2021–2022 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 |
---|---|---|
2nd Place | 48 | Richard Chitty |
1st Place | 71 | Peter Dunner |
Intermediate Prints
Print Photographer of the Year
Bruce Cyr
Advanced Prints
Place | Points | Person |
---|---|---|
3rd Place | 63 | Tammy Trocki |
2nd Place | 70 | Bill Seelig |
1st Place | 77 | Bruce Cyr |

2023 Print Photographer of the Year

2023 Print Photographer of the Year

2023 Print Photographer of the Year

2023 Print Photographer of the Year
Electronic Images
Intermediate Electronic
Place | Points | Person |
---|---|---|
3rd Place | 52 | Jill Randell |
2nd Place | 61 | Michael Blicher |
1st Place | 62 | Max Kantzer |

2023 Electronic Photographer of the Year

2023 Electronic Photographer of the Year

2023 Electronic Photographer of the Year

2023 Electronic Photographer of the Year
Advanced Electronic
Place | Points | Person |
---|---|---|
3rd Place | 73 | David Terao |
2nd Place | 79 | Kent Mason |
1st Place | 87 | Ruiqing Pamboukian |
Novice Electronic
Place | Points | Person |
---|---|---|
3rd Place | 54 | Janice Solomon |
2nd Place | 71 | Debby Berlyne |
1st Place | 79 | Jennifer Nguyen |
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:

2023 Print Image of the Year

Tammy Trocki, "Two Medusa Dancing"


2023 Print Image of the Year
Tie 10th | David Terao | "Jumping Spider in a Dahlia" |
Tie 10th | James Chia | "God's Beam High Up" |
9th | Max Kantzer | "Wild Horses of the Camargue" |
7th | Ruiqing Pamboukian | "Fight Play" |
6th | David Terao | "High Key Portrait" |
5th | Ruiqing Pamboukian | "Milkyway over Fitz Roy" |
4th | David Terao | "Spheres and Tentacles" |
Tie 2nd | Ruiqing Pamboukian | "Under Moon Light" |
Tie 2nd | Ruiqing Pamboukian | "Misty Morning" |
1st | Max Kantzer | "Flamingos of the Camargue" |
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 225 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."

2023 Electronic Image of the Year



2023 Electronic 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 |
---|---|
Ruiqing Pamboukian | 165 |
Gail Bingham | 401 |
Rebecca Tidman | 500 |
Nancy Wolejsza | 502 |
David Terao | 545 |
Bruce Cyr | 731 |
Bill Seelig | 865 |