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Nothing Can Stop Me Now
Oshkosh,Wisconsin
Husband and wife team, Amanda and Kyle Franklin

In a tragic aside, both were recently injured in an airshow in Texas when
their engine caught fire and the plane crashed. Both survived, but were burned.

Last night was the St. Johns Camera Club "Transportation" competition. Here are some of the top point scorers; there were so many outstanding images it was very difficult to judge. Yes, I was asked to vote this competition, so when my own photos came up I had to enter a "0." There is a formula to compute a fair score.


Market Day in Ghana

This is the Life

Heritage Flight
Legends and Mustangs airshow
Columbus,OH

Fishing Canoes, Ghana

It was so much fun trying to pull together creative images for this competition. We had a total of 12 entries and each did well. I will be contacting those wonderful people who helped us collect ideas for this competition, as my folder is very full of images we gathered before making our final decisions on entry photos. Everyone's a winner!


Stay tuned...next competition title is Traces of Time.


Our wheels are spinning, what about yours?

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S. Etole said…
Very stunning images ...
March 30, 2011 at 6:26 PM
Dagmar said…
Hi there Sandy, wwooww what a shot. And the others too. Hope the couple is fine and recover well from there burns....I know what it's like since I've been burned from my waist till my knees when I was 11 years old and had over 14 surgeries to be whole again.brrr. so really I"ll send out prayers for them.

Hugs D.
April 4, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Jg. for FatScribe said…
these are ALL such amazing shots. man! great competition ...

hope all is well on your (better) side of the country!

Jg.
April 5, 2011 at 6:41 PM
Char said…
love that first shot - was it the winner?
April 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM
We Blog Artists said…
I think that your pictures would make great Hoop paintings..
Sorry I was supposed to email you.
Here is my email address blogartists(at)gmail(dot)com.
Thanks Sandy!
Hope all is well.
CHar.x
April 19, 2011 at 9:58 AM
Unknown said…
Thank you, all. It was a lot of fun, and now we work on the next category for competition - Traces of Time.

Yes, the top photo got a perfect score. The fishing canoes also scored high, just one point under a perfect 18. It was a strong competition for a number of members of the club. Thank you for your interest.
April 19, 2011 at 7:04 PM
Jeanie said…
what a lot of color you have in that Ghana photo! Fun topic!

Do you know a fellow named Bob Sheap? He used to do a lot w/ St. Johns camera club.
April 21, 2011 at 3:19 PM
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