Every October or so the PTA at Alex’s school runs an art contest where students create a piece of artwork related to some theme. This year the theme was “Beauty Is…”, last year it was something like “Wow!”. They can choose from composing a song, choreographing a dance, painting, multimedia presentation, drawing, photograph, and the list goes on. Each year Alex has decided to do the photography and frankly I much prefer that since its much easier option then the other choices.

We went down to the Dallas Arboretum because they have a big Halloween setup each year and we figured that it should be easy to find something related to the “beauty is” theme there.

We got there, gave him the camera, and told him to go ahead and take as many pictures as he wanted that he thought related to the theme. About 60 seconds later I find he’s wandered off the path and has found his first picture….

Very nice. Not exactly what I think the contest promoters had in mind.

He eventually decided on the picture of the koi pond since the white fish had a red mark that look exactly like a question mark.

We heard this week that he received an honorable mention.

Andrew is really into taking pictures and for being only four years old he seems to have quite the eye. This is one that he took of the pumpkins and gourds that were on display.