Alan McLeod begins taking entries today for the 2011 Yuletide (or Xmas) Photo Contest. I’m not sure I have a photo worth entering this year. But perhaps it will snow between now and the deadline, in which case I’ll round up some guys with faces full of character, we’ll set up pub chairs and a table out in the elements and I’ll snap the grand prize shot.
Looking through my archives I find plenty of pictures of hops, growing in the field, up close, drying in kilns, mostly green. The best would be the view in Tettnang you can download to use a wallpaper on your computer screen.
The photo at the top had potential. It was taken on a Saturday evening in small-town town festival in the south of Bavaria. I like the sun shining through the half-liter glass, but the beer photo would have shown families sitting around tables, enjoying fresh pretzels and plates full of chicken. The beer is Schonrämer Hell from Private Landbrauere Schonräm. Last week it won gold in the European Beer Star awards. That’s why I was more focused on getting to my beer than framing another photo.
What is this concept “photo not worth entering”?