My parents recently moved to Morris, IL and every year the town holds a huge corn festival. A few weeks before the festival I was visiting the website for information on events and discovered that they were having a photography show and competition as part of the festival. I decided to take a chance and enter pictures in a few categories. Since I’m cheap and it costs money to print and mount 8×10 pictures, I chose to limit myself to four entries. I settled on domestic animals, city scenes, transportation and flowers. I had no expectations, I just looked forward to seeing my photographs on display with other local photographers.
Imagine my surprise when I walked into the show and found that two of my photographs had ribbons on them. I was shocked and excited. I didn’t think I had a chance, so it was nice to get the recognition for my work.
My photo titled “Looking North” earned a 2nd place ribbon in the Transportation category.
I also earned a 3rd place ribbon in the domestic animals for this picture of Bella. Isn’t she the cutest?
Thanks to the members of the Morris Camera Club and The Grundy County Corn Festival for putting on the contest.