Another award came my way today, this time from the International Color Awards. There’s been a bunch of new photography awards shows the last few years—this one, the Lucie, the Spider Awards. The first year of the Lucie Awards I won first prize in the landscape division, which got me a ticket to the awards ceremony in LA. I’ve gotten an honorable mention every year since, which is a good excuse for a press release when it happens.
Which is the whole point, I suppose. I enter these things because of the self-promotion opportunities. The judges for the ICA are drawn mostly from the advertising industry, so the winning work is a bit on the slick side. I didn’t exactly win anything in this competition, I made it to the "Nominee" stage, the top 50. Still, it offers modest bragging rights.
The shot that got "nominated" is an old one, from the mid 1980's (this contest has no limitation on date, so I get to pick through my "greatest hits"). I was tramping through a marsh, in rubber boots, and I came across this dead Great Blue Heron. I was in the "assistant" phase of my photographic career, and didn't have a lot of money for film. I took three frames.
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