Natalie Manuel - Journal

I’ve been a bit busy with this little baby, that’s why :)

This is Ewan, born 16th January 2011 :)

Not much of an excuse yet why I haven’t uploaded anything new though!

This year I entered my first APPAs and entered three prints for which I was lucky enough to win three silver awards!

The prints in question are:

Kiani -

Loved:

and The World Out There

Many thanks to Alicia from Savvy Studios for helping me out :)

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Hi,

We’d like to take expressions of interest for a third moderator on Animal Portraits!

We need someone who will stick to the high standards of the group and is able to maintain that :)

If you could BM me with your interest, that’d be great.

Natalie

I did an interview a while back with the UK’s Digital SLR Photography Magazine, and it is now out in Australia!

I haven’t seen it yet, but check it out :)

This will effect quite a lot of us.

I’ve had a letter from melb zoo sayng they own copyright of all my photos and that ‘commercial photography’ is not allowed, and to call them…etc.

I was under the impression it’s only commercial if you are using it to represent a product or place etc.

can anyone give me some advice?

My full collection is now for sale.

Calendars Range

5% will be donated to a conservation effort by end of January.

I have given in….hehe. I will keep my PC though.

Ok I have to admit, totally clueless about this.

I entered the Western Districts National 2009 comp via electronic submission. I just got in the mail my ‘results’, of the four images I entered. It says three are accepted.

What does this mean? There is an acceptance level too, what does that mean!

I don’t really get how national comps work as this is my first.

Must be some b…

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Any thoughts from those who have really put the effort in?

I know it’s hard to tell as you can’t be sure why/where the sale came from, but any thoughts would be a help :)