Good Morning!
If you remember in my blog a couple weeks ago, I mentioned that I was a Semi Finalist for the Photography contest at work. After nearly two weeks of voting amongst my colleagues, I found out the results this morning.
I didn’t win for my category or the overall.
I’m a bit bummed, but then I rather expected it since my personal photograph wasn’t my favorite. Instead, the one that won in my category was the leaf on a rock with water droplets. That’s cool to me though – I really liked that one and the one of the lotus reflected in water. I figured after seeing the competition (and the fact that I really didn’t like mine all that much) it wasn’t a sure bet.
On the brighter side, however, I had entered a different contest for
Since I was planning on doing a fair trade themed Christmas anyhow this really makes it that much easier for me to order from this site (and a couple others) and get the items I wanted as gifts while purchasing items that are eco-friendly AND bettering the welfare of some of the people in rural communities.
I suppose if I had to choose, I would have liked to win the photography contest – but in the end, I’m pleased that something else close to my heart (and even more so – the people and communities I’ll be helping by purchasing fair trade items).
So, in some small way, I’m a winner – and a so are a whole bunch of others.
