The 39th William M Glennie International Club Nature Competition was held by the Merrimack Valley Camera Club in North Andover, Massachusetts, USA earlier in 2020. The competition attracted 46 Camera Clubs from the USA and 22 from clubs from Canada, South Africa, Australia and the UK. The Club competition winners are based on the aggregate score of 10 images submitted by each club with no more than 2 images by any one photographer.

It was a good competition for CAPA Clubs with two Ontario Clubs in the top six. The London Camera Club came in first with an aggregate score of 256, with The Toronto Digital Photography Club (TDPC) coming in 5th equal with a score of 250.  The other clubs in the top six were two from Australia, one from the USA and one from the UK.

Missy Mandel from TDPC was Best of Show with an image entitled “Silver Fox Vixen Feeding” that scored a perfect 30.  The London Camera Club had 1 Judges Award, 2 First in Category Awards and 1 Merit Award. Other members of TDPC had 3 Merit Awards. Two other CAPA Clubs gained Merit Awards (Richmond Hill CC, Ontario and Victoria Camera Club, BC).

 

Silver Fox Vixen Feeding by Missy Madel

 

 

 

Ontario Zone Dominates Canada’s Entries in 2020 Four Nations Competition

The selection of Canada’s images for submission in the 2020 Four Nations Competition has been completed – and congratulations to the Ontario Zone; images from individuals in this zone dominated.  The competition required 80 different photographs from 80 different photographers, and Canada’s submission consists of;  15 Nature, 15 Monochrome, 35 Open, 15 My Country.

Images from Ontario Zone members constituted 46% of Canada’s entries, with five members from the Jiahua Elite Photography Association, five from the Toronto Camera Club, four from the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto, four from the London Camera Club, three from the Richmond Hill Camera Club, two from the Grand River Imaging and Photographic Society, two from the Trillium Photographic Club, and one each from the St. Catherine’s club, the Hamilton Camera Club and the Toronto Digital Photography Club. As well there were three images from individuals in the zone who did not identify any club affiliation.

Congratulations to all those who entered, and particularly to those selected. The Four Nations international competition closes on June 24, 2020 and we should receive the results in late July or August.