Hello Everyone,
It has been a busy month, competition wise for the SRPS. We held our monthly competition February 13th, and N4C held their annual awards banquet this past Sunday to announce the annual awards. We have a very talented group of photographers in our club. I was very happy to attend the banquet along with Jennifer Marano and her husband Alan, Liz Lawson, Trisha and Joel Brown and Betsy and Gary Waters. I am listing the major awards below and I am attaching the complete list of projected images from N4C.
N4C Annual Awards:
Tamara Krautkramer won Best in Show, Journalism with her Pilgrim images and Betsy Waters won Best in Show, Nature for her Egrets images. Herb Gaidus won a 1st place for his Cellular Absorption image in Monochrome, and Jennifer Marano won a 1st for her Cowgirl images in Journalism. There were many other winning images from our members so please make sure to see all the winners in the attachment at the end of this email.
At our last competition the 1st place winners were:
Creative: B- Pat Carlson, A-Steve Gibbs, AA-Mike Funk, M-Terry Connelly
Nature: B-Pat Carlson, A-Greg Pech, AA-Bill Stacy, M-Tamara Krautkramer
Pictorial: B-Fritz Carlson, A-Steve Gibbs, AA-Trisha Brown, M-Tamara Krautkramer
I hope you are planning to attend our Journalism program Thursday evening. It is being presented by Adrian Mendoza. I don’t know about you, but Journalism is not one of my strong suits, so I am hoping to up my skills in this category of our competitions. Speaking of programs, we will have some excellent programs this year as our Master candidates do their presentations as part of their journey to the Master level. Keep your eyes open for announcements regarding these presentations.
The Board will be meeting March 5th at the LBAGC to discuss a number of issues including our website and incorporating the Forum Steve Ruddy has been working on. There is a lot if interest in this, so I am looking forward to getting the bugs worked out so we can all utilize this valuable tool. If you have an item you would like the Board to discuss, please attend or let me know and I will bring it up for you.
Don’t forget to check the list of field trips Trisha sent out recently, and if you would sign up to lead a trip that will be greatly appreciated. I hope to see you Thursday at our Journalism program.
Mike