Hilo from Coconut Island, 600 mm. The judges liked this one because it has many iconic Hilo buildings in it: the Mo'oheau Park bandstand, Haili Church, St. Joseph's Church, Hilo Union school, Hilo Intermediate School, Hilo High, and the old Hilo Jail, as well as the buildings along Kamehameha Avenue.
On an interesting technical note, I learned that the judges liked everything about it except for the highly-saturated colors. The images to be judged were being displayed on a large TV and I also thought the colors were over the top, and when my image didn't make the final cut I was disappointed and angry at myself for having had a heavy hand on the Saturation slider. But then the judges looked at it again, this time on a Macbook screen, and saw that it was the TV that was over-saturating the colors, my image got back into the judging, and that was that.
I've been making images for about 50 years and talking to some new friends last night I said that I'd only entered and gotten a prize once, back in the late sixties, in a contest run by the Boston Phoenix. But later I remembered that in the seventies I entered an American Anthropological Association competition for images to be used on a calendar, and was one of the 12 winners. September, I think, or October. So this makes number three, an average of one every 16 years. But looking at it another way, my success rate for at least Honorable Mention is 100%.
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