Yesterday was a typical Wednesday, nothing particularly out of the ordinary other than Jon and I watching our latest Netflix arrival at 10 pm after we got home from small group–much later than we would usually start a movie. As soon as it was over we head to bed and as has become my habit right before turning off the light, I did a quick email check and read through my Twitter feed on my iPod.
As I was reading through my Twitter feed and I came to a tweet by David Jay, the founder of ShowIt, which is the website platform that my website is built on. I could go on and on about ShowIt because I really love them, and if you have ever asked me about my website you have endured me trying to convince you to go check out ShowIt because I love them that much. Anyway his tweet read: “YOU pick the winners of the Showit Best of 2009 contest! Go here and vote! http://bit.ly/aRXxyB (be warned FB polling is finicky)”
I had completely forgotten that a month or so ago they had announced that they were taking nominations for the Showit Best of 2009 contest. They were taking the nominations via Twitter and I thought ‘ah why not, I love Showit and what I have been able to create with it– I will submit my site for a couple of the categories’. That was that and I totally forgot about it. So I head on over to Facebook to check out who had made the list. I start looking through the Photographer of the Year category, scrolling through relatively quickly just to see who I recognized. I come to Dane Sanders (yay Dane!), who is my mentor/business coach and then keep going but wait a second, that looked like my site. That is my site! What?! Sure enough sandwiched between Dane Sanders and Gabriel.Ryan (another photographer whose work I love) is my site.
I am really humbled and totally shocked that I am listed in the nominations of Showit Best of 2009: Photographer of the Year. My name is listed among some of the Babe Ruth’s of the photography industry, as I had to explain to my sports loving husband. The list was chosen by other photographers, my peers. I know this is just another contest and I have no expectations of winning anything, but when I saw my name on the list I felt, for the first time, known, or at least heard of, among a sea of super talented people.
So there you go. My true story. Have a wonderful Thursday!
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