Being a member of a photography club has its perks. I’m an active member in the Photographers of Surrey club (private flickr group) and every month or so we submit photos to the Battle of the Clubs competition. This is hosted by the Digital SLR User Magazine. Last month the theme was “Portraits” so I gave it a go. There were some great submissions and we managed to score 43 points out of 45. One of the submitted photos was my “Mesmerizing” photo. Apart from scoring really high we also managed to get our photos printed in the latest issue (September issue) of the Digital SLR User Magazine!

The photo that I submitted was taken a while ago when my friend Ahmad wanted a profile photo for his social networks. He wanted one with his Palestinian scarf and I thought it would look nice to take something different.

Mesmerizing

It came really good and apparently this is my most interesting photo in flickr. Yesterday I was talking to some other club members and they informed me that my photo was printed in the DSRL User Magazine which is quite famous here in the UK. I rushed out today and bought myself a copy and there it was.

Mesmerizing Published

I consider this as a huge success since it’s printed in a national scale magazine. I had published photos before in a Swedish newspaper/magazine and fair amount of features in the University of Surrey’s student newspaper. I think I had my share in published photos but this tops it all. After all photography is just a hobby for me. For more technical info regarding lighting (strobist info) and whatnot check the description of the photo and drop me a comment on flickr.