convinced me to enter a couple of photo contests. I started off with the Spider Black and White Awards ($35 per entry). I submitted Crossing Brooklyn Bridge under the People section. I've always had a dislike for art contests in general. I don't expect to win anything - so I can't see any disappointment in store - but there's something about the idea of these contests that seems obnoxious. I haven't analyzed the feeling but it has something to do with the inability of anyone to quantify art. But I'll play the game and enter a couple to please my father who has been pestering me about this for about ten years.
When I told him that I had been receiving e-mail offers for years about entering contests he said that he almost hung up the phone on me - he was that upset.
My portfolios arrived from Light Impressions so now there's one more project to finish up. I've been too busy to even open the box and see what they look like.
Infrared is going on the back burner for a while. I have a hankering to shoot straight photography again with ye olde tri-x.
Sales have been downright dismal - but I have about five irons in the fire (whatever that means) and maybe one of them will ignite. I'm always curious about where these idioms come from: irons in the fire.
