I entered a photo contest today.
MOO’s Super-Duper Holiday Card competition and People-Powered Holiday Card Store. *whew* All entries will be available as cards to purchase on November 1st through to December 1st. Four winners will be chosen in 4 categories, with each prize being a whopping $2,000. Entrants are allowed to put in ten pictures or even illustrations, and I chose 9 of the best from last year’s Christmas batch and house tour.
I don’t think I’ll win, but I hope a lot of mine sell. ONE DOLLAR from each and every card goes to Doctors Without Borders. And that alone was reason enough to enter. You can see all submissions here.
And in other photo news, we went to a Matthew Good concert a couple weeks ago, and he had invited the audience to bring their cameras and take pictures. Which I did. Like, a couple hundred. I narrowed it down to these ones. I then submitted some to their official fan gallery, and they choose the best to showcase each location. They chose the pic of Sarah meeting Matt as the only fan-meet from that stop. 
She’s so jazzed about that.
I noticed a few there very similar to mine, and then I remembered seeing a guy off to the side with a great big camera bag and a camera with an absolutely HUGE lens. And our pics look pretty similar. So that’s cool. (Or maybe it was a guy behind me, who knows?)
I *love* my camera. It’s a Fuji Finepix s5200. Worth every penny we scraped for it.
Your photos area always awesome, you should do great!
Great photos! I hope you win, and even if you don’t – I love the idea that they are donating the money to such a great cause!
Homeschooling and photography is what started our home business. Here is our story:
A quiet walk in the neighborhood with her boys inspired Heather Hall to take a second look at the everyday objects others often pass by. The stay-at-home mom had been teaching her young sons the alphabet. Noah, 4 years old at the time, was the first to see the letters move off the page and into the world around him. “Look Mommy! That tree looks like an E!†Heather, an avid photographer, snapped a picture of three tree branches stretching out side-by-side into what was, in fact, a perfect letter E. Soon there were 26 black and white photographs from their family walks adorning their playroom wall, a lesson about letters blossomed into art.
Heather, with her 4 children in tow, remains the CPO (“chief photography officerâ€Â) of Letter Perspectives and her husband Mike, who first encouraged his wife to share her gift with others, handles the business side of things. We love hearing your feedback and look forward to helping you design your own unique creation for home or office. Letter Perspectives can be shipped to residential and business addresses anywhere in North America.
All of the money made from the site is going to help orphans.
You can visit the site at http://www.letterperspectives.com
Thanks!
Mike (a proud husband)