The Photography Contest

By Edgar Million

A corrupt Government official discovers his intimate personal life is being chronicled online in a public photographic journal.

The photographer though, plans to end more than his career.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Edgar Million
• Release date: Sep 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310227257

Edgar Million

Edgar Millions books are mostly sci-fi, with a dash of fantasy, horror and contemporary fiction thrown in.I have numerous stories available on Smashwords all free of charge and one short novel, A Button To Save the World (available for a miniscule fee - or for free to anyone who follows me on Twitter and asks for it).I grew up in London and studied Art and Animation at Central St Martins and Surrey Institute of Art and Design, and thanks to Smashwords have finally found something to do with all the short stories I write to distract me from the novel I'm now attempting to edit.The novel, my first full length book, is going to be called “Ordinary” and would have published already if I didn't keep being interrupted by regularly having to attend a day job to earn money.

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The photography contest

by Edgar Million

The Photography Contest

Published by Edgar Million at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 Edgar Million

You live in a beautiful and exciting place, read the introductory text on the advert for a local tourism competition, beneath which a was a photograph of the High Street, last year's winner, framed by a rainbow: now it's time to show everyone else how great it is here!

The photograph been drained of all colour, with the exception of the rainbow itself which glared brightly from the shot and made the budding photographer holding the local council leaflet think of bodily expulsions, spraying garishly across the sky.

Corny rubbish , awful photograph, he thought.

Well, he could certainly improve upon last years winner, he mused, and the amateur snapper spent the next month exploring his hometown in search of an image of his local area which expressed the perfect mix of urban decay and poignant, thought-provoking beauty, taking nearly a thousand snaps in the process.

Just to find the one perfect shot.

He sifted and sorted meticulously until, a couple of days before the closing date, he uploaded his best photo, taken with a powerful zoom lens, near the big shopping centre off of Burnett Road.

Five young hoodies were