Today is the day to enter photos in the Utah State Fair

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piperut wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
>
> Today is the first day to enter photos in the Utah State Fair.


Congrats on your successes.

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Alan Browne wrote:
> piperut wrote:
>
> > Hello Everybody,
> >
> > Today is the first day to enter photos in the Utah State Fair.
>
>
> Congrats on your successes.
>
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Okay, I made it into Salt Lake City and went to the Utah State Fair.
I made a beeline for the Photo Exhibit.

It actually took me a while to find my photos. They have a lot of
entries.
Now, the photo of Edinburgh Castle didn't get anything. This was a bit
of a susprise. The one of my niece didn't get anything, and I didn't
really expect anything from it.

However, the photo of that stupid looking highland cow out having lunch
in the farmers field managed to get an honorable mention.

I did crop it a little bit and move the cow off center from the bulls
eye, and crop out what she had deposited on the ground, and had the
photo printed on glossy paper instead of the luster paper for the State
fair. The photo of her is on the net at www.utahstandrews.org, and
then in the gallery section, and Roland's trip to Scotland.

This silly looking cow is the one titled Highland Coo on the second
page of this section.

Now, I am not sure - Judges seem to be subjective a bit. Some like one
thing, and some another. I really thought the photo of Edinburgh
Castle would do better at the State Fair, since it did well at the
county fair. However, when I entered them - the person who accepted the
entries remembered the photo of the Highland Coo from the County fair,
but didn't remember the photo of Edinburgh Castle. So I think it might
have something to do with what the particular judge likes in the way of
subject matter as one thing.

Anyway, I after the fair, I will be able to hang something from the
State Fair on the wall. Just an Honorable Mention, but it is
something. This all started out because one guy I used to work with
said I couldn't call myself a photographer until I pulled a ribbon,
even an honorable mention out of the state fair. It was sort of stated
as a challenge...

roland