Help

I'm entering three of these in a contest. I haven't been receiving feedback on any of them and so I'm just lost as can be when it comes to deciding which of the three I'll be choosing. 

Here's the "criteria" for images for the contest:

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Center Forward


Photography, perhaps more than any other medium, seems inextricably linked to an increasingly complex modern world constantly unfolding in new and unexpected ways. Its ability to capture our cultural changes, the environments we inhabit, and the thoughts we keep play a vital role in giving us greater insights into our world and ourselves. In the 2012 Center Forward exhibit we are interested in exploring this unique quality of photography, therefore the theme is open and all subject matter is welcome."


Please help me figure out which three of these images I should enter.These are all rough edits. I will be cropping out the film edge but putting a black border around the images. Any opinions would be appreciated!

Thanks

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Shots from April

Didn't have time to dust these but I wanted to put them up anyways. Really busy with school and preparations for my trip to Kenya in a couple weeks. Forced the time for scanning these into my schedule because I couldn't stand looking at them just sitting there collecting dust. 

Hugs not drugs.

Dead Bird

Joey Early

Mark A. Lee

Scratch Ticket

Traffic Cones

Spring Sky

My Squashed Fruit Gum Project

Here's a small version of my Gum prints I did for my final. The process I printed them in is called Gum (Gum Bichromate). You first make 3 digital negatives for the image (you split the image in Photoshop into it's three colors red, green, and blue). For each negative there is a corresponding color of gum which you have to print it with. The three colors of gum you use are yellow, blue, and red. The average layers on the prints below is about 6. It takes approximately an hour to do each layer. Most of the time is spent waiting on the print to finish washing. I spent over 40 hours printing all of these. It was a really interesting experience and the more I printed the more I learned. I shot the pictures with my Yashica 124-G and scanned the film (Expired Fuji 160)

For those more interested in the concept, the project was a reaction to Edward Weston's "Nature Series"

 Hope you enjoy them!

Squashed Apple

Squashed Banana

Squashed Eggplant

Squashed Grapefruit

Squashed Orange

Squashed Red Pepper

Squashed Tomato

Squashed Watermelon

Squashed Yellow Pepper