As some of you may already know, back in February I submitted 5 images to the Marwell Wildlife Photographic Competition for 2011.
Its been a long couple of months, and with the submission deadline in 2 days I decided to take a trip to the Marwell website to see if anything had changed. I was pleased to see one of my submissions being used as the image on the main Marwell website for promoting the competition. For some reason however, I felt compelled to review the competition rules.
I was then very alarmed to see that I had either missed one of the rules on my original submission, or they had been amended. The one clause I am referring to is that images must of been taken within the last year! All 5 of my submissions were now void and ineligible for entry.
I contact Marwell straight away to apologise for the cock up and inform them my images were in breach of rules. Thankfully they allowed me to submit five new images.
Now the main reason I am dropping a line here. Marwell have uploaded all competition entries to Flickr in order to allow people to 'vote' for their favorite images in order to win the 'Peoples Choice Award'. This is where all my followers come in.
I would like to ask all my supporters to take a trip to the Marwell Wildlife Flickr page, sign into your Flickr accounts and 'favorite' any images you think deserve to win the Peoples Choice Award. Do not feel you have to vote for my entries , but any support is greatly appreciated. It would be nice to win a competition for a change! Follow the link below to be taken to the Flickr page for voting.
Visit Marwell Wildlife Peoples Choice Award Photostream
Currently my entries appear on page 12 in the Flickr photostream. The original entries are still in the gallery due to the comments that have been placed on them - Please DO NOT VOTE on these images. They are in the later pages of the photo pool.
For easy reference, here are direct links to my entries.
I thank you all in advance for your on going support of my photographic work.
Thanks for now!