Announcing the Winners of This Year's Photo Contest!
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2008-09 Club Photo Contest
Categories for this year:
1. Open Category – any theme, any place
2. Container or Window Box – Your Garden
3. Child or Children in your garden
4.Creatures or Critters in your garden – (real or fake)
5. Close-up of favourite flower in your garden (single specimen or bunch)
6. Your vegetable garden
7. Wildflowers in Nova Scotia
8. Fall season in Nova Scotia
9. Picture taken on house garden tour (2008)
10. Water Garden in your garden
11.Picture with arbour or gate in your garden
12. Winter Scene in your garden (2008-2009)
Division A (film) Prize Winners
Category 1 - Open -
1st, Leah Murray
Category 5 - Closeup of Flower -
1st, Leah Hazelton
Category 12 - Winter Scene -
1st, Leah Murray
Division B (digital) Prize Winners
Category 1 - Open -
1st, Brenda Tate; 2nd, Elsie Ann Ryan; 3rd, Leah Hazelton
Category 2 - Container or Window Box -
1st, Brenda Tate; 2nd, Leah Murray; 3rd, Eileen Watkins
Category 3 - Child/Children in Your Garden -
1st, Leah Hazelton; 2nd, Eileen Watkins
Category 4, Critters in Your Garden -
1st, Bernice Pitman; 2nd, Brenda Tate; 3rd, Leah Hazelton
Category 5 - Closeup of Favourite Flower -
1st, Brenda Tate; 2nd, Leah Murray; 3rd, Leah Hazelton
Category 6 - Your Vegetable Garden -
1st, Eileen Watkins; 2nd, Bernice Pitman
Category 7 - Wildflowers in Nova Scotia -
1st, Brenda Tate
Category 8 - Fall Season in Nova Scotia
1st, Leah Hazelton; 2nd, Brenda Tate; 3rd, Eileen Watkins
Category 9 - Picture Taken on House Garden Tour -
1st, Noreen Trefry; 2nd, Eileen Watkins; 3rd, Elsie Ann Ryan
Category 10 - Water Garden -
1st, Brenda Tate; 2nd, Elsie Ann Ryan; 3rd, Eileen Watkins
Category 11 - Arbour or Gate -
1st, Leah Murray; 2nd, Bernice Pitman; 3rd, Brenda Tate
Category 12 - Winter Scene in Your Garden
1st, Elsie Ann Ryan; 2nd, Bernice Pitman; 3rd, Leah Hazelton
Judge's Choice for Best in Show - Brenda Tate
People's Choice - Brenda Tate
Judge - Sandra Phinney
Contest Chair - Vivian Kennedy
Winning Photos - listed by Category and Placing (for identification, refer to above listings) - thanks to Ann Jones for emailing these images from her Power Point presentation.

A Division - (left to right) category A1, A5, A12 - 1st for all
B Division (below)

B1 - (left to right) 1st, 2nd, 3rd; hummingbird shot - Best in Show, People's Choice

B2 - (left to right) 1st, 2nd, 3rd

B3 - (left to right) 1st, 2nd

B4 - (left to right) 1st, 2nd, 3rd

B5 - (left to right) 1st, 2nd, 3rd

B6 - (left and centre) 1st, 2nd - and B7 (far right) 1st



B10 - (left to right) 1st, 2nd, 3rd


B12 - (left to right) 1st, 2nd, 3rd