CPA 5th Annual Digital “Juried” Exhibition - 2025
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Best in Show - This Way and That -Kristopher Schoenleber
1st Place Color - Contemplation (State Hospital) - John Diephouse: I am attracted to a variety of subjects: natural landscapes, botanicals and wildlife to images that provide either abstract expression or social commentary. I am interested in sharing images that evoke a story of some kind. Images may be simply documentary, reflect a sense of time and place, or resonate on an abstract level of color, shape or form. Others provoke an indefinable question that does not readily yield answers without further study and reflection. I have exhibited widely and have earned recognition in local, regional, and national exhibitions. My photographs are also included in several corporate and private collections.
2nd Place Color - Trail Reflection -Annette Shope: I am a Digital Artist/iPhoneographer with experience in experimental photography, digital and analogue photography. I seek out unusual perspectives of nature while out walking, hiking or traveling and allow my eye and instinct to draw me to different aspects and angles that are present in our natural environment. General subjects that I enjoy photographing include plants, trees, mountains, oceans, lakes and landscapes. I strive to make my images evocative for the viewer by adding that extra visual ‘oomph’ in post production by adjusting contrast and saturation. Luckily, I’ve lived in several lush states: Pennsylvania, Southern and Northern California, Colorado, and currently, North Carolina, and have traveled to France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Indonesia, and Mexico. I’ve completed a Graduate Certificate in Digital Media at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina and purchased a mirrorless DSLR to celebrate the milestone.
3rd Place Color - Breaking the Surface - Jim Trull: Jim is a passionate photographer who captures the beauty of what catches his eye, blending creativity with his love for the outdoors. Through his lens, he finds inspiration in nature’s wonders and moments that spark curiosity
Honorable Mention Color - Whooping Crane - Andrew Trenholm: Photography was an early interest of mine, but life intervened and I did little until 2008 when I took up digital photography to keep myself busy in retirement. I am primarily a nature photographer, though I keep trying to expand my horizons. I started shooting birds, broadened out into flowers and macro and in the last few years have dabbled in varied other subject matter. I am self taught and have learned photography through lots of reading, tons of trial and error, and rubbing elbows with fellow photographers.
Honorable Mention Color - A Little Brook in Winter - Jon Meyer: I have been published in LensWork, Black & White, FotoNostrum, and Critica Magazines. Portfolios and individual images have received Spotlight Awards in Black & White Magazine. I have had 3 shows at Durham’s Through This Lens gallery. I was the International Color Awards’ 2019 Amateur Photographer of the Year. I have been juried into exhibits in Boston, Baltimore, Annapolis, Barcelona, Berlin, Middlebury, and Raleigh. I received the 2015 Baltimore Camera Club’s Graham Cromwell Award for the year’s best color print. My image was Best in Show at the CPA’s 2023 16th Annual Juried Print Show.
Honorable Mention Color - Dawn's Ethereal Steam - Lynne Necrason: Lynne started photographing in her youth in Chappaqua, NY and when retired from real estate in Chapel Hill, NC, went full time. Now living in Raleigh, Lynne has traveled in Japan and throughout Europe and the US. She favors minimalistic, atmospheric and contemplative images – fog from Maine to Oregon, snow in Japan or New England and spiritual old churches of Europe. She has appeared in several LensWork publications from 2018 to 2024, has had a solo exhibition at Through This Lens Gallery, has been juried into numerous shows and received a number of awards. Her website is LynneNecrasonPhotography.com.
1st Place Monochrome - Into the Fog - Valerie Dyer: Valerie is an award-winning photographer, originally from Maryland, and recently moved to Tennessee. Photography has been a passion of hers for many years. She has had work exhibited in regional and national shows, as well as online international shows. Her primary focus is in landscape and nature photography. When she is out taking pictures, she looks for scenes which convey mood and emotion, and strives to tell visual stories that connect with the viewer. Valerie is a retired nurse, and enjoys traveling with her husband and visiting her daughter who goes to school in Europe.”
2nd Place Monochrome - Intersecting Stairs - Nicholas Verna: I’ve taken photographs my whole life but it was not until I joined CPA that I truly became a photographer. As a result of the excellent educational presentations and critique groups I have been able to elevate my skills and proficiency as a photographer. Thank you CPA.
3rd Place Monochrome - Rhododendron Season in High Country - Alan Clark: Alan is an award-winning nature and landscape photographer, based in Raleigh, NC. His work has been shaped by 30-plus years of professional environmental state service, training at the Maryland Institiute of Art, and life-long passions for nature and photography. Now retired from state service, he has co-led artistic bird photography workshops and has had his work displayed in numerous local, regional and nationally advertised juried shows and competitions.
Honorable Mention Monochrome - Trees Through a Window Darkly -Raymond Tice: This image was taken through the window of a snow bus in Yellowstone National Park this last February. Winter in Yellowstone is a photographer’s delight and not just because of the animal life that abounds but also for the many landscape possibilities, even when through a window. My first photography experience was as a young adult with film cameras but I quickly moved into using digital cameras once available. However, it was only after retirement in 2015 from Federal service when I joined the NC Chapel Hill Camera Club that my interest and experience in photography really increased. Interacting with club members and having my images critiqued by knowledgeable judges and club members for technical, impact, and composition has made me a much better photographer. Interacting with other club members has also helped me to become experienced in several of the various computer programs available for creative post-processing.
Honorable Mention Monochrome - And all those Books -Peter Foiles: I began my photographic journey as a staff photographer for my High School yearbook more than 50 years ago and have been a passionate practitioner ever since. While starting with film and a darkroom in my parent’s basement I was an early adopter of digital. I enjoy shooting landscapes both urban and natural and am becoming increasingly fond of portraiture. I have been fortunate to have my work juried into local and regional shows in the Hudson Valley region of New York and in the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia region.
Michele Alias - Two in One
Jo Bolton - Peacock in Full color
Mary Eileen Carson - Self-Portrait
Irene Kuo - Anhinga in Profile
Brooke Meyer - American Girls
John Lapp - "The Shard", London
Joe Lipka - The only thing left are memories
Brenda Wynne - La Bottega
Raymond Conrad - The Last Lap
Charles Crabb - Ice on Branch
Harry O'Connor - Clean Sweep
Valerie Dyer - Dahlia macro
Cheng Gong - Culinary Canvases-Millet Pepper Fried Little Rooster
Cheng Gong - Culinary Canvases-03 Seafood in Clay Pot
Dave Hanson - The Call
Bhenish Patel - Beacon of Solitude
Dave Hanson - Vision
Lynne Necrason - Enter the Sanctuary
Brandon Hirt - Steamy Night
Brandon Hirt - Looking Up
Brenda Wynne - Train of Thoughts
Irene Kuo - In the Rookery II
Cam Miller - Incoming
Lynne Necrason - Poetry in Snow
Harry O'Connor - Church of St. Primus and Felicianus
Bhinesh Patel - Sunrise at Kilchurn
Jelisa Peterson - Heads in the Sand II: Right Behind You
JJ Raia - Meadow in Fog, Mercer County Park, NJ
Eric Saunders - Bamboo in Duke Gardens
JJ Raia - Rain-Soaked Beech in Fog, Mercer County Park, NJ
Henry Rinne - Rehobeth Beach Jetty
Jim Trull - Sentinels in the Mist
Michael Ritzie - Trees Number 11
Andrew Trenholm - Two Photographers
Brian Shoemaker - Rosette Nebula
Jim Trull - A Silhouetted Grove
Annette Shope - Shuttered Secrets
Charles Szuberla - Portal