Augusta Photography Festival

I'm going to start this by saying that I do not win things very well. I don't exactly know why...but I've never been comfortable with being 'The Best'. I was very happy being 2nd chair in band, coming in 2nd place is a comfortable place for me. For me first place never makes any sense. If I win first place in something all I can think is "but I got lucky on that one..." or something along those lines and then somehow my conscious ends up feeling as though I robbed a talent of their hard earned work.

That being said..."Best in Show". I can't seem to wrap my head around the concept.

There were over 500 entries for the Augusta Photography Festival, a bi-annual event in Augusta, GA. From those 500 entries, 10 from each category were selected to be finalists (60 total).

Best in show means...that of all the 500 pictures...then of the 60 best of those - this was the BEST of every.single.one. in every.single.category.

It doesn't make sense.

Beware of the water in Georgia.

"A Nation's Debt"