Stony Brook placed 21rst out of 91 clubs in an international competition with a combined total of 247.

The first place team (Greater Lynn) scored 261, so we were 14 points behind.

Four of SBCC’s ten images were accepted for the Glennie show; two of them won merit awards.

Here are the SBCC results:

The 2013 Greater Lynn International judging is now history.  Individual report notices will be going out to each member who entered but here are the statistics for the club overall:

37 clubs participated this year, 17 from New England, 1 other USA, 1 Cyberspace (whatever that means), and 18 Foreign.

One of the foreign clubs, the Shangtuf Image and Art Club from China, was the largest participating club with 75 members.

The largest New England club and second largest overall was the Photographic Society of Rhode Island with 40 entrants.

During the judging, each of the three judges score an image between 2 and 5, giving a total possible score of 6 – 15 points.  A score of 12 points was required for an image to be accepted for use in the resulting audiovisual exhibition program.

Club scores are determined by totaling the four scores for each club entrant, then taking the highest 7 of those totals for the Club Total.  Each individual entrant had a possible 60 points for all four images.  Michael Goodman, of both the Gateway Camera Club and the Boston West Camera Club, was the highest individual entrant with a total of 53 points out of a possible 60 points.

The top 3 Clubs were:

            1st - Cape Cod Viewfinders             25 entrants      333 points total.

            2nd  - Gateway                                   15 entrants      331 points total

            3rd – Merrimack Valley                       32 entrants      330 points total

Stony Brook tied for 6th with 28 entrants and 326 points total.  Our 28 members was the fourth largest club this year.

The 7 members whose scores were used for that total were:

Debra Boucher            46 points                     2 acceptances            

Andre Bourque           46 point                       2 acceptances, 1 which received an Honor Award

Daniel Charbonnet      47 points                     3 acceptances, 1 which received an Honor Award

Denise Duhamel          46 points                     2 acceptances

Wendy McIntosh        48 points                     3 acceptances, 1 which received a Judge’s Choice Award

Henny Smith               47 points                     3 acceptances

Monica Verma                        46 points                     3 acceptances

Two additional members received Honor Awards

Glenn Browning

Ray Guillette

If you are not one of the lucky ones who got an acceptance, please do not feel discourages.  The competition was tough, with 5600 images being submitted by top photographers from around the world.  

All members (20 of you) who had acceptances will have their images included in the audiovisual program being developed from the acceptances.  This show will be presented on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 2:00 PM and again on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM.  There is an admission fee of $8.00 per person.  Both showings will be a the Greater Lynn Headquarters located at 654 Boston Street, Lynn, MA. If you do not have GPS that you can program the address into, a map to the Greater Lynn Headquarters is on the Greater Lynn web site.  Barbara Rozavsky, MNEC, will be putting together the show.

Susan Mosser, Chairman of the Greater Lynn International, thanks you all for supporting the Greater Lynn International and I would like to add my personal thanks for supporting Stony Brook’s efforts to make a good showing at this prestigious world-class international competition.

 Daniel Charbonnet, SBCC coordinator for the Greater Lynn International.