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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August 2024

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Judged By: Christopher Broughton

 

Color 1st Place
Up at Sunrise
Jeanne Sparks

Color 2nd Place
Ribbon Trail Pond
Chuck Uebele

Color 3rd Place
Enchanted Forest Canopy
Cheryl Decker

Color Honorable Mention
Spring Has Sprung
Jeanne Sparks

Color Honorable Mention
Lone Tourist
Elaine Calvert

Monochrome 1st Place
Three Lilies
Jim McKinniss

Monochrome 2nd Place
Making Sense of Northern Exposure
Ed E. Powell

Monochrome 3rd Place
Metro Center #3
Jim McKinniss

Monochrome Honorable Mention
Tulips on the Clouds
Jim McKinniss

July 2024

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Judged By: Jeremy Bishop www.chrisburkard.com

Color 1st Place
Riders at Swing Arm City
Ron Calvert

Color 2nd Place
Running Free
Ron Calvert

Color 3rd Place
It's a Wild Ride
Elaine Calvert

Color Honorable Mention
Pink Wall
Chuck Uebele

Color Honorable Mention
The Lone Photographer
Elaine Calvert

Monochrome 1st Place
An Icon of Route 66
Ed E. Powell

Monochrome 2nd Place
Two Surfers nWith Boards on Their Heads
Jim McKinniss

Monochrome 3rd Place
Man in Tri-Color Hat #1
Jim McKinniss

Monochrome Honorable Mention
Exhausted
Cheryl Decker

 

 

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June 2024

Theme - Abstraction

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Judged By: Alla Arutcheva

 

Monochrome 2nd Place
Magic Mushroom Dream
Jim McKinniss

Monochrome 1st Place
Speed Across the Water
Jim McKinniss

Color 2nd Place
Shadow Play
Ron Calvert

Monochrome 3rd Place
Pipe Dream
Jim McKinniss

Color Honorable Mention
A Walk Into A Dream
Harold Litwiler

Color 1st Place
Terraces
Ed E. Powell

Color 3rd Place
Invasion
Janine Bognuda

Color Honorable Mention
The Phoenix
Frank Tromp

 

 

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May 2024

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Judged By: Koren Enzler Email: Korenwarren@mindspring.com

 

Monochrome 1st Place
Two Chairs
Ron Calvert

Monochrome 2nd Place
Canoes on a Deck
Penni Powell

Monochrome 3rd Place
Ocean Layers
Janine Bognuda

Color 1st Place
Perserverance
Ed E. Powell

Monochrome Honorable Mention
Morning at Brent's Fort
Ed E. Powell

Color Honorable Mention
Imagine Dragon
Janine Bagnuda

Color 2nd Place
The Eye of the Swallow
Frank Tromp

Color 3rd Place
Inside a Hot Air Balloon
Penni Powell

Color Honorable Mention
Resting Rattler #2
Penni Powell

 

 

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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

 

 

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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

 

 

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