My Winning End of Year photos from 2023 Camera Club Competition

We are a small camera club, but it was very nice to have some winning photos in the End of Year competition 2023 (competing winning photos from earlier in the year).  Frankly, I think everyone in our club is quite talented and they all deserve recognition for their photography and their hard work helping with club activities.  See our website, https://www.smccc.org for more information about the club.

Final Note (River Concert Series) First Place Open

Izamal (city in Mexico) Honorable Mention Open

Honolulu First Place Theme (cityscape)

Honorable Mention Theme (water droplets)

Hooper Strait Lighthouse

I recently edited this Hooper Strait Lighthouse panorama with a slightly unusual angle for a camera club competition.  The fresnel lens is interesting.  It was 3rd place in the theme competition.

October winning photos at St. Mary's County Camera Club

Theme- Harvest Third place Sunflower B

Advanced Digital Second place Michigan Beach

Both are available in cropped form at my Zazzle store.

Michigan Sunset beach 11x14 http://www.zazzle.com/michigan_beach_sunset_print_11x14-190757396358417360

Michigan sunset beach 8x10 http://www.zazzle.com/michigan_sunset_beach_8x10_photo_print-190560355578430376

Sunflower field 11x14 http://www.zazzle.com/sunflower_field_11x14_print-190064270312457504

Sunflower field 8x10 http://www.zazzle.com/sunflower_field_8x10_print-190209491937765869

Camera club Honors for October

I had 3 winning photos in the Camera club Competition, 1 theme (abc123), and 2 advanced.  Strangely enough, I liked an osprey photo that didn't win anything the best!  I like how much action was happening and how two birds framed the third bird.

The theme was called Abc123.  A few hours before I sent in the pictures, I was talking to Jim and noticed that the drawer pulls on our old fashioned filing cabinet looked like the letter "i" if I rotated them 90 degrees. It won third place.

A fairly recent sunrise had a lovely red glow.  I think I made sure the land was cropped off the bottom of the photo, since a previous picture was similar.  3rd prize Advanced.

                       Warm Sunset 

While photographing some gorgeous water lilies, I noticed some water had collected on a lily pad in the shape of a heart, so I called it green heart and it won 1st place in the advanced category.