Focused on Nature Photography by Scott Seifrid

Monday night at the Elgin Area Camera Club (EACC), I was thrilled to take home Best of Show. It was the kind of validation every photographer dreams of after committing to a large-format print.

Then came the tape measure. My print was disqualified for being oversized.

Undeterred, I entered the following night at the Last Print competition for Photo G—and my print pulled the second-highest score of the entire preliminary round. That score easily would have earned an award, maybe even another Best of Show.

I was shocked they wouldn’t make an exception—a one-time slip on a large print in over a decade. Apparently, even perfection has its limits..

Geneva