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Author: Kim SignoretPaar

Winners of SD Floral Association Photography Contest

I am pleased to announce that three of our members won 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Photography Contest of the San Diego Floral Association.

         Paul Shilling, 1st Place & cover photo of California Garden, July 2023
Carol Flanagan Corsi, 2nd Place
Cathy Presmyk, 3rd Place
Here is the article from California Garden, July 2023.
Congratulations Paul, Carol and Cathy!!

Kim SignoretPaar, President, Poly Photo Club

 

 

 

Poly members win at SD County Fair!

Congratulations to all of you who participated in the 2023 International Exhibition of Photography at the San Diego County Fair!

Many thanks to the coordinators, staff and judges for all their hard work in mounting this exhibition of 1,133 photographs, selected from about 3,400 entries. Judges chose approximately one out of three entries to hang in the exhibition.

Poly members did very well this year. Of our 62 members, there were 25 who had 163 images hanging on the walls.
      • Poly President Kim SignoretPaar won Best of Show.
      • 13 members received 34 ribbons for 1st through 4th place — 25% of the exhibition’s 136 place ribbons.
      • 18 members received 45 Honorable Mention ribbons — 18% of the exhibition’s 253 HM ribbons.

Congratulations to the following:

2023 PSA Councils Challenge – Poly images in SCACC final submission

The Southern California Association of Camera Clubs (SCACC) has selected 30 images for the national 2023 PSA Councils Challenge, selected from the 300 images submitted by the four competing member clubs.

The competing SCACC clubs are: Poly, Darkroomers, Photo Naturalists and Fallbrook.  Each club submitted 75 images. Thank you to the group who selected Poly’s 75 images: James Woodward, Darlene Elwin, and Paul Shilling.

Three PSA judges judged the 300 images and then selected the 30 images that SCACC is sending to the national PSA competition. Of these 30 images, nine were from Poly. Here is a link to view Poly’s nine images:
        2023 PSA Councils Challenge – Poly images in SCACC final submission
        https://www.flickr.com/gp/polyphotoclub/xSDYwD6JK9