California Photo Festival Photo Contest Winner!

Congratulations, Barbi Kutilek!

Out of the hundreds of awesome photos that came from our Third Annual California Photo Festival we narrowed down our top photos. From that selection we chose one deserving winner who has won a free Gold-Week Pass to our Fourth Annual Festival October 7-11, 2013.

​California Photo Festival Photography Contest Winner Barbi Kutilek www.Imagesbybk.com

​California Photo Festival Photography Contest Winner Barbi Kutilek www.Imagesbybk.com

Here is the gallery link to our TOP 50 California Photo Festival images from 2012 in our SmugMug sponsored Web Gallery. Thank you SmugMug for your continued support! Our past festival photo galleries there as well if you'd like to take a look while you're there!

About the California Photo Festival:​

Also known as CLICK! our annual California Photo Festival was launched in 2010. After years of prep and planning with inspiration from our guest instructors we invite to teach here at LIGHT Photographic Workshops throughout the years we were excited to offer our students and friends in the industry something new and unique.​ Beyond the 5 days of awesome photo-ops and now over 170+ sessions scheduled (in 2012) this is an event that is for those who have a passion for all things photography and enjoy the learning process to create good images. We design our schedule from sunrise to night photography with hands-on shooting sessions, digital workflow seminars and sponsored presentations. With a wide range of topics from landscape black and whites to Playboy style shooting and lighting techniques to horses on the beach at Morro Bay, we allow our attendees to sit in on sessions and classes they wouldn't normally find themselves taking a workshop or class on. It's a way for us to help you grow as a photographer, artist and professional grow and experience the best in the industry and have fun in the meantime!​

​Ric Sammon on his festival Photo Walk

​Ric Sammon on his festival Photo Walk

This year our dates are October 7-11, 2013. We will center the festival at Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo but our venues include spectacular areas around the Central Coast. With such a wide area of SLO county land to chose from, we are growing and diversifying our venue list every year- while still keeping the classics around.​ We plan to launch our schedule and websiteregistrations Mid-April so keep a look out for the announcements and make sure you register early to get the classes that fill up quickly! Just wait until you see who we have coming this year!

See you in October!​

-The LIGHT Team

Top 50 Images from Click

The Top 50 images from the 2011 California Photo Festival are up on the Festival SmugMug page.  Our next group of judges will select 10 of these images as the Top 10 and will also pick one Overall Winner.

Click! 2 Top 50 Images

The photographer who shot the top image will receive a free pass to the 2012 California Photo Fest (Click 3!) and a SmugMug Pro account.

Other prizes are Lightroom books, SmugMug Pro accounts, and Corel Painter!

Thanks again to Adobe, SmugMug, and Corel for the tremendous support of LIGHT Photographic Workshops and the California Photo Fest.

The 2012 Fest is taking shape and registrations will start the day we announce our contest winner, 15 January.  We are adding more instructors and different events to make Click 3 even better.

Fiat Lux!