Slideshow Competitions
2025 Slideshow | 2025 Software/Apps | 2024 Slideshow | 2023 Slideshow | 2022 & 2021 Slideshows
Current Club members are eligible to submit. Members create compelling shows using their own photographs, and a limited amount of video.
The entire program lasts about 1 hr 15 min, consisting of 13-17 slide shows.
Slideshows are presented anonymously to the member audience, who vote on their favorites at the end of the presentations.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place are recognized and awarded, and all the maker’s names are announced after the voting.
Camera Club members attend for free, non-members pay a $5 donation at the door.
Attendance to the competition is open to ALL residents of Laguna Woods Village, and their guests. All audience members are allowed to vote
2025 Slideshow Competition
Twelve (12) Club members submitted fifteen (15) compelling shows using their own photographs, and video limited to 20% of the total slideshow.
Top Score: Esther Spektor, “Green, Green Grass of Home”
2nd Score: Ted Koelsch, “Death Valley – A Photographer’s Day”
3rd Score: Patti Patti, “Potter”
All entries (title, maker, software):
01- “Winter’s Beauty and Danger” Andy Eugenio (iMovie)
02 – “Dust” Tom Getz (Proshow Producer)
03 – “Pinniped” Adriana Greisman (DaVinci Resolve, Google Earth Studio)
04 – “Italy” Faro Mojahedi (iMovie)
05 – “Potter” Patricia Patti (iMovie)
06 – “Death Valley – A Photographer’s Day” Ted Koelsh (DaVinci Resolve)
07 – “One Day on Queen Mary” Esther Spektor (Clipchamp)
08 – “Flowers” Russ Lazar (Lightroom)
09 – “Reflections” Andy Eugenio (iMovie)
10 – “British Columbia” Adriana Greisman (DaVinci Resolve, Google Earth Studio)
11 – “Full Moon” Faro Mojahedi (iMovie)
12 – “Green, Green Grass of Home” Esther Spektor (Clipchamp)
13 – “Spain & France” Micheal Kaizoji (DaVinci Resolve)
14 – “Above Water” Harry Chen (DaVinci Resolve)
15 – “My Movie with Music” Cristina Somerset
View ALL the 2025 Slideshows on OneDrive
2025 Software/Apps
Apple iMovie
iMovie is a free video editing software developed by Apple for macOS and iOS devices. It allows users to create and edit movies, trailers, and other video projects, offering a range of tools for importing, trimming, arranging, and enhancing clips with titles, music, and effects. It comes pre-installed on most Apple devices, such as Macs, iPhones, and iPads. You can also download it for free from the App Store for iOS devices and the Mac App Store.
Google Earth Studio
Earth Studio is an animation tool for Google Earth’s satellite and 3D imagery. Earth Studio uses keyframes just like other industry-standard animation tools. Create an orbit, or fly from point to point. Select up to five templates to start, with no animation experience required. You can animate custom attributes, such as the sun’s position, the camera field of view, and more. You can add labels, and pins, and Earth Studio supports camera export to Adobe After Effects.
Earth Studio Usage Documentation
DaVinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve, by Black Magic Design, combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production in one software tool.That means you can work with camera original quality images throughout the entire editing process. The FREE version gives you almost all the tools of the professional version, which often used for Hollywood projects.
Clipchamp
Clipchamp, the easy video editor by Microsoft. This video maker is beginner-friendly with a drag-and-drop interface but has advanced video editing features to help you cut, crop and resize videos, record screen and webcam, edit green screen videos and even add AI voiceovers.
Easy editing features: Clipchamp’s online video editor equips you with essential editing tools. You can cut, trim, crop, rotate, split, make a GIF, zoom in and out, speed up or slow down, and add or remove audio, filters and transitions. Plus, additional intelligent features can help you build your videos – no experience required. This program has free and paid subscriptions (with more features) and also PC and Mac versions.
Here is the link to Clipchamp website:
Online video editor by Microsoft Clipchamp
Adobe Lightroom
Lightroom does not USUALLY create animations itself, but for Russ’s slideshow, he used a “Ken Burns Affect” in Lightroom to make the entire animation. Otherwise, you can use Lightroom to edit individual images or video clips to apply consistent edits, color grades, and presets to a series of photos or video footage, which then serve as the frames for your animation – before they are assembled in other software like Photoshop or After Effects.
Proshow Producer
CLOSED 01/31/2020: Still downloadable from some sites. ProShow Producer was professional-grade slideshow software, known for its advanced features and customization options. It allowed users to create slideshows with photos, videos, and audio, offering tools like keyframing, masking, and various adjustment effects for intricate designs. The software also supported output to multiple formats, including executable files for Windows, and various video formats, as well as direct sharing to platforms like YouTube and Facebook.
Movavi – one Proshow Producer alternative
Previous Slideshow Competitions
- 2024 Slideshow Competition
The 2024 Slide Show Competition had a total of 11 shows, and one memorial.
View all the entries here – 2024 Member Slide Shows.
Top Score: Adriana Greisman, “America West Mega”
2nd Score: Russ Lazar, “One Stormy Morning”
3rd Score: Esther Spektor, “Created by Nature”All entries:
01- “Around the Village” (Andy Eugenio)
02 – “One Stormy Morning” (Ruzz Lazar)
03 – “Mega-Q-Mart” (Keith Leonin)
04 – “Created by Nature” (Esther Spektor)
05 – “Solar Eclipse” (Joel Sigman)
06 – “Yellowstone Grand Tetons” (Michael Kaizoji)
07 – “Where Do Children Play” (Keith Leonin)
08 – “A Big Cat Diary” (Pat Burr)
09 – “Hiking South OC” (Andy Eugenio)
10 – “Trip Shelby Center” (Esther Spektor)
11- “America West Mega” (Adiana Greisman) - 2023 Slideshow Competition
The 2023 Slide Show Competition had a strong showing of 12 shows, and one memorial.
View all the entries here – 2023 Member Slide Shows.
Pat Wilkinson created a memorial in honor of John Maloof, long-time highy-respected member of the Club.
Tom Getz’s “Time for Clocks”, showcased clock towers from more than twenty (20) countries, “out-traveling” all the other 2021-2023 shows put together!
Esther’s “Tulips Time” displayed beautiful tulip still life imagery.
Patti’s “Drops” captured patterns and worlds within water drops.
Russ’s “Wild Horses” was an imagery and print tour-de-force of wild mustangs and the landscape they inhabit.
Top Score: Patti Patti, “Drops”
2nd Score: Esther Spektor, “Tulips Time”
3rd Score: Russ Lazar, “Wild Horses”All entries:
01- “Faces of Asia” (Pat Burr)
02 – “Bird Park” (Hilla Sadri)
03 – “The Boys” (George Harper)
04 – “Cute” (Tom Getz)
05 – “Randsburg” (Esther Spektor)
06 – “Wild Horses” (Russ Lazar)
07 – “Halloween” (Hilla Sadri)
08 – “Oregon in 2022” (Mike Bray)
09 – “Time for Clocks” (Tom Getz)
10 – “Tulips Time” (Esther Spektor)
11- “Never Again” (Pat Burr)
12 – “Drops” (Patti Patti) - 2022 Slideshow Competition
The 2022 Slide Show Competition was not held due to Covid-19. - 2021 Slideshow Competition
The 2021 Slide Show Competition had seven entries of creative, compelling photography spanning three countries and seven different styles. 2021 Member Slide Shows.
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