Day #242

One word.. Determination.

7+ years in the making!

This year I finally hit it. I won the 2011 Delaware County Fair Best Advanced Photography Trophy. And the Best Advanced B&W Photography Photo Rosette. WOW.

When I dropped of my photos on Friday I saw some of the other photos and told a lot of people that this years show was going to be very very tough! There were a lot of great photos to compete against.

On Saturday after soccer, Kristi asked me if I wanted to go to the 2:00pm awards presentations for the photography show, I figured why bother, I didn't have anything to compete with up there. And told her we could just go home and it would be ok. She said why don't we just go grab a bite to eat and since it was close to the awards time we just go ahead and see how judging went. So I said OK.

There were very few people there, but they started the awards and one of the first awards awarded was for the Best Color Amateur Photography Awarded to.... Wait for it....

Janine Conklin. Congrats to my Big Sister for taking home the Rosette Ribbon for her photo.

They Then proceeded to move to the Advance class and awarded me with the Rosette for best B&W Photo in the Advanced Class. And then they totally leveled me when they announced my name for the Winner of the Best Advanced Photography Trophy. I was so surprised I kept telling Kristi I couldn't believe it!

Now I will move onto the Professional Class for 2012.

And see if I can compete up there. I will prolly get eaten alive. But I will try my best! That's all I can do!

Determination! Never give up on your dreams!

For those of you that didn't make it to the fair and would like to see what I entered click here, I have created a gallery.