December Competition

Tueday, December 16th

Open Competition (no theme)

 

December's judge will be Jim Sollo. Please plan on joining Jim for dinner at Chili's at 6pm before the competition.

 

Jim has submitted the bio statement and perspectives below. 

 

 

Jim Sollo has been a member of NVPS since 1982. While he no longer attends many of the organizations' meetings, he always come to the annual NVPS Banquet and is continually impressed with the quality and creativity of the the images made by the NVPS members. During the period that he competed in NVPS photo competitions he has won numerous awards for his images including Photographer of the Year and Slide of the Year. A complete failure in Black and White photography (he never could make a satisfactory print), and a near Luddite when it comes to making digital images, he continues to work exclusively in color slides.  In spite of these deficiencies in his skills and abilities, he like to think that he brings the same criteria to judging all images. And having taken thousands of really awful images himself, he feels well-qualified to discuss  - at length  - just about every mistake an aspiring photographer can make.  

 

Jim believes that photography is an art form, and as such it is not a competitive enterprise. Nonetheless, in the spirit that Dave Carter, Joe Miller, Jim Steele and the other fine photographers within NVPS who have provided photographic critiques of members images, he believes that we can all learn things from each other as we discuss images. He hopes that his critique of images presented during the December competition will encourage all the presenting photographers and will be useful to them in evaluating and improving their own images.  

         

Jim admits to being drawn to images with strong visual content, dynamic use of color or tonality, where some thought has been given to composition. Artistically, he is partial toward images which capture or create a sense of mood or stir emotions. He appreciates imagery which shows us something familiar in a unique or unexpected way and he gravitates toward images which provide an interpretive or impressionistic view of a subject, rather than a documentary approach. 

 

Submitted by:

Sandi Croan

Co-VP Competitions

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