As already mentioned in my previous post, one of my pictures is a winner in the Green Durham Photo Competition – or, as I recently found out: It made “runner-up” in the category “flowers and plants” in the Green Durham Photo Competition.

Last Wednesday was the opening of the exhibit at the Blue Coffee Café in downtown Durham, so my photograph is now on display until May 6, 2009.

In addition, it was featured during the Durham Earth Day Festival and will be printed in the Herald Sun Newspaper.

I just received the wonderful news that my photograph “Purple Sun Flower” was selected as one of the winners in the “Green Durham Photo Competition“, and will be on exhibit at the Blue Coffee Café in downtown Durham, North Carolina.

The picture is a photograph of wildflowers next to Highway 147, south of the Ballpark in downtown Durham:

A nice surprise and very exciting to me, this is the first time a print of my work will be on display in a public setting.

The opening of the exhibit will be Wednesday, April 22 from 5:30-7:00 at the Blue Coffee Café (202 N. Corcoran, Durham, NC). The pictures of the exhibit will be on display until Wednesday, May 6.

Last weekend my wonderful wife and myself spent some time hiking in the Asheville Area in North Carolina.

Saturday was supposed to be a bit foggy in the morning but clear up by noon – which unfortunately wasn’t the case.

So we hiked up to Mount Pisgah in fog and rain, and it still didn’t clear up by the time we had returned to our car. Still a fun hike though, it made for an eerie feeling. We expected to see an Ogre after every corner.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, the photographer who created the picture on the cover of the latest U2 album “No Line on the Horizon”, apparently negotiated a deal with U2 to receive no money for the use of his picture. Instead, Mr. Sugimoto will be allowed to use the title song of the album in any of his projects in the future.

There are some more details on the Photo Editor Blog.