On Wednesday, we celebrate the end of another successful competition season with our annual Photograph of the Year Competition.
Members may submit 2 photographs into each category: Black & White Print, Color Print and Digital Projected Image.
The images you submit into this competition must have been shown during the 2008-2009 competition season. No new images are permitted. Your two selected images in each category may come from either the open subject or assigned subject categories (there is no separation in this contest), and are not to be altered or changed in any way from the way they were originally submitted.
There will be a Class A and a Class Salon division for each category (B&W Print, Color Print, Digital Projected Image).
While the two levels will compete separately in all three categories for First Place awards and several Honorable Mentions, the "Print of the Year" or "Digital Image of the Year" will pit the first place image in Class A vs. the first place image in Class Salon, the judges selection between the two will be crowned the Photograph of the Year for the 2008-2009 season and will be displayed on the front page of the website.
If there is a tie for first place in either class, there will be a second judging to determine a sole first place image in each class.
Entries into the digital projection category must be sent to the image collector (DHFore@hotmail.com) no later than 3:00 p.m. Monday, May 1.
We are pleased to announce our All-Star panel of judges for our Photo of the Year competition this coming Wednesday. Please let them know how much you appreciate their joining us for the evening:
BILL HOWE
Bill Howe is a Darien-based photographer and wood sculptor whose works have been exhibited locally and won awards at the New Canaan Art Society, Greenwich Art Society and Old Greenwich Art Society. His works are also represented at the Ridgefield Artisans Guild.
Working out of the Woodworkers Club in Norwalk, he also designs and builds custom furniture for private collectors in Greenwich, Darien and Ridgefield, CT, as well as Portland, ME and New York City. He earned his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1979 where he studied photography and film. He has works in 35mm, medium and large format film as well as digital image making.
His photographic influences include Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Jack Dykinga, David Muench, and Alison Shaw.
"I was given my first Argus camera when I was 11 years old," said Howe, "and I have been doing it ever since." Forty years later, his craft and art have diverged–and converged. "At first, I thought of the camera as a way to record exactly what something looked like — a moment, an event, a person. I wanted to make the image and the moment coincide." Since then, his photography has evolved into finding the pictures and stories embedded in the often-overlooked details of life.
BIll’s photography and woodwork can be seen on his website http://web.mac.com/williamhowe1
JOHN F. HILL
Those of you lucky enough to be at our February learning night have met John. He made the fabulous presentation for us on "Demystifying the Competition Print."
John is an accomplished fine art photographer based in Easton. He was educated at Princeton and has had a successful career as a business executive. John turned to fine art photography to realize his vision and passion for revealing the beauty of the world around him. Over the last few years he has earned over ten best in show awards, three Kodak Gallery awards, two Fuji Masterpiece awards and the Professional Photographer Association (PPA) 2007 Gold Photographer of the year award.
See his website at http://www.johnfhill.com
LEE PAINE
Lee is a professional photographer, writer, and singer. Her column, "Focus on Photos," has run in the Greenwich Time newspaper since 1988. She was the author of the wonderful article about our club that appeared in that paper a few years ago.
Lee teaches photography privately and has taught photography for Greenwich Continuing Education and the WECA. She has lectured on photography for many organizations, including the Whitney Museum, the Bruce Museum, the Greenwich Arts Council, the Greenwich Library, the Stamford Art Association, and the ***Stamford Camera Club*** (Now PCLFC), among others.
She has served as a juror or judge for the Silvermine Guild of Artists, the Greenwich Art Society, the Greenwich Arts Council, the Art Society of Old Greenwich, the Stamford Art Association, the National Association of Pen Women, the Darien Art Association, the Waveny Art Barn, and the Stamford Library, among others.
See her website at http://www.leepainefinephotography.com
***Print entries for this competition accepted until 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 5. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m.***
