Competition Winners and Awards

Gold Medal – Rick McKenzie

Silver Medal – Lance Gitter

Bronze Medal – Yun Wang

Honourable Mention:

• William Dai
• Jonathan Sau
• Pierre Pomerleau
• Barbara Marszalek
• Hans Holtkamp
• Laura Ranallo
• Rhonda Starr

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place – Rick McKenzie’s image entitled “A Drop of Cream in Your Coffee?”
• 2nd Place – Rick McKenzie’s image entitled “A Splash of Strawberry”
• 3rd Place – Lance Gitter’s image entitled “Broach Shaped Snowflake”

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to the hosting club Jiahua Elite Photography Association

Competition Winners and Awards

Gold Medal – Marianna Armata (Lakeshore Camera Club)

Silver Medal – Lois Burton

Bronze Medal – IIana Block (Montreal Camera Club)

Honourable Mention:

• Rhonda Starr (Richmond Hill Camera Club)
• Norman Dougan (Kamloops Photo Arts Club)
• Yun Wang (Jiahua Elite Photography Club)
• Adrienne Zoe (Grand River Imaging & Photographic Society)
• Jocelyne Feizo (Club Photo Impression)
• Lance Gitter (Richmond Hill & Toronto Digital Photographic Club)
• Missy Mandel (Toronto Digital Photographic Club)
• Pierre Pomerleau (Les Capteurs Photo de Granby)
• Julie Hay (London Camera Club)
• Leah Gray (Victoria Camera Club)
• Thomas Dethlefsen (Crescent Beach Photography Club)
• Ann Alimi (Toronto Camera CLub
• Barbara Marszalek (Etobicoke Camera Club)
• Jacqui Jeruzalski
• Pat Zuest (Toronto Camera Club)
• Murray ONeill (Lions Gate Camera Club)
• Rachel Bilodeau (Montreal Camera Club)
• William Bickle (Napanee Photo Club)

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place Merit – Animal – Lois Burton’s image “Summer Hummer”
• 2nd Place Merit – Animal -Yun Wang’s (Jiahua Elite Photography Club) image “Stoke Fighting With Heron”
• 3rd Place Merit – Animal –  Norman Dougan’s (Kamloops Photo Arts Club) image “Running Takeoff”
• 1st Place Merit – Closeup – Heather Loewenhardt’s (Central Okanagan Photographic Society) image “Dragonfly In Amber”
• 2nd Place Merit – Closeup – Marianna Armata’s (Northshore Camera Club) image “Mushroom Caps”
• 3rd Place Merit – Closeup – Julie Hay’s (London Camera Club) image “Frog On Flower”
• 1st Place Merit – Landscape – Daniel Benn’s (Lakeshore Camera Club) image “Namibian Night Sky”
• 2nd Place Merit – Landscape – Lois Burton’s image “Autumn Impressions”
• 3rd Place Merit – Landscape – Peter Coombes’ (Foothills Camera Club) image “Amble Harbour Light”
• 1st Place Merit – Person – Jim Hatch (Langley Camera Club)
• 2nd Place Merit – Person – Olivia Dolinsky’s (Manitoba Camera Club) image “Nobody Can Force My Beauty To Hide”
• 3rd Place Merit – Person – David Laronde’s (Lions gate Camera Club) image “Digging by the Light”
• 1st Place Merit – Urban – Marcelle Lemieux’s image “Lueurs dans la Citerne Basilique”
• 2nd Place Merit – Urban – Dandan Liu’s image “Dialogue”
• 3rd Place Merit – Urban – Randall Epp’s (Surrey Camera Club) image “The Orpheum”

Congratulations to the winners.

Competition Winners and Awards

Gold Medal – Grand River Imaging & Photographic Society

Silver Medal – London Camera Club

Bronze Medal – The Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto

Honourable Mention:

• Lions Gate Camera Club
• Toronto Camera Club
• Focus Camera Club
• Etobicoke Camera Club
• Images Alberta Camera Club
• Montreal Camera Club

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place Merit – Animal – Grant Gallant’s image “American Kestrel feeds”
• 2nd Place Merit – Animal – Yun Wang’s image “European roller catching a snake”
• 3rd Place Merit – Animal – Katherine Waybrant’s image “A Pine Marten Moment”
• 1st Place Merit – Closeup – Karen von Knobloch’s image “Ruby Throated Hummingbird”
• 2nd Place Merit – Closeup – Bill Niessen’s image “Red Eyes Tree Frog”
• 3rd Place Merit – Closeup – George Mitchell’s image “Bee in Daisy”
• 1st Place Merit – Landscape – Peter Lau’s image “Return in Yunnan Rice Terraces”
• 2nd Place Merit – Landscape – Lynn Fulton’s image “Beneath the Northern Sky”
• 3rd Place Merit – Landscape – Philip Chang’s image “Light Cove”
• 1st Place Merit – Person – Heather Fryer’s image “Voices of Change”
• 2nd Place Merit – Person – Steve Donnelly’s image “Himba Mother”
• 3rd Place Merit – Person – Robert Conchie’s image “Long Way From Home”
• 1st Place Merit – Urban – Marg Foley’s image “Looking Up”
• 2nd Place Merit – Urban – Mike Hirak’s image “Chicago”
• 3rd Place Merit – Urban – Carole Duhaime’s image “Molson Brewery”

Congratulations to the winners.

Competition Winners and Awards

Gold Medal – Richmond Hill Camera Club

Silver Medal – St. Catharines Photographic Club

Bronze Medal – The Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto

Honourable Mention:

• Langley Camera Club
• Central Okanagan Photographic Society
• Camera 35 St. Johns
• Montreal Camera Club

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place Merit – Dave Dennis’s image “Drip-Drop” (Photographic Arts Club of Newmarket)
• 2nd Place Merit – Margaret Krzepkowski’s image “Flower” (Richmond Hill Camera Club)
• 3rd Place Merit – Ron Gesser’s image “Suri Boy” (Montreal Camera Club)

Congratulations to the winners.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – London Cameral Club

Silver Medal – Jiahua Elite Photography Association

Bronze Medal – Victoria Camera Club

Honourable Mention:

• Montreal Camera Club
• Manitoba Camera Club

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place – Don Rycroft – “Female Eastern Bluebird”
• 2nd Place – Kayla Stevenson – “Zion Arch”
• 3rd Place – Bob Hansen – “Nuxalk Net Minder”

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to the hosting club Red River Exhibition Association.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Montreal Camera Club 

Silver Medal – Lions Gate Camera Club

Bronze Medal – Images Alberta Camera Club

Honourable Mention:

• Crescent Beach Photography Club
• Etobicoke Camera Club
• Richmond Hill Camera Club
• Trillium Photographic Club

Merit Awards:

• • 1st Place – Mufty Mathewson’s image “Redress On Crown Land”
  • 2nd Place – Geoff Dunn’s image “A Melange of Colours”
  • 3rd Place – Theresa Bryson’s image “Dances of the Galaxies”

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to Derek Hayes & CAPA members who hosted this competition.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Trillium Photographic Club

Silver Medal – Grand River Imaging And Photographic Society

Bronze Medal – Toronto Camera Club

Honourable Mention:

• Toronto Digital Photography Club
• Montreal Camera Club
• Jiahua Elite Photography Association

Merit Awards:

1st Place – Bela Acs’ (Trillium Photographic Club) image entitled “Global Warming”

2nd Place – Dana Wamsley’s (Grand River Imaging Photographic Society) image entitled “Little Girl – Big Dreams”

3rd Place – Rozanne Pate’s (Vernon Camera Club) image entitled “End of the Trail”

Congratulations to the winners and all photographers who submitted their outstanding images into this competition.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Richard Adams

Silver Medal – Marianna Armata

Bronze Medal -He Zhao

Honourable Mention:

• Carmin Cristofaro
• Peter Coombes
• Isabel Kelly
• Hans Arnold
• Llaesa North
• Randall Epp
• Rhonda Starr
• Theresa Bryson
• Adrienne Zoe
• Arjuna Somaskandan
• Vivian Martin
• Francine Raymond
• Benoit Larochelle
• Jonathan Sau
• Judy Griffin
• Yun Wang

Merit Awards:

1st Place – Carmin Cristofaro’s image “Stripes“

2nd Place – Llaesa North’s image “Tulip In Pewter“

3rd Place -Richard Adams’ image “Way Out“

Congratulations to the winners and all photographers who submitted their outstanding images into this competition.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Richmond Hill Camera Club

Silver Medal – Toronto Camera Club

Bronze Medal – London Camera Club

Honourable Mention

• Langley Camera Club
• Toronto Digital Photography Club
• Trillium Photographic Club

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place Merit – Lily Markovic’s image “Mermaid” – Toronto Camera Club
• 2nd Place Merit – Marie Algeri-Goldgrub’s image “Leopard Scarf” – Richmond Hill Camera Club
• 3rd Place Merit – Rick McKenzie’s image “Pixie Dust” – Hamilton Camera Club

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to the Richmond Hill Camera Club  for hosting this competition.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Richmond Hill Camera Club

Silver Medal – Crescent Beach Photography Club

Bronze Medal – Etobicoke Camera Club

Honourable Mention

• Montreal Camera Club
• Toronto Digital Photography Club
• Langley Camera Club

Merit Awards:

• Roy Abbot (Crescent Beach Photography Club)
• Bela Acs (Trillium Photographic Club)
• Rick McKenzie (Hamilton Camera Club)

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to the CAPA Director of Competitions for hosting this competition.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Montreal Camera Club

Silver Medal – St. Catharines Photographic Club

Bronze Medal – The Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto

Honourable Mention:

• Richmond Hill Camera Club
• Toronto Digital Photo Club
• Toronto Camera Club
• Lakeshore Camera Club
• Lions Gate Camera Club

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place Merit Award – Rachel Bilodeau (Montreal Camera Club) – “Snowy Ow;’s Majesty”
• 2nd Place Merit Award – Kathy McDevitt (Montreal Camera Club) – “Rural Beauty”
• 3rd Place Merit Award – Rene Watteel (Lions Gate Camera Club) – “Alone”

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to the competition host – CAPA Director of Competitions.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Jiahua Elite Photography Association

Silver Medal – Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia

Bronze Medal – Club photo impression

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place Merit-Botany Award – Marianna Armata (Lakeshore Camera Club) – image “Clematis Seed Convergence”
• 2nd Place Merit-Botany Award – Don Lewis (Focus Camera Club) – image “In Autumn Leaves Every Leaf is a Flower”
• 3rd Place Merit-Botany Award – Jocelyne Gagnon (Focus Camera Club) – image “Pink Lupin”
• 1st Place Merit-Landscape Award – Keith Walker (Foothills Camera Club) – image “Mount Garabaldi Sunrise”
• 2nd Place Merit-Landscape Award – Rob Patterson (London Camera Club) – image “Aurora at Pontoon Lake”
• 3rd Place Merit-Landscape Award – Katherine Wong (The Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto) – image “Dawn at Cerro Torre”
• 1st Place Merit-Nature Award – Suzanne Huot (Victoria Camera Club) – image “Red Eyed Tree Frog”
• 2nd Place Merit-Nature Award – Michel Cote (Club photo impression) – image “Pret pour le poisson”
• 3rd Place Merit-Nature Award – George Mitchell (Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia) – image “Jumping Spider”
• 1st Place Merit-Wildlife Award – Richard Li (Jiahua Elite Photography Association) – image “Cheetah Catching A Wildbeast”
• 2nd Place Merit-Wildlife Award – Zhiwen Li (Jiahua Elite Photography Association) – image “Death Attack”
• 3rd Place Merit-Wildlife Award – Ziagyan Ye (Jiahua Elite Photography Association) – image “Leopard Hunting”

Honourable Mention:

• Daniel Rondeau
• Maurice Melanson
• Leah Gray
• Daniel Benn
• Leonard Modderman
• Etsuko Dethlefsen
• Jean Gouin
• Marek Pleszczynski
• Rachel Schneiderman
• David Laronde
• Manfred Mueller
• Missy Mandal
• IIana Block
• Jonathan Sau
• Geri Porteous
• Heather Loewenhardt
• Michele Broadfoot
• Richard Brouillet

Congratulations to all participants who submitted their images to this competition.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Maurice Melanson

Silver Medal – Virginia Stranaghan

Bronze Medal – Natalya Gunde

Merit Awards:

• 1st Place Merit-Botany Award – Lance Gitter with image “Bracket Fungus”
• 2nd Place Merit-Botany Award – Maurice Melanson with image “Pine Drop”
• 3rd Place Merit-Botany Award – Sylvia Rourke with image “Dryad Saddle Mushroom”
• 1st Place Merit-Landscape Award – Daniel Benn with image “Icelandic Ice, Vatnaj kull National Park”
• 2nd Place Merit-Landscape Award – Francine Duquette with image “Au dessus des nuages!”
• 3rd Place Merit-Landscape Award – Tony Roberts with image “Glacier Bay”
• 1st Place Merit-Nature Award – Robert Parker with image “Snowy Owl”
• 2nd Place Merit-Nature Award – Mary Chamber with image “Hanging Bat”
• 3rd Place Merit-Nature Award – David Peel with image “Eurasian Eagle Owl”
• 1st Place Merit-Wildlife Award – Paule Hjertaas with image “On The Move”
• 2nd Place Merit-Wildlife Award -Bruce Raby with image “Nesting Time”
• 3rd Place Merit-Wildlife Award – David Laronde with image “Battle Between Zebras”

Honourable Mention:

• Mary Chambers
• Randall Epp
• Sandra Hawkins
• Heather Loewenhardt
• Daniel Benn
• Davide Larone
• Guy L. Brun
• Tony Roberts
• Claire LeBlanc
• Colleen Sayer
• Bruce Shapka
• Thomas Dethlefsen
• Ying Shi
• Carol Ann Ryan
• Mathieu Chiasson
• Mike Wooding
• Pia O’Leary

Congratulations to all participants who submitted their images to this competition. There were 988 images submitted into this competition and were judged by two separate judging panels.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – IIana Block

Silver Medal – Norman Dougan

Bronze Medal – Anthony Bucci

Merit Awards:

• 1st – IIana Block’s image “Five Muddy Lions And A Wildebeest”
• 2nd – Mike Wooding’s image “Emma’s Dancers Mating”
• 3rd – Missy Mandel’s image “Red-necked Grebes Mating”

Botany Award:

• 1st – Bruce Gunion’s image “Fungi Family”
• 2nd – Bruce Shapka’s image “Poppy”
• 3rd – Martin Ross’ image “Shooting Star”

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the hosting club – Richmond Hill Camera Club.

Competition Winners & Awards

Gold Medal – Missy Mandel

Silver Medal – Olivia Dolinsky

Bronze Medal – Rachel Schneiderman

Merit Awards

• 1st Place – Missy Mandel – “Grizzly Portrait”
• 2nd Place – Olivia Dolinsky – “Sky Is The Limit”
• 3rd Place – Rachel Schneiderman – “Eastern Bluebird”

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the hosting club Red River Exhibition Association.

Competition Results & Awards

Gold Medal – Richard Adams

Silver Medal – Llaesa North

Bronze Medal – Adrienne Zoe

Honourable Mention Ribbons:

• Murray ONeill
• Yves Keroack
• Glenn Springer
• Grant Dale
• Lorraine Deslauriers
• Arjuna Somaskandan
• Fern Gitter
• Rhonda Starr
• Antia Hubbard
• Ellie McCrea

Merit Award Ribbons:

• 1st Place – Leah Gray’s image “Wild Dance”
• 2nd Place – Yves Keroack’ image “Happy Halloween”
• 3nd Place – Adrienne Zoe’s image “Dahlia Dazzle”

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to Derek Hayes & CAPA members who hosted this competition.