I have to address the awards I’ve been nominated for. I have ignored it for too long. I think awards are great, but they are also time consuming to reciprocate. I have been given quite a number over the last few months and I haven’t reciprocated any of them. I feel bad about this. My blog takes up a lot of my time and I am always planning stuff for you and writing. My husband wants me to get a job, anyway that is another story.
I have decided that from now on, I will include the blog that has nominated me, so they are acknowledged, but I won’t be doing all the other things that are required for the award. I hope this is alright with everyone. I am going to give you the blogs for this week, and from now on, I will put them on if I receive any more. I would like to apologise to everyone who has nominated me previously and I haven’t done this for. I just can’t find all of them. So please accept my apology.
The awards and a link to the post where I reciprocated.
Sorry! I already see you’ve gotten this one, but you’re getting it again – http://blog.caroldunniganphotography.com/2012/07/12/beautiful-blogger-award/
Thank you Carol, it is OK, it is wonderful that you nominated me for it anyway. I feel really honoured.
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Beautiful site and beautiful pics! I love it.
Thank you so much, always good to hear that people like what I am doing.
Beautiful images. Love that you are from Australia….one of my bucket list destinations! Thanks for liking my blog, Time Flies…… Perhaps one day I will make it to Australia and say hello in person.
Wouldn’t that be wonderful. I love meeting people that I met in the cyberworld. It is an amazing place, so I hope you get to come here one day.
Thank you for visiting my Cambodia trip post. Your photos are awesome! You deserve so many awards! Congrats!
It was a pleasure visiting you blog, always interesting. Thank you. I get lots of awards, and now I get so many I just can’t reciprocate, though I love everyone that I get and love it that people think I am deserving. Nice meeting you.
Thank you for your tutorials. I used an app on my iPad to watermark some photos. Very easy. But I can’t do too many of them. I will see if your software is more time efficient. Thanks for bring so detailed in teaching. I don’t have the patience…
Please let me know how it goes, I don’t have an ipad, my husband is very anti apple and I think he would divorce me if I bought anything.
Hi. I really enjoy your blog: it’s a cool place to come back to, so I have nominated you for a One Lovely Blog Award, which you already have… but thought you would like to know anyway. No further action is necessary or expected.
That is so nice of you, thank you so much, I have left a comment on your blog.
I so appreciate your site; I’m still a newbie at photography although my two adult daughters are not and they are helping me along – your site is great!!
Thank you so much, what a lovely thing to write. I am always happy to hear that people are enjoying my site and learning from it.
Hi Leanne! Here’s another one! I’m proud to nominate you, your works and your blog for the Reality Blog Award. Through your writings and images, keep being an inspiration to others. Thanks!~JJ. Please see details at http://junsjazzimages.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/reality-blog-award-now-i-have-to-nominate/
Thank you so much for the nomination, I have left you a comment on your blog.
I get you http://snapflycook.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/no-more-awards-thank-you-life-balance/
Lovely idea Andrew, I have left a comment on your blog.
Hi Leanne
I have nominated you for the “Blog Of The Year 2012” award. See for the rules of that award at my post : Go to http://beartales.me/awards/ . Great work.
Thank you Ken, I have left a comment on your blog.
Lovely photos- makes me even more inspired to complete my Bucket List, thank you for checking it and my other work out . I adore your photos of the graffiti in the school, if a picture speaks a thousand words, then that one in particular is a novel for me. Keep up the good work x
What a lovely thing to say, thank you very much Rhiannon
Your honesty is spot on. Awards are wonderful albeit time consuming to acknowledge. Thsnks for the stop by and I find your dedication to your craft inspiring.
I liked how you handled your blog awards! I really need to look more in depth at Your photos. They are breathtaking. Sometimes I just go so fast through blogs I follow now but there something about Your blog that I think is unique. I wish you great success in selling your works.
You probably have received this but nevermind! Your blog is really helpful to a fellow Melbournian who is just stating out with photography.
I have just nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Please visit this post, just so you can see the nomination as I understand you are not replying to all the info.
http://candiceashleylancaster.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/the-versatile-blogger-award/
C. x
I am pleased to inform you that you have been nominated again for the Versatile Blogger Award. Your work is an example to follow, and I appreciate your support and encouragement.
Here’s the link: http://squirrelandpear.com/kindness-repaid/
Thank you for visiting my blog. The information you have provided in your blog is really great and I love your photos too.
The beauty of your pictures is recognized again
I nominated you for The Sunshine Blogger Award. Continue to spread sunshine through your pictures.
http://lookinginward.net/2013/03/03/the-sunshine-blogger-award/
You handled this beautifully. Am going to steal this idea. You acknowledge and say thank you.
I think it is a good way to do it, without all the work that goes into the reciprocation of the awards. Please feel free to do it as well.
Such a beautiful blog. And it’s a real treat for me to follow someone who resides in Australia. I love it there!
I love it as well.
Awards are something to celebrate and your blog is awesome. . .
Thank you.
I have nominated you for an Awesomeness award. The badge can be found on my post dated 4/20/13.
I realize these awards take time to respond to so do not feel you have to comply with the requirements of this award. Just wanted to know how I feel about your blog!
1. List your top ten favorite blogs and notify them.
2. List 10 things we do not know about yourself.
How wonderful, thank you very much
I know you don’t write posts about awards but I wanted to share your site with my readers: http://collinesblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/the-epically-awesome-award-of-epic-awesomeness/
Thank you Colline, I don’t reciprocate, but I will acknowledge that you nominated me, just not sure when. I hope that is okay? It is always a thrill when people think my blog is worth nominating.
That is fine by me. I haven’t done these awards for a while but I enjoyed reciprocating to this one
Haha… here’s another one! My first time.. but I understand the ‘time’ element. I’ve nominated you for the WordPress Family Award. Badge posted on http://wp.me/p2xfel-dc and soon on my missions blog when I can get to that @ http://alifeinhishandsmissionpossible.wordpress.com/
Thank you, I haven’t heard of this one, so my mission should be to go and look it up on your blog and check it out.
Ah, yes….blogger awards. I like how you’ve acknowledged. You are a pro.
Is that meant to be condemning? Not really sure how to take that.
Oh, no. Not at all. I like how you’ve acknowledged them. I have received them, too, but I never felt like doing the whole chain letter methodology of acknowledging.
Oh good, they are a lot of work, it is lovely to get them, but, but, so it seems like a lovely way to say thank you without all the work. I have had comments from other people saying they are going to do a similar thing, so feel free to pinch the idea too if you like.
Great blog! I’ve enjoyed your posts so much, that you’ve been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award. Congratulations, please go to http://www.oilpastelsbymary.com to see the notice and rules. Enjoy! Mary
Thank you, I feel honoured.
And another award from me just to say thanks for sharing your photos. I love them (particularly as I’m a Melbournian and I recognise so many places you photograph!)
http://lrbritton.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/blog-awards/
I love it, thank you. So when are we catching up for coffee then, go and take photos
Love to! I need to buy a better camera. I love my one but its not capable of doing what I want it to.
If you need any help, let me know, then we can go and take photos. I’m starting a little group.
oooh that sounds good! I have a good-ish camera but I like the pics with subject in focus and background blurry. Have done lots of experiments and research and apparently I need a different lens. Mine aren’t interchangeable so that means a new, more expensive camera
It usually means opening up the aperture, can you control aperture on your camera? What sort of camera do you have? If you don’t want to tell me here, then email me.
Ill email you the details.
Okay
We never have time to reciprocate to awards on our blog, but we do always thank them graciously and sincerely – we really do appreciate them thinking of us! We have also read that Google frowns upon blog awards because it tends to seem them as a kind of link “pyramid scheme” to gain higher page rankings, and therefore may actually give lower ranks to blogs that hand out awards or display them, say, in their sidebar. Seriously though, we like getting more traffic but are not realistically seeing our type of niche blog as one that should be too concerned about page ranking. On the other hand we don’t want to get left behind either
Ah, blogging, never a dull moment when it comes to getting all the behind the scenes stuff fully optimized lol.
I didn’t know that about google, sounds a bit petty. I hate the way the search engine there works now anyway, you can’t find anything you want because of the way it is all stacked.
Awards are great, and it is nice that people want to give them to people, but for some of us they are so time consuming to reciprocate. I would like to, but at the moment I get too many so I like to acknowledge and say thank you. I have a page that I save them on and every and then I will do a post with the awards at the end.
Yes, there is never a dull moment.
Congratulations on your numerous awards. You truly are an inspiration!
Thank you so much.