It occurred to me that we really idealize beauty in our culture, and APS works with the people who are the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.  As a society that kind of scares us. We don't want to see it. We just did not have, we could not find good images representative in positive ways. APS serves adults who are vulnerable so, anyone over the age of 18 who by reason of intellectual ability or physical disability is unable to meet their needs. I love the idea of bringing images to life of the people that we truly serve, and being able to expose APS in a positive way, and get people engaged in thinking about family members, or their neighbors or others in the community that they might be aware of, and connecting the dots between vulnerable adults and a need for APS. Being a judge on it was difficult because you find beauty in every piece, but you go back to,  “What is the beauty of frailty?” Then, you go to the whole spectrum of:  “How is composition? What is the color of it? How does it look?” I hope to use them in our printed materials. We have about six or seven different existing brochures and so on, and I want to integrate them into our public--any of our public presentations. Photographs that actually capture vulnerable moments and vulnerable individuals--you know someone in your life, or you have seen someone in your life that you'll automatically relate to. That, in turn will stay with you forever. I didn't mean to get emotional, but they were – the connections between the photographers and the people they took the pictures of, there was such a depth of caring and such a sharing of self. I mean, the photographers were brave to send in those images. This is real life this is actually the beauty of frailty. You have an individual that is shopping at a food bank. You have an individual who is homeless and sitting on the side of the street. You have an individual who is physically disabled, but doing everything he can to make himself stronger. Our message, the APS message, to all of our community partners is that this moment in time is a particularly ripe opportunity to recognize that we need each other and to be the best partners to each other that we can be. The essence of APS is that we go in and, we are intrusive. We are right there in people’s business and asking really hard questions, and these photos got to that. They spoke to what APS Specialists do every day, which is get in people’s lives and get up close.  I hope to have the contest every year to build sponsors and to really turn it into something that helps Oklahoma as a society to look at who we are, who we protect, what we are afraid of, how we accept death and dying, how we accept illness, and how we truly take care of each other.