Honors Night Results for April
| Assignment | ||||
| Title | Photographer | Points | Total | Award |
| Lady Down on Luck | Patrick, Larry | 21 | 189 | Gold |
| Super Heros To The Rescue | Efting, Bill | 18 | 135 | Gold |
| The Road Past Hana | Clayton, John | 19 | 114 | Gold |
| My Only Sunshine | Stewart, Will | 16 | 96 | Silver |
| Fannin Street | Timme, Jeff | 14 | 84 | Silver |
| Overgrown | Stewart, Will | 14 | 56 | Bronze |
| Open | |||
| Title | Photographer | Points | Award |
| P K | Timme, Jeff | 21 | Gold |
| Gone Fishing | Stewart, Sharon | 21 | Gold |
| Dawn | LeMaster, David | 18 | Silver |
| Texas River Road | Samaranayake, Nuwan | 18 | Silver |
| Feed Me, Seymor | LeMaster, David | 16 | Bronze |
Nuwan Samaranayake - BAPC Photographer of the Year
Our annual Photographer of the Year recognition dinner was held on January 16th. It was our usual pot luck dinner with a spectacular assortment of side dishes and desserts brought in by our members to accompany Texas’ statutory requirement of a Pappa’s barbecue main course. Everyone in attendance gained 2 pounds. If you noticed me carrying a plateful of desserts home after the meeting go ahead and assume I was taking it to someone else.
In order to boost the post-meal energy levels, we held our annual annoying quiz. This year, despite many notices that there would be a general knowledge quiz, members were still unprepared for my quiz on ‘generals’. Nevertheless, grading on the curve, we had 2 winners who walked away with small prizes.
The main event was the presentation of the 2013 Photographer of the Year Award to Nuwan Samaranayake, who edged out a very competitive group of photographers this year. During the year, Nuwan brought in many stunning images that really need to be seen. Take a few minutes to browse Nuwan’s gallery of gold award images to understand why he received this honor for 2013. Lewis Hall was 3 percent behind Nuwan and also has an incredible gallery of photos.
Finally, we conducted about 2 minutes of business in announcing the new slate of officers and committee chairpersons. Barry Armer will be taking on the president’s position for the next 2 years. Prior to his inauguration I explained all the cool things about this job. Now that he is in charge, I will tell him the rest. Good luck Barry.
Bob Dempsey
Immediate Past President
Color Scheme Designer
There was some discussion at our December 5 meeting about the upcoming assignment “complementary colors” for January. Steve Schuenke mentioned a web-based tool called Color Scheme Designer, an interactive color wheel. Below is the link to the web site along with a tutorial on complementary colors where it is used on Phlearn.
Enjoy.
http://www.colorschemedesigner.com/
http://phlearn.com/enhance-complimentary-colors-in-photoshop
How well do you see color?
Take this fun online X-Rite color challenge to test your color acuity. I'll tell you now that I scored a 14; a lower number being better. It does take a few minutes to complete the challenge, but I think you will find it interesting. Shoot me an email with a screenshot of your results and I'll post a small spreadsheet of all our results when I've collected enough of them. I'll leave out any personal data or names, only collecting the results from x number of people.
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
Doug Haass
