I'm an amateur photographer, I don't have any DLSR (although I'm considering on getting one pretty soon) what I have is a small digicam and just point and shoot. I love taking picture of interesting subjects. I don't have any formal training aside from what I randomly read online about photography. I can tell what's a potential piece and what's not base on my taste but I must admit that I don't have the artistic eye just plain "my own taste" and that's it.
This is the 3rd year that I am planning to join the costco photo contest. For consecutive year I was scanning my files and find no potential piece but this year I will enter the contest. The attached photo will be my entry, I'm not hoping to win but it will be the start of my entries.