Two weeks ago I attended a Macro Photo Day sponsored by a local Camera Store and Tamron lenses. We met at the City Greenhouse and took photos of the beautiful contents. The weather was perfect and so was the light. This was a very unique event for me because I don't normally use a tripod and they were encouraging us to use one. Because of this I did a lot of fussing around at first with my cheap 9 year old tripod, but then I soon got the hang of it. They also provided a lot of equipment that we could borrow to try out. There were new Canon and Nikon cameras, Manfrotto tripods and of course Tamron Lenses.
I tried out three different lenses, a 90 mm, a 70-300 mm and a Fisheye and I got a lot of really great photos. Then before we left the owner of the store came over and gave us chocolate candy, coupons for items in the store and information about a contest for the photos we took that day. I'd never entered a contest before, but I did have a couple of pretty good photos that I was pretty proud of, so I sent them off. They then posted the photos on their Facebook page and asked for votes. I checked back the next day and was surprised to see that one of my photos had already received 5 votes, all from people I didn't know. So then I posted on my page that I'd like to have my friends vote for my photo also. A few days later when the contest ended I discovered that my photo had come in 4th place among around 40 photos entered. Here is a copy of that photo: