Competitor

I got some news today that was unexpected to say the least. What was this news? That one of my photos will be published in a magazine in May.

Let me repeat this. A photo of mine. Will be in print. In a magazine. This May.

EEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

I didn't seek this out. It came to me in a very roundabout way.

I posted the photos I took of the Shamrock Shuffle on my Flickr account and tagged them as such. Someone found one my photos and asked if I might want to submit them to the Shamrock Shuffle 2010 Flickr pool they had created. So I did.

Well those photos were seen, and seen by enough people that someone recognized one of my photo subjects. And in the strangest twist of fate ever, that person happens to the subject of an article in the May issue of Competitor magazine. The reporter emailed me this afternoon to see if my photo could run with her article. It took every ounce of professional restraint in my body not to respond "HELLS YEAH!" to her request. In exchange for my photo, I get as many free copies of the magazine as I want and credit for taking the photo.

So which photo is it?

This one, which also happens to be my favorite from that day.

Remember how one of my goals for 2010 was to get my photo on the Chicago Public Radio homepage photo of the day? Well I still want to do that. But this magazine thing? This is pretty 'effing cool.