Ok, call me FICKLE.........

You know how, a long time ago....

I made a point

to 

say how grateful I was to be getting a ton of awards...

but that 

I just couldn't accept 

any more of them

because it was getting difficult to pass them on, etc. etc..??

Well, sometimes exceptions 

have to be made...

I follow a lot of photography blogs

because it is my passion.

Some of the photography blogs, like my own, also have some writing 

thrown in (as writing is another passion of mine, which I really don't do much of these days).

Anyway, one of the photography blogs that is on my favorite list is authored

by:

PATRICK TILLETT

(He has more than one blog by the way, but if you click the link above, you can get to one 

of this blogs and he lists the others there too)...

Anyway, 

Patrick wrote me to tell me 

that he had something for me on his blog today....

(He knows me enough to know that I can't resist a mystery, so of COURSE I had to go there to see what he was talking about).

I was delightfully surprised to see that he 

listed me amongst a list of one of his favorite 

PHOTOGRAPHY BLOGS!!!

For those of you that aren't addicted to photography, that may not mean much.

But to a blogging photographer....

well,.........

he DID it.

He made me renege on my position 

to not accept any more awards....

(Not to mention he made me grin like an idiot and that he made me feel all fuzzy inside!) 
  Playing with my photography emotions...not fair, Patrick, NOT FAIR!!)  :0}

So this is his link (one more time)  and the award:

Patrick Tillett

Here is what he wrote:

"I received several awards lately. I greatly appreciate them, but I'm going to break the rules, by handing out some "new" original awards.

I only ask that folks who receive these things, display them with my link attached.  No questions to answer, no five of this, or 10 of that.  Pass them on if you like, keep them to yourself if you like, or shit can them.  My own link isn't even printed on them.  No strings...

The "Shutter Bug" Award is for photography or combo blogs. I've noticed that almost all the blog bling goes to "text" dominated sites. I follow some excellent photo blogs and would like some of them to get in on the action.  A couple of them even manage to combine excellent photos with great writing. Not an easy task..."

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Nice huh??? 

Love his attitude....no strings....

Well, Patrick...

back atcha 

and thanks so much.

I am truly honored

(and you had me at "an award for photography"!)

And I DO want to pass it on...

so here is how I want to do it...

1. Each and every ONE of you that have entered my FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTESTs with a photo---please take this award...just post Patrick's award widget above (the one with his face on it) on your blog to indicate you deserve this award from him and me.

2. The photographers that I read and leave comments on your blog (you know who you are!): consider this award  yours too...especially the professional photographers too (Ashely and Susanne, you know I mean you two also!) And Squirrel Queen, and Betsy and Shelley and Cathy, DVM's wife, and Jientje, and Meirsi and L.D. and Ginny, and Catherine, and Far Side.... Eva and Ratty, this means you along with so many others..(I know I am overlapping with those that enter my photo contests here too)...but I especially want to mention those that are professional photographers that normally can't enter my amateur photo contests...please accept this award for providing me with constant wonderful images.

By the way, if you go to Patrick's blog today, he lists some new photography blogs as receiving this same award....I know I will be checking them all out!

There.

Whew.

You know what??

Sometimes it feels really good to be fickle.

Thanks again Pat.