The photos were judged by three new judges.  Our first judge, Janet Hill, resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and was our 2008 Winner of the Close Up category, and had a couple of Honorable Mentions.   She has combined her love of flowers with her photography hobby for the last 30 years. 
      Our second judge was Aaron Skiles.  He entered our first contest in 2006 as a Youth exhibitor, and went on to be our 2008 winner in the Art/Macro category.  Aaron began his first garden from irises dug from his great grandmother's garden.  He won a number of photography contests in high school in portraits and landscape categories.
      Our 3rd judge was Lynn Williams, currently the RVP of Region 14, and she resides in Willits, California.   She discovered her love for photography when she minored in fine arts in college and has taken additional training in photography at a private studio.