Got Crabs ?

My son and I do. Wow I never thought I would say that. This weekend my son and I were at Jekyll Island to drop off my prints for the Georgia Professional Photographers photo competition. The photo is of him and the crab burgers we had at a juke joint down by the marina. We rented bicycles and rode all over the island in the drizzling rain on Friday and then while I was watching the competition judging on Saturday morning he went fishing and crabing at the fishing pier.

I entered 6 prints and the judging was so slow. It seemed that almost every other print score was challenged and that would unleash tons of personal thoughts, comments and feelings about every little nuisance of the photo being judged from each of the 6 judges. It took forever. I split at noon after 3 hours of watching. I saw 3 of my prints be judged and the one I felt was the strongest image got the lowest score. Go figure.

There was a husband / wife team on the judging panel out of Tennessee that in my opinion we really in tune with the what was going on. Their scoring and insight as to the real world goings on of real working photographers was very insightful and I hope inspiring to the many "New" photographers in the room.