Eastern Idaho State Fair 2009

I get excited for the fair every year. As I select my entries for the photo contest and mat the prints, I get psyched. Then when I go to Blackfoot to drop of my entries, I get bummed. I start looking around at all the other photographs and wonder if any of mine are as good as the others.

Guess we'll find out!

I'll be going to the fair with the family on Labor Day. Upon our return, you can bet I'll update the blog with the ribbon count.

Each picture includes the category in which I entered it in quotes.

"Clouds and Rainbows" Shot from the Lower Falls Brink in Yellowstone National Park.

"Portrait, Woman" A self-portrait, actually (which I think deserves its own category). I shot this last year.

"Candid Wedding" I got to shoot a reception for a friend from the college newspaper staff days. Because the groom's family is way into aviation, they held their reception in an old airplane hangar. The bride set down her bouquet so she could dance, and I happened to find it.

"Candid Wedding" Usually I don't enter two pictures in the same category. I guess I feel like it's bad luck to compete against yourself. But this year, I couldn't help but enter both this picture and the previous one. This is, again, the college friend, this time dancing with her new husband.

"Portrait, Children" A (if I say so myself) beautiful shot of my beautiful daughters/princesses.

"Still Life" I considered entering this into the "Flowers" category, but decided against it since the candle is the focus. From the same reception as mentioned before. I really like a lot of the photos I shot at this one.

"Wood" Shot of a dead tree lying in a bacteria mat at the Fountain Paint Pots in Yellowstone National Park.

"Story Telling" Another shot of my beautiful girls. This time, outside the Oquirrh Mountain Temple in Utah.

"Old Building" Same reception as before ... again. Like I said, I shot a lot here that I really liked. The setting really lent itself to lots and lots of pictures. This is the sign outside the hangar. It was built (the hangar, not the sign) in the 1930s.

"Multiple Exposure/Special Effects" A composite self-portrait I shot last year.