Overview

Photo selection timeline

• October 4 – Flagpole starts uploading
• January 16 – Flagpole upload closes
• January 17 – Flagpole selection begins (Members vote for fan favorites)
• January 23 – Voting ends at 5:00 and Final Flagpole photos selected for tri-club competition at 7:00 via Zoom
• February 6, 7:30 – Tri-Club Competition Live Judging Online (The Senior Center will also be open for all who want to watch together.)

Competition Categories

1. Airplanes
2. Architecture/Architectural Details
3. Barns/Farm Life
4. Beach
5. Birds in Flight
6. Board Game
7. Creative Florals
8. Crosswalk
9. Curls
10. High Key
11. In Connecticut
12. In My Toolbox
13. In the Dark
14. Looking Up
15. Motion Pan
16. Patterns
17. Reflections
18. Something Fast and Something Slow
19. Something Old and Something New
20. Something Sweet
21. Store Front
22. The Flagpole
23. Traffic Lights
24. Waterfalls
25. What the Heck?

Agenda

• 7:00 pm – Zoom opens and we review the Fan Favorite choices. Then we start the refinement process.

Selection Flow

1. Start with all photographers with more than two first place or ties for first place photos in the fan favorite member voting. Rank photographers by number of first places. Tie breaker is the last initial of their last name.
   • Photographer selects which two winners of theirs to enter
   • Repeat for all photographers with more than two first places
2. For every category that does not have a current first place
   • Ignore any photo from all photographers that already have 2 selected photos
   • Look at the next top scoring photos and choose one. This conversation will be similar to the tie breaking conversations during category judging
3. Rationalization. Without changing the number of submitted photos by any individual, are there changes we should consider? For example, imagine that in a category we selected the 5th ranked photo as part of the previous step. Would any swapping make sense? Maybe. Maybe not.

Where