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Writer's pictureAngie DeWaard

Iowa State Fair Photography Salon - 2022

Updated: Oct 20, 2024

**This post was actually written in October of 2024, but I'm back-dating it for continuity.


The 2022 Iowa State Fair was the second time I'd entered the Photography Salon. In my second year, I was lucky enough to have two photos accepted, as well as an award.


2022 Iowa State Fair Photography Salon acceptance notification for two photos and an award
I'm not entirely sure why I took this photo in landscape. It's like I was handed a phone for the first time.

This was my first time receiving an award. I explained this a little bit better in my 2024 post about the Photography Salon, but you receive this card about 4-6 weeks prior to the fair, so you have to just wait and see what photos were accepted and what award(s) were received until the first day of the Fair (at the earliest). It was a long few weeks!


The award was an Honorable Mention in Sports, received for this photo of a random skateboarder at the skate park in Ames:


Skateboarder in black and white photo, jumping in air over skateboard
It looks like this is a really sweet trick; it was not. He was definitely falling. Honorable Mention - Sports.

The other photograph I had accepted was this one of C, taken with him jamming his head inside the neck of his sweater while I was trying to take photos of A. Sometimes a child acting like a goofball elicits an interesting photo - that is sort of C's specialty, in fact:

Young boy with amazing freckles and brown eyes with his head inside of a sweater.
The freckles on this kid! Also, I will say in a blog post from the future how amazing his eyes are, and they really just are. Color - People, accepted to Photography Salon.

As usual, I had submitted four photos, so obviously there were two that were not accepted. The also-rans. The never-wases. The losers. The turds.


Here is the first failure of 2022:

Person in gondola in Venice taking photo of another group in a gondola.
Obviously this is from Wichita, KS. In hindsight, I know that like every single person who rides a gondola takes this photo, so there really wasn't anything special here. Entered and not accepted to International Places and Landscapes.

The other failure was in the Black-and-White People category:


This was neither my baby nor my hand. Entered but not accepted to Black-and-White People - I lost the original file of this, and this scan is not as crisp as the original at all. Not sure what happened there.

I feel like I learned a lot this year on what is desired and what isn't at the Photography Salon.

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