That happy feeling of recognition

A couple of weeks ago I posted about some photos I'd taken with my little plastic Lomo camera, and entered into the Guardian's camera club feature for January. I had a lot of fun taking the photos, and was kind of excited and chuffed about sharing them with the Guardian's camera club group - taking part in the group's assignments is something I've been meaning to do for ages, as a good excuse for getting out and taking new photos.

Then last Friday I was even more excited and happy when I saw that the Guardian camera club had chosen my January photos as one of the sets it reviewed on their website! OK, now is the time to admit that, because this was a exercise in using film, hardly anyone else had bothered to dig out their old 35mm cameras, and so there were hardly any other entries....quite possibly only about the 5 of us whose photos were reviewed...and I doubt more than a handful of other camera club entrants have taken a look at my photos on the website. But that didn't take the shine off my pleasure. It feels pretty good that other people like my pictures too, and to have had them noticed in a national paper!

And just because I'm still basking in that warm glow, here's another one of the photos.