THE PHOTO CONTEST

After three and a half years the renovations on the palazzo that houses our comune (town hall) is finally complete! (well, almost)

A photo contest was held, and to kick off the four day celebration the public was invited to view the photographs and vote for their favorite. A jury would choose the winners, and to be honest, I have no idea what the votes were for! We thought maybe there would be a fourth prize for the photo with the most votes, but that never happened.

I walked around the room where to pictures were displayed, and although you can't see a lot of detail, at least you get the idea. I can point out the picture that won third place: it's seen at -2:33 into the video, and is of a dead (or leafless) tree, with a bright blue sky in the background.

The second place photo was taken in nearby Rotecastello, looking up at the medieval tower with a full moon in the background. You can catch a glimpse of this photo at the very beginning of the video, on the left. You can see the tower , but not the moon . (Sorry, if I'd known it was going to win a prize I'd have zoomed in!) The photographer said that this photo was taken a few years ago, in November or December, so once again, all the trees were dead too! Do we have a theme?

First place went to a picture of a snail on the side of a tree. The snail has some sort of stuff oozing out of it, and personally I thought it was pretty gross!! Watch for it at -1:22 into the video. There's a countdown timer at the bottom of the video of the times.

The prizes were HUGE baskets of local foods...honey, olive oil, chingiale sausage....it was hard to see everything because of the cellophane that was covering it......and there was no point in taking a picture.

The video is posted below this post.