Tennessee Living

Just about every time Michelle Hulin’s daughter, Macy, wanders out to the pasture of the family’s Lawrence County farm to say hello to their horse, Diamond, Hulin grabs her camera and follows along, capturing memories all the way.

“Diamond is more like a dog than a horse,” Hulin says. “Any time we go out there, she’ll walk right up. I take a lot of pictures of my daughter with that horse.”

She snapped the grand-prize winner in the 14th annual Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation Photo Contest on Macy’s birthday, just as the late afternoon sun came filtering through the ferns and fence posts. In fact, Hulin says, late afternoon is her favorite time of day for outdoor shots.

Photography has been Hulin’s hobby ever since she served on her high school yearbook staff. Now, when she’s not working as a teacher’s aide, Hulin takes school portraits, documents field trips and activities, and puts together photo presentations as keepsakes – “for families to have memories,” she says.

For the winning photo, she used a Canon EOS 5D camera – a recent gift from her husband, Chris. “Michelle donates hundreds of hours taking pictures at our small Christian school,” he says. “I wanted her to have some great equipment.”

Competition was tougher than ever this year, and Hulin grabbed the top prize from among some 1,600 entries. We again gave the daunting task of choosing the winners to our panel of professional photographers and graphic designers at Journal Communications in Franklin, the publishers of this magazine.

The judges spent days reviewing scads of arresting, delightful and engaging images submitted by amateur shutterbugs from all over the state. They selected these final nine winners as well as a number of photos worthy of honorable mention. Check out our galleries here:

• Winners / 14th Annual Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation Photo Contest
• Honorable Mentions - Just Kids / 14th Annual Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation Photo Contest
• Honorable Mentions - Tennessee Churches / 14th Annual Tennessee Farm Bureau Photo Contest
• Honorable Mentions - Things on a Fencepost / 14th Annual Tennessee Farm Bureau Photo Contest

Keep your lenses focused, because we’ll be doing it all again next year. Our spring issue will contain information about the 2010 contest, and we’ll be accepting entries from March 1 through Aug. 1.

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Magazine:
Tennessee Home & Farm, Fall 2010 Edition Edition

Headline:
Farm Bureau Photo Contest

Summary:
See the top images from our 14th annual photo contest

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