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On the left you can see Carlie's winning photo & on the right you can see mine. Click on the images to see a larger version. |
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A Day In The Life Of Scotland |
| The evening of 23rd September saw Carlie & Me attending the winners party for the "A Day in the life of Scotland" competition. I guess I better explain what that is before I continue, so here goes! |
| Around the beginning of August 2005 I was reading one of the daily newspapers when I noticed a competition called "A day in the life of Scotland". This competition, which was run by the newspaper in question (The Scottish Sun) & the National Galleries of Scotland, with sponsorship by Lloyds TSB, asked that you took a photograph of anything, anywhere in Scotland as long as it was on August 20th that year. It asked you to try to capture a moment in time. |
| Living in Edinburgh as we do, and given that the Edinburgh Festival is on throughout August, we were never without our camera, so it was on August 20th that we both took a photo & sent them to the competition, never thinking for a moment that we'd get anywhere. You can imagine our surprise when not only the photo of Carlie, but mine also, made the final 20. The 20 finalists had their photo's put into a book & their pictures exhibited at The Dean Gallery (24th September to 23rd October). Not only that we were also invited to an exclusive awards reception at The Dean Gallery, were we received our books from none other than Jack McConnell, The Scottish First Minister. Miss Scotland (Aisling Friel) was also in attendance & Carlie was impressed as I managed to completely blank her when she asked about my photo, though of course that was unintentional as I would never be purposefully rude to anyone. The main prize of £600 of camera equipment was announced on the night. Needless to say Carlie's picture & my picture didn't win that (that honour went to a girl from Glasgow), but the free bar came in VERY handy, especially as I had just found out earlier that day that I had been promoted at work. |
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On the left you can see Carlie's winning photo & on the right you can see mine. Click on the images to see a larger version. |
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| Jack McConnell & the Brasilian girls! |
Arek & Aisling Friel |
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Our guests at the reception (picture by Dave) |
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