We went to an exhibition last night that was an essay for the Tall Ships festival that was held in Hobart just before we arrived back in the state. There were two shots that really grabbed me, and two that almost made the grade.

It's personal taste, I know, but if you are going to try for a neat light effect on a docked at night, do it at 2 or 3am in the morning when the place is deserted, not when there are a tens of people about creating ghosts that distract from the main subject. The two that missed in my estimation were like that.

I'll just also go back to my comment earlier about photographs being a record. I am applying for a tour guiding job at the moment, and one of the things I have done is sent the company a link to Machka's flickr account, essentially to validate my claims about travel. As it transpires, the principal of the business has a done a lot of bicycle touring herself. But a part of the job requires getting involved with the participants -- hiking, swimming and so on. I can show I have scope to do all those things, too.

So don't forget to include pictures of yourself doing stuff. It's then that a tripod can really come in handy, especially if you want to set up shots of you actually riding your bike.