I received a DSLR camera for my birthday last year and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying myself! Of course, it helps that I live in Berlin, which is unarguably one of the most ‘cool’ cities in the world. Berlin is a treasure house of art, history and culture among other things, and there is always something new to photograph almost every day.

I had plans to travel through Europe and click tons of photographs, but unfortunately that plan had to be put on hold for a while. However, there is a silver lining – sitting at home I began going through all the pictures I had clicked so far and decided this was a good time to learn some more about photography. I began playing around with editing tools and spent time reading about the technical aspects of photography such as lighting and composition and what constitutes a good picture.

Last month, I decided to send in some of my work for a open call for an International Photography Exhibition at the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, and to my delight, one of my photographs got selected!

I was so overjoyed the day I received the news. A photograph clicked by me was going to be a part of a photography exhibition!! Maybe 2020 wasn’t going to be so bad after all!!

The exhibition opened last weekend on the 22nd of August 2020. It’s such a wonderful feeling to see my photograph on the wall among some really beautiful work by other photographers from around the world.

This is the photo I sent in. I clicked this in Prague last year.

And this is a walk through of the exhibition (you can see my photograph on the back wall):

I’m grateful for the opportunity, and I’m happy that I took a chance and sent in my work. I think it’s important to spend time doing things you enjoy and to keep looking for opportunities to try something new. What’s the worst that could happen? What if something good and exciting happens instead?!

You can check out more of my work here: https://www.instagram.com/photography_by_lizanne/