Open Photo Contest - 1st & 2nd place!

Exciting news! For me at least. I enter photo contests every now and then to see if anyone else thinks as highly of my images as I do (or my mom). It's also a good way to see which images are marketable. I was fortunate enough to win 1st place in the "animals" contest and 2nd place in the "wedding details" contest. The first image is a lone periwinkle in the surf leaving a path behind and the second is a ring shot with the bride's bouquet of calla lillies. The great thing about the Open Photo Contest is that anyone can vote - 4 random images show up onscreen at once and you click your favorite then another 4 show up and so on. Cheating is nearly impossible as the image selection is completely random. There are no stuffy judges on power trips - just random people, mostly photographers, clicking their favorite images. And a nice boda bag for me!