I've been asked to help highlight some of the best photos for the Hallmark Picture of Motherhood Competition (I know, I know, stranger things HAVE happened.) I'm sooooo disappointed my entry didn't make it (it's the one to the right -- of me with the three kids velocroed to various parts of my body.) I love this photo so much, it is also my entry for Tara's gallery this week.
Anyhoos, the judging is Monday up in Bradford. I'm so bummed I can make it as I really wanted to meet fellow judge Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. I don't watch much television, but I think I have seen every episode of Changing Rooms (remember that show? The one where the designers were tasked with re-doing a room for under £500 ... as in OMG, I can't believe they actually used the cardboard from old packing boxes for flooring?!)
But I need your help ... I have all the finalist photos here ... take a look, there are some fab ones below... which one do you think encompasses motherhood? (no snarky remarks please).
Picture of Motherhood short-listed entries:
Over 18 Category
1. Miriam Owen
Description: Because it captures the vulnerability and beauty of Motherhood in an understated way that makes you think.
2. Amanda Firth
Description: There is nothing more beautiful than a mother and daughter laughing together.
3. Donna Evans
Description: This image represents memories and Halcyon days. A Mother and child enjoying a day at the seaside.
4. Penny Baird
Description: The smile between mother and baby captures the ‘picture of motherhood’
5. Colette Mellor
Description: ‘A Mother’s love…is a lifelong love’ My photo represents motherhood lasting a lifetime and I need my FANTASTIC mum as much now as I did when I was a child
6. Jenny Downing
Description: A Mother protecting her child from the heat of the midday sun…Taj Mahal, Agra, India
Under 18 Category
7. Charlotte Frank (age 17)
Description: My Mum is my best-friend. Here she is with my sister and myself last summer on holiday that she saved for so that we could all go and be together!
8. Elizabeth Johnson (age 14)
Description: Mother and child gaze out to see together, who knows what is on the horizon.
9. Alice Curtis (age 14)
Description: Mum’s make everything FUN!
10. Heather Smart (age 17)
Description: I took this image to portray the magical bond between mother and child, and the importance of motherhood which I think deserves to be recorded.
11. Claudia Bish (age 14)
Description: My image shows Mother, Child and nature. It shows the simplest things in life are the best, for instance having the chance to bond with your Mum.
12. Umera Noreen (age 16)
Description: The photograph symbolises a mother never lets go of her children, because Mothers are caring and responsible.
So which are your favourites?
