EXHIBITION
Portrait photos are what I generally shoot on a regular basis, but I also shoot product and landscape photos as well. Typically when I shoot landscapes, architectural, street photography, etc. I do so for fun, or because I stumbled across something interesting. It’s those different photos that I capture that I will enter into photo contests, and as such, I entered this photo into the Powerful Composition exhibition challenge on GuruShots.
The thing about those exhibition challenges is there are literally tens-of-thousands of photographers who enter hundreds-of-thousands of photos with millions of votes cast. For instance - this challenge had 80.8 million votes cast for photos. They only select 40 photos to be printed and displayed in the gallery. I was lucky enough to be selected and have my photo printed and displayed in The Fridge Gallery in Washington, D.C.
As soon as they notified me, I started looking up plane tickets to D.C., I’ve always wanted to go there and as an added bonus I get to see my photo on display at the gallery. Unfortunately, it seemed like a lot of the reason to go there has been shut down due to COVID-19, so it didn’t make sense to go. I am still bummed about that, but If anyone lives near D.C. and wants to visit the gallery from Oct. 1st-3rd, 2020, please let me know so you can get some video/photos!
I am incredibly honored to have them select my photo to be printed & exhibited, especially since it is such a hard thing to accomplish. I am also very grateful to have the opportunity to be able to take these types of photos as well.
Here is the Facebook Event information for the Exhibition if your interested in checking out my photo and other incredible photos.
GuruShots - Powerful Composition Exhibition: The Fridge Gallery, Washington, D.C.
About This Photo
This photo was taken in downtown Houston, and most of the buildings you see are of Chevron’s headquarters. The circular sky-bridge connects all of Chevron’s buildings to each other. It is a pretty cool thing to see, so we decided to go photograph it. The shot I wanted to get (the one you see) required me to get on on my back, on the ground and use a wide-angle lens. I am on the side-walk taking some shots and after a few minutes a security guard comes outside to let me know I cannot photograph the buildings.
I was confused since I was on the sidewalk, and I explained that to her, but she insisted that I was still on private property (she was polite, and I didn’t want to argue with her, she is doing her job). She did explain that if I wanted to continue, I would have to do so in the street. I was still confused on why she said private property when I was on the sidewalk, so I did some research and found out that several larger businesses actually own the sidewalks to their buildings downtown. Who knew!
I was glad that she gave me enough time to get the shot before asking me to stop, so it was a win-win in my book.