I am so excited. The post I wrote about here ended in a good way! I won the "Food and Agriculture" category of the 2011 "Eye on the Environment" photo contest from the world-renowned Institute of the Environment with this photo:
It is one of my favorite photos of my dear friend Rachel and her chicken, Snow White. I was at her house with another friend taking photos capturing movement and we were hopelessly trying to take photos of the chickens running around her yard. Rachel asked me to take one of her with Snow White, and also another chicken, a brilliant black chicken with red ... what, cockles? Whatever you call that rubbery red stuff around their heads, LOL! Anyway, I am quite humbled to be amongst this group of fabulous photographers. Fittingly enough, the picture will hang in the Marshall Building for a year, and there is a reception to take place soon to honor all of the winners, and the three top photos will be on display at next weekend's Festival of Books, though not mine since I was an honorable mention, not one of the top-three awards (Best Overall, Best Faculty/Staff and Best Student).
I couldn't wipe the smile off my face once I heard that my photo was picked. YAY! So do you think I can now call myself an award-winning photographer?! :-) But seriously, I am thrilled to bits because of the two things I've submitted photos for, my photos were picked both times (the Adorama article and this). For this contest, there were 494 entries, and it is pretty cool to be singled out. I'm on Cloud 9.
It is so fitting that I should win with a photo of Rachel. She's been one of my biggest photography supporters from the beginning and a great advisor that I ask for feedback from all the time. I ordered an 11 x 14 metallic print of the photo as a thank you, along with one for my friend Barb, who first told me about the contest and encouraged me to enter. Thanks, friends. Geez, you'd think from my Sally Field-esque speech that I'd won a Pulitzer Prize for photography, not just an honorable mention in a local contest.
I couldn't wipe the smile off my face once I heard that my photo was picked. YAY! So do you think I can now call myself an award-winning photographer?! :-) But seriously, I am thrilled to bits because of the two things I've submitted photos for, my photos were picked both times (the Adorama article and this). For this contest, there were 494 entries, and it is pretty cool to be singled out. I'm on Cloud 9.
It is so fitting that I should win with a photo of Rachel. She's been one of my biggest photography supporters from the beginning and a great advisor that I ask for feedback from all the time. I ordered an 11 x 14 metallic print of the photo as a thank you, along with one for my friend Barb, who first told me about the contest and encouraged me to enter. Thanks, friends. Geez, you'd think from my Sally Field-esque speech that I'd won a Pulitzer Prize for photography, not just an honorable mention in a local contest.
RSS Feed