see also: the Pei Pei art project

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: Re: sure to be discovered any day now Mr. Moses Odiaka wrote on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:52

My name is Mr. Moses Odiaka. I work for the Union Photography Corporation of NigeriaPLC, Lagos, Nigeria. I am with much happiness to announce you the winner of the Nigeria National Photo Competition winner. This prize is the worth amount of $600,000 USD. To collect this money prize you will be need to respond with few simple informations (US bank account number etc) to allow us transfer your prize. We look forward to receiving your informations and proceeding with your winnings! With sincere, Mr. Moses Odiaka Reply