Destrehan’s Marcia Hokanson comes in on top with her photo, “Swamp”
Photography buff Marcia Hokanson’s “Swamp” snapshot is “living” proof that a picture can be worth a thousand words – and at least $500 when you enter the Herald-Guide’s photo contest.
Hokanson, a 23-year St. Charles Parish resident, left the Camera Shootout 2008 competition in the dust when her photo racked up 206 reader votes during the 2-week voting period, snagging the $500 grand prize.
The photo, which was the monthly winner in March 2008, portrays a the quaint scenery of Louisiana at Lake Martin between Breaux Bridge and St. Martinville.
Hokanson says that the picture was taken from passenger’s seat inside the family truck.
“My husband and I went to visit our son in Lafayette one weekend and we decided to take a ride to the lake to see the wildlife and scenery,” she said. “Then the next day I realized that one of the hubcaps was missing from the truck.”
Hokanson and her husband, Guy, decided to retrace their steps and go back to the bumpy road shell road around Lake Martin to look for the hubcap.
“While nervously looking for the hubcap, I spotted the beautiful scenery and I remember telling my husband to stop the truck,” said Hokanson. “He thought that I had found the hubcap, but when he stopped I rolled down the window, reached for my camera and snapped the photo.”
Although photography is just a hobby for Hokanson, she points out that she’s taken a few classes at Delgado and helps out with pictures at her church.
“I have to take photos at work and I help take some of the photos for a monthly newsletter at church, but I mostly do it for fun,” she continued.
Hokanson, 52, is a native of Tegucigalpa, Honduras and moved to New Orleans in 1970.
“I have been living in St. Charles Parish for the past 23 years,” she said. “I am married to a wonderful and supportive husband who is employed at IMTT in St. Rose as an information systems manager. I have two children in college majoring in nursing and computer science.”
Hokanson says that as a subscriber to the Herald-Guide, she thought it would be fun to enter the contest, and will either apply her prize money to her kids’ college expenses or use it for a weekend get-a-way to take more photos.
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