Fall Club Competition Online

This is the first of three Club Competition of this year. Only paid members may enter images into the competition. Others can attend, but cannot enter.

**IMAGES ARE DUE to Jody by Friday September 21th dohertyjp@charter.net**

Our Judge will be Rhonda Cullen from CT. She is also a Judge listed with the NECCC.

Rhonda Cullens serves as a New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) Vice President and has been awarded the Honor of Master Member (MNEC) of the Council in 2017 and Honorary Member (HonNEC) in 2025 for her service on the Council and to the photographic community. She coordinates the online Club Services information for NECCC and has served as the Chair of the Honors Committee. She is also a very active board member of the Flagpole Photographers Camera Club of Newtown, Connecticut and serves as their Exhibit Chair.
Rhonda and her husband, Chane, compete and exhibit regularly with their local camera club in addition to holding their own solo exhibits. Their largest solo exhibit consisted of over 300 photos at their town’s Municipal Center.
Rhonda has given many photography presentations and workshops to a variety of groups and has produced several coffee table books filled with photos. Her work has received many awards, among them inclusion in the Connecticut Association of Photographers “Tops in Connecticut” and she is the recipient of the NECCC Individual Print Competition Spring 2025 Best of Show - Color Award for her image “Fire and Ice”. See a few of Rhonda's images below: Images attached:
“Fire and Ice” – NECCC Spring 2025 Best of Show Color Individual Print Competition
“Sedona Reflections”- NECCC 2019 Conference “Edmund A. Woodle Memorial Award” for Best Landscape
“A Special Bond Between Friends” – NECCC Spring 2024 Monochrome Competition – Judges Choice
“Manhattan Bridge” – NECCC Spring 2017 Monochrome Print Competition 1st Place
“The Light Goes on When the Sun Goes Down” – NECCC 2022 PSA Council Challenge HM

PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR PHOTOS ON THIS EVENT PAGE! thx

What We'll Do
The competition will be run like a slideshow. Rhonda Cullens our judge for this competition will review images, make comments, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Honorable Mention ribbons will be awarded.

There will be 3 categories for this club competition:
OPEN, NATURE and MONOCHROME.
If you are submitting into the Nature category, please read the NECCC guidelines for Nature Photography. Please note: there is a difference between Wildlife and Nature limitation. Only worry about the nature parameters.

PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS BELOW FOR THE CLUB COMPETITION

• DIGITAL IMAGES MUST BE SUBMITTED BY FRIDAY Sept 21th

Each member may submit UP TO THREE DIGITAL IMAGES TOTAL.
ONLY 2 FROM ANY ONE CATEGORY
FOR EXAMPLE: 2 FROM OPEN AND 1 FROM MONOCHROME.

• Submit images to: Jody Doherty at: **dohertyjp@charter.net**
• The digital file must have the .jpg extension.

• Please size your images so the image is no more than:
1920 pixels horizontally or 1080 pixels vertically.
For example: a horizontal image should be no more than 1920 on the horizontal sides x equal to or less than 1080 on the vertical sides.
A vertical image must be no more than 1080 the horizontal sides x equal to or less than 1080 on the vertical sides.

• FILE NAME:
Photographer's full name_Category_and image title.
Example. Mary Newth_Open_Lost my Marbles
• It is suggested that the photographs be in the sRGB color space.

PLEASE NOTE:
The link to Zoom will be provided on this website prior to the event.
You can log in to Zoom at 6:30. The first 1/2 hour will be our opportunity to catch up with each other, meet any new members, and to get an update on any club business. The image review and judging will start at 7pm. **Remember, images are due to Jody by Friday September 21th dohertyjp@charter.net**

NECCC Competitions
Images from the Club competitions will be selected by the NECCC representative to go into the NECCC interclub competitions, if they meet the requirements of the NECCC and PSA. The NECCC competition will have 3 categories this year: Color, Monochrome and Nature.

This year, there will also be three NECCC individual print competitions, one on Sat. November 22, one on Sat. January 24 and the last one on Sat. April 11. A printmaker may enter 1 image in each category. More information, see http://neccc14.neccc.org/Club-Services-Packet-Current/09_Interclub-Print-Competition-Schedule.pdf

Photo taken by Nancy Wright