I thought it would be fun to have a photo contest!

You can take a photo with a point and shoot, a camera phone, an SLR, a polaroid, etc. Even a pin-hole camera! The main rules are:

• Anyone can participate!
• no major photo editing (for example, don’t edit out an object and super-impose it) let’s keep it a photo contest, and not a photoshop contest 🙂
• the photo was taken this year (2007)
• e-mail One (1) photo per contest to photos@sue-leigh.com and put ‘Photo Contest’ in the Subject Line, put the photo in the body if you can or attach it.
• Pass this contest on to more people! -The more people that participate, the better the prizes can get, and if you have future contest suggestions, questions, anything else, leave a comment.

Submit a Photo that best describes ‘October’ to you, what does October make you think of? (fall, the fair, cold weather, pumpkins, halloween?)

Submissions due October 29th, 2007. I’ll pick a winner and post October 31st 2007. Winner gets a $10 itunes gift certificate and if you have a website/personal page, e-mail it to me with your submissions and I’ll post the link if you’re the winner. Runner-ups may also get posted.

Happy Shooting!

Next week the NC State Fair starts! This statue is at the North Hills Mall that someone painted with fair related things going on. I’ll be going a few times. Some for eatin’, some for shooting.

So call me if you want to go together with me or Gary and I!

the rides!

the agricultural side

event the hind quarters are painted

I love shooting for fun! It’s great to experiment and hang with other people . . . there should be a lot of shooting opportunities in the upcoming months!

Today, before the NCSU home game, I got some shots in the Chancellors Suite and Club Level in the Vaughn Towers that may be used in a brochure

before I went upstairs, a shot of the recycle flag

the balloons were on the club level

the buffet table in the Chancellor’s Suite

desserts!

there was ice-cream with the NCSU block S logo, coasters, and even the mints had the NCSU logo:

On Thursday I shot the Association For Corporate Growth (ACG) RTP Chapter Awards Ceremony for Women’s Edge Magazine. NC Representative Bill Daughtridge spoke, as well as the three winners.

The awards were super cool

the three winners

I got tagged by James. So I read the rules and I’m supposed to write eight things about myself that most people may not know about me, and when I’m done, then it’s my turn to tag other people with blogs and they get to do the same.

So here are my 8 things you may not know about me!

1. I lost one of the first cameras I ever had in a bathroom at the Zoo. My mom told me not to take the camera off my neck- but I did and forgot to pick it back up again (I was young!). I remembered as soon as I walked out of the bathroom and turned around, but someone had already grabbed it. We went to the lost and found and gave them our info, but the day was ruined and we went home. I had to save up my own money to buy myself another camera, but I remember picking out the one I wanted. It was a cool 35mm automatic camera, and I used it up until I got my first digital point and shoot. I doubt I knew then how cameras and photography would play a role in my life 🙂
2. I was a children’s mystery book reviewer and was published in the Meritorious Mysteries Newsletters when I was a teen and worked for Wellington Books in Cary which is now long gone.
3. I went through the little girl phases of loving horses, then it was seals, and I was in the loving whales and dolphins phase for a long time where I was up for moving to California or Florida to be an Oceanographer “when I grow up”. I also wanted to be a storm chaser after I saw the movie Twister in the theaters when it first came out with a friend of mine. We both thought it would be a cool job if we didn’t have families.
4. I went through a sporty phase. I liked jogging, playing soccer, and had a “military phase” where I wanted to be in the Army, Air force, Marines, Coast Guard, Reserves, Blue Angels, and Navy Seals (my Coast Guard phase overlapped the oceanography phase). Now as many of you know, I’m all about pink and girly stuff.
5. I used to model (like all other girls that are interested in it when they are young) though it’s a great confidence booster and can be a great learning experience. I also taught modeling classes which was fun, but never did anything else with that.
6. I was a magician’s assistant for at least 5 years? I started out interested in magic and later on, a guy I knew did stage illusions with his wife who was pregnant, so I was going to be a fill in, but then just became part of the show.
7. Pet peeve – I can’t stand it when people “make up my mind” when it comes to my schedule. Like, not asking me if I am free because they think I am busy without asking me.
8. I never noticed it before but Gary pointed out that I put ketchup on each individual french fry instead of dipping my french fries

well, that wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be . . . and now my tag-ees:

Steve

Adrienne

Jessica

Chris

Swanand

Lisa

Haha, my fish is so funny – he flares up and stares at the snail in his tank.  Good thing the snail has a shell and probably doesn’t even see Maximus2.  Maybe I should give my snail a name . . . any thoughts?