2022–2023 YEAR-END COMPETITION AWARDS
Accumulated Points Awards
Every month many of our members compete in assignments and open categories. These are the 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-place winners after 9 months of rigorous competition. A minimum of 30 points is required for each award.
Accumulated points award winners from previous years can be found in the summer issues of the Lens and Eye.
Prints
Place | Points | Name |
|---|---|---|
1st Place | 58 | Steven Frahm |
Intermediate Prints
Print Photographer of the Year
Nikos Zacharakis
Advanced Prints
Place | Points | Person |
|---|---|---|
3rd Place | 51 | Peter Dunner |
2nd Place | 56 | Dick Pelroy |
1st Place | 63 | Nikos Zacharakis |
2024 Print Photographer of the Year
2024 Print Photographer of the Year
2024 Print Photographer of the Year
2024 Print Photographer of the Year
Electronic Images
Intermediate Electronic
Place | Points | Person |
|---|---|---|
3rd Place | 52 | Erico Silva |
2nd Place | 65 | Jill Randell |
1st Place | 66 | Isaac Afrangui |
2024 EIC Photographer of the Year
2024 EIC Photographer of the Year
2024 EIC Photographer of the Year
2024 EIC Photographer of the Year
Advanced Electronic
Place | Points | Person |
|---|---|---|
3rd Place | 61 | James Corbett |
2nd Place | 68 | Robert Barkin |
1st Place | 78 | Ruiqing Pamboukian |
Novice Electronic
Place | Points | Person |
|---|---|---|
2nd Place Tie | 51 | Janice Solomon |
2nd Place Tie | 51 | Cheryl Gillerman |
1st Place | 67 | Debby Berlyne |
Electronic Photographer of the Year
Riquing Pamboukian
Tammy Trocki | "A Colorful Creature" | |
Dick Pelroy | "Black Skimmer w/ Fish" | |
Bill Seelig | "Tony on the Right" | |
Dick Pelroy | "Spring Pollinator, Brookside Garden" | |
Rich Chitty | "Acrobatic Eagle" | |
Peter Dunner | "Homeless on the Hudson" | |
Dick Pelroy | "Oyster Catcher Parenting its Young" | |
3rd | Tammy Trocki | "Novice Nun" |
2nd | Tammy Trocki | "Two Medusa Dancing" |
1st | Dick Pelroy | "Terns Fighting in Air" |
Top Ten Prints of the Year
(Juried)
For our print competitors, we collect all the prints that have won awards during the program year. A three- judge jury of highly-qualified, non-competing club members selects the Top 10 Prints of the Year, designating one as Print of the Year.
In no particular order:
2024 Print Image of the Year
2024 Print Image of the Year
Tie 9th | James Chia | "Double O 7" |
Tie 9th | Tom Gross | "Window Dressing" |
8th | Michael Blicher | "Green-eyed Fly" |
7th | Chet Stein | "Great Blue w/ Catch Reflected" |
6th | Ruiqing Pamboukian | "Enchanted Caddo Lake" |
Tie 3rd | David Terao | "Gorilla with Infant" |
Tie 3rd | Jennifer Nguyen | "Milky Way at Alien Throne" |
Tie 3rd | Ruiqing Pamboukian | "Story of Spring" |
2nd | Ruiqing Pamboukian | "Catch of the Day" |
1st | Ruiqing Pamboukian | "Fire Balls of Torres del Paine" |
Top Ten Electronic Images of the Year
(Members Choice)
We encourage our membership to vote in the Members Choice for their 20 favorite images (This year there were 189 winning electronic images.) The ten images with the highest number of votes are the “Top Ten Electronic Image” winners, and the image with the highest number of votes is the “Electronic Image of the Year."
2024 EIC Image of the Year
2024 EIC Image of the Year
Star Awards
For those members who compete in the advanced level, regardless of category, points are collected across however many years they have competed. For every 100 points acquired, a “Star Award” is granted, and those members are honored at our annual year-end awards event.
The following members have reached newly achieved levels of advanced points and thus a new Star on their cap.
Name | Points |
|---|---|
Dick Knapp | 107 |
Toni Robinson | 229 |
Robert Barkin | 234 |
James Corbett | 240 |
Ruiqing Pamboukian | 243 |
Chet Stein | 522 |
Dick Pelroy | 829 |