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
April – “Architectural”
Total Entries: 140 ; Color Digital: 49 ; Mono Digital: 51 ; Color Prints: 20 ; Mono Prints: 20 ; Judge: Cara Fuller
1st Digital Color – Chris Baker
It’s a great dynamic shot – the night contrast is interesting and the repeating lights create a leading line pulling you in. Plus l enjoy the juxtaposition of new bridge versus historic architecture
2nd Digital Color – Allen Gary
This hurt to look at – almost like a wounded animal. The agent of the building destruction being clearly apparent (No tornado happened) makes me think about how things once useful can be moved past so quickly
3rd Digital Color – Michael Cox
Very symmetrically laid out – super sharp – choosing to make the photo at night really popped the contrast and made it stand out/extra appealing.
HM Digital Color – Trevor Hall
I like being able to see the environment this element was attached too – I also like the juxtaposition of light to be used at night with the sun which negates the light fixtures use beaming in the background
HM Digital Color – Susan Poston
The whole scene is only seen through reflection on another building. What is in the scene is a “building” that appears made for art forms sake in that its function is not readily apparent.
HM Digital Color – Susan Chi
Very nicely laid out – repeating elements are nicely fit into the frame with the empty space on the right being used by the tower.
HM Digital Color – Mat Bevill
I really enjoy the wonky crooked ladder going up the side of the furnace. The safety precautions put in place by all the caging around it are almost made to feel pointless.
HM Digital Color – Jack Eidson
I really like the juxtaposition of new functional looking girders verses the historic decorative elements in the background. Plus the vivid green with the strong texture was very appealing
1st Digital Mono – Kate Deal
The convergence at the op makes this space really imposing – I almost image like a dreaded bording school. The railing bisecting the door doesn’t make it feel inviting either.
2nd Digital Mono – Mat Bevill
I appreciate the calmness of the water yet sharp architectural details of the bridge. Nice atmosphere as well.
3rd Digital Mono – Susan Chi
I enjoy the topsy-turvy – above and below scene combines with the textures of the bricks and the wood. Very nice even lighting too.
HM DIgital Mono – Shannon Leszcynski
I love how such a strong contrast and monochrome presentation abstracts this architectural element so instead of looking at how it contributes to the whole we looks at its basic shapes.
HM Digital Mono – Chris Baker
This one is topsy Turvey – am I looking up or down? I like that it engages my curiosity about its unique perspective.
HM Digital Mono – Casey Johnson
The motion of the clouds in the sky streaking past really add to the sense of motion in the architecture of the buildings. While they are (hopefully!) not going anywhere there shape feels like they are swooping along
HM Digital Mono – Allen Gary
Great foreground-background relationships – Border fits vintage of buildings – leading lines of stair pulls you back the length of the alley which terminates in an interesting site. Bird adds life.