Whoo-Hoo! Just a little shout out for myself. I hope you don’t mind. I am celebrating a little bit tonight as I just found out today that two of my images were selected for the 20th annual Phillips Mill Photography Exhibit. Yay me! And to think I almost did not enter this year. Over the past few weeks, I have had a constant should I/shouldn’t debate going on in my head. And it was not until Sunday at about 12:45 that I finally made up my mind and got in the car to deliver my images (by the way, it’s about a 25 minute drive and they stopped taking art work at 2:00). Cutting it a little close . . . just a bit. So why the debate? Well 1) these things aren’t free and did I really want to risk losing some money; 2) the competition is pretty stiff with “about 1000 entries and only 15% accepted;” and 3) I wasn’t sure after not getting accepted last year if I really had what they were looking for. So, Oh My Gosh, I almost fell off my chair when I opened today’s mail. So why did I finally decide to do it? Because last year (my first attempt) I entered images based on a lot of outside influences and not what I felt in my heart were my best. I guess, deep down I felt I owed it to myself to see what would happen if I did just the reverse and listened to my heart. Oh, how I am so glad I listened . . . to me.
I was working on the above image tonight for the Beyond Layers & Texture Tuesday posts and I wasn’t quite sure how I could make it fit into this post until I went looking for a quote on perseverance, not giving up, or in this case following your heart. Now it all ties in perfectly . . . don’t you think?
