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Competitions

2025 O3C Open Challenge

The Ontario Council of Camera Clubs Open Challenge is an annual competition among individuals of the member clubs. Each club member is able to submit up to 12 photographs total into any of eleven categories including Nature Birds, Nature Animals, Nature Botany, Nature Landscape / Geology, Expansive Views, Architecture, People, People in Action, Creative Vision, Pictorial and a Theme topic this year’s being Canadiana. The entered photographs can be divided into the categories in any manner the photographer chooses.

The O3C Open Challenge is an opportunity for our members to present their images to like-minded individuals from other clubs in the Council, and to get at least numerical feedback on their images from a panel of accredited judges. About on third of the images entered make it to the final round, those images being of sufficient quality to be considered contenders for awards.

The 2025 O3C Open Challenge has been announced and John will be sending out the call to our members to participate in this relatively prestigious contest.

Competitions

2024 Grand Valley Image Battle Entrants

The Grand Valley Image Battle (GVIB) is an open competition held every fall with invited clubs in South-Western Ontario, including the Guelph Photographers Guild. This is a club competition, not an individual competition. The 2024 competition was hosted by ours truly, the Guelph Photographers Guild! Each club was limited to 20 submissions that hopefully included as many club members as possible. This year the GPG entered 20 images from 20 individuals with an additional entry in reserve.

This year the Guelph Photographer’s Guild placed fourth out of six clubs who entered, improving on our efforts from last year. The Highland Glen Camera Club (Kitchener-Waterloo), Grand River Imaging and Photographic Society (Kitchener-Waterloo) and Brant Camera Club (Brantford) placed first, second and third respectively with cumulative scores of 451.5, 451.0 and 448 out of a possible 600. The Guild’s cumulative score for the 20 entries was 441. 

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2023-24 O3C Open Challenge

The Ontario Council of Camera Clubs Open Challenge is an annual competition among individuals of the member clubs. Each club member is able to submit up to 12 photographs total, to be divided between eleven categories. Categories include: Nature Animals, Nature Birds, Nature Botany, Nature Landscape / Geology, Expansive Views, People, People in Action, Architecture, Pictorial, Creative Vision and the Theme Topic, this year’s being Food and Drink. The individual member is able to divide their photographs between the categories in any way they choose as long as the photo matches the category.

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December Social 2024 Challenge Winners

Our annual Social was held on Wednesday, December 4th with a relatively good turnout given the nasty weather. Twenty-seven members and two guests were in attendance. Twenty-seven members participated in the challenges. Good eats, good conversations and many very respectable images were entered into our annual friendly competitions, selected by popular choice of the polled audience. First and second place image finishers in each category are posted below. Congratulations to the winners, many thanks to all who participated. Many thanks also to those who helped put together such a successful evening!

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