Annual Holiday Party & Photo Challenge

Our Holiday Party this year will be held at the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Center on Wed Dec 10 at 7:00 pm .

All members (and spouses/partners) are encouraged to attend, and bring a light dish (finger food style, appetizer, dessert or beverage). (This is not a supper.)

It has been our custom to highlight these parties with a photo challenge theme. Themes In the past include trying to identify photos of members at various stages of life, their parents, celebrities they've been likened to, worst photos, individual styles, humorous caption for photo, etc.

The theme for the 2014 photo challenge will again be a "Humorous Photo Caption Contest", similar to that of the Cartoon Caption Contest currently on the back page of The New Yorker Magazine. An online version of this page may be viewed at http://www.newyorker.com/humor/caption. The goal of the photo challenge is to determine who can come up with the cleverest/funniest caption for an image (makers cannot provide captions for their own print).  The maker of that image will also receive an award. To enhance the challenge we recommend bringing a print where the humor is neither too obvious nor too subtle.

A prize will be awarded to the winner of each of the above challenges, based on voting by those in attendance.

Prints may be any size, mounted or not, and must be brought to the party. Upon presentation of your image to the Contest Administrator a coded number will be assigned to your print. All participants, whether they bring a print or not, will be eligible to suggest captions. Details of entering your caption and method of choosing winners will be explained. Questions and comments may be sent to infopacamera.com.