Juror Ellen Jantzen has chosen forty photographs for the juried exhibition, "Transformations: The Ordinary Made Extraordinary," which will take place at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, from December 3 - 27, 2013.  Among those forty photographs chosen for a print exhibition was my image taken in Greenland, 2012, of the mouth of a killer whale.  The image was captured in the Ammassalik region of East Greenland in September of that year.  The whale's head had been sawed off from its body by the Greenlandic Inuit people and fed to their sled dogs. It was a gruesome scene, as piled with the killer whale's head were also dolphins and narwhals, too, likely victims of their hunt.  The sea mammals were left to decay, while their dogs tore at the flesh for food. The stench was quite profound, making the taking of this close-up photograph a bit of a challenge.  Due to the lack of agricultural farmland in this part of Greenland, the natives have relied on the sea for much of their food sources since ancient times. While I find myself looking upon the native people's customs with fondness and respect, I confess this scene was a much darker side of that experience than what I had expected to see.  The Exhibit will also be produced in a catalog made available to the public.  More information on this exhibit may be viewed at http://www.vtphotoworkplace.com/id230.html .