Foto Fanfare February 2014 - Special Annual

Congratulations to all the Photographers who entered their amazing photographs into the 2013 N4C Annual Competition –
All of your images were winners!
Double Congratulations to all the Winners of both Print and Projected Images of the 2013 N4C Annual Competition Your photographs were a step beyond!
N4C Print Categories:
Many Thanks to
Color, Monochrome, Creative, Journalism,
Gene Morita & Joan Field – Print Chairs
Nature, Sequence, & Travel
Gene Albright – Projected Images Chair
N4C Projected Images Categories:
Joe Hearst – Judge’s Chair
Pictorial, Creative, Journalism, Monochrome,
The Judges – Alison Brooks, Wayne Miller, Bob Ginn,
Roger Johnson, Jim Cunningham, Ian Bornarth, Tom
Frazier, and Sam Shaw,
Nature, & Travel
To view all of the Winners, go to the N4C web site at
http://n4c.photoclubservices.com/Competitions/Com
petitionResults.aspx
You don’t need to log in, just click on the Category to
view the images.
Helen Sweet who organized the Luncheon, and the many
other Volunteers who helped to make this all happen.
Thanks to you it all works and comes together as a
wonderful day of Photographs, Friends, Lunch, and Fun!
February 2013
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Prints Annual 2013
Color Prints
Color Prints, Basic Level (36 Prints)
1 Abbotts Lagoon, Point Reyes National Seashore
Susan Mayne Marin
2 Ceci's Window
Susan Mayne Marin
3 Clear Eyed Aviator Invoking the Magical Umbrella Power of Mary
Poppins . . . Up, Up, and Away
Bill Dissly Livermore
4 Officer Quarters Angel Island
Bill Hewitt Marin
5 Selling Marilyn, Gate 5 Flea Market, Sausalito, California
Gary Topper Marin
H Butterfly and Sunflowers
Ceasar Ricasata
Livermore
H House in Trees
John Jenkins Marin
H Lolita
Dennis Chik Millbrae
H Looking through an open doorway
Chris Johnson Livermore
H Runner in Shafts of Sunlight
Debra Etienne Millbrae
Color Prints, Intermediate Level (61 Prints)
1B Embarcadero Classic
2 Birch Trees in Morning Light
3 Taco Joe's
4 Into the woods
5 The Blue Mosque, Istanbul
H Balloon Fleet Over Cappadocia, Turkey
H Longing thee
H Marin Civic Center
H Salt and Pepper
H Sweet Home Havana
Doug Kaye Marin
Ginny Meyer Marin
Phil Shaw
Marin
Eric Chan
Millbrae
Doug Kaye
Marin
Doug Kaye Marin
Eric Chan
Millbrae
Doug Kaye
Marin
Rick Budde Marin
Doug Kaye
Marin
Color Prints, Advanced Level (63 Prints)
1 Soar - to glide high in the air
Frances Goldstein
Livermore
2 Carrots for Sale
Marti Cagwin Marin
3 Cala lily
Bill Rauch
Rossmoor
4 Reflection
Jan Schmidt Millbrae
5 Burmese monk running in the courtyard of a temple
Maureen McGettigan Marin
H Beach South of Garrapata
Ojars Kratins
Contra Costa
H i ROCK
Gigi Chung
Millbrae
H San Francisco Twilight
H Summer Garden
H Waiting in the Serengeti
Dave Michaud Livermore
Lucy Beck Contra Costa
Catherine D'Alessio Marin
Color Prints, Masters Level (64 Prints)
1 Panorama of the Bamboo Forrest in the Ryonji Temple, Kyoto,
Japan
Gene Morita Marin
2 Samantha Nikole
John Goyer Livermore
3 Cattails in the Fog
Barbara Mallon Livermore
4 Frank O. Gehry Looked To Music For His Inspiration When
Designing The Emp Museum (Formerly Known As Experience
Music Project )
Selden Parmelee Rossmoor
5 Compose and Wait
Joe Hearst Contra Costa
H Candace at Elliot's
John Goyer Livermore
H Footpath, Koto-in
Joe Hearst Contra Costa
H Morning Light in the Bamboo Grove at Arashimaya, Kyoto,JP
Gene Morita Marin
H Passengers in space
Rosemary Greenberg Marin
H Portrait of Mr. Smash
Ed Mestre
Livermore
Monochrome Prints
Monochrome Prints, Basic Level (38 Prints)
1 Sylvia, a WWII War Bride from Liverpool, turns 95
Susan Mayne Marin
2 SF MOMA is Closing
Doug Kaye
Marin
3 Stairway to Heaven, Cathedrale Notre-Dame, Rouen France
Bill Hewitt
Marin
4 A Glimpse of the Louvre Pyramid
Susan Mayne Marin
5 No Leaves Left
Pamela Marcelino
Millbrae
H Early Morning Commute
Phil Shaw
Marin
H Hands of a cameo carver, a small jewelery shop in Capri
Dennis Tungate
Livermore
H Racing to the finish - Barrel Racer at the Russian River Rodeo
Keith Cockerham
Marin
H Smoke
Ken Lezin
Rossmoor
H The "Abaniko" refers to the native fan from the Philippines, which is
made from stems and leaves of an ornamental plant.
Ceasar Ricasata
Livermore
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Monochrome Prints, Intermediate Level (53 Prints)
1 Strings of Pearls
Al Ludwick
Livermore
2 Remains of the Day
Ron Rothbart
Berkeley
3 Air Plant
Helen Sweet
Contra Costa
4 The Lines of Louis Kahn
Stephen Busch Contra Costa
5 Mussel Rock
Ron Rothbart
Berkeley
H Bodega Head after Sunset
Harvey Abernathey Marin
H Grazing under the Big Sky
Raymond Suen
Peninsula
H Stanley the Sculptor. Martinez
Gene Molander
Contra Costa
H Symbols of the Jewish New Year Helen Sweet
Contra Costa
H The boys lay a calf down at the branding Susan Gerber Livermore
Monochrome Prints, Advanced Level (70 Prints)
1B Different Strokes
Jan Schmidt
Millbrae
2 The Noe Mask and the Mask Maker, Kyoto, JP Gene Morita Marin
3 PAST AND PRESENT
Jack Zins
Rossmoor
4 Window of Opportunity
Jan Schmidt Millbrae
5 California Street At Night
Roger Lee
Millbrae
H Apprentice Monk Runs in the Pillared entrance gate to the
Monastery, Bagan, Myanmar
Gene Morita Marin
H A Whimsical Costume for the Masked Ball
Bilha Sperling Contra Costa
H Mandy in Monochrome
Ed Mestre
Livermore
H Roller Coaster
Gene Dominique
Berkeley
H Sixpack
Jan Schmidt
Millbrae
Monochrome Prints, Masters Level (63 Prints)
1 Blacksmith
Clarence Luckett
Livermore
2 Death Valley Dunes
Leslie Crandell
Contra Costa
3 Hanging Around
John Goyer
Livermore
4 Keira
John Goyer
Livermore
5 A Moment of Laughter in the Metro
Cindy Sowa Millbrae
H Hraunfossar, or Lava Falls, Iceland
Justine Carson Millbrae
H Lily
Mohamad Vajed
Livermore
H Portrait of a mahout, Assam, India Justine Carson
Millbrae
H Resting Between Bouts
Joan Field
Contra Costa
H Swinging in the Sun
Laura Morita-Yeun
Livermore
Nature Prints
Nature Prints, Basic Level (21 Prints)
1B A female African elephant (Loxodonta africana) with offspring
from two different years drink and cool themselves at a
borehole in Botswana at sundown. Susan Gerber Livermore
2 Coyote (Canis latrans) at the North End of Point Reyes Making Sure
We Kept Our Distance
Susie Kelly
Marin
3 Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) eating, Homer , Alaska
Jon D'Alessio Marin
4 A Clark's Grebe (Aechmophorus clarkii) surfaces in San Francisco
Bay after a successful dive, having just captured a Longjaw
Mudsucker (Gillichthys mirabilis).
Sean Clinning Livermore
5 A Great Egret (Ardea alba ) Resting in a tree at the Sacramento
National Wildlife Refuge Complex Clarence Luckett
Livermore
H Adelie Penguin Adult feeding Chick in Antarctica
Paul Pokrywka Millbrae
H When mating, the female Giant Tortoise's strong shell protects her
from the immense weight of the male.
Jim Moule
Berkeley
Nature Prints, Advanced Level (23 Prints)
1 Damselfly (Zygotera) with its catch becomes the catch of a white
crab spider (Thomisidea), an ambush predator.
Anne Kohutanycz Diablo Valley
2 Western grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) chick is warm and dry
on parent's back
Justine Carson
Millbrae
3 Snowy Egrets in fierce battle over territory. (Egretta thula)
Steve Goodall
Rossmoor
4 Olive-throated Parakeet (Aratinga nana) Eating Fruit From The
Madre de Cacao Tree, Belize
Bob Cossins
Millbrae
5 One Springbok{Antidorcas marsupialis) drinks at a waterhole while
the other looks for danger, Namibia, AF Gene Morita Marin
H Jungle mynas (Acridotheres fuscus) searching for insects on a
submerged India buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) Justine Carson Millbrae
H This Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) drinks from a pond in
Hungary.
Catherine D'Alessio Marin
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Creative Prints
Journalism Prints
Creative Prints, Basic Level (21 Prints)
1 Decim8 Girl
Susan Mayne
2 Marbella Spain and Mediterrian Sea
Ed Cassidy
3 Apple Tree in the Fog
Bill Hewitt
4 They Went Thataway
Ron Rothbart
5 Reflection In A Tea Cup
Susie Kelly
H Framed
Phil Shaw
Journalism Prints, Basic Level (17 Prints)
Marin
Livermore
Marin
Berkeley
Marin
Marin
Creative Prints, Advanced Level (23 Prints)
1 My World
Clarence Luckett
Livermore
2 Fast Track the Ripening Process Bob Cossins
Millbrae
3 Never Fear! Superboy is Here!
Laura Morita-Yeun
Livermore
4 Fire Dancers
Jane Postiglione Contra Costa
5 Electric Bubble
Marti Cagwin
Marin
H Dual receding mirrors on purple and beige walls
Alan Moore
Diablo Valley
Travel Prints
Travel Prints, Basic Level (18 Prints)
1 Looking down on Chicago
Dick Schneider Millbrae
2 The first iron bridge was built in 1779, it was across the river Severn
in England
Susie Kelly
Marin
3 Manhattan Skyline from Brooklyn
Stephen Busch Contra Costa
4 Visit Yosemite National Park in February to see the Firefall at
Horsetail Falls
Ginny Meyer
Marin
5 Village Girl, Ollantaytambo, Peru Ken Lezin Rossmoor
H The Marina di Portofino, Italy
Helen Sweet
Contra Costa
Travel Prints, Advanced Level (24 Prints)
1 A Tailor in the marketplace in India
Bilha Sperling Contra Costa
2 SuperTrees in the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Jeff Barton
Millbrae
3 Road to Monument Valley
Bob Cossins
Millbrae
4 Street in Sultanahmet, Istanbul
Joe Hearst
Contra Costa
5 On the steps of a street in old Jerusalem
Bilha Sperling Contra Costa
H Visiting the Hassan II Mosque, Morocco Betty Prange Diablo Valley
1 Tordado on the Wyoming Plains near Chugwater Wyoming
Paul Pokrywka Millbrae
2 Purchasing Fresh produce every Tuesday at the Novato Farmers
Market
Russell Flaum Marin
3 And the Winner is Riderless
Susan Gerber Livermore
4 Boy Enjoys Sledding (But he should be wearing protective
Headgear!)
David Evans Millbrae
5 Young street musician performs in San Francisco
Raymond Suen
Peninsula
H Puppy Sampling a Drink at the Sacramento Quarter Horse Show
Polly Krauter Livermore
Journalism Prints, Advanced Level (23 Prints)
1 Starting the Ride-Mutton Busting at the Fair
Jane Postiglione Contra Costa
2 Mother and son enjoy the Halloween Monster Dash on a sunny
morning in Ashland, Oregon
Rosemary Greenberg
Marin
3 America's Cup - The Finish Line Don Townsend
Marin
4 Catching Some Air At Venice Beach Skate Park
Jane Postiglione Contra Costa
5 A Bronc rider going for his 8 second ride - Russian River Rodeo
Keith Cockerham
Marin
H Athelic's Pitcher Winds Up
Jane Postiglione Contra Costa
H 'Burning rubber' at the winner's circle to the delight of the fans at the
Sonoma raceway after a win.
Euclides Viegas
Diablo Valley
Sequence Prints
Sequence Prints, Advanced Level (7 Prints)
1 Armadillidium vulgare, Common Pill-bug Bill Stone Contra Costa
2 A Yellow -Orange Hybrid Rose Opens
Cindy Sowa Millbrae
3 Silk Moth Caterpillar Forming cocoon
Bill Stone Contra Costa
H Glass Blower Steve Smywes Creates a Vase in his Benecia Studio
Rodney Sweet Contra Costa
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Projected Images Annual 2013
Pictorial Images
Pictorial B: 66 Images
1 Milky Way Rising Above Alpine Lake
Dan Murray Santa Rosa
2 Perspectiva
Nes Atayde Contra Costa
3 Sky Dancing
Eric Brown
Berkeley
4 Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica
Zohra Kalinkowitz Berkeley
5 SF Bay Bridge at Night
Duc Pham
Livermore
HM Bowl and Dress
John Jenkins Marin
HM A Summer Evening's Glow
Janet Reinstra
Contra Costa
HM Humpback whale breach Maui, Hawaii. Second frame in series of
breach on an overcast, rainy day in Maui.
Dennis Tungate
Livermore
HM Stairway
Heidy Hernandez-Heins
Millbrae
HM Perigrine Falcon in a Mist
Austin Brewin Berkeley
Pictorial I: 66 Images
1 Tolay Ranch Old Oak
Harvey Abernathey Marin
2 Shell Beach Stormy Sunset
Michael Kawano Alameda
3 Sandfin
Ojars Kratins Contra Costa
4 Splash
Linda Clinning
Livermore
5 Laundry, Havana, Cuba
Rodney Sweet Contra Costa
HM Towering rocks at Zhangjaje National Park, China
Raymond Suen
Peninsula
HM Dual Perseid Meteors within Milky Way at Bristlecone Pine forest.
Harvey Abernathey Marin
HM Morning Rainbow Through Mobius Arch
Rodney Sweet Contra Costa
HM Butterfly and Flower
Paul Pokrywka
Millbrae
HM Slow motion wave on Kauai
Kathy Barnhart
Berkeley
Pictorial A: 66 Images
1 Mystical Lotus
Sherry Grivett
Contra Costa
2 Female Allusion
Sherry Grivett
Contra Costa
3 Starfish
Elizabeth Saucier
Berkeley
4 Sunrise at Fly Geyser
Bob Johnson
Contra Costa
5 Dawn Erupts over Mount Fitzroy and Cerro Torre
Bob Johnson
Contra Costa
HM Shooting Star, Aurora Borealis and the Canadian Night Sky
Carol Zychowski
Marin
HM Bristlecone Pine
HM Sunrise Solitude in Cape Cod
HM A Stormy day
HM Laid Back
Barry Hart
Contra Costa
Bob Johnson
Contra Costa
Clarence Luckett Livermore
Greg Edwards
Millbrae
Pictorial M: 66 Images
1B Polka dotted Leg's
Gail Pierce
Marin
2 Natural Bridges State Park
Leslie Crandell
Contra Costa
3 Floating Iceberg in Antarctica
Celie Placzek
Berkeley
4 Last Light on the Cala Lilies
Leslie Crandell
Contra Costa
5 Xia Pu 2
Jenny Gu
Peninsula
HM Moonlit Lighthouse
Kirsten Klagenberg Peninsula
HM San Francisco Skyline at Night from Potrero Hill
Martin Taylor
Marin
HM Friday Afternoon in the City of Black Rock
John Goyer
Livermore
HM Antarctica's Towering Icebergs Celie Placzek
Berkeley
HM Gone Fishing
Ron Rothbart
Berkeley
Nature Images
Nature B: 39 Images
1 [Seq] Flycatcher & wasp sequence
Allen Hirsch Alameda
2 Barn owl with vole at Merced NWR
Allen Hirsch Alameda
3 Heron hunting
Rafael Ramirez Alameda
4 Ladybugs (Coccinellidae) gather annually on fallen branches in
California's East Bay Strawberry Canyon. Gerry Brush Rossmoor
5 Bluebird feeding begging juvenile, San Pablo Park, Berkeley
Allen Hirsch
Alameda
HM Butterflies - Mating Pieris rapae - Alameda, Ca. U.S.A.
Rafael Ramirez
Alameda
HM Two Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla Cedrorum) Eating Berries
Susie Kelly
Marin
HM Snowy Egret (Egretta Thula)
Cindy Costa
Livermore
HM Aerial Fight of Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
Terry Yamaguchi
Millbrae
HM Alaskan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) vying for a chum
salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) at the McNeil River Falls. As many as
1 of 3 fish caught are eaten by bears preying on the successful
fishers.
Austin Brewin
Berkeley
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Nature I: 39 Images
1 Two Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Getting Ready to Feast On Fish
Leslie Crandell Contra Costa
2 Two Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula) squable over a potential nesting
Site
Lee Aurich
Alameda
3 Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) positions a newly caught fish for
swallowing whole
Lee Aurich
Alameda
4 A waterbuck shares a tender moment with her lamb upon her
Return
Sean Clinning
Livermore
5 Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) intently digs in the coastal
Sand
Lee Aurich
Alameda
HM Young Egrets Demanding Food Leonard Stanton
Alameda
HM Nuttall's Woodpecker Feeding Chick (Picoides nuttallii)
Stephen Busch Contra Costa
HM Mother Osprey Pushes Her Offspring Out Of The Nest In An
Attempt to Force It To Fly-Pandion haliaetus
Leslie Crandell
Contra Costa
HM Two Fox Kits Practice Life Skills Richard Hume
Livermore
HM Mother and Cubs, Serengeti Tanzania, Africa
Ann Reichert
Livermore
Nature A: 37 Images
1 Great Blue Heron struggles with snake that it just captured, it
dunked in the water several time in the process.
Obie Gilkerson
Berkeley
2 Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) accelerates from turn using tail for
Balance
Jim Toalson
Millbrae
3 Cheetah with four feet off ground digs in during full sprint Acinonyx
Jubatus
Mary Toalson
Millbrae
4 Western Grebe parents share protectiion and feeding of young
Obie Gilkerson
Berkeley
5 Lioness cleans blood off a cub's face. Serengeti National Park,
Tanzania
Bob Sturm
Peninsula
HM Whale checking its location 'Spy Hopping'
Alan Moore
Diablo Valley
HM Nature - Grizzly (ursus horribilis) in Springtime
Betty Prange
Diablo Valley
HM A praying mantis catches a bee for lunch
Barry Hart
Contra Costa
HM Odorous house ants (Tapinoma sessile) Scavange Fallen Honey
Bee
David Evans
Millbrae
HM Great Blue Heron (ardea herodias) With Prey In Lily Pond,
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Steve Gumina
Berkeley
Nature M: 40 Images
1B-W One Bald Eagle(Haliaeetus leucocephalus) attacks another
to make the other drop its fish from its clawed grip, Over the
skies of Homer, AK
Gene Morita
Marin
2 [Seq] Parsons Chameleon Eats a Grasshopper
Diana Rebman
Berkeley
3 Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) come to bites and blows over
who gets to eat the salmon - Alagnak River, AK.
Christine Hansen
Marin
4 Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Feeding on Salmon,
Haines, Alaska
Wendy Hannum
Marin
5 Mating Dance Of Rattlesnakes(Crotalus cerastes)
Boris Dmitruk
Contra Costa
HM Bald Eagle With Fish In Beak (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Jane Allen
Marin
HM Great Blue Heron male brings branch to female at the beginning
of their greeting ceremony (Ardea herodias)
Christine Hansen
Marin
HM Praying Mantises (Sphodromantis viridis) hatching
Boris Dmitruk
Contra Costa
HM Western Gull with a Crab
Diana Rebman
Berkeley
HM Ring-tailed Lemur Females Share Child Rearing Responsibilities,
Berenty Reserve, Madagascar
Diana Rebman
Berkeley
Creative Images
Creative B: 35 Images
1 The Picture of Dorian Banana
2 Murder on the High Seas
3 Shadow Ride
4 Rhubarb Family
5 Alex's halo
HM Don't Pop My Bubble!!
HM Floral Spin
Barry Grivett
Contra Costa
Jeff Dunn
Alameda
John Leone
Livermore
Bill Dissly
Livermore
Rafael Ramirez
Alameda
Emily DeMartini
Peninsula
Emily DeMartini
Peninsula
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HM Lines of light -- Bay Bridge Span Emily DeMartini
HM Happy 4th!
Frank Masek
HM Triangles and rectangles
Daniel Wagner
Peninsula
Peninsula
Contra Costa
HM Timmy Struck Fear Into the Hearts of the Luftwaffe Pilots
Steve Napoli
Berkeley
HM A Painted Vision
Marilyn Brooner
Santa Rosa
Creative I: 36 Images
Travel Images
1B Death Rides A Pale Horse
Tim McKinney Contra Costa
2 Playing with fire
Kalynda Stone
Contra Costa
3 Burning Man City Midnight Aerial View Mike Luebke Contra Costa
4 Another helping hand is always welcome in the kitchen
Ken Houk
Peninsula
5 The Bridge to Nowhere
Susan Stanger
Livermore
HM Immersed in the music
Matthew Rampton
Alameda
HM Goddess of the Moon and Stars Glen Graves
Marin
HM Me and my Friends
Clarence Luckett
Livermore
HM Lunar Field
Richard Hume
Livermore
HM Ensemble of Daisies
Dick Weston
Santa Rosa
Creative A: 36 Images
1 Passing Through
Sallie Bernstein
Peninsula
2 San Francisco Shaker
Georges Pelpel
Contra Costa
3 Entering into the Depth of Nothingness
Bob Apte
Berkeley
4 Infinity in the beginning
Linda Brown
Alameda
5 Ree-Al-It-Tee
Phillip Hann
Santa Rosa
HM Arches, Repeating Pattern
Lynn Letteris
Rossmoor
HM Amaryllis
Martin Taylor
Marin
HM Masked in Venice
Rick Budde
Marin
HM Napa Grapecrusher - Double Exposure. Anand Rane Marin
HM Will Work for Food – Locke
Terry Connelly
Santa Rosa
Creative M: 34 Images
1 HighTide
2 Tree Melody
3 The Dressing Room
4 The end of the road
5 Painted Roses
HM Tapestry of Trees
HM Presidio Tree Impression #5
HM A Thousand Points of Light
Terry Ryder
Berkeley
Mary Macey Butler Marin
Gail Pierce
Marin
Jeff Fisher
Livermore
Marilyn Brooner
Santa Rosa
Mary Macey Butler Marin
Mary Macey Butler Marin
Stan Brandes
Berkeley
Travel B: 36 Images
1 Located in Death Valley National Park, Zabriskie Point is
composed of sediments from Furnance Creek Lake, which dried up
five million years ago. Sunrise at moonset.
Elizabeth Saucier
Berkeley
2 A foggy day along the Great Wall near Beijing, China
Bob Strachan
Millbrae
3 Sunday Bazaar, Kashgar, China Steve Ziman
Marin
4 Hubbard Glacier Calving (6 of 14) Adrian Hodgkinson Alameda
5 Snake charmer in Tangier, Morocco.
Lenny Rush Alameda
HM Bathing day for the while family in a small village in Bandhavgarh,
India
Wendy Hannum
Marin
HM Chinese Calligrapher on Huangshan Mountain, China
Wendy Hannum
Marin
HM A young Buddhist student selling blessing cords at his temple in
Bhutan.
Gary Topper
Marin
HM The Elaborate Hairdo of a Himba Village Woman and her Son,
Namibia
Chris Johnson
Livermore
HM Ruins of 10th century St Andrews Cathedral, St Andrews,
Scotland
Bob Strachan
Millbrae
Travel I: 36 Images
1B Market day, My Son, Vietnam Irena Miles
Diablo Valley
2 Little Tibetan girl praying next to prayer wheels at a monestary
Steve Ziman
Marin
3 Cappadocia at Night
Doug Kaye
Marin
4 Street pedicure, Saigon, Vietnam Irena Miles
Diablo Valley
5 Early Morning Along Canal in Burano Island of Venice
David Weintraub
Alameda
HM Dog are a large part of monks life; Temple (Wat) Phan Tao,
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Harvey Abernathey Marin
HM Venus of Rags, sculpture in Rome by Michelangelo Pistoletto
Phil Shaw
Marin
February 2013
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HM Crowded Dunbar Squar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Meng Horng
Contra Costa
HM Slave cabins are preserved at historic Boone Hall Plantation near
Charleston, SC
Barbara Grimes
Livermore
HM In Glacial Waters
Richard Goodman
Berkeley
Travel A: 36 Images
1 Tupperware Lady, Pisac Market Peru Sherry Neswick Millbrae
2 A MOMENT TO REST IN SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE MEXICO
Jack Zins
Rossmoor
3 One of the many in need asks for help, Varanasi, India
Bob Johnson
Contra Costa
4 Crater Lake, Oregon
Bill Stone
Contra Costa
5 Monks silently appear to be served their daily portion of rice in
Mandalay, Burma
Kirsten Berg
Berkeley
HM A Masai boy sits with elders playing Kahala - a Masai variation of
Mancala
Steve Disenhof
Marin
HM Wooden Pole Bridges Are Common in the Okavango Delta
(Botswana) And Are Used to Cross Narrow Waterways.
Susan Stanger
Livermore
HM At a Very Young Age Maasai Boys are Given the Daily
Responsibility of Herding the Livestock. Susan Stanger Livermore
HM Locals participating in alms giving ceremony in front of National
Stadium, Luang Prabang , Laos
Gigi Chung
Millbrae
HM Chicken Vendor, Hoi An, Vietnam
Kirsten Berg Berkeley
Travel M: 36 Images
1 Grand Teton National Park at Sunset Kirsten Klagenberg Peninsula
2 Malagasy Children Haul Water on a Wooden Cart Drawn by Zebu,
Madagascar 2012
Diana Rebman
Berkeley
3 Fisheman in Antalia yurkey mending fishing nets
Bilha Sperling
Contra Costa
4 Buying milk from a street vendor, Afghanistan Ginna Fleming Marin
5 Decked out in all it's Olympic glory, Tower Bridge, London, England
John Silva
Berkeley
HM At the Jameh Mosque, Yazd, Iran Ginna Fleming
Marin
HM Farmer's work is almost done, as the sun sets on the plains of
Bagan, Myanmar.
Joe Messina
Marin
HM Taureg Blue Man Telling His 1600 Year Old History, Erfoud,
Morocco
Pat Prettie
Contra Costa
HM A Mother and child in Bhutan
Bilha Sperling
Contra Costa
HM January in the mountain of Morocco
Ben Kong
Millbrae
Journalism Image
Journalism B: 41 Images
1 [Seq] Warren Hall Implosion
Ceasar Ricasata
Livermore
2 Snake Charmer in Jaipur, India
Linda Horng
Contra Costa
3 Sheep Shearing - Lambtown 2012 Kalynda Stone
Contra Costa
4 Thor Hushovd celebrates winning the pack sprint finish of the Tour
of California Stage 3 in Modesto, CA, February 17, 2009
Allen Hirsch
Alameda
5 [Seq] View of Surfers off Newport Beach Pier Allen Schuster Marin
HM Cal Berkley gain possesion of the line-out from Arizona State
during Rugby Match
Martin Taylor
Marin
HM Young elephants are bottle fed for 2 years (as often as every 3
hrs depending on age).
Catherine D'Alessio
Marin
HM Husband comforts wife following accident
Janet Reinstra
Contra Costa
HM Pre-season Rugby Match, St. Mary's versus The Olympic Club,
January 26, 2013
Polly Krauter
Livermore
HM Cucurucho. Catholics in Ecuador, during Holy Friday, show their
faith by penance, inflicting pain to themselves. Diego Pinto Berkeley
Journalism I: 45 Images
1 Arc Attack makes music with solid state Tesla coils at the San
Mateo Maker Faire.
Jill Watt
Peninsula
2 GHS's Top Swimmer Chasing His Dream Susan Stanger Livermore
3 The Dawn Patrol at the Reno Balloon Races
Irene Bergamini
Diablo Valley
4 A rough start for number 2 at the Alameda County Fair horse
races.
Susan Gerber
Livermore
5 [Seq] Oracle's
Wendy Hannum
Marin
HM Man demonstrates safe way to wrestle an aligator during show at
the Florida Everglades Holiday Park, January 2013
David Weintraub
Alameda
HM Granada Quickly Gets a Shot Off Against Rival Livermore High
School To Score 1st Goal of the Game Susan Stanger
Livermore
February 2013
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HM A Glass Blower Forms a Sea Turtle for Tourists in Costa Rica
Richard Hume
Livermore
HM [Seq] Warren Hall
Polly Krauter
Livermore
HM Feeding Deminstration at the Montery Bay Aquarium
Paul Pokrywka
Millbrae
HM Runner in Native Costume with Maraca in on Hand and Cellphone
in the other nears the halfway point of the LA Marathon, March 2013
Diana Rebman
Berkeley
Journalism A: 40 Images
Monochrome B: 12 Images
1 Forestry Tanker Fights a Brush Fire on the Moraga Hills
Bob Johnson
Contra Costa
2 Fearless Skateboarder at Top of Turn Barry Grivett Contra Costa
3 Bull teasing in southern France
Ben Kong
Millbrae
1B Lone rower..
Lenny Rush
Alameda
2 Ancient Echoes
Zohra Kalinkowitz
Berkeley
3 Stairs at the City Hall of San Francisco. Rafael Ramirez Alameda
4 Pigeon Point Lighthouse
Terry Yamaguchi
Millbrae
5 Reloj Ferrocarrilero.
Rafael Ramirez
Alameda
HM A Storm Develops at Arches
Frank Masek
Peninsula
HM Franciscan monk shot in Assisi, Italy 4-15-12.
Jim Hamano
Photochrome
4 Going Separate Ways
Rick Brandt
Peninsula
5 Mt. Diablo Fire, September 8. 2013 Rick Brandt
Peninsula
HM [Seq] Mt. Diablo Fire
Flo Hendry
Rossmoor
HM Wildfire
Betty Prange
Diablo Valley
HM Argentinians march in memory of the thousands who vanished
during martial law in the 1970's
Bob Johnson
Contra Costa
HM Public transportation in Myanmar
Ben Kong
Millbrae
HM Enthusiastic sharing of colors during Holi Festival 2013
Jeff Barton
Millbrae
Journalism M: 37 Images
1B Down goes Williams!!! Hernandez vs. Willams, longshorman's
Hall, San Francisco CA.
Sean McDonough
Rossmoor
2 [Seq] The Dangers of Bull Riding Joan Field
Contra Costa
3 [Seq] Rock Crawler Backs Down Course
Mike Luebke
Contra Costa
4 Amputees in the women's 5000 meters wheelchair race round the
final bend during the London Paralympics, September 2012.
Ann Baldwin
Berkeley
5 And the Warriors Win
Georges Pelpel Contra Costa
HM Bull charges towards fallen rider at Auburn Rodeo.
Anand Rane
Marin
HM Rock Crawling Competitor Misjudges the Course
Mike Luebke
Contra Costa
HM Hawaiian Wipeout
Sherry Grivett
Contra Costa
HM Hawaiian Surfer JJ Florence in Aerial Maneuver
Sherry Grivett
Contra Costa
Monochrome Images
Monochrome I: 12 Images
1 Smoke and Light show in Pleasanton courtesy of the Alameda
County Fair
Sean Clinning
Livermore
2 Entering The Fishing Grounds
David Grube
Contra Costa
3 Tired Traveler
Meng Horng
Contra Costa
4 Clouds frame the mountains surrounding Stephan's Passage,
Alaska
Frank DeMartini
Peninsula
5 Calm waters at a small pond off the Spray Trail, south of Canmore,
Canada
Anne Kohutanycz Diablo Valley
HM Sunbeam on Bridalveil Falls
Eileen Johnson
Contra Costa
HM Mr. Fussy
Debbie Lindemann Livermore
Monochrome A: 12 Images
1 Misty landscape
Betty Prange
2 Old Cowboy at Heather Farms Horse Ranch, CA.
Steve Goodall
3 Drop #1
Bill Stone
4 Rinzel
Marichu Pereira
5 First to Fall
Jim Toalson
HM Mendocino Fence
Bill Lamkin
HM Iris #14
Jay Levy
Diablo Valley
Rossmoor
Contra Costa
Livermore
Millbrae
Peninsula
Berkeley
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Monochrome M: 12 Images
1 Alabaster Beauty
Ed Mestre
2 Rushing Tide
Kathy Konesky
3 Moonrise Antarctica
Robert Strochak
4 Summertime and the Livin' is Easy Laura Morita-Yeun
5 The Cigar Smoker
John Klingel
HM Weathered Old Barn
Tim Christoffersen
HM The Hands of the Ikebana artist, Ohara, Japan
Gene Morita
Livermore
Rossmoor
Peninsula
Livermore
Marin
Rossmoor
Marin
To view all the beautiful photographs and all the other
winning photographs, go to the
N4C web site at
Best in
Show
First Place
Monochrome
Prints Advanced
Different
Strokes
Jan Schmidt
Millbrae
Camera Club
http://n4c.photoclubservices.com/Default.aspx
Don’t try to log on, just click on Competitions and then
Competition Results and enjoy!
B = Best in Show – Congratulations!!!
Best in Show
First Place
Color Prints Intermediate
Embarcadero
Classic
Doug Kaye
Marin Photo
Club
Best in Show - First Place
Nature Prints - Basic
A female African elephant (Loxodonta africana) with offspring from two
different years drink and cool themselves at a borehole in Botswana at
sundown.
Susan Gerber - Livermore Valley Camera Club
February 2013
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Best in Show
First Place
Creative Projected Images - Intermediate
Death Rides A Pale Horse
Tim McKinney
Contra Costa Camera Club
Best in Show
First Place
Journalism Projected Images - Masters
Down goes Williams!!!
Hernandez vs. Willams,
Longshorman's Hall,
San Francisco CA.
Sean McDonough
Rossmoor Camera Club
Best in Show
First Place
Monochrome
Projected Images
Basic
Lone rower..
Lenny Rush
Alameda
Photographic
Best in Show
Best Wildlife
First Place
Nature Projected Images Masters
One Bald Eagle(Haliaeetus
leucocephalus) attacks
another to make the other
drop its fish from its
clawed grip,
Over the skies
Society
of Homer, AK
Gene Morita
Marin Photo Club
February 2013
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Best in Show
First Place
Pictorial Projected Images - Masters
Polka dotted Leg's
Gail Pierce, Past President 2003
Marin Photo Club
Best in Show
First Place
Travel Projected Images - Intermediate
Market day, My Son, Vietnam
Irena Miles
Diablo Valley Camera Club
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N4C Judges hard at work making
very hard decisions during the
2013 Annual Competition.
Thank you.
February 2013
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Congratulations to everyone who entered the 2013 N4C Annual Competition!!!
Congratulations to all the Winners!!!
All of your Images were Amazing!
February 2013
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