NCUPS Competition Results Announced

Way to go to all the Wetpixel members. A great showing and congrats to David Barrio on the Best of Show placing.

Well Done!

"44th Annual SEA International Underwater Photographic Competition organized by the Northern California Underwater Photographic Society! The judging has been held and a list of the results are on the NCUPS website at http://www.ncups.org/sea.html. It was an excellent competition and you should all be proud of your entries. The judges had a really tough time narrowing down the favorites to pick out the winners. The images and judging comments will be uploaded to the NCUPS website soon.

And the winners are…

ADVANCED

MACRO:

First Place: Csaba Tokolyi

Second Place: Keri Wilk

Third Place: Linda Cline

Honorable Mentions:

Istavan Juhasz

Cal Mero

Uwe Schmolke

WIDE ANGLE:

First Place: David Barrio

Second Place: Gary Brennand

Third Place: Keri Wilk

Honorable Mentions:

Alexey Stoyda

Todd Winner

Todd Winner

CALIFORNIA:

First Place: David Hinkel

Second Place: Chuck Tribolet

Third Place: Randy McMeins

Honorable Mentions:

Victor Zucker

Nancy Barnett

Nancy Barnett

CREATIVE:

First Place: Alexey Stoyda

Second Place: Sumer Verma

Third Place: Patti Baugh

Honorable Mentions:

David Hinkel

Patti Baugh

PRINT:

First Place: Brad Brown

Second Place: Keri Wilk

Third Place: Keri Wilk

Honorable Mentions:

Brad Brown

Nancy Barnett

Harry Andrews

NOVICE

MACRO:

First Place: Stephen Holinsky

Second Place: Kendra Karr

Third Place: Karen Kessel

Honorable Mention:

Rockford Draper

WIDE ANGLE:

First Place: Matt Weiss

Second Place: Stephen Holinski

Third Place: Rockford Draper

Honorable Mention:

Stephen Holinski

CREATIVE:

First Place: Stephen Holinski

Second Place: Stephen Holinski

Third Place: Stephen Holinski

Honorable Mention:

Rockford Draper

CALIFORNIA:

Combined with Advanced California.

PRINT:

Combined with Advanced Print.

ALL SKILL LEVELS

CONSERVATION:

First Place: Csaba Tokolyi

Second Place: Keri Wilk

Third Place: David Hinkel

Honorable Mention:

Istvan Juhasz

VIDEO:

First Place: Robert Williams

Second Place: Walter Marti

Third Place: Edward Snijders

Honorable Mention:

Edward Snijders

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Congratulations to all the winner! NCUPS is a tough competition, so you've earned some praise!

Congratulations to all the winner! NCUPS is a tough competition, so you've earned some praise!

Thanks Jim, and Mr Mintz up there also. I have always enjoyed both your images a great deal; especially the ones I was priveleged enough to see at the Smithsonian this summer (think I went 6 times in the end).

I've been a frequent reader here on wetpixel, and was hoping my first post would be in the criticism section when I finally got my photo's up on Flickr but it mind as well be here!

I just can't wait until I actually get to see which images of mine they liked! (and to see if that is indeed a typo on my name) Though I realize the Novice category isn't nearly as competitive as the Open category I was happy to do well in my first contest.

Stephen Holinski

Alberta Canada

And let's not forget the grand slam: Best of Show and winner of the Bob Commer Award of Excellence, David Barrio

Congrats to all!

Stephen H, thats a nice start to contesting, you "embraced" the category, well done!!!

zook

Hey, cool another Canadian!

Novice could be even more competitive for all you know so do not discount your placing. It is a great accomplishment. Where in Alberta are you? I am next door in SK.

Thank you also for the compliment. Glad to hear you got to see the exhibit. I was not able to get down to see it this time but had some friends see it.

Congrats again,

Cheers

Todd

Thanks Jim, and Mr Mintz up there also. I have always enjoyed both your images a great deal; especially the ones I was priveleged enough to see at the Smithsonian this summer (think I went 6 times in the end).

 

I've been a frequent reader here on wetpixel, and was hoping my first post would be in the criticism section when I finally got my photo's up on Flickr but it mind as well be here!

 

I just can't wait until I actually get to see which images of mine they liked! (and to see if that is indeed a typo on my name) Though I realize the Novice category isn't nearly as competitive as the Open category I was happy to do well in my first contest.

 

Stephen Holinski

Alberta Canada

Thanks for the kind words.

I am in Edmonton; always nice to see another Canadian from a landlocked province who enjoys underwaterphotography.

Cheers,

Stephen

Hey, cool another Canadian!

 

Novice could be even more competitive for all you know so do not discount your placing. It is a great accomplishment. Where in Alberta are you? I am next door in SK.

 

Thank you also for the compliment. Glad to hear you got to see the exhibit. I was not able to get down to see it this time but had some friends see it.

 

Congrats again,

 

Cheers

 

Todd

Woo hoo! honourable mention!

I'm really chuffed by that as I know how competitive it is

Cal

when will the pics be posted so we can see them? congrats to all. Scott

Congratulations David and all!

We should get this on the front page. Once the pictures are up online I will do it.

Alex

Congratulations to all the winners!

The winning images are now displayed on the NCUPS website http://www.ncups.org.

Again this year, the competition was very tough and the judges had their work cut out for them in picking the winners. The judges this year were Jason Bradley, Steve Rosenberg and Bruce Finocchio. Judging comments will be made available on the SEA 2008 page as soon as I write them up. But I will say that due to the high quality of images in the competition often it came down to the smallest detail in determining the winner over the places.

All entrants should be proud of their work!

Best regards,

Kathy Mendes

SEA Coordinator

www.ncups.org

Congratulations to all. The advanced macro category is particularly stunning. I would have had a very hard time picking between the top three.

Woohooo! High quality images all around everyone, good work!!

A big thanks has to go out to Kathy Mendes and all others involved with organizing this competition.

Beautiful Images all, glad I didn't have to pick. Congrats folks!

Steve

Congratulations to all. The advanced macro category is particularly stunning. I would have had a very hard time picking between the top three.

thaaaaank you!

Thank you everybody and congratulations to the rest of wetpixelers in there!!!!

We (Luisa and I) feel very honoured by this award