Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes as much brass to use that quote as it did to name a photo I took of a church, also photographed by Ansel Adams, "Homage to Ansel." I had entered it in a contest held by the Town & Country Fine Art Center. It did not get a prize, but another entry of watering cans made the final 10 in judging (Sue was working at the time and watched as they eliminated entries).
I recently went on a Photowalk, climbing the hills of Cincinnati's MT Adams for over two hours. Did all right for a one lung man. I was allowed to enter two pictures from the walk (shown here). The results will not be known for a while, there are 64,000 entries world wide.