Co-Vice Presidents of Competition Susan Phillips and Beth Morris welcome you all back to a new and exciting year of competition.! We have a new rule structure that can be found under Meetings/Competition/NVPS Rules of Competition. Please read these rules and decide what class you would like to compete. If you are undecided as to what class you belong, Susan and Beth will be available to discuss at the first two meetings of the year and after.

We have three themes this year:

• “Abandoned And Discarded” October 15th with judge Alan DeFelice
• “Out Of Place” January 21 with judge Jim Steele
• ” Famous Places” April 15 with judge Sue Bloom

We also look forward to judges for November 19th–Mary Louise Ravese; December 17– Corey Hilz; February 18–Cindy Hobgood.

Some Competition Reminders:

Images are uploaded the Sunday before competition meeting by 6pm with club password under NVPS Competition upload.

All images must have been captured within two years of competition date.

For prints, please make sure the maker, title, class/category, and date of capture are on the back; with arrow indicating this edge up. Neither name nor title should appear anywhere on the front of photo or mat. Mats must be securely attached.

Sign -in the night of competition by 7:15 PM

Make sure your mat size abides by the rules.

All members will be invited to ” before competition dinner” with the judge at Chili’s of Tyson’s Corner starting at 5:30. Rsvp emails will go out in advance of dinner for a reservation head count from Beth Morris ( tenfrwrd@verizon.net)

Keep in mind competitions are to help us learn and improve our photography. We may not always agree with the results but we will become better photographers through the judges expertise and critiques. And what can more fun than looking at pictures.!

Susan Phillips Co- Vice President of Competition
Beth Morris- Co- Vice President of Competition