Hi guys! It's 2022, and we have a new competition for you... This one is for the photographers (amateur, professional, semi-professional - we don't mind!) among us.
There's no theme or requirement for any professional equipment - entries using smartphone cameras are perfectly acceptable.
The only rules are that the photo was taken by you, and that you include a sentence or two to give us a little context/back story about the photo.
We'll be announcing a winner a month from now - i.e. Feb 11th.
Good luck!
P.S: If you're having any problems uploading your pic(s), please let me know and I'll see if I can help!
My first portrait painting of my first granddaughter
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY By Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!