When I first started getting into photography, long before I even considered having my own web site , I used to use Flickr to host & share my images. One of the advantages of Flickr is the ability to join in various groups that have been created ie portraits, wedding, camera manufacturer or even specific to the model you have, it is pretty extensive indeed the amount available to you. The other advantage to joining these groups is adding your image(s) to them to get critique on them whether it be the processing, the posture of the model – you get the idea. But it really serves a purpose, or it did for me to see what I was doing wrong or what I needed to do to make something even better.

The image below of the American Bald Eagle was posted a while back just to show off some shots I took of birds of prey in the UK. I totally forgot about it for a few months until I got an unexpected email from a gent in the USA asking if he could get a copy of it as he wanted to have a tattoo of it done on his arm.  I was a bit taken back by it at first as it was definitely not the kind of request I was expecting for such a shot. We started trading a few emails back and forth and I eventually sent a low res image across and waited and waited for a picture back to see how it all turned out.

The result is below.