NCCF Charity Art Show Last Week

As some of you know, NCCF is one of my favorite charitable organizations. When they accepted submissions a few months ago, I jumped at the chance to participate. And, when my work wasn't selected, I wanted to treat this as a learning experience - and see what did make the cut for them.

Some observations:

1) Only a few submissions for what I do (macro photography) were selected as a percentage of the total pieces of art that were displayed.

2) Of these, half of them were of butterflies. Examples of my work that could compare would include:



Some common elements - simple backgrounds, good framing of the butterflies, nice details.

3) The others were of flowers - but of solid backgrounds. These examples came close:



4) Most of this work was printed using ink and paper.

5) The sizes were not large - they looked like 5x7s. This is great for me, because I don't love my work when it's zoomed out.

What does this mean for me?

1) Next time, I'll only submit macro work.

2) I need to keep shooting my butterflies and flowers (time permitting) because I'm getting closer and closer to what I want to achieve - a win of some sort.

Next time - an idea I read about online - and why I won't be doing it.