Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Yet another success, I guess.
I hit the photo lotto big time last week. Photo lotto? Not the Powerball or Mega Millions, but one of the local juried shows with ca$h awards. Usually these are promoted by local arts organizations as fund raisers (and they do a wonderful job at that). If I like the organization, I will support them by entering some photographs and paying the entry fee. One of my photos earned a juror’s award that will keep me in inks and paper for quite a while. (Used to be film, paper and chemicals, but the photo world has changed, hasn’t it?) My other entry sold the day of the opening. Hooray. It’s wonderful to receive monetary award in one’s own lifetime.
I’m not quitting my day job.
The amusing part of the entire process was my image selection for this event. I prepared three images for a similar event last fall. Two of the images were rejected by the juror and one was accepted. (Art is all about rejection and failure.) At the end of the fall event, all three images remained leaning against the living room wall until they were called upon to be judged in the latest exhibit. One of the rejected images earned the juror’s award and the previously accepted image was sold at the opening.
That’s why I call this type of exhibition the “photo lotto.” You never know how a juror will respond to your photographs. At the very worst you have made a contribution to a local arts organization, maybe your work gets hung on the wall, maybe you take home a prize. You pays your money, you takes your chances.
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