It never ceases to amaze one as to how many people are attracted by an event promising gormet food at its core. We had our largest turnout ever and were still able to comfortably seat and apportion all the delicious food.
The evening commenced with two slideshows which
included images submitted by 32
members. Our outing show was the Firelight Lantern Festival, coupled with some images from Pumpkinferno at Upper Canada Village. These venues were great tests of high ISO, hand-held, night photography. The month's theme
slideshow was entitled Abstract, which forced some people
far out of their normal comfort zone. In addition, we rapidly realized
that we do have a number of really "warped" individuals in our midst! Both slideshow image sets have
been posted to our Facebook page.
The
food tables were absolutely incredible. The variety of superb entrees
and delicious (low-cal???) deserts was endless. Needless to say, no-one
left the premises hungry.
In hour two, David Gilbert and I took to the stage, to recognize and reward some tremendous imagery from our members. After reviewing in excess of 3400 images submitted over the course of the past 12 months, the very best were assigned to 19 separate categories, eventually ending up with four contenders for each award category - not all that original (Oscars anyone?) but very effective just the same! In addition, the club recognized the 2016 Photographer of The Year - a most deserving award for our overall winner - Mr. Dave Tugwood.
The categories and the winners are:
In hour two, David Gilbert and I took to the stage, to recognize and reward some tremendous imagery from our members. After reviewing in excess of 3400 images submitted over the course of the past 12 months, the very best were assigned to 19 separate categories, eventually ending up with four contenders for each award category - not all that original (Oscars anyone?) but very effective just the same! In addition, the club recognized the 2016 Photographer of The Year - a most deserving award for our overall winner - Mr. Dave Tugwood.
The categories and the winners are:
Award
|
Winner
|
Image
Title
|
Use of Colour
|
Leonard Buffett
 |
You Can't See Me
|
Exotic Locale
|
Mags Khandis
 |
Living on the Edge
|
Floral
|
Robert Logan
 |
Delicate
|
Monochrome
|
Bert Jenkins
 |
Arctic Isolation
|
Capturing People
|
Inge Radden
 |
Tyendinega Warrior
|
Mastery of Light
|
Myra Pritchett
 |
O'Hara Cabin Light
|
Winged Creature
|
Ian Dickenson
 |
Parula
|
Architecture
|
Larry Tayler
 |
City Hall
|
| Funniest Image |
Gail Hamilton
 |
Will I Ever Outlive This?
|
Nightscape
|
Dave Tugwood
 |
Another Night at Point Petre
|
Display of Motion
|
Mike Gaudaur
 |
Tree Shake
|
Abstract
|
Dave Tugwood
 |
Neon Sticks
|
Slideshow
of the Year
|
Doug Smith
 |
China & S.E. Asia
|
Limbed Creature
|
Jan
Swenson
 |
Wild Horses
|
Master Manipulator
|
Margaret Liddon
 |
Lost in the Forest
|
Street Photography
|
Janice Ruggles-Bolton
 |
Pirate on the Loose
|
Local Landscape
|
Glen Dobson
 |
Point Petre Sunset
|
At Close Range
|
Alan
Jenner
 |
Follow the Leader
|
Composition
|
Marilyn Sprissler
 |
Pacific Pier
|
2016 Photographer of the Year |
Dave Tugwood |
Congratulations to all our 2016 CFC Award winners. The full Awards Presentation is now available for viewing on our Youtube channel.
Our next meeting will be on January 8th and our theme challenge for December is entitled Member's Choice. Our January theme challenge is Winter Ways - Laneways, Roadways, Railways, Pathways, ... – do have fun with this one.
Thanks to everyone who came out to our annual Gala event and a very special thanks to Margaret and her helpers who created a great festive atmosphere for our special night.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays
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