Contest Shots for the Contest

The beginning of this year has been a stressful one. Just before Christmas we laid our oldest son to rest. Nothing in the world seems important anymore. All the logic and understanding will not stop the pain and emptiness one feels. I guess it never goes away but you learn to deal with it one day at a time.

After dwelling about the house for several weeks I needed to get out. For distraction I went shooting at a large surf contest here in Sebastian Florida. It was nice to take my youngest son out and let him run at the beach and just relax and clear my mind. Got some decent shots even though I dodged rain the entire day.

Turns out our local paper was having a contest for best shot of the surf contest. Out of over 600 entries they posted the 20 best for voting by readers. I submitted 6 to them. I ended up having 4 of the 20 they put up. If you would like to vote go to FloridaToday.com

Here are some of the images I took during the contest.

For the rest of the shots you can see them here on my site.

BONUS! Logan kept begging me to shoot with my camera instead of his point and shoot so I said what the heck... it is only a camera and if this is something we can bond with it would mean more than the value of that thing! So I dropped down the monopod to his size and shooting away he did. Logan and I went back the next night and looked and sure a lot were off center, focus issues but there was one that stuck out from a series he did... HE NAILED IT! Focus good... composition on... I brought it in photoshop and gave it some color correction and thought... what chip off the ol' block! So he has told me I must post his debut photograph...