Another guest post at Canadian Family, and another subscription to give away!

Congratulations to Judy of Mother, Wife and More who won the first of five subscriptions to Canadian Family magazine that I have to give away this week. I really love what she wrote in her comment, too:

The best tip anyone can get for photography is to remember not every photo will turn out, and not to get discouraged. Best thing my husband first taught me. Find something you like in each photo and learn to fine tune it. With kids it is guaranteed each photo won’t turn out!

So true! In fact, I’d say more than half of the pictures I take don’t turn out like I expected, and only a small percentage of those are worth sharing. The other thing I’d add to Judy’s thought, though, is to not be too quick to delete a photo. Sometimes the outtakes are as much fun as the keepers!

I’ve got another post up on Family Jewels, the Canadian Family magazine blog. Today’s subject is composition, filled with ideas on how to go from “taking” a photography (by simply clicking the shutter as soon as you put the camera to your eye) to *making* a photograph that tells its own story.

And I’ve still got four subscriptions to Canadian Family left to give away! I’m going to shake things up — to enter the draw for today, you’ll have to share this post on Twitter, Facebook, your own blog, or some other social networking site.

Here’s the fine print:

  1. Today’s giveaway is for one one-year subscription to Canadian Family magazine.
  2. To enter, tweet a link to this blog post or link to it on Facebook or promote it on your own blog or some other social networking site before noon EDT on Wednesday July 14. IMPORTANT: You’ll have to come back and leave a comment to let me know you did.
  3. Winners will be chosen using the random number generator at random.org from eligible entries on Wednesday 14 July 2010.
  4. You must leave a valid e-mail address and allow me to share your contact information with Canadian Family magazine to arrange for the subscription delivery.
  5. The winner will be contacted via e-mail and posted here.

Thanks, and be sure to come back tomorrow for more photo and freebie goodness!

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26 thoughts on “Another guest post at Canadian Family, and another subscription to give away!”

  1. Yay thanks so much!

    Now I have to go through my photos to find one that is a good example of one that I am glad I didn’t delete.

  6. Retweeted! twitter.com/kgraydonald

    And I totally resisted the urge to use flash when photographing my sleeping littles this afternoon 🙂

  11. I tweeted it for you & as soon as I get a chance I’m going to go read your article as I have an interest in photography.

  15. I need to learn how to edit pictures. I just assume that any picture that doesn’t look perfect when I take it, there’s no hope. I even have Aperture installed but never used it.

  18. Retweeted your post. I am now going to go read your blog…..looks interesting!

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