Got an LWE today with a letter to inform me that my Peruvian salt pan photograph has been shortlisted in the Wanderlust Photo of the Year competition and thus will be exhibited at Destinations Holiday & Travel Show at Earls Court this February. Only problem is that the awards ceremony is at 4pm on a Friday and I teach until 4pm on Fridays…
I’m more excited because this is a rare tangible outcome of our trip; otherwise daily life tends to go on much as it did before with little direct evidence that we ever went away for a year. I’m not likely to win a camera or a trip to Australia (we used a little point-and-shoot while just about everyone else there will have fancy DSLRs) but at least there’ll be a portion of wall-space devoted to one of our pictures, one choice public morsel plucked from our family round-the-world feast.
Meanwhile, Ellen hasn’t claimed the top spot in the National Geographic Kids’ competition (the winners are printed in the latest issue), but as I tell her, she’s made the top five while I’m only in the top ten. And the winner of Ellen’s competition was over twice as old as she was when she took her photo; there’s plenty of time…
