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2023 Awards Banquet Photos
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2023 AWARDS BANQUET
The Our End-of-Year Awards Show and Banquet was held on Sunday, February 25 at the Oasis Country Club, and a good time was had by all. Congratulations to the members who won medals and certificates for the best images of 2023. The gold medals in each competition section were awarded to Dee McMillan for Pictorial Color, Charles Stricker for Nature General, Charles Stricker for Photo Travel, Charles Stricker for PJ General, Charles Stricker for PJ Human Interest, and Dee McMillan for Pictorial Monochrome.
A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Stuart Lynn and featured video tributes from photographers around the world expressing their admiration and appreciation for Stuart’s work and support over the 24 years he has been a member of our club.
The Stuart Lynn Award for excellence in photography and support to our club was presented to John Erdman.
A slideshow of a few pictures taken at the banquet are just below and the entire presentation slides are shown on the EOY Awards page of our website. Many thanks to Jan Lyall for bringing her camera to the event and taking these photos. |
End of Year Awards (Scroll down for 2023 awards)
Each year, CVDCC announces photographic awards at its end of year Banquet. Three different sets of awards are made:
- Photographer of the Year Awards (Bronze, Silver, Gold): these are awarded to photographers who have accumulated most points in competitions during the year. In earlier years this include both Digital and Print, but now just Digital. 1 point is counted for every image entered, 3 for an Honorable Mention, and 5 for an Excellence Award. In recent years, only the 20 highest scoring images are counted.
- Image of the Year Awards: every image that received an HM or an Excellence Award during the competition year is entered into a special year-end competition that is judged by a 3-person panel of outside judges. Awards (7-10 HMs, Bronze, Silver, Gold) are made for each competition Division.
- Summer WOW Competition A new and different competition was started in 2020 called our WOW Competition, where the only judging criteria is the first impact of the image on the judges (Wow Factor). No other rules, except the picture must be taken in July and August, the 2 months where there are no other club activities. The club board of directors are the judges, and thus ineligible to enter.
Special certificates are provided to all awardees. Additionally, gold, silver and bronze awardees receive medals.
Award Presentations
The following link to the presentations made for the past 5 years