GNEDSO -2 is coming!

Dates have been set for the next GNEDSO -2. 

 The competition begins on Friday June 18th, and ends one minute before midnight on Monday, June 21st.  Photographers will shoot digital pictures, anywhere in New England, (no Studio Shots) during the summer solstice weekend. The same rules will apply as last year. There is a $25 application fee payable to Top Floor Learning. Applications are available at www.topfloorlearning.org . (go to on-line registration and put gnedso-2 in place of class). All proceeds go to Top Floor Learning, Palmer’s Literacy Program.

Great Prizes: Worth over $1000 total prizes

• Best in Show: $250 in cash and Software from Hunts Photo and Video ($250 value)
• First Place: $200 in Cash and 24×36 Wall print from Giclée of New England, Inc. ($70 value)
• Second Place: $150 in cash and Gift Certificate for Dinner at Mohegan Sun ($100 value)
• Third Place: $100 and Class from Top Floor Learning ($120 value)
• Fourth Place: $ 75 and Gift Certificate for Dinner at Steaming Tender Restaurant ($40 value)
• Fifth Place: $50 in Cash
• Sixth Place: MP3 Player

The Great New England Digital Shootout is thankful for the sponsorship of the following businesses and organizations:

Hunts Photo and Video, Top Floor Learning, Giclée of New England, Inc., Country Bank for Savings, Monson Savings Bank, Southbridge Savings Bank,  Mohegan Sun Resorts, Steaming Tenders Restaurant, Hampden Bank, and Massachusetts Cultural Council.

08-19-09 Upload

morning dew trapped in a spider’s

The dam guard

Hisgen House cellar door

08-17-09 uploads

Out of Service Station

VT Barn

08-15-09 uploads

sunflower embracing the last rays of sunshine

Hadley twins

Busy bees on a Sunflower

Near Sunset

North Amherst just as the sun was setting

08-14-09 Uploads

 

 

More precisely, a Dragonfly Eyes his lunch, a buglet on the next branch.

Paint Horse. Feeding Hills, MA

Feeding Hills MA

My son takes a break from exploring at Old Sturbridge Village

We are waiting to bloom.

08-13-09 Uploads

 

Full Moon

Luke, er feeding the goat

Traveling back in time

One of the barriers at Conant Dam area

Green Tomatoes

This little guy seemed to enjoy having his picture taken

08-12-09 Uploads

August Sunrise on South Pond

Early Morning Flight on South Pond

Walked around the corner just in time.

Jeweled web encircles this garden spider waiting for a sunrise breakfast

“The three amigos… “

“Some say silence is golden… but I must say that so is solitude…”

Beauty on the edge

barefoot boy

Summer Gazebo

Corn Field

duckling

bird in the hand

Wire Fence

Tall Trees

08-11-09 Upload

Wagon Wheel

Full Moon

First Uploads for the GNEDSO

First uploads from the Great New England Digital Shootout. 08-07-09.

Pond Lily

Lily 2

Less than a Month Away

The First Annual Great New England Digital Shootout is less than a month away. Things are getting ready. Now is the time to register for this event. Go to www.topfloorlearning.org  to sign-up.  This will be a fun event and proceeds go to a good cause.