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*
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 25, 2025 at the La Jolla Country Club.
Special Award Winners
Creative Award Winners
Realistic Award Winners
Project Competition Award Winners
Creative Honorable Mentions
Realistic Honorable Mentions
Project Competition Honorable Mentions
High-Points Winners
Creative 1st Place | Joan Everds | 94 points |
Creative 2nd Place | Barbara Fletcher | 92 points |
Creative 3rd Place | Beverly Brock | 83 points |
Realistic 1st Place | Patti Lamm | 153 points |
Realistic 2nd Place | Drema Swader | 149 points |
Realistic 3rd Place | Brian Jolliffe | 148 points |
Combined 1st Place | James Woodward | 150 points |
Combined 2nd Place | Carol Flanagan Corsi | 144 points |
Combined 3rd Place | Judy MacLean | 139 points |