These are photos from my first major ice carving event. It was my second national level competition. I qualified for the Nationals by earning a bronze medal at an event in Appleton, Wisconsin the year before. I’ve tried to get the names right, but the info may be wrong or incomplete in a couple of cases. I discarded a number of photos that were just bad. I didn’t know much about photography at the time. These were the ones that were passable or that I was able to sort of salvage with Photoshop (especially Jeff Bleier’s single block piece; it was a neat sculpture and I ruined the photo somehow, possibly by breathing out while I snapped the photo.) Be sure to visit the blog entry that talks more about this event. If you know something that I don’t know about this event, please leave a comment on the photo or on the blog entry so I can fix this page.