Got a garden? Got kids? Got a camera? Get going! The National Gardening Association (NGA) is currently accepting entries in the Kidsgardening Photo Contest! Winning photographers win gift certificates to the Gardening with Kids catalog and online store. Winning photos will be featured on the Kidsgardening.org website and may be used on NGA sites and in print publications.
Judges particularly want individual kids or groups of kids:
* observing, measuring, journaling
* planting
* setting up experiments
* with specific garden features (e.g. raised beds)
* with specific flowers, vegetables and herbs
* in theme gardens
* with garden creatures
* with garden structures
* with special plants (cotton, dye plants)
* in harvest "pride" shots
* in indoor projects (GrowLabs, worm, bins)
For me, the hardest part of taking pictures of my kids in the garden is walking away from my kitchen sink window, which overlooks the whole shebang out there. I usually just stand there, a dishtowel's purpose forgotten in my hands, and watch them in secret as they sing to their audience of calendulas, a sunflower as their microphone, or they set up a pretend dinner of clover and moss on seashells found on the beach in Florida, or they perch on a tree stump or rock in the middle of it all and get lost in their thoughts. Those are the best pictures of all to me, captured only in my memory.
If you're far better with the camera than I, click here to find out more. The deadline is September 15, so you'll be able to capture the action at your child's school garden, if he or she is fortunate enough to have one.
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