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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.

looking north

I also earned a 3rd place ribbon in the domestic animals for this picture of Bella. Isn’t she the cutest?

Bella

Thanks to the members of the Morris Camera Club and The Grundy County Corn Festival for putting on the contest.

A pier in Lake Geneva, WI. This was taken on a drizzly day with a fairly flat, gray sky.
Pier

It’s really hard to get these big smiles out of an almost 9 year old boy, that’s why I really appreciate the ones that I do get. Big smile

Apple picking in the fall has turned into a tradition for our family. I think this picture illustrates just how much Riley loves them apples. Yum!

We had a fun-filled family day that included a road trip to my Mother-in-Law’s house in Wisconsin. We decided to take the scenic route, which ended up to be the incredibly long route, but we still enjoyed the drive. One stop was in Harvard, IL to visit the giant fiberglass Milk Days cow and while there I snapped this photo of some wildflowers blowing in the breeze. I love the dreaminess in this picture.
Wildflowers

Fox River

Waiting for the train.
CTA tracks

I took this picture last summer of my neighbor’s dog, Bella. She is just the cutest and I love the color in this shot.
Bella

The best shot I could get with two very uncooperative children who were more excited
about friends and the first day of school than they were about mom with the camera. AGAIN!
Walking his sister to school

City reflection