite lame and crappy, and some were just too direct. I must say its not only just technical aspects but rather the creativity that will attract the judges' heart.
I did learn something out of this contest after such a long day of mental and physical exercising. The difference between a winner and just a normal participant is that he / she will be able to bring out the strong meaning of each theme in his / her own unique ways. I think mine was too simple and direct. I should try to develop the eye for creativity and endurance to complete the marathon for next year.
Despite I never win any prizes, I'm still happy to able to enjoy this contest with Siew and George who join us in the middle of the contest after his friends flew him kite. I start to believe enjoying the process is more important than the results.
The only thing i feel that the organiser should improved is the time management. They should be stringent about the time after all this is a contest. Somehow people just come back late for their assignments and the time is extended. The contest ended up quite late. Instead of 6pm, it ended up almost 10pm. We are just too tired to wait for the results to be released.
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