Past Event - Photo Show 2025
SMAC’s 29th Annual John and Trudy Faber Memorial
Photography Contest and Show
Award Winners
May 16-18, 2025
Kaleidoscope – The Gathering Place
2500 Hardy Road, Hardy, VA
SML Area Scenes
1st Place Elaine Lee Day’s End
2nd Place Michael McCormick Krogers
3rd Place Grant West Morning Fog over Bridgewater Bay
HM Kathryn Orth The Great Flood of 2020
HM Rodney Lewis Blue Day at SML
Landscapes and Seascapes
1st Place Elaine Lee Come into the Fog
2nd Place Kathleen Riordan Florida Wildlife Shore Plants
3rd Place Erich Faber Waterfall of the Gods
HM Karen DeBord Majestic Beauty
Architecture and Design
1st Place Teresa Woodford Late Day’s Shadowa
2nd Place Karen DeBord Up or Down
3rd Place Elaine Lee Roman Ruins
HM Alan Raasch Intricate
People
1st Place Carrie Hodge Phoenix Rising
2nd Place Teresa Woodford Life is Short – Reach for the Bubbles
3rd Place Paula Kolek Never Name It Home
HM Debbie Cressell Perserverance
HM Maddy Cressell Inuit Innocence
HM Kathleen Riordan Swirl
Wildlife and Pets
1st Place Tamara Key Learning How to Share (or Not?)
2nd Place Ray Lekich A Good Day for One – A Bad Day for Another
3rd Place Bill Palmer What’s a Mother to Do?
HM Teresa Woodford Fence Sitter
HM Elaine Lee Dragonfly
Digital Enhancement
1st Place Paula Kolek Gates (way leads to way)
2nd Place Alan Raasch Color Flow
3rd Place Michael McCormick Roots of a Fallen Cypress
Reflections
1st Place Michael McCormick White Egret
2nd Place Alan Raasch Complicated Reflections
3rd Place Jane Murden Counting the Cost
HM Teresa Woodford New Orleans Street Reflection
Youth
1st Place Maddy Cressell Remnants of a Time Passed
2nd Place Sarah Furr Rainy Nights and Big City Lights
3rd Place Cort Workman The Scenic Route
People’s Choice Award – Jane Murden – Counting the Cost
Gallery - Click on photo to see larger image
May 16-18, 2025
Kaleidoscope – The Gathering Place
2500 Hardy Road, Hardy, VA
- Friday, May 16, 6:00 pm – Awards Reception
- Saturday, May 17, 10 am – 4:00 pm.: Public Exhibit open.
- Sunday, May 18, Noon – 3:00 pm: Public Exhibit open.
Download
Rules and Entry Form
Entry Deadline extended to
Wed April 30, 2025
The contest is open to all photographers – casual, amateur and professional.
Awards
Best in Show: $300
1st in Category: $100
2nd in Category: $50
3rd in Category: $25
Special Recognition: Ribbon
Important 2025 Photo Show Deadlines and Dates
- Wednesday, April 23, 2025: Entry Deadline (forms and fees due).
- Tuesday, May 13, 1:00 – 4:00 pm: Photographs must be delivered to Kaleidoscope.
(Please arrange for drop-off/pick-up of your entries if you are unable to do so at designated times.) - Friday, May 16, 6:00 pm: Awards Reception, Kaleidoscope.
- Saturday, May 17, 10 am – 4:00 pm and Sunday, May 18, Noon – 3:00 pm.: Public Exhibit open.
- Sunday, May 18, 3:00 – 4:00 pm.: Photographs must be picked up from Kaleidoscope.
Meet the Judge - Mary Zompetti
Zompetti’s creative process is driven by curious experimentation in the mediums of photography and light-based installation – not in the quest for the perfect, captured moment, but rather for the possibilities that exist when control is relinquished and chance helps guide both the process and questions being asked by the work. This curiosity excites and drives her to push the medium further, seeing what is possible outside the parameters of traditional photographic processes. She is currently investigating concepts relating to home and place, the impermanence of the physical body, and the impact of human-driven change in the natural environment.
Prior to teaching at Hollins, Zompetti had a 15-year career in non-profit arts administration, working as a community builder, educator and mentor to learners of all ages and abilities. She is passionate about teaching, encouraging her students to find unconventional ways to conceptualize their ideas and experiences through photographic media.
