The One About the Ladybug and MSNBC
I thought I should maybe let everyone in on a little secret.
Okay so the photo of the ladybug that MSNBC is currently featuring in their “Week In Pictures” contest (the photo that is currently even sitting in second place with 8835 votes) well here’s the thing… I’m really not all that thrilled with the photo.
That’s right, I said it!
***oh by the way you can visit the MSNBC “Week In Pictures” contest site here to see the other 13 chosen photos and vote for whichever you like the best…I myself voted for the kid with the toy spaceship photo because I liked that one the best***
I almost didn’t even turn it in for publication because I just wasn’t that thrilled with it and felt I could have shot it better or that it could have just been a stronger photo if there had been any other bugs around. And truth be told in the parks that I visited that was the ONLY non bee or fly that I saw in either so she/he was my only option.
It should also be noted that it was a very slow news day hence my taking of the time to wander through gardens looking for silly bugs to photograph as a “wild art”.
I admit that I have always wanted to be featured in the “Week in Pictures.” I don’t want to say it’s a prestigious thing, heck I don’t even think you get anything even if you win the top spot for the week but it does feel really nice to have editors pick your photo out of the thousands that have been moved across the various newswires for the week and decide that it along with 13 other photos deserve scrutiny and voting…even if it is just a frivolous pretty photo of a silly bug that deserves to be beaten by the true photojournalism of the current #1 photo of a starving child.
But as fellow journalist and Herald Journal alumni Adam Benson put it so eloquently on Facebook, “A glimmering, docile ladybug in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest is a superior respite from the the ubiquitous suffering and anguish we are accustomed to seeing. So go nature!”
So I guess I would first just like to thank the academy because it really is just an honor to even be nominated… 
A ladybug crawls across the blooms of a plant at Blueberry Park in Bremerton, WA on Monday, July 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Meegan M. Reid)
