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News of my competition win reached the local press this week when, whilst paying for a carton of milk in the Co-op, I got a call from the East Anglian Daily Times to ask me a few questions about it all. A couple of days later I picked up a copy of the paper and was pleasantly surprised to find a rather impressive half page article complete with full colour reproduction of my photo and a mug shot of me looking unsuitably miserable considering I was supposed to have just won a prize (when they requested a photo of me, I really should have given that more thought!).

The media frenzy continued to grow when a similar article appeared in another local paper the next day and then as if to trump them both, the pièce de resistance was an article about the competition in today's Sunday Telegraph.

OK so maybe I'm exaggerating slightly but following my big break in the national papers, I braced myself for a flood of messages from friends and well wishers who had seen the article... what materialised was barely a trickle, which bought me back down to earth rather quickly but I enjoyed it while it lasted!

Voting for the overall winner ends on Monday 16th July (along with my 15 minutes of fame) so if you haven't already, you can cast your vote for your favourite photo on the Great British Life website 

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In other news, Friday night I somehow managed to squeeze a quick trip to the coast into what seemed like the only couple of rain free of hours in July. It wasn't the most amazing sunset but I was just pleased to be out with the camera so a couple of new photos should be appearing in my landscape gallery soon. In the meantime here is a quick preview shot...

Landguard Sunset on Flickr

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Finally this week, Redbubble, a website for buying and selling prints or as they describe it... "Redbubble is quite simply the finest and most diverse creative community and marketplace on the interlink." launched a new look site this week which coincided with a couple of new landscape print sales for me.

If you're not familiar with Redbubble you can check out my collection here and if you are a photographer or artist yourself why not give it a go, it's free to join and easy to set up.

www.redbubble.com