From our travels (which have been quite a bit) together we have always had a camera handy. Although when we first met which has just passed two and a half years Anja possessed an "old school" camera. Now there are many arguments for and against the introduction and invasion of the new generation of digital cameras. From our experiences of many varied travellers who take a ridiculous amount of photos when travelling it can take away from savouring the moment.
Still we both would be lost without a digital camera as from us venturing many different places it is hard to sometimes literally remember what you saw. It is more then the story behind the photo or even better the feelings you both had at the time.
This may sound deep and a bit strange but we have always maintained an idea of taking a photo is purely for the taker or someone in your family or a friend you know would love it. With our respective families living so far apart it is the greatest thing we can do to share with them all evenly and openly what we have experienced together.
So it was with the biggest pleasure that we identified some of our photos and wanted to enter them into competitions. Anja would show me a particular magazine "Australian Traveller" and as much as we would admire some of the pics we thought ours were pretty good all the same. So one of our photos was entered with the the hope to win the $1500 camera to continue our photo taking.
We emailed it off and awaited not nervously but mainly not expectant of some sort of response. Time passed and our normal ritual of magazine reading at one of the coffee houses here had slowed down. Our weekend away in Wellington was amazing and a great chance to see another part of the North Island of New Zealand.
As we waited to catch the bus to the airport we sought sanctuary in Borders a very cool bookshop. One that allows you to read the magazines without paying and this was exactly what I was doing when I heard Anja excitedly shout "that's our photo". She had discovered by chance that we had indeed been published but had failed to win the major prize,still a very proud moment for these two amateur photographers!
So the decision was made to buy a few copies of the magazine in question and now we want to share with you all our happy moment. The pic was one taken on our amazing day in the Whitsunday Islands when we stopped on Whitehaven Beach and saw the subject in the photo.
Still we both would be lost without a digital camera as from us venturing many different places it is hard to sometimes literally remember what you saw. It is more then the story behind the photo or even better the feelings you both had at the time.
This may sound deep and a bit strange but we have always maintained an idea of taking a photo is purely for the taker or someone in your family or a friend you know would love it. With our respective families living so far apart it is the greatest thing we can do to share with them all evenly and openly what we have experienced together.
So it was with the biggest pleasure that we identified some of our photos and wanted to enter them into competitions. Anja would show me a particular magazine "Australian Traveller" and as much as we would admire some of the pics we thought ours were pretty good all the same. So one of our photos was entered with the the hope to win the $1500 camera to continue our photo taking.
We emailed it off and awaited not nervously but mainly not expectant of some sort of response. Time passed and our normal ritual of magazine reading at one of the coffee houses here had slowed down. Our weekend away in Wellington was amazing and a great chance to see another part of the North Island of New Zealand.
As we waited to catch the bus to the airport we sought sanctuary in Borders a very cool bookshop. One that allows you to read the magazines without paying and this was exactly what I was doing when I heard Anja excitedly shout "that's our photo". She had discovered by chance that we had indeed been published but had failed to win the major prize,still a very proud moment for these two amateur photographers!
So the decision was made to buy a few copies of the magazine in question and now we want to share with you all our happy moment. The pic was one taken on our amazing day in the Whitsunday Islands when we stopped on Whitehaven Beach and saw the subject in the photo.
http://www.australiantraveller.com/index.cfm?page_id=1787
We are the eighth photo along and this month's photos are there now and to be honest when you see how good they are you feel pretty proud to say the least.
So our journey continues capturing it with our camera but we will never lose sight of the fact that it's what we capture in our head's and our heart's s even better :))
Jason