Merit Award :: Lexington photographer
Earlier this year, I finally mustered some courage (and made some time) to enter a photo in a contest that I learned about from a Chase Jarvis tweet. It sounded fun: photos taken and processed on a mobile phone. I use my phone ALL.THE.TIME. because my girls don’t complain as much about me capturing their everyday with it as opposed to my “work” camera. In a way, it forces me to stay in the moment, not worry about settings, and focus on composition and light, and just document what they are doing that given time. It’s easy to snap a couple, and put the phone away and go back to playing. But in the process, I have over 3000 snaps. I plan to print out little 5×5 books for them – how fun would those be to look over a few years from now! Before I digress, I got an email about a month ago saying one of my photos was a finalist. I was shocked, because of the sheer volume of high quality entries. And yesterday the winners were finally announced, and my photo received a merit award in the “people” category. It definitely brough a huge grin to my face!
You can see all the winners here: http://thebestcamerachallenge.com/gallery/gallery_winners.html
And my winning entry…my girls in their glorious mis-matched clothes (taken with iPhone 4, processed with ShakeItPhoto app):