2020 brought us many ‘pandemic Santa’ photos (mostly masked and through plexiglass) but this frame accentuating the social distancing between the child and mall Santa is one of the best we’ve seen. 2nd place just brings home so much joy. Third place lead to much discussion. We are aware we leaned heavily on ‘cute kid’ photos in the category, but at the end of the day strong emotion and moment, like this photo, simply won out, across the board, over some lovely pictorial entries.
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2020 brought us many ‘pandemic Santa’ photos (mostly masked and through plexiglass) but this frame accentuating the social distancing between the child and mall Santa is one of the best we’ve seen. 2nd place just brings home so much joy. Third place lead to much discussion. We are aware we leaned heavily on ‘cute kid’ photos in the category, but at the end of the day strong emotion and moment, like this photo, simply won out, across the board, over some lovely pictorial entries.