Newspaper Appearance

This is the picture of me that was taken for the newspapers; the outfit was put together in a 5 minute panic as the guy had looked me up and down noticing my baggy pants and uggies and mentioned that he was gonna do a full length shot...

Don't really like it, it looks like a fake smile  :p

Anyway here's the article that went with it:

A PHOTO taken with a simple point-and-shoot camera has taken out Hume Council’s youth photography competition for 15 to 18-year-olds.

Hannah Chalker’s picture taken in a friend’s backyard of water droplets falling from leaves earned her a new digital SLR camera and her work exhibited for the next three months at Hume libraries.

Chalker, 18, is studying a certificate IV course in disability.

She said that while the award hadn’t changed her career path, it had given her confidence.

“I’ve always known I loved taking photographs,” Chalker said.

The Sunbury teen said the prize had come at an amazing time, just as her point-and-shoot digital camera broke.

“It’s such a blessing,” she said.

Sunbury’s Sophie Purcell-Green won the 12 to 14-year-old category of the competition.

Hume deputy mayor Ros Spence presented the winners with their prizes.

“Our judges received some fantastic entries from young people right across the municipality, who were asked to express their thoughts, feelings and opinions through a dynamic medium,” she said.

An exhibition of the finalists’ work will be on display in Hume libraries until the end of August.

(Taken from here)
(And this is the link to the photo I took that won)
:D