The year-end Digital Challenge print competition was an unbelievably close contest. Most of the category top-five placings were separated by only one or two percent!
All of our students submitted high-quality work that gave our esteemed judges plenty to discuss.
Many of the students and faculty were present for the entire seven hour judging marathon. The judges comments and advice was an education for everyone. Even our judges reflected that they learned from each other's assessments.
A huge thank-you to the judging panel of Leonard Segall, Glenn Ogilvie and Petro Tiahur. (see an earlier posting on the blog) who each recored scores in four separate criteria for each of the hundreds of entries.
Prizes and contributions for the students were made by:
-Photo Tour Trekkers phototourtrekkers.com - sponsor of the First and Second place Overall Winners for First Year Students
-Forest City Image Centre / Camera Canada CameraCanada.com -For a wide selection of prizes and gift certificates
-Vistek Your visual technology experts -For a selection of gift certificates
-Henry's Cameras -For a selection of gift certificates
-Paddy Flaherty's Irish Pub -For hosting our awards ceremony, and providing live music for the event
The contest required students to enter 4-5 images in the categories. First year categories were: Portrait, Nature, Commercial, and Unclassified. Second year categories were: People, Places and Commercial.
Prizes were awarded to the highest scored entry in each category. The Overall winners for first and second year were determined by the scores from all the judges, on each of their entries combined.
The Overall Competition winners receive prizes from our sponsors and a plaque - The Geri Freeborn Memorial Award.
The Geri Freeborn Memorial Awards were created by program faculty in honour of a former Digital Photography student who passed away suddenly in January 2013. At age 57, Freeborn was the oldest student to enroll in the College’s Digital Photography program. She has been remembered as a hard working student who was creatively driven.
Congratulations to all of the winners!
And the winners are…
First Year Categories:
Portrait - Emily Hussey
Commercial - Jodi Tamminga
Nature - Emily Hussey
Unclassified - Maygin Codling
First Year Overall:
1st Place - Emily Hussey
2nd Place - Colette Hagley
3rd Place - Devon Groombridge
Second Year Categories:
People - Raeven Ramirez
Places - Oluwasgun "Bisi" Alawode
Commercial- Jamie Babcock
Second Year Overall:
Winner - Oluwasgun "Bisi" Alawode
Runner-up - Raeven Ramierez
CATEGORY WINNERS:
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| First Year - Category People, Winner: Emily Hussey "Dancing Amongst The Clouds" |
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| First Year - Category Commercial, Winner: Jodi Tamminga "A Splash of Colour" |
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| First Year - Category Nature, Winner: Emily Hussey "Hard Oiler" |
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| First Year - Category Unclassified, Winner: Maygin Codling "Poisoned Apple" |
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| Second Year - Category Commercial, Winner: Jamie Babcock "UnMask Me" |
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| Second Year - Category Places, Winner: Oluwasegun "Bisi" Alawode "Motherhood" |
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| Second Year - Category People, Winner: Raeven Ramirez "The Antithesis of Lolita" |
Selection of images from OVERALL WINNERS:
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| First Year, Overall 3rd Place: Devon Groombidge |
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| First Year, Overall 3rd Place: Devon Groombidge |
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| First Year, Overall 2nd Place: Colette Hagley |
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| First Year, Overall 2nd Place: Colette Hagley |
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| First Year, Overall 1st Place, The Geri Freeborn Memorial Award: Emily Hussey |
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| First Year, Overall 1st Place, The Geri Freeborn Memorial Award: Emily Hussey |
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| Second Year, Overall Runner up: Raeven Ramirez |
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| Second Year, Overall Runner up: Raeven Ramirez |
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| Second Year, Overall Runner up: Raeven Ramirez |
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| Second Year, Overall Winner, The Geri Freeborn Award: Oluwasegun "Bisi" Alawode |
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| Second Year, Overall Winner, The Geri Freeborn Award: Oluwasegun "Bisi" Alawode |
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| Second Year, Overall Winner, The Geri Freeborn Award: Oluwasegun "Bisi" Alawode |
