For those that have followed my journey into photography you will know that I had the wonderful luck of being approached by Canon Austraila’s PR Agency as part of the Canon Blogger Product Review Program over a year ago (when I first reviewed the Canon EOS 1000D). Over the last 14 months I have jumped into the deep end of photography and have been learning as much as I can.

At a recent celebration night that Canon Australia was holding (celebrating 50 years since the first Canon SLR Camera) I was once again offered the chance to borrow a camera to have a play with and review if I wish, which is is a Canon EOS 5D MKII. While we are waiting for one of those to become available I have had the Canon Legria HFS11 High Definition Video Camera on loan for a few weeks to have a play with. I am currently in the process of reworking all the sample footage and will upload this along with the review sometime next week (I hope).

However in the mean time I wanted to let you know that I recently won a competition Canon Australia was running. On visiting the EOS website a few weeks back I noticed they were running a survey where you would win prizes. At the end you had to state in 25 words or less what you loved about the Canon EOS Community. I cant remember exactly what I wrote but it was along the lines of the chance to see other peoples work, and interact with other photographers of all skill levels.

So long story short I received an email two days ago letting me know that the judges had picked my answer as the best and I had won a Canon EOS 500D Single Lens Kit. So this means that (just because I can) I will most likely be doing a review of the EOS 500D in the not too distant future as well. So I just wanted to throw out a big thanks to Canon for not only providing me the opportunity to begin my journey into photography but also fueling my desire to learn more and try new things while providing me the opportunity to do so.

Anyhoo just thought I would provide an update I have loads of ideas and will have the time to put them into writing later this week after I am back from holidays.

Once again a HUGE thanks to Canon Australia and their PR Agency team.
Stuart