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Mr Boudreau, I am truely impressed with your photo work and number of wins, but proclaiming to be an amatuer is like Micheal Jordan claiming to be an amatuer basket ball player and a professional spokesman because he made more money endorsing products than playing roundball. The old definition for amatuer was they got NO money or reward other than the pride, then it somehow all changed to mean anyone was an amatuer who proclaimed they were an amatuer, ie. the USA Olympic Basketball team. I am sure you have and could make money as a professinal photographer. Your first place win alone would disqualify you from being a classic amatuer. Good quality photo equipment required to compete in this contest would be, $250 to $1000 for a SLR with macro lense, $50 to $250 for a tripod, ans $100 to 1000+ for lighting. Add to that film cost, filters, batteries, just stuff that any model railroader should have just laying around. Maybe I mispoke a little by saying professional photographer in light of the new definition for amatuer, but the contest isn't something the average modeler on a budget can compete in and have a serious chance of winning. Your record of wins speak to that. The contest is geared more towards photographers and computer geeks who can make less than perfect models and scenes seem to be better than they may really be by manipulation of light, angles, focus, and now data. Even slides could be dummied up by a geek today to appear as a scene that doesn't exist anywhere but on a computer. Do you feel that's fair to the real photographer like yourself? FRED
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