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.

WCG Shutterbugs Elect New Officers

During their annual business meeting, held on August 10th, members of the West Central Georgia Shutterbugs elected officers to serve during their upcoming year. They were (left to right): Dianne Kelly (Publicity), Linda Godwin (Activities Coordinator, who will share that position with Margie Lentini, who was not present for the photo), Anna Mary Ellerbee (Corresponding Secretary), Yvette Tolson (Recording Secretary), Bonny Shockley (Treasurer) and Francis Hauk (President). King Davis was re-elected to a second term as Vice-President but was unable to attend the meeting. The officers will stay quite busy since the Shutterbugs (currently 60 of them) are a very active group. For example, many are planning to enter the annual photography competition at the Georgia National Fair, as well as submitting images for their month-long annual exhibit at the Thomaston-Upson Arts Council (TUAC) Gallery and Gift Shop, where the meetings are held on the second Tuesday in each month, beginning at 6:30 p.m. In lieu of the regular meeting on Sept. 14th, a reception will be held at the Gallery from 6-8 p.m. The public is cordially invited to meet the photographers and view their images. Photo by Shutterbugs member, Sherry Kunde.

The WCG Shutterbugs Visit the GNPA

Five Shutterbugs attended the August 19, 2010, meeting of the Georgia Nature Photographers' Association (held in Marietta) and greatly enjoyed the program presented by guest speaker Adam Jones and were thrilled to get to speak with him after his presentation. Shown in the photo are Francis Hauke, Margie Lentini, Adam Jones, Johnnie Ann Gaskill, Marcia Fisher, and Linda Godwin. Photo by Todd Sparger, Vice-President of GNPA.

Adam is an international travel, nature, and wildlife photographer who conducts tours and workshops around the world. To see samples of his beautiful images and to learn more about the training opportunities he offers, please visit his website: http://adamjonesphoto.com/

He is also one of Canon's "Explorers of Light," a group of the world's leading professional photographers selected to provide insight,inspiration and education to future generations of creative photographers. This prestigious panel of 60 or more Canon photographers delivers seminars, workshops, gallery showings and photo presentations at a variety of professional association and amateur photo groups and colleges across the country as a means of fostering imaging excellence and nurturing the increasingly digital art's next wave. Members represent specialties and styles that span the gamut of photographic expression within the imaging profession. To view a list of members and samples of their work, visit
http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=ArtistsListAct