So last day for the entries into this prestigious award and we entered six prints .Over 60,000 entries from all over the world last year of which only 60 photographers were chosen ( and I was fortunate enough to be one of them ) and this year I think there will be even more. it’s a tough contest for sure but one of the best I feel for serious work.
Anyhow I rented a car from NYC six months ago and drove down to the Delta and here are three pictures from that weeks personal trip I selected for the this years Wessing awards I thought I would share. 
The Black & White is of a girl called ‘Storm’, she was picking Pecans in a near-by field and came into town for a soda , I was already set up on a street corner to shoot something else when she approached me and asked me to take her picture!. ‘Cindy at the crossroads’ is a local girl who works at a old Cotten Gin, she turned up in her work clothes as agreed and despite no experience in front of a camera turned out to be just great. Finally, The homeless man – Robert White , was living in a railroad shed around the back of this disused building in downtown Jackson Mississippi, again I was set up to shoot the urban landscape but he agreed for me make him the focus of the picture if I bought him a soda !. I would have bought him two but after the few minutes he gave me he just wandered off back to his ‘ home’ saying ” don’t worry about the soda it was my pleasure ” ! .. amazing.
