I hate this time of year because...

1. School has started.
2. As I go through images for portfolios and the CPOY contest, all I see is what I did wrong. (Above: blew out the sky to get their faces and it doesn't look good, cut off too much of their bodies, left a little bit of a stadium light behind the girl in the middle, left a little bit of another girl behind the girl in the middle, no emotion, no sense of what's going on, etc.)

These next few days, those who haven't had enough of my whining about how I wish I was more talented in person can check out this blog to see images that will not be going into my portfolio, and more griping about how I should probably just take school pictures the rest of my life.

It's the time of the season

For loving? No. For entering the three main photo contests (NPPA, NNPA and POYI) that I have no chance of winning? Yes.



So in honor of this, all week I will try to post different images that didn't make the cut on here or in the paper. For my two or three faithful blog readers, it'll be a chance for them to see something they haven't before. For me, it's a palette cleanser for what is shaping up to be the worst first week of school in my life.