>After a great 14 day trip, time to chill out, relax and get away from everything I decided to upload a few shots on my return and see how things went.

To my delight I have now had 110 images accepted in the last 10 days with an acceptance ratio of around 75%

This is a massive contrast than when I started on here just over a year ago and saw around 15 accepted and 60 rejected in my first month on here.

So what's the difference? Well I did not get too disheartened with the rejections as in all fairness the reasons given were spot on, make sure you take notice of these as they are not done for fun and it's a great tool to learn from and self improve. Don't be afraid to resubmit shots, initially a rejection meant I would leave it and move on. Now if it's do do with say noise, composition, something...

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