Chairmen: Skip Hoyt
Jim Hill

Questions about competition?
printcomp
@greaterlynnphoto.org

Due Dates: (generally, images are due the last Monday of the month; competition night is generally the 3rd to the last Monday of the month)

Images Due	Competition Nights
Sept. 26, 2011	Oct. 10, 2011
Oct. 31, 2011	Nov. 14, 2011
Dec. 19, 2011	Jan. 16, 2012
Jan. 30, 2012	Feb. 13, 2012
Feb. 27, 2012	Mar. 12, 2012
Mar. 26, 2012	Apr. 16, 2012
April 30, 2012	May 7, 2012

Judges: 2011 - 2012
Oct 10 -	David Colt
Nov 14 -	Paul Smith
Jan 16-	Art Vaughan
Feb 13 -	Paul Parisi
Mar 12 -	Jane Guaraldi
Apr 16 -	Rick Cloran
May 7 Annual -	TBA

Past Months

November Results .PDF
October Article and Scores PDF

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Print Competition 2011-2012

Annual Print Black & White and Creative Winners

and selected images from several competitions this year


Class B B&W Print of the Year Storm Brewing Ruth Curtis	Class A B&W Print of the Year State Senate Reading Room Karen Choi	Masters B&W Print of the Year San Jose Chapel Ken Jordan

	Creative Print of the Year Boston Remember the Holocaust Mikhail Rastegayev


Class B (February) Color Print of the Month Olea in Grey Fur Jim Gregor	Class A (February) Color Print of the Month Reflections of Rockport Robert Ring	Creative Contemporary (February) Print of the Month Painted Lab Karen Choi




Masters (November) B&W Print of the Month Paris Hotel "Las Vegas" Greg Bartosik	Class A (January) Color Print of the Month Nicholas Lisa Pelonzi	Creative Contemporary (January) Print of the Month Zeke - Hand Painted Karen Choi




Class A (November) B&W Print of the Month State Senate Reading Room Karen Choi		Creative Contemporary (October) Print of the Month Frogs Amy Musinsky


Class B (October) Color Print of the Month Denisa in White James Gregor	Class A (October) Color Print of the Month Jones Point Sunrise Gary Hoyt	Masters (October) Color Print of the Month Scotty Amy Musinsky

Greater Lynn holds monthly print competitions. Rules of Competition and deadlines for submission are all listed to the left. Feel free to ask questions of the Print Chairmen at the email addresses provided.

Print Chairmen Skip Hoyt and Jim Hill

Welcome To Our 2011-2012 Club Season!! We hope everyone had a great summer and that you were able to capture some great images for the upcoming print competition season.

Dave Colt was our October print Judge. Dave was very helpful in making excellent constructive comments on all of our prints with an emphasis on the technical aspect. Dave is a past GLPA member and a past top print maker. He has been our portrait lighting expert for many years, setting up his portrait lighting at all of out club model and portrait days and at the New England Camera Club Council Model Committee events.

Prints for the November Print competition will be due Oct 31.

Competing is an excellent way to improve your photographic skills. Listening to the judge’s comments on your prints and the prints of the other competitors gives you a better insight into your photography. Jim and I will do our best to make this year’s print competition an enjoyable and fun experience!

Be sure to take advantage of our print group held on Thursdays, usually held the week before print competition. There is a wealth of information available to those who attend these very informative meetings. Do bring some of your prints for discussion.

So join us for a good and entertaining season of photography - and compete!

This year we plan on using the Club’s website to help with print entries. By now using an online entry form – much like that used for the digital competition – we can collect the data about each month’s competition. On that online entry form you will also attach the digital version of the image you submit as a print. You should use the same sizing as you do for the digital competition. See the rules for either competition to get more information. This will allow us to post winning print images online every month like the digital competition now does. We would like to start this at the beginning of the competition season, so please look for the online entry form link on the Print Competition page of the website (which is under the Activities menu).

We will also be posting the scores for all entries each month. That way if you are unable to attend the competition night, you will have a place to get your scores.

The prints submitted will no longer have the maker’s name on the back of the print. We will be supplying all competitors with labels with a number to be used instead of their name. We will also be handing out labels at the beginning of the season that will be affixed to the back of your prints where you will fill in the title and category. Stay tuned for more information.

Competing:

There will be 3 print classes and you will be placed according to your past performance and print scores:
“Masters” Class
“A” Class
“B” Class

There are six monthly competitions held on the second Monday of the month. For each monthly competition, there will be a total of three prints due. You may choose to compete in the following categories: Color, Black and White, and/or Creative Contemporary. How you choose to enter your maximum of three prints is up to you.

Prints are typically due two weeks prior to the competition date. Please be prompt in your submissions. Late prints will not be accepted.

Briefly some of the rules follow:

The maximum prints/mat size allowable is 16” X 20”.

All print images must be exposed by the maker.

The larger size prints are easier to view and generally have more impact.

The supplied label must be filled out with the title and category and be affixed to the back bottom right of the print.

Once a print receives a ribbon, it may not be entered again in that class or in the projected image competition for that season.

Only prints receiving ribbons (all 1st, 2nd, 3rd and two HM’s) are eligible for the final Annual “print of the year” competition held in May of the same season.

Please read the competition rules.

So join us for an enjoyable season of photography and print making. If you have any questions feel free to contact either of us.