getting to the seventh

every once in a while online, i see a photo contest. i normally don't give those a second look. for most, they just want to drive traffic to their website, the prizes are never that great. some of them are looking for free use you your images by trying to grabbing rights, so reading every terms of agreement is crucial. i don't want to discover one day while publishing my book that an image that i put into a photo contest i no longer own.

a few weeks ago world nomad put up a contest. the prize a couple thousand dollars worth of camera equipment and a trip to antartica with a national geographic photographer.

wow.

going through the terms it seemed reasonable. i went for it. heck, it was free, and just on flickr. i had no interest in the gear -- i've got too much. if i won i probably would have donated it to foto baryo. i imagined what to photograph while i was there, how i would feel in a land with no darkness, penguins scampering away from me.

there were a thousand entries. it took me quite some time to go through them. i thought i had a reasonable chance.

the results came in.

i didn't even make the short list.

back to the drawing board on how to get to my seventh continent.

what i submitted is here