I was a bit bummed out last month when a recent favorite image of mine only received Honorable Mention at the Berkeley Camera Club competition.  I was only somewhat molified by the fact that I felt our judge that night was not very good (honestly — I had that opinion long before the Masters category I compete in came up for review).

Today we received the results of the N4C Pictorial competition for March.  This is the regional group that our club rolls up into.  I was pleasantly surprised to see that they like the image a lot more than the judge we had that night.  At N4C, this image was awarded First Place in the Masters level, and Best of Show overall.  Yeah! 🙂

Just more evidence that photographic judging is highly individual and to never be too surprised when something you love doesn’t receive the reception you expected in any given competition…