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NOV EMBER 7 - NOV EMBER 14, 2013 • VOL. 28, NO. 15 • W W W.NE W TIMESSLO.COM • SA N LUIS OBISPO COUNT Y’S NE WS A ND ENTERTA INMENT WEEK LY

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Mimi Ditchie, Magnolia On the Decline, First Place, Best of Show, Adult, Flora

You hit us with your best shots

This year’s Winning Images kept the judges debating

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

BY STEVE E. MILLER

Donald Quintana, Daisy Dew Drops, Los Osos, Honorable Mention, Adult, Flora

Jonathan Shapiro, McWay Falls, Big Sur, Judge’s Pick

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e received almost 400 entries for the 18th annual New Times Winning Images contest this year, and the competition was fierce. The genres that received the most entries were Land and Seascapes, Travel, and Animals. As in past years, the entry fee of $5 per image was used entirely for a $2,000 prize pool for all the winners, which makes this contest unique among photo contests nationwide.

WINNING Our cover shot is Industrial IMAGES Coating, by Ally 2013 Evans (First Place, Youth, Open).

Serving as judges this year were The Photo Shop owner, Peggy Mesler; local photo professional Adam Paine; and local poet and entrepreneur Linda Camplese. As an employee of the company, I don’t serve as judge, but I do coordinate the setup, assist the judges in the case of a tie vote, and tally the results. I laid out all of the images from each category and gave the judges PostIt notes to tag five or six images each for consideration in a final judging. When the 15 or 18 images were selected, all of the other images were taken away to allow each judge to put a score of 1 to 3 on their favorites. The scores on the notes weren’t visible to the other judges, and the names of the photographs weren’t visible either; it was purely blind judging with the winning image in each category being the one that received the most points.

After all of the categories were judged, the first-place images from each category went head to head, and after close to an hour of debate by the judges, the best of show was selected.

Everyone involved in the process picked one favorite picture out of the whole batch that didn’t win anything in any other category, and although I wasn’t a judge, we’re calling all four favorite pictures “Judge’s Picks.”

Enjoy the show! ∆ Contact Staff Photographer Steve E. Miller at semiller@newtimesslo.com.

Jennifer Olson, Daily Catch, Judge’s Pick

MEET THE JUDGES

Randee Ward, Teasel Trio, Third Place, Adult, Flora

Mark Nakamura, Buzy Bees, Judge’s Pick

• LINDA CAMPLESE attended the fine art photography program at Salzburg College in Austria and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. She worked briefly as a freelance production assistant in New York City for Richard Avedon, Duane Michals, and others, then as a full-time studio manager and producer for David Bishop, a commercial photographer specializing in highend food imagery for editorial and advertising.

Since 1993, her “day-job” as co-owner and creative director for Scarecrow Inc., a product development and manufacturing company based in Grover Beach, has had her designing products, photography, packaging, and images for the world’s most popular brand of costume vampire fangs and other products for Halloween and other industries. Creating vampires by day supports her true love of making trouble in the San Luis Obispo County poetry scene with her darkly comedic poetry by night.

• ADAM PAINE is an award-winning photographer and owner of Pro Photo in San Luis Obispo. He earned his bachelor of fine arts degree in photographic imaging from The Art Institute of Washington, DC. His work has been published in Shutterbug Magazine, The Fauquir Times Democrat, The Washington Post, The Gainsville Times, The Tribune, and Smithsonian Magazine. Adam currently works as a photogrammetrist, compiling 3D aerial imagery for Central Coast Aerial Mapping in San Luis Obispo. Adam also offers basics DSLR photography workshops in SLO. For more information, visit prophotoslo.com.

• San Luis Obispo native PEGGY MESLER is a photographer and owner of The Photo Shop in SLO. She shares her appreciation and knowledge of photography with customers, clients, and friends. Peggy graduated with a journalism degree from Cal Poly, and opened The Photo Shop in 1995. Her interests include gardening, hiking, and birding, and her favorite photographic subject is people.

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

Donna Johnson, Glory Long Past, First Place, Adult, Architecture

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

David LaLush, Mission Fishin, Honorable Mention, Adult, Architecture

Steven Boothe, Carnival, Third Place, Adult, People

Donald Quintana, A Tasty Snack, Lazuli Bunting, Los Osos, First Place, Adult, Animals

Tom Lott, Right On Fremont Theatre, Third Place, Adult, Architecture

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

Donald Quintana, Portrait of a Pleasant Pheasant, San Luis Obispo, Second Place, Adult, Animals

Aidan Briggs, Owl on the Prowl, Third Place, Adult, Animals

Jennifer Olson, Hunger, Second Place, Adult, Open

Steven Marx, Tunnel, Second Place, Adult, Architecture

Marcia Beckley-Kane, Corvette, First Place, Adult, Open

Jonathan Shapiro, Rainbow over Foothill Boulevard, Second Place, Adult, Land/Seascape

Skip Moss, Harrier Hawk, Piedras Blancas, Honorable Mention, Adult, Animals

Joan Schlichting, Mold Galaxy, Honorable Mention, Adult, Open

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

Dave Coronel, Eternally, Third Place, Adult, Open

Josh Patching, Persimmon Tree, See Canyon, Judge’s Pick

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

Cary Geihs, Sea Cave East Avila Beach, First Place, Adult, Land/Seascape

Wade Moxley, San Simeon Pier at Sunset, Honorable Mention, Adult, Land/Seascape

Mark Lodge, Details, Second Place, Adult, People

Ally Evans, Breath, Honorable Mention, Youth, Open

Trina Galvan, Solitude, Third Place, Adult, Land/Seascape

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

Skip Moss, Golden Sunrise, Manaslu Himal, Nepal, First Place, Adult, Travel

Bob Canepa, Bubble Catching, Honorable Mention, Adult, People

Susan Pyburn, Cortona Lace, Third Place, Adult, Travel

Skip Moss, Promenade at Boudhanath Temple, Kathmandu, Second Place, Adult, Travel

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

Trina Galvan, Summer Days, First Place, Adult, People

Skip Moss, Calla Lily and Bee, Second Place, Adult, Flora

WINNING

IMAGES 2013

Donald Quintana, Fall Fly-by, Lake San Antonio, CA, Honorable Mention, Adult, Travel

Spencer Caserio, Bird School, Second Place, Youth, Open

Spencer Caserio, Seeing Double Doggies, Third Place, Youth, Open