Photography costs can eat up a lot of the award fee. For those of us who
get slides duplicated instead of shooting a whole roll of the flower it eats
up almost the entire award fee. We send in 36 slides for every award so
that they can be distributed to all of the other judging centers. If AOS
keeps adding new judging centers this system is going to break eventually
(or a switch to digital will need to happen.)
-danny

"Kenni Judd" wrote in message
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The discount is $20 ($60 for non-members, $40 for members); seems to have
gone up from last time ... I gather it pays for the award photographer as
well as AOS overhead. So you need 3 a year to make the membership pay for
itself. Which means I need 2 more this year G. Kenni