Calling All Photogs...

Tweet It's that time of year again....the 2nd Annual TBA 2009 Photo Contest is upon us and the TBA is accepting entries through Sunday. See last year's winning photog here. The rules are quite simple:

- Submit up to 3 photos taken this year; subject matter horse racing.
- Submissions: email the photo to photos@tbablogs.com
- Submissions due by 12/13/2009 (Sunday)
- Voting for top ten will be 12/14 through 12/20 (Monday through Sunday)
- Top 10 photos will be chosen to enter the final round.
- Voting on winner will be 12/21 through 12/27
- Winner announced 12/28
- Prize = The picture will be featured on the photo page, and the photog given the opportunity to link to anything they want and to say whatever they want (provided it abides to civil discourse).
- Open to everyone from Amateurs to Professionals

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~Author Unknown

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. ~James Lalropui Keivom

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~Dorothea Lange

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~Ansel Adams

I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~Author Unknown

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty

The camera can photograph thought. ~Dirk Bogarde

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ~William Albert Allard

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward Steichen

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." ~John Loengard

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck

The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. ~Author Unknown

A photograph is memory in the raw. ~Carrie Latet

I'm trying to fix your mother's camera. Easy, easy - Hmmm. I think I need a bigger drill. ~Homer Simpson