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Hello all you Deviants out there, a special shout to my friends and watchers to whom I'm really grateful for all the support and comments. It occurred to me a few weeks (maybe even months :sniff: )back that I haven't been that active here and haven't really done much of photography or anything outside my university studies :reading: for that matter, so I had the intention of updating this journal but wanted to have more news so I can jam into one journal entry :typerhappy: and finally I have all what I wanted to say and confirmed too. So here goes. As some of you might already know, I was doing a Master degree as Manchester uni in manageme

Today I played football, for the first time in maybe 7 or 8 years, and I am not fit at all for this type of activity, or any physical activity that requires me to run, jump, or exercise. I was invited by a bunch of friends here in Manchester to go and "join" them, I told them I cant play due to an old back injury. took the camera bag to have an excuse to shoot a bit, but ended up throwing it to the side and filling missing goal keeper gap. one thing lead to another and I was defending and sliding and basically doing what ever stupid thing I can to make myself not look as a complete novice, and I'm pretty sure that was the image the guys took

Ok ... I finished my exams for this term:reading:and now I can go back to some photography and do something I can feel good doing. As the title of this journal suggests, it will be something I try and say officially for the first time and try to start a dialog and get some of your opinions about the last competition's results. As many of my friends know my personal approach to photography competitions, I will briefly state it here so as not to spear away from the intended aim of my writing this time. So, As any "amateur" photographer knows , and use the term loosely here, that as you get exposed to more constructive criticism the more you gr