The second contest of the year is scheduled for Tuesday November 22, 2011 at SciWorks in Winston-Salem, NC. It will begin at 7:00 PM with all prints to be displayed at the back of the auditorium.


Contest Rules:
• Digital images are to be submitted, at least a week ahead, to Chad Wilcox at contest@piedmontphotoclub.com by Tuesday November 15, 2011.
• Members in good standing can enter a total of four images on a contest night. This can be divided between prints and digital images if desired.
• Prints must be matted…no frames.
• Photos should have been made within the past two years.
• Photos can be entered twice if did not win an ‘Honorable Mention’ in a previous contest. (Honorable Mention photographs will be entered in the ‘print/digital image end of year contest’ in August.)
• Prints compete against prints/digitals against digitals.


Directions for submitting your images:
• There are two skill categories: Advanced and Intermediate.
• There are two classes: Black/White and Color.
• For digital images, please send as AN ATTACHMENT in jpeg format no larger than 1200×800 pixels to contest@piedmontphotoclub.com . (Please note that the image size has changed since last year.)
• Indicate PPC Contest in the e-mail subject line.
• For each digital image, the title should be in the format of:
“ContestDate-SkillLevel-Class-NameOfPhotographer-ImageName.jpg”.
• All prints should be at SciWorks by 6:45 PM so contest officials will have sufficient time to organize the print presentation.


• Examples:
o YYYYMMDD-Advanced-BlackWhite-YourName- YourImageName.jpg
o YYYYMMDD-Intermediate-BlackandWhite-YourName-YourImageName.jpg
o YYYYMMDD-Intermediate-Color-YourName-YourImageName.jpg
o YYYYMMDD-Advanced-Color-YourName-YourImageName.jpg


For Print Entry Form, please click on the following link:
http://www.piedmontphotoclub.com/ppcClubDocuments/PPC%20Print%20Contest%20Form%20-%202010-05-11.pdf


(There will also be print submission forms at the meeting.)


Bet Wilson, secretary
Piedmont Photography Club

The September 27 Piedmont Photography Club contest topic was “Open”.

Here are the selected winners:

Intermediate Digital Color-selected images

Selected Winners

Here is the complete photo set:

Intermediate Color

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Intermediate Digital Black & White-selected images

Selected Winners

Here is the complete photo set:

Intermediate Black & White

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[View with PicLens]

Advanced Digital Color-selected images

Selected Winners

Here is the complete photo set:

Advanced Color

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Advanced Digital Black & White-selected images

Selected Winners

Here is the complete photo set:

Advanced Black & White

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[View with PicLens]

Piedmont Photography Club

Open Contest

Tuesday September 27th

The first contest of the year is scheduled for Tuesday September 27, 2011 at SciWorks in Winston-Salem, NC.  It will begin at 7:00 PM with all prints to be displayed at the back of the auditorium. 

 Contest Rules:

• Digital images are to be submitted, a week ahead, to Chad Wilcox at contest@piedmontphotoclub.com by Tuesday September 20, 2011. 
• Members in good standing can enter a total of four images on a contest night. This can be divided between prints and digital images if desired. 
• Prints must be matted…no frames. 
• Photos should have been made within the past two years. 
• Photos can be entered twice if did not win an ‘Honorable Mention’ in a previous contest. (Honorable Mention photographs will be entered in the ‘print/digital image end of year contest’ in August.) 
• Prints compete against prints/digitals against digitals. 

• There are two skill categories: Advanced and Intermediate.
• There are two classes: Black and White and Color.
• For digital images, please send as AN ATTACHMENT in jpeg format no larger than 1200×800 pixels to contest@piedmontphotoclub.com .   Please note that the image size has changed. 
• Indicate PPC Contest in the e-mail subject line.
• For each image, the title should be in the format of:                           
  “ContestDate-SkillLevel-Class-NameOfPhotographer-ImageName.jpg”.
• All prints should be at SciWorks by 6:45 PM so contest officials will have sufficient time to organize the print presentation.
• Examples:    

YYYYMMDD-Advanced-BlackWhite-YourName- YourImageName.jpg 

YYYYMMDD-Intermediate-BlackWhite-YourName-YourImageName.jpg

YYYYMMDD-Intermediate-Color-YourName-YourImageName.jpg

YYYYMMDD-Advanced-Color-YourName-YourImageName.jpg

For Print Entry Form, please click on the following link (There will also be print submission forms at the meeting.):

http://www.piedmontphotoclub.com/ppcClubDocuments/PPC%20Print%20Contest%20Form%20-%202010-05-11.pdf

August 23, 2011 Meeting

of the Piedmont Photography Club

The Piedmont Photograpy Club will meet at the Golden Coral Restaurant on University Parkway at 6:30 Tuesday night, August 23, 2011.  Come join us for a good meal, great fellowship, and view the images picked as the best of the bunch for this year, 2010/2011.