'Summer' Double Island Point, QLD, Australia

'Parliament Moon', Canberra, ACT, Australia

'Teewah Sunset' Noosa North Shore, QLD, Australia

It is with immense pride that I announce that I am the recipient of six awards from the International Association of Panoramic Photographers Photo Contest 2006.

The International Association of Panoramic Photographers boasts around 140 photographers from all over the world and includes only eight of us from Australia, including the wonderful Ken Duncan, and I am the only individual female.

I entered six photographs early October into these prestigious awards and thought I might be able to win something with one or two of them.
But when I was notified that I has won an award for all six I was ecstatic!

Watch out for Australian Photography magazine in April where my work will be featured.

Come one, come all and enter your special photograph that you took on Australia Day into the Look Up and Smile, Australia Day Photo Competition.

Share your Australia Day celebration with the rest of the nation and you could be in the running to win a $100,000 Australian Travel Pass for your family!

Simply upload your photo of your Australia Day celebration or of anything that captures the essence of what Australia Day or being Australian means to you.

Upload the photo on to the website until February 16, 2007.

First Prize
A family holiday for two adults and two children valued up to $100,000 to visit the best of Australia’s vistas, including Uluru, The Whitsundays, Tropical North Queensland and Western Australia and including $15,000 spending money!


Second Prize
Five runners-up will each win a HP Pavilion Media Centre PC*.
Community Prizes
Local Communities, Local Government and Community Organisations can win $5,000 in cash or one of 5 runner-up prizes of HP Pavilion Media Centre PCs* for the best Australia Day photo!
Voters Prize
A lucky voter chosen randomly will also win a HP Pavilion Media Centre PC* simply for voting for his or her favourite photo

My Favourite Photo of YOURS for the Month is from John Clayton of Thailand (at the moment).
John is currently sailing around the coast of magnificent Thailand. John hasn't elaborated as to exactly which outcrop of islands these are, however I am sure you agree that they are stunning!
You may not be able to make it out here but John is pointing to one of the islands and it looks like he is touching it!

I love the colours in this shot. The light is shining on the rock face at just the right angle to show the varying colours of the slope and the shadows are just perfect.
The peppermint blue green of the water and the light blue of the sky convey for me a scene of tranquility.
And then there is John :)
Thanks so much!

Please keep sending me your photographs, I just love to receive them and I know that there are a lot of you out there that are very very good at photography. So, if you would like your photograph included in the coming months, please send it to me in the smallest size you possibly can.

Clearance at $3.95

The calendar is a labour of love where I have been collecting just the right images taken in the month's depicted, to inspire all in 2007.
The images are captured from Mudjimba Island to Point Cartwright and showcase the beautiful area, where I live.

Anyone looking at the cameras the manufacturers have been offering over the past several years could easily believe that the higher the camera's megapixel count the better. But, as the old jazz standard says: 'It ain't necessarily so!'

The only thing more megapixels will give you is the ability to enlarge and crop pictures without individual pixels becoming visible.

Other factors are much more important in determining overall picture quality...

Click on the Photo Review logo and you will be taken to the 'Photo Gallery'. I have a few images on display.

Wow! It's into the second week of February already.
Are you already asking yourself... "Where are the days going?"
Did you set your New Year's resolutions only to haven't just about forgotten them?

Go on, make 2007 a most wonderful year. Get out and do those things that you have always imagined but couldn't quite see yourself doing because you are too old, too young, don't have enough time, haven't got enough money etc etc.

I have DECIDED this year on a list of goals that include many wonderful exciting dreams and I will achieve them. You can too.

Just before the New Year in my other role in Inspire Your Day Australia, I put together an eBook that will give you strategies to get YOU what you want in 2007 and has been compiled from World leaders in Personal, Professional and Spiritual development; Dr John Demartini, Cyndi O'Meara, Jack Canfield and lots more.

Please feel free to download it as my gift to you to get you on your way in 2007.
Just click on the picture of the eBook and you will be taken to the page to download it. Whilst you are there check out the other FREE Goodies

and also 'The Secret Laws of Attraction' by Dr John Demartini in May.

Felicitations,
Tracy

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw