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Black and White Photograpy Contest - A Win

Turquoise Trail Storm

This precious image that evolved from a color photograph to a sepia tone to a black and white photograph found glory last night in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

KBAC Radio BLACK & WHITE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY OF NEW MEXICO

On this warm summer's night my friends Cynthia, Donna, Tom and I walked over to hear the winner announced at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on Johnson Street. We were an hour early and looking for something cool to drink, but settled for waiting until the contest announcement was over. The images entered by the ten finalists were soon going to be projected in the very same room where the history of Georgia O'Keeffe is shown. So we had time to kill and were easily distracted by the paintings of O'Keeffe and photographs of Ansel Adams.

The museum was crowded and I viewed whatever painting or photo that didn't have a tourist in front of it at the time. G O'K's paintings colors are so vivid. Just the memory of the deep reds warms me. I walked towards the Ansel Adams photographs which filled an entire room and was drawn to the one at the far end. Thunderstorm Espanola Valley, 1961:

It was the older brother to my Turquoise Trail Storm so I thought.

No more time to view the exhibit because the winner of the competition:


was going to be announced soon.
In the small dark video room the ten finalists images were projected. Each finalist was called to receive a hard cover book of the main exhibit's artwork. My name wasn't called. My friends looked at me like "Uh-oh, they forgot Ruth!"
Just my luck I figured, but then my name was announced... as the winner.
What an adrenaline rush.

I received a thick envelope filled with several prizes and the smiles from my friends. We walked to the Eldorado Hotel and celebrated shouting above the piano music. A lovely day indeed:



Thank you for your votes!

p.s. See you at Jeannie's next week.
p.p.s. KABC radio b&w contest information is down, but sign up for new contest alerts. You may be next year's winner.

posted by Ruth Bilowus Butler @ 4:06 PM 1 comments