Last month, husband and I went to Canberra to see the Floriade and visit some of his friends. Floriade is Australian spring festival that is held in Canberra every year. As you know, spring festival is identical with flower festival. In Floriade you will find beds of tulips and poppies and many other exhibitions. The Commonwealth Park (where the Floriade is held), is not that big compared with Showa Kinen park in Japan. Me and Honey finished seeing every corner, eating churros, and taking pictures in only 2 hours. That's quite fast compared to my 4-hour trip in Showa Kinen, hehe.
Anyway, in Floriade, there is also photo exhibition which exhibits pictures from the previous Floriade photo competitions. The pictures were large-printed and placed randomly around the park. I don't know why suddenly I wanted to enter the competition. So, we went around the park and see the winning pictures, try to find out the key to winning. Actually, there is nothing really special about those pictures (except a few). So, I thought I'd give a shot.
I had to find a "different" idea. I avoided taking pictures of the flower only and macro shots (I didn't have the lens anyway, haha). Then, I came up with the idea of making heart-shape with our hands and have the flower bed as the blurry background. It took me many attempts (and a couple of different flower beds to see how the background turned out) to get the perfect heart-shape and photo angle. Honey was whining a couple of times too because he couldn't hold his hands up too long. Seriously, with only two of us and two usable hands, this is called "niat banget!". It was a pain for me as well because I had to hold my left hands up and hold the camera (and snap the shutter button) with my right hand.
In the competition, each person can submit up to two entries. I had a couple of other shots but I somehow feel this one is going to make it. Besides, I was too confused which other photo to submit, so at the end I only submitted one.
A few days ago my photography friend (who taught me a lot about photography when I was in Japan), mas Reza, posted on my Facebook wall the link of the Floriade photo competition announcement. He found the link when he was browsing and saw my name on one of the photo. I even already forgot about it, actually, because there wasn't any notification. Alhamdulillah the picture made it as the finalist. I didn't get the major prize, but I'm happy enough as the finalist since this is my first time to enter a photo competition. Lastly, my husband says, "see, you can even win the competition by using your lame lens-kit ;)"~ he's finding excuse for me to keep taking pictures regardless how crappy the lens-kit is (before I am united again with my prime).
And here's the winning picture (cropped)!
Anyway, in Floriade, there is also photo exhibition which exhibits pictures from the previous Floriade photo competitions. The pictures were large-printed and placed randomly around the park. I don't know why suddenly I wanted to enter the competition. So, we went around the park and see the winning pictures, try to find out the key to winning. Actually, there is nothing really special about those pictures (except a few). So, I thought I'd give a shot.
I had to find a "different" idea. I avoided taking pictures of the flower only and macro shots (I didn't have the lens anyway, haha). Then, I came up with the idea of making heart-shape with our hands and have the flower bed as the blurry background. It took me many attempts (and a couple of different flower beds to see how the background turned out) to get the perfect heart-shape and photo angle. Honey was whining a couple of times too because he couldn't hold his hands up too long. Seriously, with only two of us and two usable hands, this is called "niat banget!". It was a pain for me as well because I had to hold my left hands up and hold the camera (and snap the shutter button) with my right hand.
In the competition, each person can submit up to two entries. I had a couple of other shots but I somehow feel this one is going to make it. Besides, I was too confused which other photo to submit, so at the end I only submitted one.
A few days ago my photography friend (who taught me a lot about photography when I was in Japan), mas Reza, posted on my Facebook wall the link of the Floriade photo competition announcement. He found the link when he was browsing and saw my name on one of the photo. I even already forgot about it, actually, because there wasn't any notification. Alhamdulillah the picture made it as the finalist. I didn't get the major prize, but I'm happy enough as the finalist since this is my first time to enter a photo competition. Lastly, my husband says, "see, you can even win the competition by using your lame lens-kit ;)"~ he's finding excuse for me to keep taking pictures regardless how crappy the lens-kit is (before I am united again with my prime).
And here's the winning picture (cropped)!
Other shots from the Floriade:
How very cool!
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