[AISdiscuss] AIS 2006 Photo Contest

["K. Loberg" <loberg@adelphia.net>]

Hi everyone!

   Our AIS Photo Contest is now closed.   We have had a wonderful 
participation, as I now have photos filling/overflowing a large binder. 
Our three judges are really going to have a challenge with their judging! 
All photos have been placed on paper and inserted into sheet protectors. 
My shipping box is prepared and they will be shipped to our first judge 
tomorrow.   While I have been organizing the photos, I have also had the 
opportunity to scan all pages which gives me a backup, and prepares me for 
the later job of presenting winners on a web page.

   The photos have been just amazing and it's been a joy to see and admire 
them.  I'll have more of a report later, and hopefully have the judging 
results around the first of October.

   I did want to report about the contest entry forms.   Forty seven 
percent (47%) of the contestants used the AIS bulletin form when submitting 
their entries and the other fifty three percent (53%) used a form they 
retrieved from the internet, either the AIS web page or Region 14 web page, 
or from another source such as a Section bulletin.   Most individuals 
submitted five photos, but some only submitted one or two photos.

   Seventy two percent (72%) waited until the month of August to send in 
their entries, even though the contest had been printed in the April 
bulletin issue and was on the web pages as well.

   We have had one entry from a Youth.   I have had two entries mailed from 
France.

   It has been fun so far, and I can't wait until I hear back from the 
judges!

Kitty Loberg

AIS Photo Contest Chair

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