In April, I did a solo road trip to US Southwest, and stopped at few locations in Oregon and Washington State. On my way back to Vancouver. I went to Cannon Beach and met a fellow photographer at the beach while we were photographing the beauty on the Pacific Coast. Turn out he is a professor at a university teaching Photography in Georgia and organizing a photo festival competition there. He was very kind and invited me to submit my work to the photo contest. I picked 3 of my images and submitted to 3 different categories. And was very lucky earned prizes from 2 of the image.

“Galactic Residence” earned a 2nd place in the “Places” category

Galactic Residence

Another is “Monument Night Sky” earned a 1st place in “Historic America” category

Monument Night Sky

You can see all the results by visitng their website at:
http://www.augustaphotofestival.org/galleries/2014-finalists

You can purchase prints here