I decided to do something I've never done before. I entered some of my photographs in the county fair, thinking that, hey, maybe I can get noticed, or at least I can feel like I've finally done
something with my photography. I've felt that my wet leaf in a parking lot was the best image I shot last year, and that on my phone. Well, the results are in, and that leaf made me a dollar richer! It got a red ribbon. The other two, in clockwise order, got white and yellow. I was a little dumbfounded to see overexposed, or blurry, or both, images that got the same award, until I realized that the county fair is just like a pinewood derby or pee-wee soccer league: everybody gets a trophy. It would be nice to know what the judging criteria were though.
My wife entered a phone-cam image of our daughter and dog staring out the door, very moody, very contrasty and story-telling-y. Third place (though in all fairness (Fair-ness, get it?) this is cropped a little tighter than the fair entry).
One important thing I have learned is this: the best camera is the one you have with you.
Oh, and she spent my dollar.
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