Winter Club Competition Online

This is the second of three Club Competition of this year. Only paid members may enter images into the competition. Others can attend, but cannot enter. No AI generated images allowed

**IMAGES ARE DUE to Jody by Sunday December 21st. dohertyjp@charter.net.**
No images will be accepted after Sunday.

Our Judge will be Sandy Schill from CT.

Sandy Schill has been a member of Flagpole Photographers Camera Club in Newtown CT for over 16 years and has held many board positions including President. Since receiving her first DSLR, she has passionately worked to improve her skills and especially loves bird photography. For 7 years Sandy operated a successful family portrait business that specialized in Newborn photography. She has earned many local, regional and international photography awards. Sandy has also earned the MNEC distinction from NECCC.

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

What We'll Do
The competition will be run like a slideshow. Sandy Schill 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 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 December 19th

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 Sunday December 21st. NO images will be accepted after that date.

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 2025/2026, 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.

Photo taken by Christine Sendrowski