Passion Progress....

I believe Phil informed you of my most recent passion - photo contests. I am not really sure how the idea sparked in my brain, but when an idea sparks in my brain, I get totally ignited about it (at least until the next passion comes along!). And so, I applied for many different photo contests a few weeks ago - ones for hospitals, magazines, fairs, professionals (haha), and one for "dogasaur.com". The latter one is the very first I applied to and required applicants to send in photos of their dog exercising. I laughed excitedly and sent the "dog-loving" website a few snapshots of Oscar at his park.

Well, yesterday I received an email from "dogasaur" (haha, we laugh everytime I mention this website), with a newsletter announcing the winners of the "Exercise with your Dog Photo Contest". We quickly clicked on the link to see that we weren't listed as "grade prize winners"......or as "honourable mentions"....but as "other submissions", which included ALL OF THE remaining photos sent to the contest! Hahahahahahaha - we were in tears laughing! Can you believe it? I finished in something that I consider "worse than last place", simply because not all of the photos we were categorized with followed the main application requirement of "DOGS EXERCISING". I have included the link so you can see Oscar in action (there are two photos - top right), but I would also like to direct your attention to the other, should-have-been-DQ'ed photos. There are photos of dogs SITTING (which is NOT exercising), photos of dogs meeting other dogs (which is NOT exercising), and photos of dogs being pet by their owners (which, again, is NOT exercising)!

So, I present to you my photo contest progress as hilariously TERRIBLE. I think Phil wonders if I will give up on this passion soon (because I have been talking about starting to love knitting and cake decorating), but I think the laughs we get from every "you lost" are too great to quit yet!

The link for those who are interested in a BIG LAUGH: http://www.dogasaur.com/photo-contest-additional.html