Judges Comments

First of a high school football player was well lit with the benefit of a big face. Second was a series of portraits from a county fair, the images are clean, well composed, but only a few of them really stood out; judges thought it would have been much better as three or even two images. Third generated the most discussion as the photo of a family having a moment of fun edged out an image of a man with scars on his neck from a police dog attack. We felt both images had weaknesses, but the intimacy of the boy kissing his father edged it to third place.