{"id":8527,"date":"2018-01-25T12:55:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:53:33","slug":"win-some-lose-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2018\/01\/25\/win-some-lose-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Win some, lose some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me, or has interacted with me on social media, will probably be aware that photography is my \u201cthing\u201d. I have been doing photography, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and commitment, all my life. I have <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/8413\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">written about<\/a> it here quite frequently. Although I do take family and holiday snaps, most of the time I am trying to make a picture.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that I am only now beginning to appreciate my own style &#8211; and that is a \u201cmoving target\u201d. I have also examined my own motivation for doing photography \u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So, why do I take pictures?<\/p>\n<p>I guess that there are a number of reasons. Most of all, it is a challenge. If I see something, that looks like an interesting image, can I capture it? Furthermore, I like the challenge of finding images, that others may not have seen. Having taken pictures &#8211; which is mostly the fun part &#8211; what do I do with them?<\/p>\n<p>Rather than just leaving the image files on my computer, I try to find applications for them, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>making annual portfolio photo books of my best work<\/li>\n<li>entering camera club competitions [I am not very competitive, but like feedback and recognition]<\/li>\n<li>entering national\/international salons and exhibitions [ditto]<\/li>\n<li>sharing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/walls_colin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I say that I am not competitive, it does not mean that I do not gain pleasure from doing well in competitions or exhibitions. It is simply that I do not take any particular pleasure from others\u2019 failure. It is recognition &#8211; an affirmation that what I do has some value &#8211; that I seek.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I am successful. For example, I recently entered a sort of competition. In a nearby town, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephotospace.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gallery dedicated to photography<\/a>, which was established a couple of years ago. They run an annual competition, where they invite photographers to enter up to 5 images. They choose the best 7 submissions and each photographer gets one of the 7 wall spaces for a month-long exhibition. During the month, visitors can vote for their favorite set. The winning photographer then gets the opportunity to exhibit in the whole gallery for a month.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I was delighted to receive an email telling me that I was one of the 7 selected this year. Here are the 5 images that I submitted:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8529\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-2-520x411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8531\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-4-520x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8530\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-3-520x545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"545\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8532\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-5-520x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8528\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/01\/CW-1-520x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I now need to prepare 6-8 pictures to exhibit, which may [and, in my case, will] include these 5.<\/p>\n<p>One of the rules of the competition was that the images must have been shot in the last 12 months. The result of this is curious. Every one of these 5 images was shot on my iPhone [7 PLUS]. I am not 100% surprised, because, as I <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/8413\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about<\/a> some weeks ago, the quality of images from modern phones is phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p>Any UK readers, who might like to attend the exhibition [and vote for me!], please contact me by <a href=\"mailto:colin_walls@mentor.com\">email<\/a> or via social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colinwalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6579\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colin_walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6583\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinwalls.author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6591\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/facebook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116301748426290440139\/posts?hl=en%3Fhl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6587\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/google.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ColinWalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6595\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/slideshare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"41\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6599\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me, or has interacted with me on social media, will probably be aware that photography is my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[302],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions\/10652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}