Charter Oak Photo Blog

Sorry for the lack of posting as the season wound down, but things were pretty hectic right through the banquet and then it was off for a few days of relaxation over the Memorial Day weekend. We’re back on track now so you’ll be seeing all of the results over the next week or so.

Today, we have the winners of the season long competitions in Digital, Prints, and Slides. It takes quite a commitment to come up with images worthy of being entered in competition month in and month out so, when you run into one of these members, please congratulate them on a job well done.

Digital

Masters

1st – Ed Rosenthal – 364 points
2nd – Cindy Gosselin – 363 points
3rd – Laura Bryg – 361 points

Salon

1st – Jan Chambers – 351 points
2nd – Olive Weingart – 342 points
3rd – Pam Hastings – 334 points

With her win, Jan Chambers moves to Masters for next season’s competitions.  Congrats, Jan!

Prints

Color

1st – Norma Zackor – 179 points
2nd – Nick Giosa – 162 points
3rd – John Murphy – 160 points

Creative

1st – John Murphy – 161 points
(no 2nd or 3rd place winners)

Monochrome

1st – Norma Zackor – 162 points
2nd – John Murphy – 160 points
3rd – Tom Trask – 152 points

Slides

Masters

1st – Lee Wilcox – 339 points
2nd – Nick Giosa – 326 points
(no 3rd place winner)

Salon

1st – Paula Pingree – 319 points
2nd – Marjorie Hart – 314 points
(no 3rd place winner)

With her win, Paula Pingree would have advanced to the Masters category for next season’s competitions, however Slides will be judged as one group next year.  Great job, Paula!

Tomorrow:  Images of the Year

Rick General Competition Results

Nancy Goodrich has received a grant from the Middletown Commission of the Arts to run a 10-week photography project at Macdonough School in Middletown. While the funds will cover many of the expenses, they cannot be used to purchase cameras.

She is in need of six (6) cameras and would appreciate receiving any used, working, point-and-shoot digital cameras that Charter Oak members would be willing to donate.

Contact Nancy directly at: n2goodrich@sbcglobal.net

John General

If you want to submit any entries for the Annual Awards you have until Monday, 5/17/10 to do it.  Please refer to the Submissions for Digital Year End Competition post for entry guidelines.

Because it’s a much more manual process to put this competition together than the regular monthly competitions, there will be no entries accepted after the deadline.

Also, if you’d like your entries to be considered for the Art Rich Nature Award, you need to let me know that when you send in the entry.  The image must meet the PSA Nature Definitions and have received a score of 23 or higher during a regular monthly competition during the year.  The PSA Nature Definitions can be found here.

Rick General Competition Entries

Since all of the images for the year end competition are required to have been entered in a monthly competition during the year, I already have all of the images so there is no need to submit them again.  Just send an email to the normal submission email address (not any of my personal accounts please).  In the email, include the title of the image, competition you are entering it in, and, if you’re one of those that likes to send your files in without renaming them to something meaningful (i.e.  _img001.jpg instead of title.jpg), if you’d include the file name it would be appreciated.  That will make it much easier to find the images.

Thanks!

Rick General Competition Entries

Make sure and get your images in if you’re interested in participating!

From the May issue of the COPS Slide-O-Gram:

2010 Annual Awards Announcement

Note:  For digital entries – although there is no award for Specified Topic, the images submitted in this category throughout the year can be entered in one of the other 4 categories as long as the image meets the criteria for the category you’re entering it in.

Rick General Competition Entries

Listed below are the entries for the May competition being held Monday, 5/10/10. Please let me know as soon as possible, by sending an email to the submission address, if you see any errors with your entries.

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#  Makeup Contest: ePrints – Non-Fauna

Title

Kent Falls #32
Winning Backhand
Bang
Red Rocks and Shadows
Hole in One

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#  Contest: ePrints – Non-Fauna

Title

Made in the USA
A Path through Calloway Gardens
Framed
Just Hangin’
The Window
Inyo National Forest Overlook
Garden Potscape
Bryce Canyon #55
Monument Valley
Thundering Heard
View from Wonalancet
All Tied Up
Misty Shore
Winter Silhouette
Silver Cascade
Silky and Stony
Winter Wonderland
Shack
Mono Lake Tufas Early Morning
Bryce Mound
One Slant on Music

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#  Makeup Contest: ePrints – Fauna

Title

Cattle Egret In the Wind
Butterfly Sipping Nectar
Great Blue Hiding

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#  Contest: ePrints – Fauna

Title

Who Are You Looking At?
The Take Off
Squawking Gull
Butterfly on Porterweed
Shear Bliss
Male Bluebird in Posies
Family Gathering
Say Hello to My Little Friend
Won’t You Take Our Picture Please?
Night Heron in Flight
Lift Off
Little Green Heron
Cattle Egret Posing
Resting Peacefully
Elegance
Agitated Male Wood Duck

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#  Contest: ePrints – Specified Topic

Title

Carribean Flamingo Dance
Wistful Java Langur
Wolf Running
Pole Dancer
My Favorite Relative

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#  Makeup Contest: ePrints – Monochrome

Title

Couldn’t Stand the Weather

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#  Contest: ePrints – Monochrome

Title

Snack Time
Grandpa’s Chair
Mira Flora Locks – Antique
A Notty Netty Problem
Retired Chevy
One Tree Hill
Owl 001

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#  Contest: ePrints – Creative

Title

The Guardian
Impressionistic Sunrise
Rose on Canvas
Eye to Eye
Preserving a Memory

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Rick General Competition Entries

The deadline for May submissions is midnight on Friday, 5/7/10.  As this is the last competition of the year, there is no opportunity to submit makeups later on so make sure and get your entries in.

Rick General Competition Entries

The May Slide-O-Gram is now available; just click the link below.

May 2010 Slide-O-Gram

Rick Slide-O-Gram

The specified topic for May is non-domestic captive animals (e.g. in a zoo, aquarium, etc.).

Rick General Competition Entries

Sorry folks, I forgot how hectic the month of May is at Charter Oak.  Competition night is next Monday, 5/10/10, so the deadline should be this Wednesday, 5/5/10.  However, since the time-frame is so short between the competitions, I’ll extend the deadline to Friday, 5/7/10, for digital.

Again – my apologies for the confusion.  And, thanks Nick for pointing that out!

Rick General Competition Entries