Nancy, you can't pass up free beer!
Lisa, LOVE the condo! Congrats! I'm glad your Mom is home now.
Legs are feeling better, I walked yesterday, so I may try a little interval run this morning when I take Dallas to the gym. I won't overdo it. I won't overdo it! Anyone else do that? I always push too much and then end up injured.
Jo, that is so sweet!
E, I'm glad you are feeling yourself again and WOOT on the lost weight! I'm sick in the head b/c when I get sick, that's all I think about is that at least I might lose some weight!
Tonight I'm headed to an awards reception, I entered some of my photography in a local photography contest. Unfortunately, my friend and I went up there the day it was entered and the judge was only one photographer, who was a photojournalist and was judging stuff by personal preference. I thought it was a juried contest, but it wasn't, so he was critiquing everyone's stuff and I'm thinking he won't pick my two photos b/c they don't have animals or people's faces staring right at the camera.
If I had KNOWN that these were the only things he deemed good photos, I have thousands of shots like that...but to be honest, those are "easy" and I'm slightly put off by the fact that he is just choosing personal preference over overall ARTISTIC photography. For example, he really liked this shot (he didn't realize I was standing right there, he just critiqued stuff out loud to anyone standing around) but said he wished it was the front of them. WHAT? (the entered photo did not have the watermark on it, you'll have to imagine it without)
It would be a totally different shot from the front, the point was to catch their dancing in the street from the back?? It's harder to catch the feel of a shot without facial expressions and I thought that I did so in this shot, but apparently he liked it BUT wished he could see faces. I felt vindicated though b/c his WIFE, and a number of people around him, disagreed and were saying they liked it and how it caught the moment of dance. When I piped up and said it was mine and that I purposely took it from the back, he said he liked it and spent 5 minutes asking me about how I edited it and got the colors I did. Gah! Anyway, ramble.

so, I have no idea whether either of my shots even placed, it was hard to tell b/c he critiqued about every single shot, so he could have possibly liked it enough for an honorable mention or something.
