i feel embarrassed.
One of my images has been selected as one of the ‘final ten’ in the ‘exploratory post processing’ category in Jesh de Rox’s recent contest, and I’m beyond smiley about it.
I’m also really embarrassed to see it up there with what are 9 other infinitely better images and a big part of me wishes I could take it back, does that make sense? I am really proud that it got selected… and not trying to be ‘modest’ or anything silly like that… I’m just embarrased after looking at how GOOD the other images are.
I was bored the night before last, and while I was stalking all the blogs that I love to stalk, I noticed the contest was still running, and instead of doing my usual scanning of posts just to get to the pictures, I read it word for word. If I’m honest, I didn’t know what ‘experiential’ meant and was curious to find a definition.
Anyway, I thought I’d enter my recent image of the crow in the field (the ‘hello darkness my old friend’ one) for the 1st category and as an afterthought really I had a quick peek through my flickr to see if I could find 2 more that might kinda fit the 2nd and 3rd categories. I thought, hey… no-one has to see them bar a small panel of judges, it’s not like I’m walking down the high-street sans clothing right?
I just checked my ‘bloglines’ about an hour ago… and there, right at the very bottom of all the finalists was this:
So now I feel like I’m walking down the high-street naked apart from a pair of clown shoes.
Anyway, if you got that far… I’m going to go and hide under my duvet ’till it’s on the second page of his blog and no-one can witness my foolish late-night bravado, I might peek one eye out a couple of times, but mostly I’m just gonna close them tight.
If you’re not a regular reader… check out Jesh’s blog… it’s limitlessly inspirational.
I feel truly honoured to be sharing a spot over there with lots of phenomenal photographers, share the love, go see them all and vote for your favourites.
