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You want election results? We’ve got election results! [6]

I voted[17]

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Laureate private school deals with headaches [10]Claassen Gallery puts up with a rabbit’s friends [32]A.G.’s Gather Wine Bar makes a tasty addition [51]

FILMConviction is great [42]

Winning ImagesSee who won in New Times’ 15th annual photography contest [18]

M N, Running Downhill, Second Place, Adult, Sports

H C, Orchid For Mom, First Place and Best of Show, Adult, FloraH C, Orchid For Mom, First Place and Best of Show, Adult, Flora

PEGGY MESLER San Luis Obispo native Peggy Mesler is a photographer and owner of The Photo Shop in SLO. She shares her appreciation and knowledge of photography with customers, clients, and friends. Peggy graduated with a journalism degree from Cal Poly, and opened The Photo Shop in 1995. Her interests include gardening, hiking, and birding, and her favorite photographic subject is people.

JOSEPHINE CRAWFORD Josephine Crawford was born in 1937 in England; from an early age, she knew she was only interested in music, dancing, designing, and painting. Her childhood was spent at a boarding school for the

arts in England. At age 16, she left school and got a job dancing. She spent the next 20 years dancing professionally, designing costumes for about 10 years, and painting for the last 30 years. Her work is diffi cult to categorize, but if pressed, she would call it expressionistic. She’ll have a 30-year retrospective at SLOMA in 2011.

JEFF VAN KLEECK Jeff Van Kleeck runs the University Art Gallery at Cal Poly. He received a master of fi ne art degree in photography. Jeff has studied photography under Jerry Uelsmann, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Keith Carter, John Sexton, Jerry Spagnoli, Jim Stone, Christopher Burkett, William Neill, and Bruce Barnbaum. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in such locations as New York, Madison, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Brazil. His work can also be seen in the upcoming book: Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, fi fth edition, by Robert Hirsch, Focal Press, 2011.

As 2009’s Winning Images evening came to a close, staff photographer and contest

coordinator Steve E. Miller dropped a bomb: 2010’s contest would be radically different. For the fi rst time in years, the popular competition would get a radical overhaul. This year, he made good on his threat. Or promise. Or however local photographers chose to see it. Gone were the professional and amateur divisions. Everyone who entered would be competing on the same ground. The “kids” category was cut, but two new categories—“sports” and “manmade” fi lled the void.

New Times announced the changes, and then the staff waited. Would San Luis Obispo

County respond with love? Hate? Disinterest? At fi rst, it seemed as if the new game drove photographers away. Entries trickled in, one or two at a time. But photographers are apparently procrastinators, and by the fi nal seconds of the deadline—literally—we were sitting on about 600 entries. We celebrated the winners with a party at Steynberg Gallery—thanks, Peter!—the night before this issue hit the streets. Couldn’t attend? Don’t worry: See the winners at Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St., in downtown San Luis Obispo. ∆

Contact Executive Editor Ryan Miller at rmiller@newtimesslo.com.

The Judges

Lens and outsBig changes shook up the annual New Times Winning Images contestBY RYAN MILLER

M N, Running Downhill, Second Place, Adult, Sports

PHOTO BY STEVE E. MILLER

PHOTO BY STEVE E. MILLER

PHOTO BY STEVE E. MILLER

J R, Kipling, First Place, Adult, Travel

L M, Wave Racer, � ird Place, Adult, SportsS C, Sun Bows, � ird Place, Adult, Flora

B C, Evening Walk with Mom, Honorable Mention, Adult, People

J R, Kipling, First Place, Adult, TravelKipling, First Place, Adult, TravelKipling

S C, S C, S C Sun Bows, � ird Place, Adult, Flora L M, Wave Racer, � ird Place, Adult, Sports

WINNING IMAGES

H C, Orchid For Mom, First Place and Best of Show, Adult, Flora

B C, Evening Walk with Mom,

L M, Whirl, Honorable Mention, Adult, Sports

R C, Tiger Intensity, First Place, Adult, Sports

DK E, Precious Glow, Second Place, Adult, People A C, Almost Heaven, � ird Place, Adult, Land/Seascape

S C, Morning Wake, � ird Place, Adult, Open

DK E Precious Glow, Second Place, Adult, People

R C, Tiger Intensity, First Place, Adult, Sports

L M, Whirl, Honorable Mention, Adult, Sports

S CMorning Wake� ird Place, Adult, Open

A C, Almost Heaven, � ird Place, Adult, Land/Seascape

M V, Set Sun, Second Place, Adult, Land/Seascape

M M, Atlas Launch, Second Place, Adult, Manmade M D,

Fantastical Night, Honorable Mention,

Adult, Manmade

A T, Full Moon Rising, Honorable Mention, Adult, Land/SeascapeN K, Bottle Collage, � ird Place, Adult, Manmade

M V, Set Sun, Second Place, Adult, Land/Seascape

A T, Full Moon Rising, Honorable Mention, Adult, Land/SeascapeFull Moon Rising, Honorable Mention, Adult, Land/SeascapeFull Moon RisingN K, Bottle Collage, � ird Place,

M M, Atlas Launch, Second Place,

K T-K, � rough the Blue, Second Place,

Adult, Travel

J L, � e Blues (street scene), � ird Place, Adult, Travel

L K, Put Your Left Foot In, Judge’s Pick

A C, Cayucos Pier, First Place, Adult, ManmadeA C, Cayucos Pier, First Place, Adult, Manmade

L K, L K, L K Put Your Left Foot In, Judge’s Pick J L, � e Blues (street scene),

D J, Designs in Nature,

Honorable Mention, Adult, Flora

A C, Sand Forest, First Place,

Adult, Open

D J, Go Your Own Way, Honorable Mention, Adult, Animals

B G, David, First Place, Adult, PeopleB G David, First Place, Adult, People

D J, Go Your Own Way, Honorable Mention, Adult, Animals

WINNING IMAGES

A T, Pelican Dive Bomber, Second Place, Adult, Animals

S C, Refl ections of the Past, Judge’s Pick

S C, Hutton’s Vireo - Lunch, First Place, Youth

Z M, Weedfl ower, Second Place, Youth

A T Pelican Dive Bomber, Second Place, Adult, Animals

Z M Weedfl ower, Second Place, Youth

S C, S C, S C Refl ections of the Past, Judge’s Pick Refl ections of the Past, Judge’s Pick Refl ections of the Past

S C, Hutton’s Vireo - Lunch, First Place, Youth

WINNING IMAGES

J R, Bikes, Judge’s PickA T, Pelican Dive Bomber, Second Place, Adult, Animals

S C, Oak Silhouette, Honorable Mention, Youth

S C, Freeway Daisy, � ird Place, Youth

D Q, Hanging out at Oso Flaco, First Place, Adult, Animals

Z M, Weedfl ower, Second Place, Youth

D Q, Hanging out at Oso Flaco, First Place, Adult, Animals

J R, Bikes, Judge’s Pick

S C, Oak Silhouette, Honorable Mention, Youth

S C, Freeway Daisy, � ird Place,

M B Y, Street Scene, Philippines, Honorable Mention, Adult, Travel

B G, bamboo, Second Place, Adult, Flora

C F, 3 Day Old Love, � ird Place, Adult, People

WINNING IMAGES

H C, Lone Farm Worker, Second Place, Adult, Open

L M, Perspective, Judge’s Pick

P L, Great Blue Heron, � ird Place, Adult, Animals

M V, Merciless, Honorable Mention, Adult, Open

J S, Yellowstone Falls, Judge’s Pick

WINNING IMAGES