Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: El Camino College Entry Title: The woman behind the Warrior Pantry Entry Credit: Mari Inagaki Judge Comment: This is a compelling, contextual environmental portrait, that immediately the viewer can infer what's going on within the image and who the subject is. Strong focus on the eyes immediately pulls the viewer into the photo, bypassing the cans of food, which provides more meaning to the overall image.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: City College of San Francisco Entry Title: Through Her Eyes Portrait by Xiaofan Fang Entry Credit: Xiaofan Fang Judge Comment: Strong emotion within the image, though the framing of the image overlaps, perhaps unnecessarily. Framing or a shift in perspective at this precise moment could have taken this image from good and solid, to great!
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Pierce College Entry Title: US Open of Surfing Entry Credit: Bala Subramaniyan Judge Comment: Nice moment captured in available light, though viewers have seen images like this before. Consider altering the perspective at which the image was taken--could it have made the image more compelling--probably so. Overall the editing of color and contrast needs a little work as well. Solid, useable image, though could have been easily strengthened in a variety of means taking the mundane image to something more compelling and captivating.