Critique July 2024
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July Critique
The Critique this month had 26 members participate (view list).
91 total images were submitted: 90 Scored, 1 Non-Scored.
The Judge this month was William (Bill) Hodge.
High scoring images are displayed above, “Other Submitted Images” are displayed below.
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Critique Scores by Category
Images in the galleries are identified by the category in which they were submitted.
(Artistic Expression = “A”, Monochrome = “M”, Nature = “N”, Open Color = “O”, Sports = “S”, Special Subject = “SS”)
Entries and scores are available in the following PDF files, grouped by Category.
- Altered Reality
- Monochrome
- Nature
- Open Color
- Sports
- Special Subject: “Portraits”
“Portraits Photography can cover a wide range of visual interpretations of all forms of plant life. Images July include domestic or wild plants, such as flowers, grasses, trees, crops, forests, mushrooms, and cacti, both living or dead. Portraits photography often emphasizes color, texture, patterns, and “personality” of the subject. Portraits photography can also attempt to capture the mystical side of nature. In Roman mythology, “Portraits” was the goddess of spring, of nature and flowering plants, and was the goddess of youth. Create a photograph of Portraits.”.
The Judge this month was William (Bill) Hodge, currently of Paso Robles. See Bill’s portrait work.
Bill advised three online educators for quality photography guidance:
Woody Walter
Sandra Pearce
Stu Davinci
High Scoring Images
High scoring images were awarded by the Judge. “High scoring” images are displayed at the top of this page, and are listed below by Category, in alphabetical order by the Maker’s name.
Altered Reality
- Keith Leonin – Death Knell
- George Harper – Explosion
Monochrome
- Hilla Sadri – After the rain
- Larry Goodman – Crystal Cove Sunset
- Mike Bray – F-18
- Lara Ferraro – Intent
- Adriana Greisman – Peregrine Siblings B&W
- Diane Hall – Spiral
- Linda Berman – Written In the Sand
- Karen Wells – Young Leo
Nature
- Raymond LaBelle – Breakfast
- Daniel Lee – Dandelion Wheel
- Keith Leonin – Dragonfly
- Ken Furuta – Scanning the Harbor
- Russ Lazar – Shy
Open Color
- Myra Posner – Lady In Yellow
- Karen Wells – Skull Fire
- Susan Brown Matsumoto – St. Pauls Greek Orthodox Church
Sports
- George Harper – Blast Off
- Ken Furuta – Concentration
- Mike Bray – Taj Linblad
Special Subject: “Portraits”
- John Cornell – Jim
- Karen Wells – Portrait of Determination
All Submitting Members (26)
- Anonymous – Unscored (1)
- Lawrie Bau
- Linda Berman
- Mike Bray
- John Cornell
- Andy Eugenio
- Lara Ferraro
- Brad Friesen
- Ken Furuta
- Larry Goodman
- Adriana Griesman
- Diane Hall
- Bette Harper
- George Harper
- Raymond LaBelle
- Russ Lazar
- Daniel Lee
- Keith Leonin
- Mary Madden
- Susan Brown-Matsumoto
- Myra Posner
- Ken Post
- Hilla Sadri
- Jeff Sarembock
- Joel Sigman
- Esther Spektor
- Karen Wells
Other Submitted Images
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