The Photographic Society of America-affiliated "Artistic Creations Circuit" in India released its results a few days ago, and my photos did very well. This salon had five judgings, and I only entered the Open Color and Open Monochrome categories, so that means 40 possibilities for acceptances, of which I received 20. Fifty percent is very good!

A few photos in particular were highly regarded, with one of them receiving a Merit Award and another one receiving two Merit Awards.

All told, three of my four photos in each category were accepted by at least one judge. And interestingly, in both cases it was the lone non-figurative photo I entered in that category.

Here are the full results:

1. "Asunder" (Open Monochrome PIDM), Queen Dandelion, Rialto Beach, July 2018: Two Merit Awards, accepted by all 5 judges
2. "Skyline" (Open Color PIDC), Zoë West, Seattle, June 2015: Merit Award, accepted by 4 judges
3. "Last light" (Open Color PIDC), DianaJean, Upper Crystal Lake, July 2015: Accepted by 4 judges (first time I've entered this in almost two years, I need to do so more!)
4. "As above, so below" (Open Monochrome PIDM), Lior Allay, Gas Works Park, Seattle, March 2019: Accepted by 4 judges
5. "Under the trestle" (Open Color PIDC), Skye, Boxcar Canyon, Eatonville, January 2023: Accepted by 2 judges (first time entered, first time accepted)
6. "Deep roots" (Open Monochrome PIDM), Skye, Boxcar Canyon, Eatonville, January 2023: Accepted by 1 judge (first time accepted in its black and white version)

Asunder (Open Monochrome PIDM) (Accepted x5, Merit Award x2) Skyline (Open Color PIDC) (Accepted x4, Merit Award) Last light (Open Color PIDC) (Accepted x4)Last Light
6I8A8293 (2/24/2021)
7/29/2015
DianaJean
Upper Crystal Lake, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

2021-04-01 Colors of Humanity Art Gallery (online) "Human Nature": Exhibited virtually As above so below (Open Monochrome PIDM) (Accepted x4) Under the trestle (Open Color PIDC) (Accepted x2) Deep roots (Open Monochrome PIDM) (Accepted)

P.S. Instagram, get off your fucking high horse and stop shadow-banning figurative artists. I tried to pull up Queen Dandelion's Instagram account to link to, and even when I searched for her actual account name, "Queen_Dandelion," it still wouldn't come up in the results list. Fortunately I know her account name and can enter the URL manually, because otherwise it would be totally invisible. Even though it's completely self-censored.