he shot, but he did not score… not even close.

the winners of the Blurb Photography-Book-Now were announced 4 days ago. and i just heard about it today. you know what that means. they did not send me a congratulatory letter. i feel like a sore loser without the emotion. i guess i knew i would not win, or place in this contest but i hoped i would. so there is a little bit of disappointment in my heart but at the same time i sort of don’t care. i blame it on not being an educated photographer. the photographers that won this contest were really good, well trained photographers. me, i’m just a homegrown hack and i almost feel embarrassed that my submission was placed in the midst of the quality of work that these professional quality photographers shoot. really, next year i don’t think i’m even going to bother entering because my work is not going to improve enough to ever reach the quality of expertise that these judges now expect.

and i do think that it comes down to the fact that these photographers are art school graduates. that they’ve spent years learning the techniques and philosophies of being true artists. it doesn’t matter. like i’ve said before i’m not in this game for the fame. i’m just disappointed because of how i dreamed of spending that $25,000 prize money to go to London, Paris, New Orleans and New England to photograph more Cemetery Girls. i really don’t want to be renowned.

you should take a look at the winners though. some really amazing work. and they deserve larger prizes. Blurb should give out more money and more prizes for all these amazing photographers out there. seriously. i’m not one of them though and i’m not embarrassed to admit it.

http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2010/09/14/announcing-the-2010-pbn-winners/