Fort Worth Camera Club
We also publish the monthly winners in our Award Winning Images post. Some print images are included. Find judge’s comments (member log in required.)
In-person meetings are suspended until further notice, but digital competition continues. Stay healthy and safe, follow COVID-19 protection precautions.
These images are winners in 2020 monthly club member competitions.
Images are identified by title; award (1st, 2nd, 3rd, honorable mention, Best in Show); category (B = Beginner, A = Advanced, M= Master); followed by photographer’s name, date. If image is slow to load, be patient or refresh the page.
Enjoy, but remember: these images are copyrighted by the photographer. Contact us on Facebook or by email if you want more information. Or, do an online search for “stock photos.”
Update, Oct. 2 – Fort Worth Camera Club retained the bird trophy, above, for 2021 after earning 168 points to 165 for the Dallas Camera Club at the 2020 competition. Watch judging on Zoom.
Fort Worth Camera Club has won every year since 2007. The contest is alternately hosted by each club, and has been held since 1964, except 1975 and 2016. The Competition Committee selects Fort Worth entries submitted by club members.
The Bird competition began when Emily Guthrie Smith suggested that an annual contest would be fun for both clubs. Smith was a Fort Worth native and nationally known artist and teacher. Her works are in private collections, museums and the Archives of American Artists in the Smithsonian Institution.
She donated and carved the trophy, a wood sculpture engraved with the winning club’s name, but the reason she chose a bird is not known. The trophy is perched on the podium at our club meetings, but is currently nesting elsewhere to avoid COVID-19.
Bird image courtesy of Dallas Camera Club; history courtesy of Lifetime Members Becky Scott and Robert Chura.
We also publish the monthly winners in our Award Winning Images post. Some print images are included. Find judge’s comments (member log in required.)
In-person meetings are suspended until further notice, but digital competition continues. Stay healthy and safe, follow COVID-19 protection precautions.
As we continue with public health precautions for Covid-19, your Contest Committee has made these changes to contests until we can resume meeting in person.
If you have questions, please contact Shawn Gibson or Ken Spencer .
Thank you, stay safe.
Be sure to follow Corona virus (COVID-19) precautions: stay home if you are coughing or feel sick or think you may have been exposed, cough and sneeze into your elbow rather than your hands, don’t shake hands, don’t touch your face, use hand sanitizer.
