Photographic honor

Each year at the San Diego County Fair, a juried Exhibition of Photography is held.

I decided last year to submit to this year's Exhibit a photo I had taken. Here's the story behind it:

It will be easy for me to remember the date I took it because it happened to be September 11 of 2007. After getting home from work I went out for an exercise walk, and as I try to do whenever I take such walks, took my camera with me.

So, as I was walking along my peripheral vision picked up something that registered on me as being unusual. I stopped and looked, and there was what I initially assumed was an orchid just laying on the concrete next a bunch of dead leaves that had been dropped by nearby trees. (I later learned the flower was actually a Stargazer lily.)

I immediately saw the photographic possibilities and took several exposures, the one in the link being the best of them.

At roughly that time in 2007, members of the digital imaging forum at the site I placed the photo on were firing up a project to create and sell photo calendars to benefit the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The plan for the project was to create four calendars with different themes. As one of those themes was flowers, I submitted this photo for consideration, and was very pleased when it was included as the October image for the flowers calendar.

This reinforced my thinking that I was going to submit the photo to the 2008 San Diego County Fair Photo Exhibit.

Now, a big factor about this Exhibit is many more photos are always entered than there is space to display. So, I was very excited when mine was accepted for display in the Exhibit.

As I noted earlier, this is a juried exhibit, so there are prizes in each category, plus honorable mentions at the discretion of the judges. My photo did not receive anything beyond the inclusion in the Exhibit, but as already noted I am thrilled that it was selected for inclusion in the Exhibit.