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     CCC -  March  Winners
                               First Place Images Are Shown 
        
Judges were Yutte Stensgaard, John Raedeke, Ted Demetriades

Prints -  "Open" Category    

 Place  Title  Maker
 1st  McCullough Bridge  Mike Turner
 2nd  Hunan Christmas  Nomeca Hartwell
 3rd  Skull Rocks  Gene Rimmer  

"Image of the Month"   Mike's Comments about "McCullough Bridge" 
"
The picture was taken in the evening after sunset and when it was completely dark, except for the lights on and around the bridge. It was shot at ISO 200 for 30 seconds, F6.3, 40mm, using Canon's 17 - 40 lens and a 30D camera, tripod mounted. The viewfinder was so dark that I could only focus using the red lights on top of the bridge. The shot was taken on the Oregon Coast, north of Coos Bay in the city of North Bend."

Prints -  "Order Out of Chaos"  Category

     
 Place  Title  Maker
 1st  Red S on the Rogue  Gene Rimmer
 2nd  Muted Sand Forms  Nomeca Hartwell

Gene's Comments about "Red S  on the Rogue"
"This photo was taken during our all-day field trip on October 10th to the Rogue River area from Prospect north to Becky's. We hit the perfect weekend for fall colors. And with colorful trees, there's always the effort needed to not only get a good exposure but to find a composition that holds together and is more than just a bunch of bushes and trees. In searching for this, I looked across the river and saw this S shape in the branches. I virtually always use a tripod, and I shot this at f/8 for best sharpness since I didn't need significant depth of field. After photographing it, I had to work it in Photoshop to enhance the contrast for emphasis."


Electronic Images -  "Open"  Category

 Place  Title  Maker
 1st  Anchors Away  Yutte Stensgaard
 2nd  The Pulpit  Ted Demetriades 
 3rd  Rock Formations - Zabriskie Pt  Yutte Stensgaard
 HM  Chinese Princess  Stephen Payne
 HM  The patience of Time  Dennis Ruga

Yutte's Comments about "Anchors Away"
""Anchor’s Away" is an image I took in a fishing harbor on vacation to my homeland of Denmark. I like abstracts and I had further fun with it in Photoshop by increasing the color saturation. I think it works well on this type of an image as it gives it more impact and drama. It was taken at ISO 100 and on Aperture priority f/11.0 with a Canon 20D.."


Electronic Images -  "Order Out of Choas"  Category

 

 Place  Title  Maker
 1st  Order of Pastels  Ozzie Cummins
 2nd  Fire  Jim Ingraham
 3rd  Killdeer Nest  Darrell Stafford 

Ozzie's Comments about "Order of Pastels"
"This image, one of a “Beauty in Josephine Co series,” was taken along Josephine Creek near the intersection of the Illinois River (GPS Coordinates:  N 42.2409; W 123.6852).  It was recorded on the first of this year at 2:30 in the afternoon.  It was a rather dark, calm and quiet overcast day, but good for capturing saturated color in an image.  Struck by the profusion of almost totally pastel colors in this scene, I snapped the shot."  

"Technical “shot” data:  Nikon D90 w/18-200mm Nikkor zoom lens set at 18mm.  Image shot and captured in JPG format in aperture priority.  I chose an aperture of f-16 with a shutter speed of 1/2 second.  I used an ISO of 180 for good clean detail and color rendition.   Proper exposure required an exposure compensation of -0.7 for this interestingly colored scene.  I used a white balance setting of Auto with a -2 trim for capturing the beautiful pastel colors – the subject of this rather chaotic, but attractively colored scene." 

                          For more information about competitions, contact Nomeca Hartwell (Judging Secretary) at 541-474-3025

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