End of Year Competition coming soon!

We hope you can all join in this final event of  the New Haven Camera Club 2011-12 season.  See the NHCC Blog for banquet details and competition instructions. Join us and view the best slides, prints, and electronic photographs from this past season always make for a great evening.

After dinner, awards will be given for this season’s high cumulative average in each class and the Everett Wilson Trophy for the most improved beginning photographer will be award.

Then the Print, Electronic Photograph, and Slide-of-the-Year competitions will be held. any image competed in the 2011-12 season can be competed (it did not need to win a ribbon and you do not have to have competed in every month)

The Jane Sibley Honor Award is presented to the best nature photograph selected by the judges in a separate electronic competition. Jane is a long time member of the club known for doing a variety of photography including nature.

The Joe DiChello Award is presented to the best landscape or seascape photograph selected by the judges in a separate electronic competition. Joe was a long time member of the club who was known for his excellent landscape photography.

Come and join the members of the New Haven Camera Club for the end of the year banquet. Come participate in the competition for the print of the year, electronic image of the year, the Joe Dichello Memorial Landscape/Seascape Award and the Jane Sibley Nature Honor Award.

Three outside judges will select the winners!

Annual Awards Competition

Eligibility: All Open Category prints, Open Category electronic photographs, or Assignment electronic photographs entered in that year’s competitions are eligible as follows: 

Original Category of Entry	End of Year Competition Eligibility
Open Print Competition	·   Open Print Competition (maximum of 4 photographs may be entered) · Joe Dichello Landscape/Seascape competition if converted to an electronic image (maximum of 2 photographs may be entered) ·  Jane Sibley Nature Competition if converted to an electronic image (maximum of 2 photographs may be entered)
Open Electronic Photograph Competitions or Assignment Electronic Photograph Competition	·   Open Electronic Photograph Competition (maximum of 4 photographs may be entered) ·   Joe Dichello Landscape/Seascape (maximum of 2 photographs may be entered) ·   Jane Sibley Nature Competition (maximum of 2 photographs may be entered)
Image Artistry Competition	·   Image Artistry Competition (maximum of 2 photographs may be entered)

Number of entries: 

4 prints for print-of-the-year and 4 electronic photographs for electronic photograph-of-the-year.

In addition, 2 electronic photographs may be submitted to a special landscape/seascape competition for the Joe Dichello Memorial Award and 2 electronic photos may be submitted to a special nature competition for the Jane Sibley Honor Award. The images on these photographs must have been entered in one category of competition (prints, open electronic photographs, or assignment electronic photographs) during the year; those originally entered as prints must be converted to electronic photographs to be entered in these special competitions.

Each photograph may be entered only once in an end of the year competition. If a photograph is entered in one of the Open category competitions it may not be entered in either the Joe Dichello Landscape/Seascape or the Jane Sibley Nature special competitions. If a photograph is entered in either the Joe Dichello or Jane Sibley special competition it may not be entered into the other special competition or one of the Open category competitions.