Horses, Chickens, and Pigs, Oh My!

The Weber County Fair was this past week and in the spirit of being involved in all things community, we both entered the photography competition.

Gailon entered in the advanced amateur/semi-professional division, {because you have to make more than half of your annual income in photography to be entered into the professional, and that is not the case here, yet…} and I entered the amateur division.

Gailon submitted two portraits and one commercial/industrial. I entered a commercial/ industrial, macro, and nature. We were having so much fun with selecting our pictures and getting them ready, the thought of ribbons and such was not even there.

Well, we decided to attend the Fair on Thursday, because my mom was still in town, and had a blast! We walked around all of the little booths, went to the trade show, and watched the rodeo. All of this during one of the windiest, dustiest, freakiest looking sky kinda nights. There was so much dust in the sky, that the sun was clouded over, to the point that you could look almost at it directly! CrAzY!
{just as a side note about the pics, they are straight out of the camera...no tweaking of any kind.}

By the time we got ready to leave, my eyes were red, watering, and in pain. One presenter thought that I was really tired, nope just the wind and dust!

One thing that we have been having fun with is taking in the whole experience of being here. So far we have attended the Fourth of July festivities, Rodeo for the 24th, the 24th of July Parade, the W.C. Fair, been to Smith and Edwards {a catch all store for everything from penny candy to guns, to military surplus and their motto is “We got it if you can find it”}, been on rides around the canyon, swam at Pineview “Beach”, and so much more!!

Oh yeah! The Fair results! Well, I was very shocked to see the results for me, not so much for Gailon. In his division he won First Place for Commercial / Industrial, First Place and Second Place for Portraiture!!! YAHOO GAILON! Way to go!

As I already said, I was shocked with my results:! In my division I won First Place for Commercial/Industrial, First Place for Macro, and Second Place for Nature.

So neat to see that when we walked into the exhibit hall!

The other thing that was really neat was that we were both recommended to go to the State Fair! This is the first time that I have entered ANY kind of competition of this kind, and I feel so honored to have been recognized. I guess this means I ain’t so bad after all! {Plus, now I get a new camera, that was part of the deal! Cannon 5D Mark II here I come!!} Check out Gailon's blog for more pics of our adventures!

We are having fun here in Ogden! We have found some new hang-outs, adventures, and traditions!