A few months ago I entered one of my photographs in the New York Institute of Photography's International Photo Contest.The idea behind the contest was "Focus on your Hometown". And the catagory that I entered was "Faces in the Crowd".
I chose a photograph that has a very special meaning to me that I have very stong emotional ties to because this is the photograph that made me want to be a photographer.
As some of you know, my husband was in the Navy during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. During that time he was deployed to the Gulf several times. I was pregnant with our daughter during one of those Deployments and we weren't sure that he was going to make it home before she was born. Somehow he managed to get leave (thanks to a Master Cheif that I will forever be grateful to) and made it home a few days before she was born.
This picture was taken the night before he left to go back over seas and finish out his delopyment. Ciara was 4 days old.
From then on... everytime that Kris went to sea he took a copy of this picture with him because it reminded him of what he had to come home to.
About a week and a half ago I got an e-mail from the Contest Director saying that my photograph had been chosen as an Exhibition Winner in my Catagory! WOW!
So, my photograph along with the other Contest Winners (and there are some fantastic photographs from all over the world that were chosen) will be on display at 11 Madison Ave. in New York from October 22nd thru November 2nd!!!!
You can check out NYIP's Official Announcement at http://www.nyip.com/ezine/contests/photo-contest-summary.html.
How exciting is that????
And what a huge honor! I'm still pretty new to the photography business and breaking into the professional market has been a challenge to say the least... but things like this make all of the hard work worth it!
Thanks a million to all of you.... family and friends for all of your support! And to all of my clients for trusting a new photographer with your most precious memories!
