October’s Competition was Nature.
Emily Carter was our judge
Advanced Projected
- 1st Place: David Terao ~ The Spider and the Fly
- 2nd Place: Wendy Kates ~ Dancing Tulips
- 3rd Place: Ilona Linnoila ~Total Eclipse with Blood Moon in 2025
- HM: Karen Finkelman ~ Leaf Buddies
- HM: Larry Gold ~ Mind Your Beeswax 2
Wendy Kates ~ Dancing Tulips
This image of tulips and a lily was originally captured on my lightpad. I created the background texture from an abstract acrylic painting on canvas that I had done during the pandemic. After photographing my painting, I combined it with the floral image in Photoshop, using the “soft light” blend mode at 71% opacity. Finally, I applied the “Distort>Twirl” filter in Photoshop to create a sense of movement in the image.
Intermediate and Novice Projected
- 1st Place: Gerry Woods ~ Butterfly
- 2nd Place: Thomas Allen ~ Gulls on the Rocks
- 3rd Place: Will Rabinovich ~ Fall Surprise
- HM: Cathy Faughnan ~ Harvestmoth
- HM: Tanya Riseman ~ Teen and Parent Yellow-Crowned Night Herons
Gerry Woods ~ Butterfly
Advanced Print
- 1st Place: Sherm Edwards ~ Birch Reflections, Maine
- 2nd Place: David Terao ~ Great Southern White
David Terao ~ Great Southern White
Intermediate and Novice Print
1st Place: Will Rabinovich ~ Confluence
Will Rabinovich ~ Confluence
This image was taken while at an Out of Chicago Workshop in the Smoky Mountains. It was in the Tremont area are along the stream there. I was drawn to the meeting of water at this point, and I took many different compositions at different shutter speeds. This one was at 70mm and 1/5 seconds. The processing was pretty basic, and was done in Lightroom. I printed the image with an Epson P800 printer on Red River Ultra Pro Satin Paper