From Bruno Di Lalla (Competitions Committee Chair::
The Faces & Figures Competition submissions were judged on Thursday March 24th, 2011 and the presentation night was on March 29th, 2011.
The Judges were:
Lois Siegel
Filmmaker, casting director, writer, photographer, professor and musician.
Freelance photographer for the Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Business Journal, and the Capital Style Magazine.
Chosen as one of nine photographers to shoot the Rolling Stones concert in Ottawa in 2005.
Harry Turner
Medical photographer at the Civic Hospital – 3yrs.
National Research Council of Canada corporate photographer, photographing research and development in 19 institutes across Canada for publications, exhibits, presentations, and web sites.
Dave Haggarty
Has been a Member of the RA Photo Club for 20 years and has reached the Senior level in Competitions.
Served twice as chairman of the RA Photo Club.
Past president of CAPA.
Chairman in two Canadian Camera Conferences.
Some stats:
- 35 prints and 142 digital slides where submitted for a total of 177
- 111 junior level submissions with an average score of 18.05
- 49 intermediate level submissions with an average score of 20.86
- 17 senior level submissions with an average score of 21.41
Print Awards
Print of the Night: “Father and Son, the passage of time” by Gerald Bloch
Junior Level
- 1st place: Trudy Ferguson
- 2nd place: Michel Dorais, Mike Howarth
Intermediate Level
- 1st place: Gerald Bloch
- 2nd place: Menno Spijker, David Wray
- Honourable Mentions: Menno Spijker
Digital Slide Awards
- Slide of the Night: “Strong” by Gord Weber
Junior Level
- 1st place: Freeman Keats
- 2nd place: Stanislav Kudrna, Chris Power
- Honourable Mentions: Rachelle Carriere (3), Alvin Choi (3), Myke Geiger, George Goulet, Freeman Keats, Marc Latreille, Mary Lee, Agus Liang, Denis Larose (2), Mike MacKay, John MacManus (2), Debbie Miller, Oleg Perejogin, Chris Price, Katrin Smith (2), Dianne Withyman, Chak Wong (2)
Intermediate Level
- 1st place: Denis Duchesne
- 2nd place: Denis Duchesne, Kyle Jackson
- Honourable Mentions: Bruno Di Lalla, Jamie Johnson (2)
Senior Level
- 1st place: Gord Weber
- 2nd place: Gord Weber
- 3rd place: Henry Fernando, Peter Juranka
- Honourable Mentions: Henry Fernando
This competition resulted in the following promotions:
- Jamie Johnson, from the Intermediate to the Senior Level & Mary Lee from the Junior to Intermediate level.
The next competition will be the Bruce Wilson Competition on May 3rd.
Regards,
Bruno Di Lalla
Competitions Committee Chair
RA Photo Club
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