— BEST IN SHOW —

October 15, 2007 — Indulge me, please, in a little brag. Okay, maybe it's a BIG brag. Last week one of my photographs won the $6500 Best in Show award at the SC State Fair. That makes me "BIS DaGinnie," right? :-)

At any rate, it certainly makes me proud! The piece, which measures 6 square feet, is actually a composite of 5 photographs taken during our recent trip to Italy. It's pictured above, although at this size you can't see much of the intricate detail.

Building my Resumé
This year I've begun (finally!) submitting my work to juried shows and galleries. (See my Portfolio.) It's been great fun:

• In April I was one of four artists featured in an invitational show at Columbia College's Goodall Gallery, Contemporary Female Photographers.
  
  
• In May my work was juried into the 23rd Annual Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition and displayed at the Charleston Visitor Center in Charleston, SC, during the 2007 Spoleto Festival.
  
  
• In June one of my pieces was selected for the Viridian Artists 18th Annual Juried Exhibition in New York City.
  
  
• In July a photograph was juried into the 27th Annual Spring Photography Contest sponsored by Photographer's Forum Magazine and Canon. The photo was one of 104 photographs, out of a field of more than 20,000 world-wide submissions, selected by the jury panel. It will be published in The Best Of Photography Annual 2007, a hardcover book that will be released in December.

Hopefully more successes will folllow as I continue to promote my work.

Next Week at the National
I hope to see many of you at the GDCA National in Lancaster, PA, next week. Please stop by and say hi. I'll be sitting in the front row, camera in hand, probably right next to Zeli Schulte. Photos from ringside will be put online — right here on DaDane of DaWeek — as soon as I can get them up.