NJLHS Annual People's Choice Photo Contest

2012 Art Contest
Judy Boucher

When is a photo contest not a photo contest?

When it is an "Art Contest". The March 2012 meeting will feature the new contest format. Photos will be included, but other art mediums have been added. You may submit any art medium you wish, anything YOU have created. Have you been painting? Quilting? Stitching? Building? The new and expanded categories are:

Paintings

Oil or water color

Any Needlepoint

Counted Cross-stitch
Embroidery
Needle Point
Quilt

Sculptures (any type of materials)
Wood
Photos

Black & White
Night time
Color
Masters' *
    8x10 matted to 11x14 only
    Only 2 photos may be entered in any of the first 3 listings.
   * The Masters’ category will have ONLY first place winners from the last two years and can only
       submit 1 photo.
       Masters category participants are:
           William McKelvey
           Kathleen Eustace
           Winnie McKelvey
           Robert Rogers
           Mike Boucher
       Al Smith
           Mazza

With the increased number of categories we will need more members to assist with registering entries and counting the ballots. Please let me know if you can lend a hand. Email: jamc1mvp@aol.com or call 845-787-4807

Looking forward to seeing your creations!

For a printable copy of the entry form, click on this line.

Looking ahead to 2013

Photo Contest Categories for 2013 will be for the NJLHS 2014 calendar. The category will be of NEW JERSEY LIGHTHOUSES ONLY, 8x10 matted to 11x14, landscape format (horizontal) only. Each member will be able to submit 2 entries in each group. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finisher's photos will be used for the calendar. The photo getting the most votes (Best of show) will be on the cover of the calendar. The Board of Directors will decide which photo will go with which month. All winning photos will become the property of the NJLHS.

The categories for the calendar will be:

Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall

If this years contest does well, we will continue it but there will definitely be a photo contest in 2013.
Check back here for updates as we get closer to the contest.