Professional Photographers of Washington Competition Prints

I am getting some prints ready to submit for competition at the Spring Conference of the PPW the first week of April. It is in Wenatchee this year, but I won't be attending as it coincides with Spring break and I already have plans to take my youngest daughter Kelsey on a road trip to Moab, Utah, as well as photographing the horse races that weekend. More about that in a later post.

Here are the prints I am considering entering.















I have attended the annual conference the last three years and sat in on the judging. There are a lot of really good photographers in the room and the judges are all nationally known photographers themselves - la creme de la creme. It is really nerve wracking to sit there and wait for your prints to come up and then be judged. Especially since the judging takes two days and you never know when yours will come up, so you have to sweat it out, usually for both days.

So this year I will have the prints judged without actually being in the room to hear the critique or the comments. I don't know if I like that idea or not. I will probably be on the phone with someone at the conference as soon as the judging is done to get the scores. Or maybe I won't and will just wait 'til I get home and look at the little tag on the back to get the scores.

Anyway, I need to pick four from the above and I can't use more than one with the same subject, so I need to pick 1 of the first 2, and 1 of the last three. After I finally choose I still need to do the retouching, and get them printed and mounted. Feel free to comment.