SECOND PLACE GROUP A - SCORE 90.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 87 | Boris Gabay 94

A friend asked me to take a picture of my old corning ware coffee pot since she wanted to get one just like it. As i saw the sun reflecting on the chrome and the swirling effect, I began to experiment with different placements and reflections and this was one I liked This was just one picture edited in ACR for exposure and contrast, and in Photoshop for shadows and highlights

THIRD PLACE GROUP A - SCORE 91.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 93 | Boris Gabay 90

Picture taken at the Faroe Islands on June 2023 - NIKON D850
F/11 - 1/60 - ISO 64 - Focal Length 24 mm

HONORABLE MENTION GROUP A - SCORE 89.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 85 | Boris Gabay 94

My grandson totally involved on the book we had bought him.Total concentration!

Taken with an iPhone XS. Exposure 1/500 sec at f 1.8.

FIRST PLACE GROUP B - SCORE 92.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 93 | Boris Gabay 92

Taken with Nikon D5600 - 70 mm focal length. This is the view from a steep hiking trail at Sier de Monts at Acadia Natl' forest, Maine, around the end of September, 2022. There is a sailboat passing in the background

SECOND PLACE GROUP B - SCORE 91

JUDGES: Pat Ford 87 | Boris Gabay 91

This is a photo of the inner front facade of one of the buildings that make up the Academy of Athens complex in the city of Athens, Greece. The complex was built in the early 1900s and designed to look like the temples of ancient Greece.

Shot on Nikon Z7 | f/8 | 1/40 sec | ISO 400  | 14mm

THIRD PLACE GROUP B - SCORE 89.55

JUDGES: Pat Ford 90 | Boris Gabay 89

Canon Power Shot. This is the look of one of the Dolomites from Parcours Park nearby the town of Corvara, Italy.

GROUP A - SCORE 86.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 88 | Boris Gabay 85

Outdoors 8 am

GROUP A - SCORE 88

JUDGES: Pat Ford 88 | Boris Gabay 88

This is a greenhouse at the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary in the Redlands. Five handheld bracketed exposure shots with 1 stop intervals: 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, 1/200, and 1/400 shutter speeds. Merged and processed with On1 Photo Raw. Fujifilm H2S | Fujifilm 30mm f/4 lens at f/6.4 | ISO 160

GROUP A - SCORE 86.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 89 | Boris Gabay 84

On a recent trip to Colorado a nasty hail storm passed overhead where I was staying. There was lots of thunder, lightening, rain and hail being spit out of the very black clouds. As soon as the lightening stopped I grabbed my camera and went outside to see what images I could capture. I got about 30 images. I liked this one best. I thought this fit the theme well since one has to look up to see the storm. I arranged the composition so that the rail fence created a leading line into the image. I also liked that the diagonal line composition continues with the lighter area in the clouds. The lone tree provides a nice stopping point for the eye. The fact that the fence has some broken rails creates an anomaly in the continuity of the leading line. I think that anomaly adds a point of interest. I flipped the image horizontally so the the fence would start in the lower left corner instead of the lower right. Some adjustment and cropping were done with LrC.

GROUP A - SCORE 86.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 85 | Boris Gabay 88

While out for a photo walk I saw this building with a stature of a cow on the roof. The store was a dairy store, I guess that is why they have a cow on the roof or perhaps they just like cows. I thought this made for an interesting image. It creates more questions than it answers.

GROUP A - SCORE 91

JUDGES: Pat Ford 90 | Boris Gabay 92

Photographed at the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary in the Redlands. Fujifilm H2S with a Fujifilm 16-80mm f/4 lens at 16mm | 1/160 shutter speed | f/4.5 | ISO 160 | processed with On1 Photo Raw and Nik Color Efex Pro using the "Darken / Lighten Center" plugin.

 GROUP A - SCORE 84

JUDGES: Pat Ford 81 | Boris Gabay 87

GROUP A - SCORE 89.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 90 | Boris Gabay 89

Looking up on something we usually look down on. I was on the ground, under the flower, with my macro lens to get this shot.
ISO 250; 100 mm (Macro); f/14; 1/125s

GROUP A - SCORE 89

JUDGES: Pat Ford 90 | Boris Gabay 88

1/200 F/11 42 mm ISO 100 

GROUP A - SCORE 82

JUDGES: Pat Ford 80 | Boris Gabay 84

Outdoors, 8am

 GROUP B - SCORE 84.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 82 | Boris Gabay 87

GROUP A - SCORE 86.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 88 | Boris Gabay 85

1/400 sec f/11 ISO 200 451mm

GROUP A - SCORE 88.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 90 | Boris Gabay 87

Picture taken in San Francisco on my last trip. Very early in the morning. Impressive building .
NIKON D750 F/8
1/80 sc.
ISO 100
Focal Length 24 mm

 GROUP B - SCORE 86.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 86 | Boris Gabay 87

 GROUP B - SCORE 86

JUDGES: Pat Ford 82 | Boris Gabay 90

GROUP A - SCORE 89.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 92 | Boris Gabay 87

One image, taken in NYC.

GROUP B - SCORE 84.5

JUDGES: Pat Ford 81 | Boris Gabay 88

This photo is very personal to me since it is of a statue of my great-great grandfather that was placed at the place where he was born. I wanted to make it as dramatic as I could, so I took it from below and purposedly as a silhouette. The clouds have not been altered and look like a white flame in the sky.

Shot on Nikon Z7 | f/11 | 1/60 sec | ISO 100 | 21mm 

GROUP B - SCORE 85

JUDGES: Pat Ford 85 | Boris Gabay 85