The Underground Man

Photo competitions

I've never entered a photo competition before. I have always been pretty happy with my own photography and haven't really sought external validation.

I'm not the photographer my uncle is but occasionally I take what I think is a really good photograph. Our local village fair just concluded and this year I submitted a couple of my photos in the competition.

There were quite a few entrants (maybe as many as sixty or seventy) and I thought some of the entries were quite good. I rushed about the morning the submission was due and had my 8x10s mounted on matt board and then made up labels.

Entries were submitted on a Thursday morning and preliminary judging took place Thursday afternoon. There was a second round of judging after this to determine the top three entries overall in the fair (which I didn't know about).

This photo got second overall in the color photography category (I've previously posted it on this page):




I was like a proud parent picking it up after the fair. I took it early in the morning near Concrete, Washington with my Kodak DC290 (a 2Mb digital camera).

Posted by artandscience at August 15, 2004 07:28 AM