1st Place – Mary Chambers (London Camera Club) – “Twilight”
2nd Place – Norman Dougan (Kamloops Camera Club) – “Whose Hungry”
3rd Place – Missy Mandel (Toronto Digital Camera Club) – “Goldfinches On Tamarack”
Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the competition host – Director of Competitions.
Photograph of Zone Director Lynda Miller presenting Norman Dougan with his Bronze medal for this competition.Photograph of Robert Parker receiving his Honourable Mention Ribbon Bronze from CAPA District Representative Virginia Stranaghan.
1st Place – Rob Kline – “Little Bear, Big Fish” (Richmond Hill Camera Club)
2nd Place – Katie Mak – “Taking A Ride” (The Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto)
3rd Place – Andy Mielzynski – “Going For Gold” (Toronto Digital Photography Club)
Congratulations to the winners and this competition was hosted by the CAPA Director of Competitions.
Debbie Gottkender, a member of the RHCC’s CAPA selection team, awards club President Harvey Rogers, with the Silver Medal in the 2018 My Country Club Competition.Gold Medal presentation to the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society – (left to right): Frankie Chan, Robin Luo, Edward Ho, Jonathan Ward (CAPA District Representative making the presentation) Katherine Wong, Katie Mak and Edwin Ho.
Bronze Medal presentation to Toronto Digital Photo Club. (L to R): CAPA rep Diana Noriel,
Club President Tony Scopazzi, CAPA rep Luba Citrin, photographers Lance Gitter & Roberto Veloso
Competition Winners – 2018 Canada: My Country – Canada: Mon Pays – Individual
Competition Winners & Awards
Gold Medal- Norman Dougan
Silver Medal – IIana Block
Bronze Medal – Robert Parker
Honourable Mention:
Ann Alimi
Harvey Ash
Gail Stephan
Michael Winsor
Laura Ranallo
Leah Gray
William Dai
Merit Awards:
1st Place – IIana Block’s image “Puffins Sharing A Moment In Elliston Newfoundland”
2nd Place – Norman Dougan’s image “Going Hunting”
3rd Place – Jean Wang’s image “Mirror Image With Snowflakes”
Congratulations to the winners and this competition was hosted by the CAPA Director of Competitions.
Photograph of Zone Director Lynda Miller presenting Norman Dougan the Gold Medal for the Canada: My Country ‘Individual’ Competition.Photograph of Zone Director Lynda Miller presenting Norman Dougan with the 2nd Place Merit Award ribbon for his image “Going Hunting.”Photograph of Robert Parker receiving his Bronze Medal from CAPA District Representative Virginia Stranaghan.
James – 1st Place Merit PeoplePat Zuest- 2nd Place Merit – ArchitectureLinda Rosen- 3rd Place Merit (Plant)Tom – Club Gold Monochrome (Toronto Camera Club)Pat – Club Gold Monochrome (Toronto Camera Club)Mark – Club Gold Monochrome (Toronto Camera Club)Linda – Club Gold Monochrome (Toronto Camera Club)James – Club Gold Monochrome (Toronto Camera Club)
Congratulations to the winners and a special thank you to the Victoria Camera Club who hosted this extremely popular competition.
Gold Medal received by Lance Gitter & certificates to Chuck Rowe, Kathy Constantinou, Katherine Wong & Frankie Chan of the Richmond Hill Camera ClubPhotograph of Isabelle Levesque (CAPA District Representative presenting a Honourable Mention Ribbon to Ira Crummey (Vice President of the Focus Camera Club of Moncton, New Brunswick)Photograph of Focus Camera Club members who contributed their images which resulted in the club receiving their first ever Honourable Mention Ribbon in the CAPA Black & White ‘Club’ Competition. Left to right: Maurice Melanson, Rémi Levesque, Ira Crummey, Sherrie Gaudet, Nicolas Biouin and Shawn Harquail (absent).
Richmond Hill Camera Club associate CAPA club rep, Isabel Kelly receiving Nature Gold Medal from Club Host Chairperson Lance Gitter
Richmond Hill Camera Club members (from left to right): Ron Goodlin, Kala Lakhani & Rob Kline, 3 of the 6 photographers receive Gold Certificates from CAPA associate Club Rep Isabel Kelly
CAPA Four Nations Win 2018
This competition is an Inter-Society digital image competition organised annually between:
Australian Photographic Society
Canadian Association of Photographic Art Society
Photographic Society of New Zealand
Photographic Society of South Africa
The aim of this competition is to promote excellence in photography around the world. The best images from each society or association are submitted into four competition categories – Open, Monochrome, Nature and Our Country.
Images are collectively judged by three internationally recognized judges who do not reside in any of the noted countries.
For the 2018 Four Nations competition, there were many outstanding images submitted by all the participating countries. Congratulations to all participants in this competition.
The summary results of this competition are outlined below.
CAPA was awarded 1st place in this competitions for the fourth consecutive year in a row. Our placement in this competition was attributed some outstanding images which collectively received the highest scores in each of the four categories:
Open Monochrome – 2nd highest collective scores
Nature – 1st highest scores
Our Country – 1st highest scores
Open – 1st highest scores
The results from the 4 categories are:
“Tranquil” by Gerry KellyHonourable Mention – Four Nations – Our Country category – “All Things Canadian” by Randall AppHonourable Mention – Four Nations – Our Country category – “Mirror Image With Snowflakes” by Jean WangHonourable Mention – Four Nations – Our Country category – “My Nova Scotia” by George Liberman
Gold Medal – Four Nations – Monochrome category – “children In Marseille” by Zhiwen Li
Honourable Mention – Four Nations – Open category – “Mia” by Andre Reinders
Club Open Gold Medal – Grand River Imaging and Photographic Society (GRIPS) 152.5 points Left to Right: Bill Hall (CAPA District Rep),Julie Seiler, Katherine Waybrant, Karen Von Knobloch, Dana Wamsley, Jonathan Sau (CAPA Club Rep) Missing: Lynn Fulton, Caroline LajoieClub Open – 3rd Merit Award Animal 25.5 points Left to Right: Bill Hall (CAPA District Rep), Katherine WaybrantClub Open – 1st Merit Award Closeup 29.5 points Left to Right: Bill Hall (CAPA District Rep), Karen Von Knobloch
Jonathan Ward presents the Bronze medal and certificates. From left to right: Edwin Ho (President), Anita Lee, Irene Law, Kaisun Law, Kathy Mak, Jonathan Ward, Frankie Chan (CAPA representative).Pacific Zone Rep Lynda Miller presented the 4th place ribbon to the contributing photographers Joan Dolson, Heather Loewenhardt, Cheryl Bramble, Paul Lewendon and Marshall Moleschi (Central Okanagan Photographic Society president).