Critique January 2025
High Scoring Images
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January Critique
The Critique this month had 26 members participate (view list).
82 total images were submitted: 82 Scored, 0 Non-Scored.
The Judge this month was Kim Signoret-Paar.
High scoring images are displayed above, “Other Submitted Images” are displayed below.
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YouTube Critique Video
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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”, Open Color = “O”, Smart Phone = “P”, Special Subject = “S”)
Entries and scores are available in the following PDF files, grouped by Category.
- Open Color
- Monochrome
- Smart Phone
- Artistic Expression
- Special Subject: “Reflections”
This category includes images that are projected or bounced off of other surfaces. Such surfaces include mirrors, water, glass, metal, etc. Note: Shadows are not considered reflections
The Judge this month was Kim Signoret-Paar. Kim tells stories with her camera. Learn more about Kim and her work.
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.
Open Color
- Brad Friesen – Tranquility
- Ken Furuta – Soft Landing
- Adriana Greisman – Dinner is Served!
- George Harper – Up For Air
Monochrome
- Susan Brown Matsumoto – Somewhere In Time
- Larry Goodman – American Avocet
- Adriana Greisman – White Sands Dunes B&W
- Esther Spektor – Light Contours
Smart Phone
- Brad Friesen – Basilica Cistern
- Ken Furuta – Pink Pizzazz
- Myra Posner – Fog Has Rolled In
Artistic Expression
- Brad Friesen – Imagineering Stroll
- Adriana Greisman – Flower Field a la Monet
- Diane Hall – Eagle Eye
- Esther Spektor – Mechanical Horses
- Valarie Van Cleave – Double Vision Column
Special Subject: “Reflections”
- William Bejarano – SpaceMan at the Orange County Museum of Art
- Ken Furuta – Long Beach Harbor Reflections
- Larry Goodman – Hiding In The Reeds
- George Harper – Harbor Reflections
- Keith Leonin – A Lake Among the Ruins
All Submitting Members (26)
- William Bejarano
- Mike Bray
- Susan Brown Matsumoto
- John Cornell
- Brad Friesen
- Ken Furuta
- Dolores Gitlin
- Larry Goodman
- Adriana Greisman
- Diane Hall
- Bette Harper
- George Harper
- Janice Hirano
- Michael Kaizoji
- Raymnod LaBelle
- Daniel Lee
- Keith Leonin
- Mary Madden
- Myra Posner
- Hila Sadri
- Madeline Schwarz
- Violet Shen
- Esther Spektor
- Carol Stanley
- Valarie Van Cleave
- Kay Yoon
Other Submitted Images
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