The Results Show

Last night the group of us who trekked around downtown Greenville earlier this month photographing churches met at the studio of the professional artist-photographer who led us. (By the way…I really loved looking at the studios of the three artists who work there.)
We were each supposed to bring five or six enlargements of our best shots to be critiqued. The first person who showed his was a fellow who looks like Santa Claus and plays one at Christmas. His photographs were gorgeous, masterful…and intimidating. He was tossing out photographic terms that I felt I should know, and I picked up on the fact that he had done some artistic changes on them in Photoshop. A close second was his co-worker, friend, and hobby photographer buddy who had almost equally as wonderful work. The last to show was one of the women, whose photos I am glad to say were worse than mine. As we were sharing our pictures, Diane, the teacher, pointed out which photos she really liked and why and whether they were “documentary” or leaned toward art. It was not intended for competition, just fun and learning, but I couldn’t help but feel that there was a resemblance to this season’s Dancing With the Stars. Santa was Nicole, and I was like Niecy. It was obvious that we six were at different places in interest and abilities, and it was fun to see what the others had done.