Newsletter, March 2020
IN THIS ISSUE
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- Announcements
- Some pictures of older buildings by Steve Balkin
- Tips
- PSA, NECC competion rule changes
- Program schedule
- HCC Enrollement form
- Road trip to Arizona by Nancy Zannini
- A visit to the studio of Jacob Elbaz
- Visit and participate on our Facebook site
- Winter Blues assignment pictures
- NECCC competition Pictorial pictures
- NECCC competition Nature pictures
- Downtown NYC by Dawn Dingee
- Our Flickr site pictures
- Latest Photography News
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
Last light at canyon lands by Bert Schmitz
Congratulations Bert
for 3rd place finish in the last NECCC Pictorial competition.
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“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.” Elliott Erwitt
HOUSATONIC CAMERA CLUB REPRESENTATIVES for 2019/2020 season
President: TBD
Vice-President: TBD
Treasurer: Dawn Dingee
Membership/Dues: Dawn Dingee
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Publicity: Jeff Breitman
Special Events Coordinator: Jeff Breitman
Program Director: Jeff Breitman
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Webmaster: Lazlo Gyorsok
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Newsletter: Lazlo Gyorsok
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Hospitality:Karen Consolago
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Secretary:Denise Rueger
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Competitions:Bert Schmitz
bschmitz@att.net
Salon Committee:
Brian Wilcox
ctphoto@comcast.net
Lazlo
Gyorsok
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Bill Devoti
abundancehill8@gmail.com
Projector Coordinator: Brian Wilcox
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Liaison Representatives: PSA
- Jane Rossman
jrossman222@gmail.com
NECCC - Bert Schmitz
bschmitz@att.net
Proud member of:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our next show
Our next show at the UCC Parish house has been posponed till the pandemic clears up. Till then, stay healthy and learn Photoshop:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7JpMMpENaD3KL_lvmw4eS5U5AD746yKB
HELP WANTED (!)
Both Jeff and Dawn are stepping down as Co-presidents of the camera club. The club is currently looking for one or more of our members to step in as President. There are several other committee positions open such as VP and Salon Committee. If interested in any of these positions, please let Jeff or Lazlo know
Assigned Topic
Assigned Topic for the next month will be: "Early Spring Flowers"
Some pictures of older buildings submitted by Steve Balkin
“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
Photography Tips
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
Changes for the NECCC and PSA competitions by Bert Schmitz
I hope all members had a good summer with lots of great photographs
that you will submit for the NECCC and PSA competitions this year. There
are some changes for the competitions in this new season, the most important
one is the bigger size of the images we can now submit.
Please read
the changes below and start preparing your images. For NECCC and PSA competitions,
images can now be 1400 pixels in the horizontal direction and 1050 pixels
in the vertical direction. Photographs must fit within those dimensions.
Unless your photograph’s proportions are in the exact ratio of 4 to
3, one of these dimensions will be less than the maximum. For example, if
you have a vertical photograph, the height will be 1050 pixels, but the
width will be significantly less than 1400 pixels. A square photograph will
be 1050 pixels by 1050 pixels under these rules. It is suggested (though
not a requirement) that entries be saved with the proper amount of compression
so that the file size does not exceed 800-1000 KB. If saving from Photoshop,
a quality setting of between 7 and 9 is usually sufficient to produce a
high quality file. Keeping the file size small makes e-mailing and handling
easier. It is strongly suggested that all photographs be converted to the
sRGB color space. That color space most closely approximates the capability
of monitors and projectors to display color and usually results in the best
presentation of your image.
By entering these competitions you give NECCC/PSA
permission to reproduce your photographs in connection with the activities
and publicity of the NECCC/PSA including display on the NECCC/PSA Internet
site. The copyright, however, remains with the photographer and the photographer
will receive credit when his/her photograph is used. If you object to this
stipulation, please do not enter your photographs.
Once a photograph
has been entered by the Housatonic Camera Club into a NECCC Interclub Competition
(either pictorial or nature), it may never be entered again. Entering a
photograph into the NECCC pictorial category means it may never be entered
in the NECCC nature category; also, a photograph entered in the NECCC nature
category may never be entered in the NECCC pictorial category. (Note: This
rule is for photographs the Housatonic Camera Club sends out to the NECCC
competitions, not for the in-house club competition.)
Photographs entered
by the Housatonic Camera Club in the NECCC competition, can be also entered
in the PSA competition.
Read the instructions how to resize for the web
Here is a short instructions on how to login and vote on the website.
Road trip to Arizona by Nancy Zannini
A travel story
We started our winter RoadTrip in Chicago where the John HancockBuilding was bisected by fog.
Our first stop was Springfield “show -me-state” Missouri where yellow colored the dresses and the 75 year old diner where the town gathered for breakfast.
New Mexico has the best-named town
But Tubac has the best cows,clouds,cowboys and cars.
A visit to the studio of Jacob Elbaz
A couple of weeks back, in the middle of no-winter Jeff, Brian and
myself went up to our favorite hunting ground, Hudson, New York.
The
initial idea was to take some pictures at the Shanty Town by the Hudson
River , which we did ( keep your eyes open for pictures in the next newsletter)
but before that we stopped by the studio/gallery of Jacob Elbaz , an Israeli
photographer with studios in Israel, New York and Hudson. Fascinating, very
friendly fellow and you can see more about his accomplishments on his website
here:
https://www.jacobelbaz.com/
Winter Blues
A few pictures from the "Winter Blues" assignment. Click on any one
of the pictures to see them in full size.
 Ice on a log by Dawn Dingee |
 WinterBlues by Steve Balkin #2 |
 Winter Blues by Steve Balkin #5 |
 Winter Blues by Lazlo #1 |
 Blue blue Sharon Oak shadow dance by G.A.Mudge |
 Winter branch in blue ice by Jane Rossman |
 Winter panorama by Jane Rossman |
 Winter morning by Steven Goldberg |
 Winter blues by Jane Rossman #2 |
 Bleak midwinter by G.A.Mudge |
 Back road, Dover Plains by Dawn Dingee |
 WinterBlues by Steve Balkin #4 |
 Winter Blues by Lazlo #3 |
 Winter Blues by Steve Balkin #6 |
 WinterBlues by Steve Balkin #3 |
 Winter Blues by Lazlo #4 |
 Winter Blues by Lazlo #2 |
 Winter blues, Silver mountain by Jane Rossman |
 WinterBlues by Steve Balkin #1 |
 Winter blues by Jane Rossman |
 Busy Beaver by Dawn Dingee |
NECCC Pictorial Competition
P ictures from NECCC Nature Competition , March 2020. Click on any
one of the pictures to see them in full size.
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NECCC Nature Competition
P ictures from NECCC Nature Competition , March 2020. Click on any
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Downtown NYC by Dawn Dingee
D OWNTOWN NYC by Dawn Dingee
Looking for something to photograph? Looking
for a place where the photo opportunities are endless?
Downtown NYC is the
place to go! With the spring like weather, Rick and I took the train and
then subway to lower Manhattan. I must confess that our main goal for the
day was not to come away with awesome photos…it was to eat awesome food
in Chinatown J I had never been to Chinatown so I wasn’t sure what to expect.
We started out visiting the memorial at the WTC site. Being the typical
tourists, we paid the fee to go to the top of the Freedom Tower where we
could get a 360 degree view of NYC and NJ from the 102nd floor. Our ticket
included a visit to the 911 museum but we both decided we weren’t quite
up for that so that will have to wait for another day.
Visiting the memorial
pools that cover the original footprints of the twin towers is a sobering
experience. The names of 2,983 victims are inscribed on 152 bronze parapets
on the memorial pools. Each day, a white rose is placed next to the name
of those celebrating a birthday that day. An interesting fact - the names
are arranged according to an algorithm, creating "meaningful adjacencies"
based on relationships—proximity at the time of the attacks, company or
organization affiliations (for those working at the World Trade Center or
the Pentagon) and in response to about 1,200 requests from family members.
We kept the photos to a minimum when visiting the memorial.
From our Flickr site
Please, click on the images to see the bigger sizes and the slideshow !
Latest Photography News
Webmaster/Newsletter Editor:Lazlo Gyorsok