Photo Competition

I entered 16 photos in the 'Williston Hard Spring Wheat Show" last weekend. Don't ask me what hard spring wheat is, but I know my photos had nothing to do with it. That may be one reason none of my 'landscape' or 'buildings/ equipment' photos didn't get anywhere, I'll see if I can find out what did do well, and if I can do better next year :). My people photos did pretty well though, a second and a third. Not bad for my first ever photo competition. Never mind that one of the winning ones was thirteen years old. I wonder how my niece Hayley feels about me winning a competition with a nude photo of her, even if she was only about three at the time. I called the piece Folk and it is my step father Richard Harford and his grand daughter taking a moment together during a camping trip for the Auckland Folk Festival (Auckland, New Zealand) in 1993. I have this photo up around the house as it's so real, such an amazing portrayal of Richard, his personality and everything he means to his children and grand children. Shot in black and white and taken with a Sigma camera and Sigma 28-70mm lense. A photo of my step-daughter Ella took second place. Again this was shot in black and white with the Sigma, but the film was not true black and white and lacks some of the grainy depth that gives character to other black and white shots. I called it Chaste and it shows Ella fleeing from me across the virgin sand of Long Beach in Washington, USA on a windy day in May 2004. If I can just figure out how to post it, I'll put up a sidebar with a sample of the phots.