November 9 monthly meeting

The Shutterbugs will meet at their regularly scheduled time at 6:30 on November 9 at TUAC in Thomaston. Doug Peck will present the program. Reminder, we do not have a meeting scheduled for December, so enjoy the time with your families!

2010 North Georgia Shootout Report

Five members of the West Central Georgia Shutterbugs participated in the 2010 North Georgia Shootout, held on Saturday, October 23rd, at Berry College in Rome, GA. Since the five Shutterbugs (Bonny Shockley, Dianne Kelly, Francis Hauke, Johnnie Ann Gaskill and Linda Godwin) are also members of Georgia Nature Photographers Association (GNPA), they opted to participate on the GNPA team, along with 16 other GNPA members. The weather cooperated and they all had a beautiful day for photographing on the very picturesque 30,000-acre campus. Eleven other photography clubs participated in the shootout.

Before 8 a.m. that morning, five random topics were chosen: Up Close (Nature); Geometry (Square & Rectangles); Still Water; Man Made (What's the Point?) and Silhouettes. Once the topics were announced, each of the 12 photography clubs divided its participants into teams and gave each of them one topic to photograph. Then the 250+ photographers grabbed their cameras and other equipment and headed off in search of images that would fit their assignment. In less than six hours, they had to take their photographs, select their 10 personal best images, meet with other members of their team to choose the 10 images the team would submit to the judges, edit those images, copy them to a flash drive, and deliver it to the judges no later than the 2 p.m. deadline. That was lots of pressure, but lots of fun, too!

Each club could enter 50 images (10 per topic) in the final competition. Out of the 600 images submitted for final judging, five GNPA images placed in the Top 10. Three of those five were taken by Shutterbugs: Linda Godwin (4th Place in Up Close Nature), Bonny Shockley (4th Place in Silhouettes), and Johnnie Gaskill (6th Place in Man-Made; What's the Point?).

Congratulations!! Although, as a club, GNPA didn't bring home any medals or win First, Second or Third Place, some members walked away with great door prizes. They are looking forward to the 2011 shootout and will, in the meantime, encourage other photographers to participate.

Photos by Johnnie Ann Gaskill

Congratulations!

United Bank is preparing the 2011 calendar which should be available probably in November. Four WCG Shutterbugs will have photos featured in the new calendar! They are Alicia Pastiran, Bonny Shockley, Dianne Kelly and Melba Brown.



Carol Peck, Marcia Fisher, Bridget Bolcik and Dianne Kelly visited the Georgia National Fair today along with other friends. 15 pictures by Shutterbugs were noted as having won ribbons.

Advanced Action - 3rd - Marcia Fisher - You Had Better Duck
Advanced Creative - 5th - Alicia Pastiran - Bull Riders Dream
Advanced I Spy - Green - 3rd - Melba Brown - Tree Frog
Advanced Scenic - 6th - Alicia Pastiran - Lake Macdonald
Advanced Street Scenes - 4th - Marcia Fisher - Ritz Theatre, Thomaston

Beginner Action - 5th - Lora Watson - Splash Time
Beginner Action - 6th - Linda Godwin - Territorial Dispute
Beginner Animals - 6th - Linda Godwin - The Kiss
Beginner Creative - 1st - Lora Watson - Make My Brown Eyes Blue
Beginner I Spy - Green - 5th - Dianne Kelly - What's Up
Beginner Plant Life - 2nd - Lora Watson
Beginner Scenic - 1st - Lora Watson - On Mystic Lake
Beginner Scenic - 6th - Linda Godwin - Geometrics at Sunset
Beginner Still Life - 4th - Gordon Brown - Bike in Bienza
Beginner Street Scenes - 2nd - Dianne Kelly - Leaded Rust


Please, if I missed anyone, let me know and I will update this post! Congratulations everyone on a job well done!

Congratulations

Images by three Shutterbugs (Linda Best, Malgorzata Florkowska, and Ellen Tew) were among the 78 photos that were selected for the 2010 SlowExposures Show. The jurors selected these from among 668 photos that were submitted.

Lora Watson received a second place ribbon and $100 in cash for one of her entries into a contest sponsored by the Paulding County Camera Club. This was Lora's first time to enter a contest!!!

One of Johnnie Ann Gaskill's photos of the Upson County Courthouse was featured on the 2010 Taste of Thomaston tee-shirts. The same photo was also used on small banners that were placed around the square during May.

Ellen Tew's photo at Ten Mile Creek was featured on the cover of 2010 Discovering Upson County, put out by the Thomaston-Upson County Chamber of Commerce and The Upson Beacon. This supplement features Thomaston, Yatesville and The Rock.

Dianne Kelly had a photo in the New York Times in May when she responded to a call for photos taken around the world at A Moment in Time. Photos were to be taken at exactly 1500 UTC and quite a variety of subjects is depicted in these photos. The link to her photo: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/03/blogs/a-moment-in-time.html/#/4bdec02cb93af13e4c0001d7

Better Photo Finalists - August 2010

Anna Mary Ellerbee, Jimmy Day and Johnnie Ann Gaskill had at least one image chosen as a Finalist on http://www.betterphoto.com/ during the month of August. According to a congratulations letter received from Better Photo, over 19,100 photos were entered into the monthly competition, and out of those judges chose 1,822 as Finalist. (From that group, Winners are chosen each month). For more information about the contest that Better Photo members can participate in (for free), please click here: http://www.betterphoto.com/contest.asp.
That page also has a link that leads to information about how to join Better Photo.