2023 Year-End entries – 268 images: 183 Realistic, 52 Altered Reality, 33 Project – were judged in December by a panel of three guest judges: Lois Fong-Sakai, Greg Klamt, Sandy Zelasko
To view the year-end videos, click to play the following:
Poly 2023 Year in Review – A look back at the activities of 2023*
Poly Best of 2023 – All the best images entered in the year-end competition**
Videos produced by James Woodward* and Charlie Breese**
Award Winners
The award winners and high-points winners received a Poly medallion and had their names inscribed on perpetual plaques which hang in the Photographic Arts Building. Honorable Mention winners received ribbons.
Here are the winners as presented at our Year-End Awards Show and Banquet which was held January 27, 2024 at the La Jolla Country Club.
Special Award Winners
Altered Reality Award Winners
Realistic Award Winners
Project Competition Award Winners
Altered Reality Honorable Mentions
Realistic Honorable Mentions
Project Competition Honorable Mentions
High-Points Winners
| Altered-Reality 1st Place | Jim Mildice | 140 points |
| Altered-Reality 2nd Place | Dan Palermo | 131 points |
| Altered-Reality 3rd Place | Joan Everds | 82 points |
| Realistic 1st Place | James Woodward | 151 points |
| Realistic 2nd Place | Paul Shilling | 150 points |
| Realistic 3rd Place | Ernesto Corte | 146 points |
| Combined 1st Place | Judy MacLean | 149 points |
| Combined 2nd Place | Dee Elwin | 148 points |
| Combined 2nd Place | Barbara Fletcher | 148 points |
| Combined 2nd Place | Joan Harris | 148 points |
| Combined 3rd Place | Robin Stern | 146 points |
