I was surprised and delighted to receive a phone call this afternoon that my photo “Red White and Blue-ing on the High Line” would be receiving an award tonight at the opening for a show at Orleans Camera. I’d stopped submitting photos to shows a couple of years ago, only because my work schedule no longer allowed for sizing/sending/printing/matting/framing/delivering/picking up necessary to participate. But Orleans Camera made it so easy- all I had to do was email the image, and they’d do the rest. Perfect!

The theme for the show was Red/White/Blue, and the judge was Julia Coombs. I was so pleased that her comments showed that she saw and appreciated what I saw: how a collage of building facade images could resemble a flag, and that the colors were still red, white and blue, but not in the conventional sense. If you’re reading this, you saw the image when I sent it as my Fourth of July greeting. Here it is again, and also some images of the reception.

And there wasn’t even bad traffic…