Heard Museum Awards 2005

Seven of Nine First Place Awards for Jared Peyton

Traveling for the fourth time to Texas to attend the 26th Annual Heard Museum Photography Exhibit and Competition awards reception, Slidell’s Jared Peyton once again finished big. The Northshore High School junior collected seven first place awards in the nine categories of the Youth Division (18 years and younger). He adds the following to his resume of awards:

Wild Nature Scenic – 1st place “The Lucky Lens Flare” and 2nd place “Meadow Grasses” Patterns in Nature – 1st place “Mosaic of Mud” and 2nd place “Leaf Macro” Nature Portraits Wildlife – Honorable Mention “Big Beak” Nature Portraits Other - 1st place “Orange Canada Lilly”, 2nd place “A Bug’s View” and Honorable Mention “Forest Fungi” Nature Artistic Interpretation – 1st place “The Thing” and 2nd place “Radioactive Pelican” Animal Portrait – 1st place “South Side of a Zebra Facing North” Household Pets Portrait – 1st place “I Love My Truck” Shared World Series – 2nd place “Wheel Fence Mosaic of Mud” and Honorable Mention “Ausable Chasm” People and Nature - 1st place “Jamaican Mango”, 2nd place “Feed Us!” and 3rd place “A Lookout Perch”

According to Jared, each year that he visits the exhibit, he studies the works of other photographer’s and improves himself by looking at their perspective on a subject. Last year, he saw fantastic scenics and realized that he had only managed one Honorable Mention in this category over the previous three years. He was determined to work to develop more artistry into scenic images and finished with the top two scenic images this year. He admits that his first place image of a silhouetted seagull on a rocky coastline at sunset titled “The Lucky Lens Flare” was a technical mistake but the outcome is very dramatic…and color always wins.

He also managed for the third time to earn one of the competitions grand prizes “Best Environmental Journalism” for his work titled, “I Love My Truck”. The image which according to the judges which shows man positive impact on the lives of our pets is a candid shot of an excited dog who knows he is about to go for a ride in the truck.