The Shutterbug!

What a thrilling and proud feeling, when G. appeared before the local City Council to accept her award for the "images of our city" photo contest. They had a powerpoint showing the 5 winning photos, which were beautiful by the way. G. was the first announced, and (go figure!) the youngest submitter at 5 years old. You could hear a friendly little chuckle in the room as the communications manager announced her name and age, and heads bobbed up to see who was coming up for the photo with the mayor with the award plaque. The mayor smiled and tried to position himself standing tall, yet still allow for the tremendous difference in their heights. Unfortunately we had a camera mishap and didn't get that photo. :(

Before we left, she asked me if they would have our family come up for the photo. And I said, "No, this is your moment, just for you." She glowed...

Here we are just after. Auntie came with a card and flowers! Then we had a celebratory trip to the DQ!!

G the Shutterbug-photo contest winner!!

Was reading the local paper about 2 weeks ago, and saw the following:
The City of Edina has extended the deadline for entries in its annual “Images of Edina” photo contest. Community members who live or work in Edina are invited to share images they have taken since June 2006. Photos are judged on subject matter, composition, clarity, depth of field, lighting, quality of color or black and white, artistry and drama, degree of difficulty, Edina relevance and overall impact.

And G. had taken a beautiful photo of a swallowtail butterfly one summer day last summer. I thought -- why not? So we entered it.

So today, we got a letter from the City of Edina, telling us that "G the Shutterbug" won the Judge's Choice Award, and G will receive a plaque at the upcoming City Council meeting. Then they will announce the overall photo contest winner, who will be one of the 5 category winners.

Here's the photo. My friend Kate wrote about it in her blog, and I sent that along with the photo submission. (I didn't realize that you need to name the photo, but then since they had the blog post, they used her blog title for the name of the photo). And, sorry lest I sound too overly proud -- "Judge's Choice" was not one of the original contest categories, so I'm just speculating here, but thinking that they were enamored with the photo and made a new the category for the award!