February 12: Naples Camera Club

Tuesday was the Naples Camera Club meeting (we belong to both the Naples and the Fort Myers clubs). This was the first time that Joyce had participated in a projected image competition. The Naples club has one print competition and one projected competition per month. Projected means both slides from film and image files from digital. There are three categories: Nature (no "hand of man" can show -- so no bird on a fence post, for example), general (hand of man shows), and assignment, which changes each competition.

This month the special assignment was "Flora, new and old shown together" -- a subject for which Ron had no images and Joyce tried a couple while down at Corkscrew Swamp. The image above is what she submitted: A new fiddlehead fern unfurling in front of mature fronds. Ron asked "Where's the old one?" to which Joyce pointed out the old ones are blurred. She arrived at the conclusion they were too blurred when the man in front of her at the club meeting asked the same question to his companion when the image was projected. It won Honorable Mention anyway but there wasn't much competition, only about eight images total.

The nature category had more like 18 or 20 competitors and Ron's Lower Yellowstone Falls with Rainbow and Joyce's Half Dome tied for second place!

The general category competition also had plenty of entries and Joyce's Balloon Glow won Fourth Place and Ron's Mesa Verde image was tied with two others for Fifth Place.

Shall we summarize? Joyce: Honorable Mention, Second Place (tie), and Fourth Place. Ron: Second Place (tie) and Fifth Place (tie). Every image we submitted won something! Not a bad showing for the family.