I recently got the fire lit under my butt to go ahead and actually take the time to enter the Orange County Fair (CA) this year. This was my second time entering. While most years, the winners all seem to be the same big or old hands holding a baby's hands, this year was a great surprise, especially enjoyed by me! I ended up taking 1st and 2nd place for my People photographs in the professional Division….All cause I got a big nudge from my wife. I knew both images were great, but I had kind of just been sitting on one for a little over a year, and had done nothing with it. The other I knew immediately needed to be entered somewhere. Well now the fuel has been added to the fire under my butt, and I am making plans to enter many other photographs into many more contests!  Just goes to show, if you don't try, you can't win! And what better way to become known than to be seen, and sometime win awards!