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Winning Images See who won in New Times’ 15th annual photogr aphy contest [18]
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Lens and outs Big changes shook up the annual New Times Winning Images contest BY RYAN MILLER
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s 2009’s Winning Images evening came to a close, staff photographer and contest coordinator Steve E. Miller dropped a bomb: 2010’s contest would be radically different. For the first time in years, the popular competition would get a radical overhaul. This year, he made good on his threat. Or promise. Or however local photographers chose to see it. Gone were the professional and amateur divisions. Everyone who entered would be competing on the same ground. The “kids” category was cut, but two new categories—“sports” and “manmade” fi lled the void. New Times announced the changes, and then the staff waited. Would San Luis Obispo
County respond with love? Hate? Disinterest? At fi rst, it seemed as if the new game drove photographers away. Entries trickled in, one or two at a time. But photographers are apparently procrastinators, and by the final seconds of the deadline—literally— we were sitting on about 600 entries. We celebrated the winners with a party at Steynberg Gallery— thanks, Peter!—the night before this issue hit the streets. Couldn’t attend? Don’t worry: See the winners at Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St., in downtown San Luis Obispo. ∆ Contact Executive Editor Ryan Miller at rmiller@newtimesslo.com.
The Judges PEGGY MESLER San Luis Obispo native Peggy Mesler is a photographer and owner of The Photo Shop in SLO. She shares her appreciation and knowledge of photography with customers, clients, and friends. Peggy graduated with a journalism degree from Cal Poly, and opened The Photo Shop in 1995. Her interests include gardening, hiking, and birding, and her favorite photographic subject is people.
PHOTO BY STEVE E. MILLER
JOSEPHINE CRAWFORD Josephine Crawford was born in 1937 in England; from an early age, she knew she was only interested in music, dancing, designing, and painting. Her childhood was spent at a boarding school for the arts in England. At age 16, she left school and got a job dancing. She spent the next 20 years dancing professionally, designing costumes for about 10 years, and painting for the last 30 years. Her work is difficult to categorize, but if pressed, she would call it expressionistic. She’ll have a 30-year retrospective at SLOMA in 2011.
H C, Orchid For Mom, First Place and Best of Show, Adult, Flora
PHOTO BY STEVE E. MILLER
JEFF VAN KLEECK Jeff Van Kleeck runs the University Art Gallery at Cal Poly. He received a master of fine art degree in photography. Jeff has studied photography under Jerry Uelsmann, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Keith Carter, John Sexton, Jerry Spagnoli, Jim Stone, Christopher Burkett, William Neill, and Bruce Barnbaum. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in such locations as New York, Madison, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Brazil. His work can also be seen in the upcoming book: Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, fifth edition, by Robert Hirsch, Focal Press, 2011. PHOTO BY STEVE E. MILLER
M N, Running Downhill, Second Place, Adult, Sports
B C, Evening Walk with Mom, Honorable Mention, Adult, People
WINNING IMAGES
J R, Kipling Kipling, First Place, Adult, Travel
S C C, Sun Bows, Third Place, Adult, Flora
L M, Wave Racer, Third Place, Adult, Sports
L M, Whirl, Honorable Mention, Adult, Sports
R C, Tiger Intensity, First Place, Adult, Sports
DK E E, Precious Glow, Second Place, Adult, People
S C C, Morning Wake Wake, Third Place, Adult, Open
A C, Almost Heaven, Third Place, Adult, Land/Seascape
M V, Set Sun, Second Place, Adult, Land/Seascape
M M, Atlas Launch, Second Place, Adult, Manmade
N K, Bottle Collage, Third Place, Adult, Manmade
M D, Fantastical Night, Honorable Mention, Adult, Manmade
Rising, Honorable Mention, Adult, Land/Seascape A T, Full Moon Rising
A C, Cayucos Pier, First Place, Adult, Manmade
J L, The Blues (street scene), Third Place, Adult, Travel
K T-K, Through the Blue, Second Place, Adult, Travel
K Put Your Left Foot In, Judge’s Pick L K,
D J, Designs in Nature, Honorable Mention, Adult, Flora
G David, First Place, Adult, People B G, D J, Go Your Own Way, Honorable Mention, Adult, Animals
WINNING IMAGES
A C, Sand Forest, First Place, Adult, Open
Z M M, Weedflower, Second Place, Youth
WINNING IMAGES
S C, Hutton’s Vireo - Lunch, First Place, Youth
A T T, Pelican Dive Bomber, Second Place, Adult, Animals
S C C, Reflections of the Past Past, Judge’s Pick
D Q, Hanging out at Oso Flaco, First Place, Adult, Animals
S C, Freeway Daisy, Third Place, Youth
J R, Bikes, Judge’s Pick
S C, Oak Silhouette, Honorable Mention, Youth
C F, 3 Day Old Love, Third Place, Adult, People
WINNING IMAGES
M B Y, Street Scene, Philippines, Honorable Mention, Adult, Travel B G, bamboo, Second Place, Adult, Flora
L M, Perspective, Judge’s Pick
H C, Lone Farm Worker, Second Place, Adult, Open
WINNING IMAGES
J S, Yellowstone Falls, Judge’s Pick
M V, Merciless, Honorable Mention, Adult, Open
P L, Great Blue Heron, Third Place, Adult, Animals