Wine country, Barossa Valley, Australia
The camera club that I belong to, Photographic Society of Orange County, has been invited to submit photos taken in foreign countries. The rules are simple. Only five shots per member.
Cattle, Barossa Valley, Australia
The judges will select photos to represent as many countries as possible, and will also try to distribute entrants among as many people as possible. We’ll get the selected images printed to 16×20 inches and mat and frame them all identically in black frames.
1988 World's Fair, Queensland, Australia
I don’t do a lot of foreign travel, but did go with the club to Nice, France in April. Those photos were digital. My other travel overseas was two trips to Australia in 1988 and 1989, and a trip to Japan in 1995, all business trips. A few vacations to Mexico and Canada rounds out my limited international experience. My pictures from those trips are all slides.
Morning light on beach at Cairns, Australia
My son Scott lent me his slide scanner, and I’m loving it. It’s a PrimeFilm3650u, with digital ICE technology, whatever the heck that is. The scanner will scan at 3600 dpi. Once I get my images scanned, I can work with them with my software.
Whatamolla Lagoon, Australia
Every other photographer on earth uses Photoshop, but a friend gave me a copy of Corel’s PaintShop Pro and that’s what I use. I’m amazed at how much better I can make my images once they’re scanned in.
Night lights at Bombay Beach, Australia
Morning at the wetlands, Baja Mexico
I had a terrible time choosing only five images out of all of the ones I liked. It was frustrating to eliminate some of my favorites in favor of getting as wide a distribution of countries as possible. My best Australia shots are still somewhere in a carousel, and I couldn’t find my shots from Canada. So I went with what I had. The pictures in this blog post are my finalists.
Sunset, Baja Mexico
Fire Station, Anjo, Japan
Koi, Japan
Firefighter's turnouts, Anjo, Japan
Roof, Nagoya Castle, Japan
Roof, historic shrine, Japan
Courtyard, Cagne sur Mer, France
Window 1, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Window 2, Cagnes sur Mer, FranceLaundry, Nice, France
Lou Murray's Green World 
My favorites: the Japanese firefighters’ dress, sidewalk in Nice, morning at wetlands in Baja Mexico, World’s Fair, historic shrine Japan. But I have to say – I am NOT a great photographer, and picked the photos because I like the motifs and think they give an interesting impression of the countries taken in, and not for artistic reasons. They’re all great photos. Good luck!
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Thanks, Barbara.
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Wine country, Barossa Valley, Australia
Cattle, Barossa Valley, Australia
Morning light on beach at Cairns, Australia
Sunset, Baja Mexico
Morning at the wetlands, Baja Mexico
of course, I’m a landscapey kind of guy!
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Thanks, Harold. I’m worried that all five of my entries may be accepted. Framing them to the museum’s specifications is going to be expensive.
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Let me say first that you have some great pictures from the trip.
For the Muzeo contest, my personal choices would be:
Window 2
Spices
Dried fruit
Soft Drinks
Many of the others would do well in a regular show, but you can’t tell in what country they were taken. That may be important.
Good Luck!
Dave Samson
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Dave, since the Muzeo show is very undersubscribed at this point, I think everything entered will be accepted. Good point about not being able to tell where some of the photos were taken. So far, you and I are the only ones who liked the soft drink photo.
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