Second Place

Was music to my ears as I placed in the Friends of The National Wildlife Refuges of Rhode Island 2022 Annual  Amateur Photo Contest, Habitat category. 

I was apprehensive to submit my photographs for the competition but I did it anyway. I ended up submitting 4 images and 1 placed.The photos are below.

Here are my thoughts on the images after seeing them printed in the exhibition.

While I really like the first 2 images personally, for a competition, I feel that they are not striking or interesting enough.

The third photo is of the annular solar eclipse and while I have fabulous memories of that day of photography, the image lacks that wow factor.

Interesting enough, I almost didn’t submit the last image on the right that placed into the competition.

I felt that it was too “in your face” even though I love the tree and stars above it.It was an image I got at a local dark sky location in September of 2021.

I was there to photograph the milky way and as I was leaving I happened to look up and saw hundreds of stars in the sky with the tree silhouette and decided to try and capture the image.

All this to say, don’t count yourself out!

Submit your photos for competitions, see your work printed and keep making images :)