wrote:
On Aug 2, 9:16 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
My wife and I took home 4 ribbons last night's photo competition.

There were about about 75 B&W, 100 color print and digital photos
submitted for the 3 different categories. You are allowed to submit up
to 2 photos for B&W and Color and one photo for the Digital Submission.
I was blown away that we took home one Honorable Mention, one 4th
place, one 3rd place and a 2nd Place.

2nd place

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I touched this up some after the comments made in rec.boats. I do
appreciate your help.

4th Place I almost didn't submit this one, I thought there would be a
ton of similar photos.

http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur...

A photo, I really liked, but it did not ribbon. The pro thought it
would be a much better photo if the girl was interacting with the
penguin. I thought her shy look made the photo.

http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur...

An ordinary flower and bee photo that my wife said I should submit. No
ribbon.

http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur...

My wife's two ribbon photos.

http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n...ction=view&cur...

Very nice, I like the depth of field work on your wife's bird picture!

She shot this with a 70-200mm 2.8 with a 1.7 Converter. This was a hand
held shot and even with the telephoto with converter, it was fairly
sharp. That is the beauty of the VR feature. The fast lens does a
great job on the DOF and really makes a nice bokeh.