NECCC Photo Competition Winners

New Haven CC had four winners in the NECCC Conference Digital Competition, all Honorable Mentions. If you send me your images I would love to post them here for all to see!

Open:
Joan Balen – Morning Has Broken

Nature:
Gary Prestash – Crabapple Tree
Linda Sereque – Fire and Water
Rick Sereque – Desert Dunes

Linda Thomas (Wallingford and NHCC) also won the NECCC Digital Nature Photograph of The Year !

Hazel Meredith gets NECCC Honors

Hazel Meredith received MNEC honors tonight!
www.MeredithImages.com




Master Member, New England Camera Club Council – MNEC

Awarded to those who have performed exceptional service for the Council during a period of not less than five years, and/or have substantially advanced photography in the New England area through lecturing, teaching, judging, and through other administrative activities in photographic organizations for the same period. This honor is limited to a maximum of five each year.

The NECCC Honors are awarded in recognition of contribution to the advancement of the art and science of photography in the New England area. Quality of character, administrative activities, service through lecturing, teaching, judging, and writing are as important as an outstanding competition record. Before proposing a candidate, weigh carefully the responsibility you are assuming and your duty to the New England Camera Club Council. These considerations should transcend any desire you may have to do a favor for someone. Do not submit an application unless you are fully convinced that the candidate’s qualifications are far above average. Try to give the committee a verbal picture of the candidate as an individual as well as a photographer. Present all facts in a brief and concise manner, avoiding exaggeration. List the candidate’s qualifications under each of these general headings: (1) Administrative Activities (2) (A) Lecturing, (B) Judging, (C) Teaching, (D) Writing (3) (A) Photographic Achievements, (B) Exhibition Record, (C) Competition Awards (4) Other Qualifications

Hazel Meredith http://gbcclub.org/meredith.aspx is a member of:

• The New Haven Camera Club http://www.newhavencameraclub.org/


• The Greater Bridgeport Camera Club http://gbcclub.org/default.aspx where she is currently the president and the treasurer) http://gbcclub.org/meredith.aspx


• The Connecticut Assocation of Photographers http://capinct.org/default.aspx


• Has a column in the Photographic Society of America Journal http://www.psa-photo.org/.

Way to go Hazel!!!

END OF YEAR COMPETITION – 2008

I just received the names of the End of Year Competition winning images (and their makers). For those of you that missed the banquet you missed seeing some awesome photographs! The food was good and the company even better! There were sooo many great images and I always love this end of year exhibition because we get to see all those great images side by side.

NEW HAVEN CAMERA CLUB -- END OF YEAR COMPETITION – 2008

PRINTS

1st Place – Print of the Year Barbara Vietzke Monday Morning Wash Day

2nd Place Lisa Cuchara Osprey Male With Flounder Dinner

3rd Place Lisa Cuchara Heron and Sunrise


COLOR SLIDES

1st Place – Slide of the Year Ken Kwan Ruby Beach Evening

2nd Place Ken Kwan Cape Bon Ami

3rd Place Andrey Antov Sardinian Sunset


ELECTRONIC IMAGES – CLASS A

1st Place Richard Asarisi Annas

2nd Place Gary Prestash Cedar Waxwing With Crabapple

3rd Place Andrey Antov Diana’s Baths 2


ELECTRONIC IMAGES – CLASS B

1st Place Bob Parisi Bass Harbor Lighthouse
Electronic Image of the Year

2nd Place Susan Naumann Keeping Watch

3rd Place Joan Balen New Day Dawning


JOSEPH DI CHELLO MEMORIAL AWARD – BEST LANDSCAPE OR SEASCAPE

Bob Parisi Bass Harbor Lighthouse


JANE SIBLEY AWARD – BEST NATURE IMAGE

Vic Krasenics Green Heron With Moth #1


Here are the winners from our entire year. We compete 16 images but the scores from the lowest four are dropped and then the 'Best of 12' is used to determine the winner of the Highest Cumulative Score Award in each category/class.

Highest Cumlative Scores (Best of 12)

Electronic A -- Gary Prestash 321 points (Best of 12 AVG = 26.75)

Electronic B -- Joan Balen 302 points (Best of 12 AVG = 25.17)

Prints A -- Barbara Vietzke 312 points (Best of 12 AVG = 26.00)

Prints B -- Fred Rosenthal 280 points (Best of 12 AVG = 23.33)

Slides -- Linda Thomas 305 points (Best of 12 AVG = 25.42)

Electronic S (Assigned Subject) Barbara Vietzke 14 points

Congratulations to all the winners!!