• not quite what was said in the newsletter.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:38 pm**

from the newsletter:

Last but not least Congratulations goes to a young lady who lives on our estate. She is known on the forum as "lil*madam" and she has just won first prize in the 7ª Corrida Fotografica de Portimao. The exhibition of the winners opens 30th June on the riverside in Portimao and lasts for two weeks. Well done lil*madam from both of us at 43.

Thanks Carol but I only won the 18 and under category! xD you made it sound like i won the whole competition!

Joana xxxx

p.s. i hope more people will pasticipate next year (around the middle of may) its completely free and all you need to spend money on is the petrol! great money to win as well!

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:29 pm**

Any chance you could post your winning entry?

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:30 pm**

well there are 24 photographs! and taken on an SLR camera!
the competition is like this:
you get there at 8am, all you need to take is and SLR camera, you then are given a roll of film, a bag, a pen and the 1st 2 or 3 themes you are to take. you must take 3 photographs of every theme you are given.
around 3 hours later you have to meet at next meeting point and have your "photographic passport" stamped and are given the next 2 or 3 themes, and so on.
there are 8 themes in total, so u must take at the end 24 photographs, (3 photos for each theme) if you have taken four or 2 of a theme by accident you will be disqualified (unfortunatly this is what happened to my mum, not realising she missed a photo and then couldnt go back

)
you must give in your roll at 8pm. and then just wait til late june!

if you go to http://www.barlavento.online.pt/index.p ... a?id=15997

you will find an article written the day before the results came out (29th of june). in the current edition of the barlavento you will find some of the photographs taken by the winners and a small article about each person.

in the next issue of the barlavento you will no doubt see the photographs of winners receiving their prizes (im not looking forward to seeing myself in the paper xD i was too nervous!)

joana xxxx

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:58 pm**

lil*madam wrote:(im not looking forward to seeing myself in the paper

joana xxxx

But we are

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:21 pm**

lol xD thanks

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:51 pm**

Sorry l*m - misinformation given by your Mum when she fell in through our front door after walking (well fortified

) home from town.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:52 pm**

oh right! xD understandible! hehe xxx

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:23 am**

roy4eyes wrote:Sorry l*m - misinformation given by your Mum when she fell in through our front door after walking( well fortified ) home from town.

I heard about this particular night

i recommend you ignore much of what was said that evening!

Tina x

Posted: **Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:15 pm**

hi, on behalf of my daughter lil*madam (Joana), here are the photographs of the presentation and the winning pictures.

http://www.barlavento.online.pt/

on the right column, under "multimedia" click on the 1st title (resultados ... ) and then "ver galeria".

hope this encourages more non-portuguese to participate next year.

free breakfast and supper, a great day out.

Posted: **Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:49 pm**

Sounds like a great competition. Your winning photo was excellent.

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:46 pm**

thanks!
photos of me... just as expected... are awful!!! lol
what can ya do...?

xxx

Posted: **Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:00 am**

Only the vain have good photos of themselves. Yours looked fine to everyone except you.