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Poly Members Win at SD County Fair!

Congratulations to all of you who participated in the 2025 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 1,179 photographs selected from 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 84 members, there were 27 who had 142 images hanging on the walls.

- - Mark Ochenduszko received the Gene Wild Award.
  - 14 members received 26 ribbons for 1st through 4th place — 20% of the exhibition’s 131 place ribbons.
  - 19 members received 33 Honorable Mention ribbons — 17% of the exhibition’s 191 HM ribbons.

Congratulations to the following:

2024 Year-End Winners

2024 Year-End awards were presented at the Poly Photo Year-End Awards Banquet on January 25 at the La Jolla Country Club.

- Image of the Year: Dance of the Butterfly by Heidi Gauthreaux
- Van Nostrand Best of Nature: Dancing Petals by Adrienne Myers
- Bob Rittenhouse Most Creative: Seeking Eggs by James Woodward

To see all the winning images, go to the website menu — Photo Gallery > Year-End Winners > 2024 Year-End Winners. The direct link is: https://polyphotoclub.com/competition/winning-images/2024-year-end-winners/

2024 Year-End entries – 318 images: 229 Realistic, 59 Altered Reality, 33 Project – were judged in December by a panel of three guest judges: Lois Fong-Sakai, Eileen Mandell, Jenny Wolf.

To view the year-end program and video, click the following:
Poly 2024 Year-End Awards Program – A look back at the activities of 2024
Poly Best of 2024 – All the best images entered in the year-end competition*

Video produced by Charlie Breese*

Poly Shines at SD Fair Photo Exhibition

Congratulations to all of you who participated in the 2024 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 1,183 photographs selected from 3,601 entries. Judges chose approximately one out of three entries to hang in the exhibition.

Poly members did very well this year. Of our 77 members, there were 29 who had 181 images hanging on the walls.

- - Cathy Presmyk received the Gene Wild Award.
  - 12 members received 29 ribbons for 1st through 4th place — 21% of the exhibition’s 139 place ribbons.
  - 19 members received 39 Honorable Mention ribbons — 21% of the exhibition’s 189 HM ribbons.

Congratulations to the following:

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