Wow- what a weekend!  I attended the Professional Photographer's of Mississippi and Alabama's Spring Seminar.  There were wonderful and inspiring speakers who filled my head full of new ideas!

One of the great things about belonging to a professional association like this - is the opportunity to participate in print competition.  Print competition is an important tool for photographers to sharpen their skills, get wonderful feedback on their work (it helps to have thick skin!), and be recognized for their photographic abability.  A panel of 6 master photographers judges each entry on 12 different criteria.  It's tough competition.... just thought I would share some of my entries...

"Charmed"
Beautiful little Sophia sure was a charmer and placed an overall 3rd place in the electronic imaging category.

"You got your shot, now I'm outta here" (thanks to Jamie for the title!)
You might remember this piece from a previous post... It's modified a little...  This print was my highest scoring entry and was awarded a "Merit Print" which means the judges scored it above an 80 out of a possible 100 points.

"Ryan, Michael or Josh"  (again, clever title by my husband!)
What a fun image!  Many thanks to Anna- who was a crack up and a joy to photograph!  This one got lots of talk from the judges... which can be a good or a bad thing!  Turns out they liked it and also awarded the image a "Merit Print".

"Claire"
And this last one did not win a thing.... but it sure got a lot of attention from the judges and the seminar attendees... so I thought I would show it - it was my favorite and I thought if any of them would merit - this one would, but I was wrong... I will most likely re-work this one in Photoshop and submit it again...  but I LOVE LOVE LOVE this print anyway!