2024 SMCC Competition Awarded Images

Photographs displayed here are among the award-winners. Only winning images submitted for posting on this web site are shown. Other printed winning images may be seen each month in the Santa Maria, CA Public Library.

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April 2024

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Judged By: Libby Shipley

 

Monochrome 2nd Place
Window Shopping Patterns
Cheryl Decker

Monochrome 1st Place
Sea Swing
Penni Powell

Color 2nd Place
Living the Air Show Life
Janine Bognuda

Monochrome 3rd Place
The Trumpeter
Heidi Gruetzmacher

Monochrome Honorable Mention
Arriving at Yosemite
Flavio Parigi

Color 1st Place
Sierra Newt
Gregory N Doudna

Color 3rd Place
Folded Coast
Gregory N Doudna

Color Honorable Mention
Sunset Bandon Beach
Ron Calvert

Color Honorable Mention
Bee and Thistle
Cheryl Decker

 

 

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March 2403

Theme - Patterns in Nature

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Judged By: Roman Valenzuela (ro.valenzuela33@gmail.com)

 

Color 1st Place
Rippled Sands
Elaine Calvert

Color 2nd Place
Life on the Lotus
Jeanne Sparks

Color 3rd Place
Sand Dune Light and Shadow
Ed E. Powell

Color Honorable Mention
Badlands Formation
Ron Calvert

Color Honorable Mention
The Skies Have It
Jeanne Sparks

Monochrome 1st Place
Sand Pillows
Elaine Calvert

Monochrome 2nd Place
Mud Bob No Pants
Ron Calvert

Monochrome 3rd Place
Morning #11
Jim McKinniss

 

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February 2024

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Judged By: Theresa Gingras www.theresagingras.com

 

Color 1st Place
Arial Surfing
Harold Litwiler

Color 2nd Place
Here's Looking at You Kid
Penni Powell

Color 3rd Place
Walking Into the Sunset
Harold Litwiler

Color Honorable Mention
Joanie Loves Chachi
Jeanne Sparks

Color Honorable Mention
Perfect Petulance
Heidi Gruetzemacher

Monochrome 1st Place
Bedside Table
Elaine Calvert

Monochrome 2nd Place
Storm Over Badwater Basin
Ron Calvert

Monochrome 3rd Place
Lake at Jasper Lodge
Gregory N Doudna

Monochrome Honorable Mention
Venetian Angel #1
Jim McKinniss

 

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January 2024

2022 Special Topic

Triptych

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Judged By: Len Woods (notjake58@gmail.com)

1st Place
Picnic
Penni Powell

2nd Place
Bunker Abstracts
Elaine Calvert

3rd Place
Dawn Patrol
Kevin Miller

Honorable Mention
Finding Shelter in the Rain
Harold Litwiler

Honorable Mention
Forest Spirits
Gregory Doudna

 

 

January 2024

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Judged By: Dan Holmes (danholmesphoto.com)

Color 1st Place
Savage Seas
Gregory N Doudna

Color 2nd Place
Evening at the Midway
Elaine Calvert

Color 3rd Place
Coolness Personified
Jeanne Sparks

Color Honorable Mention
A Patch of Sun at Hornbeck Homestead
Ed E. Powell

Monochrome 1st Place
Mallory
Jim McKinniss

Monochrome 2nd Place
Graceful Beauty
Jeanne Sparks

Monochrome 3rd Place
Man from Bhutan
Jim McKinniss

Color Honorable Mention
Lobster Village
Harold Litwiler