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That moment when…

That moment when… you see one of your photographs in commercial use for the first time!

The image in question, taken on holiday in Borneo in 2013

I was doing a Google search for ‘Caroline Grubb’, looking to see if my new Caroline Grubb Photography website (unofficially launched yesterday but still very much a work-in-progress) had been found by the Google bots yet and if it would come up in a Google search.

Finding that it hadn’t come up in the search, I moved on to search for ‘images of Caroline Grubb’ out of curiosity to see what information the World Wide Web might have on me.

It was then that, in a moment of great surprise and delight, I found that my image of an hibiscus flower – taken on holiday in Borneo in 2013 and published on my Flickr site – had been chosen as the headline image for an article about voting for Malaysia as Asia’s leading destination by Zafigo.com, a website for ‘the woman traveller in Asia’.

https://zafigo.com/news/will-you-vote-to-make-malaysia-asias-leading-destination/

The feeling was followed with pride and relief that the site had credited me with the photo (sadly the photo credit link doesn’t work).

Although the article was written back in 2017, this is the first time I’ve knowingly had a photograph of mine published. A small but important landmark for me. Hooray!

Flamenco style

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Plaza de Espana, Seville, taken October 2017.

I was really pleased with this shot, as while the dancer was moving swiftly to music I timed it just right to get her facing towards me, with the fan and arms outstretched.  Despite the fact there was a sea of people around her watching, with a bit of vignetting and playing with the shadows I managed to isolate her.  To me, a flamenco dancer is iconic to Spain.