End of Year Awards 2024
Our winners 2024 © Karen Malbon
2024 season of Williamstown Camera Club is now behind us.
This year saw the return of Prints to our pool of competitions.
We thank all of our presenters, judges, fellow committee members, and members at large, who have shared their skills and knowledge with us throughout 2024, we look forward to 2025 and all it will bring for us. Check out our calendar page.
We continue to be grateful to the members who choose to remain part of our club, you are all wonderful people with whom we love spending time.
Our competitions wouldn't be possible without the work of our Competition Steward, Tania Chalmers, who keeps them rolling along like a well-oiled machine. Thank you Tania.
Now on to the awards...
Image of the year 2024
Congrats to our winners of our images of the year. We had a bunch of images, from which, a judging panel from Corio Bay Camera Club, for judging our club's work, made their final selections.
A Grade Images of the Year
Digital
"Lake Camp Reflections" by Allan Williams
"High Stick" by Phil Taylor
B Grade Images of the Year:
Digital
"Autumn on the Windscreen" by Robyn Bartlett
"Racing" by Cas Bukor
Special Mentions
The judging panel from Corio Bay Camera Club also chose to mention a few other favourite entries.
A-Grade Mentions
"Get that camera out of my face" by Ian Gofton - A Grade - Digital
"Walking the Red Carpet" - Gayle Tout - B-Grade Print
B-Grade Mentions
"A little ray of Sunshine, Maligne Canyon Jasper, Canada" - Darryl Martin - B Grade - Digital
Material Flow - Wade Buchan - A-Grade - Print
2024 Aggregate Award Winners
Our aggregate awards are determined from points awarded to entries over the 2024 regular competition season. Members are awarded
- 1 point for each entry,
- 10 points for first place,
- 6 points for second,
- 4 points for third, and
- 2 points for Highly Commended.
These points aggregate over the year to form the final point score for the season.
| Digital | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-Grade | Points | B-Grade | Points | |
| 1st | Monique Whear | 52 | Darryl Martin | 48 |
| 2nd | Wade Buchan | 51 | Cas Bukor | 47 |
| 3rd | Kathryn Hocking | 49 | Michael Costa | 46 |
| A-Grade | B-Grade | |||
| 1st | Wade Buchan | 68 | Tracey Noonan | 84 |
| 2nd | Monique Whear | 60 | Gayle Tout | 72 |
| 3rd | Ian Street | 49 | Cas Bukor | 61 |
Take a look back through our galleries to see the work of these folk and the winning entries by all of our members.
Promotion to A-Grade
The movement from B-Grade to A is recognition of the member's growth in skill and execution of the art of photography. We look forward to these newly-promoted members continuing their winning ways in the coming years as their work in 2024 has shown them to be quite exceptional.
This year we also saw a number of members progress from B-Grade to A-Grade: Congratulations to:
- Tracey Noonan, and
- Cas Bukor
We trust all members had a wonderful 2024 and we look forward to seeing you all in 2025.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all!