by Frank Zurey
Here are the 2005 contest results for photographs awarded at our annual conference.
Competition By The Numbers
- 276 individual entries
- 219 slides
- 30 prints and published images
- 15 members entered this year’s contest
See a gallery of the major award winners at the bottom of this page.
The most individual entries were in the Member’s Choice category. A digital slide show of all of the slides submitted for the contest was presented at the conference. The published works were on display at the conference.
The Competition & Awards Highlights
This year’s contest featured the integration of film and digital images recognizing that film and digital capture of an image is equivalent and that the resulting image is dependent on the same photographic skills. A total of 211 slides were entered in the nine categories in which both film and digital images could be entered. Forty percent of these slides were entered as digital images. The resulting distribution of awards was similar with 46% of the awards going to digitally submitted images and the Best of Show going to a film submission.
The Judge
The judge for the photography categories was Keith Shrum. Both have extensive experience in outdoor communications.
Keith Shrum is the President of Colorado Camera Imaging Center located in Lakewood, Colorado. He has been in the photo industry his whole life, and is third generation in family ownership of Colorado Camera. Keith has followed the transition of the photo industry into digital imaging closely, and has updated Colorado Camera’s excellent standard of photo finishing to include full digital imaging services. Keith is also a partner in Colorado Photographic Academy, a school specializing in all types of photo related instruction, traditional as well as digital. Colorado Photographic Academy is accredited by Red Rocks Community College. Therefore, students can receive college credit for the courses they take. Keith is currently the primary instructor for the school’s Adobe Photoshop® program.
A few of the many highlights of the contest include the following:
- Best of Show went to Ron Kerr for his image “Persistence”
- Member’s Choice went to Sherry Zurey for her print “Auroral Storm”. Sherry entered the contest as a novice – she’s not a novice anymore.
People in the Outdoors
1st Tom Cummings, “Dancing on the Waves”
2nd Tom Cummings, “Not Too Close”
3rd Beto Gutierrez, “Fishing South Padre Island”
Scenics
1st Lee Carr, “Fall Colors”
2nd Tom Cummings, “Mountain Reflections”
3rd Sherry Zurey, “Aurora Magic”
Flora
1st Ron Kerr, “Persistence”
2nd Tom Cummings, “Columbine 1”
3rd Beto Gutierrez, “Flower, Purple”
Fauna
1st Beto Gutierrez, “Bobcat”
2nd Beto Gutierrez, “Doe with Fawn”
3rd Tom Cummings, “Brown Pelican 1”
Best Slide From Last show
1st Ron Kerr, “Tool from the Past”
2nd Maryann Gaug, “Historic Photographer”
3rd Jack Olson, “Sneeze Weed”
Historical
1st Tom Cummings, “Times Past”
2nd John Catsis, “Aztec Autumn”
3rd Beto Gutierrez, “Socorro Mission”
Cultural
1st James Blakeslee, “Beautiful Regalia”
2nd Jack Olson, “Christmas Caroling”
3rd Tom Cummings, “Candy Toss”
Events
1st Tom Cummings, “Its a Goner”
2nd Tom Cummings, “Cutting a Path”
3rd Jim Baker, “The Penalty is Death”
Best of Show
Ron Kerr, “Persistence”
Altered/Composite Images
1st Sherry Zurey, “Egrets”
2nd Sherry Zurey, “Ice Art”
3rd Frank Zurey, “Paintbrush”
Novice Slides or Digital Images
1st Sherry Zurey, “Aurora Hand”, “Aurroral Sunshine”, “Starry Night”
Color Prints
1st Tom Cummings, ” Mountain View”
2nd Tom Cummings, “Time Gone By”
3rd Tom Cummings, “The Great Blue Haron 1”
Black and White prints
1st Tom Cummings, “Upward Reach”
2nd John Catsis, “Survivor”
3rd Frank Zurey, “Sunflowers”
Member’s Choice – Prints
1st Sherry Zurey, “Auroral Storm”
2nd Tom Cummings, “Sit Awhile”
3rd Beto Gutierrez, “Trophy in the Mist”
Black and White Published Images
1st Maryann Gaug, “Munch”, Colorado High Country Anthology, 2004
Color Published Images
1st Ron Kerr, “Canada Jay”, Wildfowl Carving Magazine, Spring 2004
2nd Jack Olson, ” Sneffels Range”, Colorado 2005 Calendar
3rd John Catsis, “Birds of a Feather”, Country Discoveries, March/April 2005
2005 Top Photographic Award Winners
