May 2025 Meeting

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 7:00pm
Refer to Meeting Announcement
Judge: 
Tom Heywood
Theme: 
Leading Lines

This theme encourages you to use a compositional technique rather than to capture a specific subject. Fences, roads, bridges, and shorelines are commonly used to lead a viewer’s eye through a photo and toward the prime subject. But don’t forget the leading lines to be discovered in more intimate scenes—even on a macro scale. One key suggestion: Be sure your leading lines lead to something worth looking at! 

Our judge this month is Tom Heywood. Tom is a former educator and an award-winning photographer who did his formal study at the Denver School of Photography. Tom has also won a number of significant awards:

  • Denver Photographic Society – where he’s won both the Digital Photographer of the Year and Creative Photographer of the Year awards.
  • A Photographic Society of America’s Photojournalism Photo of the Year award
  • The People’s Choice Award at the “Eye of The Camera Show” in Lone Tree, Colorado
  • The Best of Photography Award at New Mexico’s Arts & Craft Fair
  • The Best of Photography 2025 Award at the Winter Park Art Affair In Winter Park, Colorado

Tom says he’s happiest when he has his camera in his hands. His primary interests are landscape and night photography, but he does not limit his subjects to these alone. As he states on his website (https://tomheywoodphotography.com), he finds beauty and interest everywhere and delights in sharing it with fellow photographers.