Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who entered my first Facebook competition, the prize for which was a 30″ x 20″ canvas print of one of my recent safari photographs.

To enter the competition I invited members of my Facebook page to post a comment against their favourite photograph in this Facebook gallery, with the best comment being the winner.  The comment could be funny or serious.

In the week that the competition was open I received over 60 comments, which is fantastic!

What I hadn’t envisaged beforehand though was how hard it would be to actually choose a winner!  So many people left comments which were worthy of winning that I felt very guilty for only choosing one comment to win… so I’m choosing two!

The first winner is Richard’s B’s comment “Snobby monkey mimics The Thinker by Auguste Rodin” which really made me laugh!  Richard is right – the pose is uncanny – click here to see The Thinker by Auguste Rodin

The second winner is Richard W’s comment “I would love to win this picture as this is the one you had just had printed when we visited you to discuss our wedding, and it is absolutely stunning! It would be a wonderful memory of the fun we had planning our wedding.” Apart from it being a lovely comment, I was both surprised and proud that Richard had remembered I’d shown him this photograph when he booked me to photograph his wedding.

Congratulations to both winners!

Most of all though, thank you to everyone who enetered I wish I could have chosen more winners but I’m not sure I could afford it!

Please keep an eye on my Facebook page as I plan to hold more photography competitions in the future, but I think I will try and incorporate a voting system next time so I don’t have to choose the winner myself as I just feel too much guilt!

To celebrate my Manchester wedding photographer Facebook page reaching 1,000 members, I am holding a competition to give away a free 30″ x 20″ canvas print of one of the photographs I took on my recent safari in Kenya to one member of my Facebook page.

To enter all you have to do is go to my Facebook page, become a fan (unless you have already done so) and, in the album called “Canvas Competition – January 2010″, leave a comment underneath the photograph which you would like to win stating why you would like that photograph as a canvas.

The album can be accessed here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=141033&id=102456937975&ref=mf

The winner will be the person who in my leaves the best comment. The comment can be funny, serious, complimentary, short or long – I will leave it up to you!

All comments must be made by Wednesday 27th January 2010 – so one week today. Once this date passes I will choose a winner. People may comment on more than one photograph but no more than one comment per photograph please. Unfortunately the competition is only open to UK residents.

If you would like to invite your Facebook friends to enter the competition please click on the ‘suggest to friends’ link on the left hand side of my Facebook page, select all your friends (or those you wish to invite) and click send.

Thank you again to everybody who has already joined my Facebook page, I am very grateful.

Good luck to you all!