2025 Winners
January – Looking Up / Looking Down
Total Entries: 158; Color Digital: 59 ; Mono Digital: 54 ; Color Prints: 22 ; Mono Prints: 23 ; Judge: Jose Betancourt
February – Sunrise / Sunset
Total Entries: 141 ; Color Digital: 62 ; Mono Digital: 45 ; Color Prints: 19 ; Mono Prints: 15 ; Judge: Bob Gathany
1st Digital Color – Jack Eidson
Good planning to capture sunset thru the foreground. Good exposure. Could crop off some of sky at top.
2nd Digital Color – John Dillingham
Great exposure, maybe HDR. Nice composition with leading lines. Image fills the frame.
3rd Digital Color – Cecilia Yarborough
Nice exposure of clouds. Sun pulls your eye in one direction, bird pulls your eye in the other.
HM Digital Color – Susan Chi
Nice glow of sunrise/set and use of foreground but could ne cropped more panoramic.
HM Digital Color – Mat Bevill
Interesting use of foreground subjects with sunset but foreground to dark, sun too centered and could be cropped differently.
HM Digital Color – Julia Gary
Nice glow before or after sunrise/set. Not over saturated. Could be cropped differently. Good to place sun on left.
HM Digital Color – Chris Baker
Nice image of church and snow covered hill with sunrise/set glow but sky too overexposed.
HM Digital Color – Chris Baker
Good exposure of sun but too centered and could be cropped more panoramic.
HM Digital Color – Casey Johnson
Nice panoramic cropping and exposure of sky but too centered. Good to place sun on left.
1st Digital Mono Jack Eidson
Nice detail and exposure throughout image. Would make a nice panoramic if you cropped off some of the foreground.
2nd Digital Mono – Chris Baker
One of few images that emphasizes elongated shadows at sunset/sunrise.
HM Digital Mono – Jim Spinoso
Nice telephoto of sun & clouds with sun not centered but would work better with sun on left third.
March – “Open”
Total Entries: 166 ; Color Digital: 63 ; Mono Digital: 53 ; Color Prints: 26 ; Mono Prints: 24 ; Judge: Herb Stokes