I've won some truly lovely prizes over the years but, after hardly any wins at all in 2015 (not even an advent!), I feared I had lost my mo-jo for good. I then picked up an injury which meant almost 11 months of being unable to comp (oh, woe!) and started again in December last year. I must have entered easily over 1400 Advent competitions but, again, not a single win. Not even a small box of cookies or a pair of socks! Twice in a row the normally reliable Advents for me had let me down. Despondent, I vowed to give myself until the end of June before deciding if my luck had truly run out for good or not.
Back into the comping habit with a slightly heavy heart, I came across a Twitter photo comp from DIY Films and very nearly didn't enter it as I couldn't find anything I liked or thought good enough. In the end, I posted one anyway as nothing ventured, nothing gained. And...I won! After a horrendous drought, I received a Fujifilm Compact Systems Camera with lens, memory card, bag and laptop bag thanks to the Kong: Skull Island. I may have had an utterly horrendous drought but when I won again, I won big! Lesson learnt, never give up hope and keep on comping :-)