2025 Year-End entries – 345 images: 245 Realistic, 67 Altered Reality, 33 Project – were judged in December by a panel of three guest judges: Lois Fong-Sakai, Greg Klamt, Jenny Wolf
To view the year-end program and video, click the following:
Poly 2025 Year-End Awards Program – A look back at the activities of 2025
Poly Best of 2025 – All the best images entered in the year-end competition, video produced by Frances Schnall
Link to Poly Flickr album of event photos by Beverly Brock
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 10, 2026 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 | 133 points |
| Creative 2nd Place | Beverly Brock | 97 points |
| Creative 3rd Place | Barbara Fletcher | 83 points |
| Realistic 1st Place | Allan Pakett | 156 points |
| Realistic 2nd Place | Richard Strobel | 153 points |
| Realistic 3rd Place | Patti Lamm | 151 points |
| Combined 1st Place | James Woodward | 152 points |
| Combined 1st Place | Judy MacLean | 152 points |
| Combined 2nd Place | Carol Flanagan Corsi | 151 points |
| Combined 3rd Place | Robin Stern | 147 points |