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Clouds of Gull (Contest Winner), originally uploaded by LlewellynL.

I am proud to announce that the above photo has won Honorable Mention in the 2009 Life in the Finger Lakes Photography Contest. Here captured is a perfect spring afternoon in July in the new hood.

My breathless caption:
“With discretion I approached my timid tractor subject hovering near its favorite implements, backed by a field bespeckled with hundreds of large white birds lazing in the crop that lay about their feet. Suddenly, of a single thought, the flock took wing, rising in massive synchronicity, the zenlike execution of a giant clockwise sweep.
This was that moment.”

You may obtain framed museum quality versions at Tractorland and RandomiCity.

This is my first photo winner since the honorable mention I garnered in the 1969 Kodak Teenage Movie Awards contest. Every 40 years is a long time between drinks indeed. Cheers.