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We interrupt this tedious and stale chronology of summer trips for the important news that I am now an Award Winning Photographer. Last week, somebody on the photography mailing list at work declared his intention to start a series of minor contests. He picked a theme, "Sweet Things," gave people a week to submit something, then picked an overall winner (me) and some runners-up. There were 67 entries. My prize is to pick the theme for the next contest, and judge the next winner.

Cheesy though my picture may be, I will say in my defense that I was the first person submitting not to take the theme literally. Many entries were pictures of cookies or cupcakes or what have you. Who the little girl is, I don't know. She was at Steve's kid David's birthday party in April 2008, when he turned 2.

For the next contest, I picked "nothing gold can stay."

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Chapter 5 in the ongoing series would have been the week I spent at sailing school in Berkeley. I had a really good time at that, but don't feel like talking about it just now. I have given away my secret plans to too many people as it is, I think.

28 Sep 2009 22:00 PT - persistent link - trackback - 13 comments

Re: sure to be discovered any day now
la soeur wrote on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:01

As a PARENT of TWO children...I find it OUTRAGEOUS that you would take pictures of children eating CUPCAKES without parental consent. There are people on the internet with CUPCAKE fetishes...some of whom may be pedophiles. At this very moment they may be tracking down the location of that or some other INNOCENT cupcake-eating child! Also, as an ATTORNEY I advise you to listen when people tell you things are illegal...they are ALMOST ALWAYS CORRECT. I have dedicated my career to ending these child cupcake SCAMS!