Spring Club Competition Online

This is on Wednesday March 4th.
Please read all the guidelines below.
This is the third 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 Mary Newth by Sunday February 15th
No images will be accepted after Sunday.

Our Judge will be Silvana Della of Silvana Della Camera.
A software engineer by trade, Silvana began her fascination with photography as a very small child. The early fascination turned into a lifelong obsession. Decades later her passion never faltered, but her view of the world evolved. Photographing what the eye can't perceive is what she loves best to capture. Past President of the Stony Brook Camera Club, she is the recipient of many photography awards. Her images have appeared in Lighthouse Digest, Yankee Magazine, and the Boston Globe, and were featured in Nikon’s 100th birthday celebration. She has presented and judged at camera club councils, camera clubs, and art associations throughout North America.
Silvana helps others expand their own photographic vision through her photography workshops, photo walks, photo tours, private instruction, and club presentations on various photography topics including infrared, Milky Way, black & white, nightscapes, deep space photography, and time-lapse. She challenges photographers to consider that there is much more in a scene than what is visible to the human eye and to tap into the power of their cameras to discover it.
Author of “Breakers of Darkness – The Majesty of Lighthouses”, “Sights Beyond the Spectrum – Digital Infrared Photography”, “Night Shades – A Guide to Photography After Dark”, and “Master the Benro Polaris”. Master Member of the New England Camera Club Council (MNEC). Member of Professional Photographers of America (PPA). Member of Massachusetts Camera Naturalists (CAMNATS). Member of North American Nature Photography Association (NAPNA).
To her, life is best summarized by the quote “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.” – from the 1958 film “Auntie Mame”.

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

What We'll Do
The competition will be run like a slideshow. Silvana Della 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 Sunday February 15th

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: Mary Newth at **m.newth@yahoo.com**
• 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 Mary by Sunday February 15th. 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 Jody Doherty