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The Housatonic Camera
Clubis composed of members from communities in the tri-state
area (Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York) who meet to share their
love of photography, their experiences, travels, and expertise, and to educate
one another and the public. Members — beginners, advanced amateurs, and
professionals — work in prints, film, digital, color, and Balck and White
mediums.
The Housatonic Camera Club meets the third Tuesday of the month from September
through June at Noble Horizons in Salisbury, CT. The Club also offers annual
programs that are open to the general public. These programs can range from
exhibits and slide shows to field trips and workshops teaching the basics
of photography to cutting edge technology and techniques. In the past, HCC
exhibitions include the Douglas Library in Canaan, CT, the Salisbury Bank
and Trust in Lakeville, CT, the Moviehouse Gallery in Millerton, NY, the
Millbrook Library , NY, and Noble Horizons in Salisbury, CT.
As part of the New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) and Photographic
Society of America (PSA), three times a year members are encouraged to submit
photos for competition within the HCC. Those chosen to go on to the next
level of competition are sent to the NECCC and PSA for consideration with
photographs from member New England region (NECCC) and international (PSA)
camera clubs.
Anyone interested in learning more about the Housatonic Camera Club, please
contact Webmaster Lazlo Gyorsok, email:
lazlo1@optonline.net
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” “Photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” “Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.” “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” “Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.” “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” “Photography is a way to shape human perception.” “Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.” “Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.” “Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” “Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” “Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” “Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.” “Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.” “Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.” “Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.” “Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” “Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.” “Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.” “Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It’s the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.”
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Check out the videos of our previous meetings
The Housatonic Camera Club Landscape Book
is finished. Thank you Jeff Breitman for your hard work on the project, selecting the pictures, putting it altogether, arranging the printing, etc.
Get in touch with Jeff if you want a copy of the book.
Some changes for interclub competitions.
The coming season we will compete in NECCC interclub competitions in the Nature and Pictorial categories.
These competitions stay the same as last year.
We enter 4 images from 4 different members in the Nature and Pictorial competition.
We also compete in the PSA interclub competitions.
PSA is starting this year a Black and White competition, we will compete in the Pictorial and Black and White categories this year, and NOT in the Travel category anymore.
In the PSA competitions we enter 6 images from 6 different members.
I will start asking for NECCC’s Nature and Pictorial images in September, and for PSA’s Pictorial and Black and White images in October.
Get ready and start collecting your images now.
