FOTO FANFARE 2006 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF CAMERA CLUBS • SEPTEMBER 2006 N4C INTERCLUB COMPETITION SCHEDULE The following list indicates the slide and print competition topics for each month which will be in addition to the usual monthly pictorial print and projected images competitions Month Prints Slides (Loc.) Month Prints Slides (Loc.)

Sept Journalism Trav/Journ (R) Nov T/C/J N/C/T/J (R) Oct Nat/Seq Nat/Creative (SM) Dec Annual (R) Annual (R)

Contact Print Chairs for site; R = Rossmoor; SM = San Mateo

N4C BOARD MEMBERS 2006

President Dick Stahlke, Contra Costa [email protected] Vice-president Mike Johnson, Diablo Valley [email protected] Treasurer Teri Schoech, Livermore Valley [email protected] Secretary Trenkins I McClain, Peninsula [email protected] Electronic Images Collector Gene Albright, Berkeley [email protected] Projected Image Advisor Joe Hearst, Contra Costa [email protected] Pictorial Slide Chair Mary Asturias, Photochrome (415) 731-1637 Creative Slide Chair Wendell DeLano, Alameda [email protected] Nature Slide Chair Mary Toalson, Millbrae [email protected] Travel Slide Chair Baha Fahmy, Rossmoor [email protected] Journalism Slide Chair Walt Braun, Rossmoor [email protected] Print Chairs Gene Morita, Marin [email protected] Gloria Fraser, Marin [email protected] Dorothy Weaver, Marin [email protected] Judges Chair Glenn Corlew, Rossmoor [email protected] PSA Eleanor Webster, Peninsula [email protected] FotoClave Directors Jan DeLano, Alameda [email protected] Susan Glasgow, Peninsula [email protected] Foto Fanfare Editor Joan Field, Contra Costa [email protected] Webmaster Wayne Miller, Contra Costa [email protected] N4C Website Address http://www.n4c.org

“Fountain Fun” by Doris Jansen of Marin Digital Club Winner: Pictorial B Projected Images SEPTEMBER 2006 14 Member of the Photographic Society of America • N4C Incorporated 1952 FOTO FANFARE FOTO FANFARE TABLE OF CONTENTS A Natural Eye % “Fountain Fun” ...... Page 1 A Day of Photography Insights & Ideas In the Spotlight ...... Page 2 Print Winners ...... Pages 3-4 with Eddie Soloway “Juniper Tree-Arches National Park” ...... Page 4 Saturday, December 2, 2006, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm “Tiger’s Nest Monestary, Bhutan” ...... Page 4 Laurel Heights Conference Center, San Fancisco Pictorial Projected Images ...... Page 5 Sponsored by the Northern California Council of Camera Clubs Nature Projected Images ...... Page 6 Journalism Projected Images ...... Page 7 Eddie was the first recipient of the Excellence in Photographic Teaching SEPTEMBER “Giant Radioactive Caterpillar...” ...... Page 7 Award presented by the Santa Fe Center for Photographic Arts. 3-9 PSA International Conference Board Notes ...... Page 8 Baltimore, MD “Georgia’s Dune” ...... Page 9 Join Eddie for a full day of informative and entertaining presentations designed to open new doors of seeing, bring Board Meeting ”Midnight Angel” ...... Page 9 the photographic process back to what really matters, and leave you with some practical steps to help your image- 11 8:00 pm First Methodist Church, “Western Swallowtail Butterfly...” ...... Page 9 making rise to your expectations. 1600 Bancroft, San Leandro “Tranquil Morning”...... Page 9 Sessions include: Interclub Competitions “California Poppy” ...... Page 9 • Lighting the Fire (Re-kindling a sense of joy and 16 Projected (P/T/J) Answers to Quiz ...... Page 10 wonder.) Photo Competition ...... Page 10 • Two Basic Skills (That’s all.) 11:00 am Gateway Clubhouse, “Quiet Time in Peggy’s Cove” ...... Page 10 • How Come Mine Don’t Look like That? (Fine- Rossmoor “Rolling Hills” ...... Page 10 tuning techniques that help make a good photo Call Prints (P/J) Converting Color to B & W ...... Page 11 graph better.) OCTOBER PSA Chapters Rally Registration ...... Page 12 • Play (Breaking out of your box and entering new Eddie Soloway Registration ...... Page 13 ways of seeing and imagemaking.) Board Meeting • Making a Photograph (The spirit and the steps.) • Equipment (Two paths lay before all travelers 8 8:00 pm First Methodist Church, Foto Fanfare is the official publication of N4C, ....and all photographers.) 1600 Bancroft, San Leandro the Northern California Council of Camera Clubs, a © Eddie Soloway • 7 Ideas to Help You Get Back on Your Cre Interclub Competitions federation of 13 Camera Clubs located in the greater ative Path (including the sad story of the man 21 Projected (P/N/C)) Bay Area. Its goals are to hold monthly competitions who loved to take photos but only looked at Eddie Soloway’s photographs are the expression of his passion 9:00 am Beresford Recreation them once.) among member clubs and present special informa - and fascination with the natural world. His major work has been Center, San Mateo • Questions and Answers: Bring your tive programs whenever possible. divided between representational presentations of wilderness questions. Can you find a style? Making a port Call Prints (P/N/S) Any articles, letters to moments - where the essence of the place is of utmost impor - folio? Self-publishing? Stock? Editing? Marketing? tance, to the celebrations of the abstract - where he distills the NOVEMBER the editor or editorial Printing? shape, color, and light in many forested communities.

3 Steve Traudt CS2 Workshop comments are the

opinions of the Directions: Upon receiving your registration, you will be sent directions to 3333 California Street, parking information. and 4-5 Chapter Rally-Concord ✃ authors, and not where you can eat in the neighborhood. Parking at the center is restricted, so you are advised to carpool or come very early. Board Meeting official N4C policy. 13 8:00 pm First Methodist Church, Articles or REGISTRATION FORM 1600 Bancroft, San Leandro other information Name ______Eddie Soloway Seminar Interclub Competitions published in Name ______December 2, 2006 18 Projected (P/T/J/N/C) Foto-Fanfare Address ______A Natural Eye 11:00 am Gateway Clubhouse, may be copied City, State, Zip ______Rossmoor for camera Phone ( ) ______E-mail ______Call Prints (P/T/C/J) club use, provided Camera Club or Other Affiliation ______proper credit is given. How did you learn about this Seminar? ______# Tickets @ $65______(Lunch is not included) Total Enclosed ______SEPTEMBER 2006 2 Please send registration form and check to Joe Hearst, 685 Glen Rd. Danville, CA 94526. You may also reg - ister on line at www.n4c.org. FOTO FANFARE FOTO FANFARE Travel Prints (N) (18) New Method of Converting Color 7. Add a Curves Adjustment Layer. Use the usual 1 Chinese Man Walking Water Buffalo in Rice Field ——— Pierce, Gail —————————————— Marin Photo Images to Monochrome (B & W) curve twitching to increase the contrast. 2 Helping Each Other, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico — Shirley Tervo ——————————————— Peninsula 3 Arches of Fountain Abbey, England ——————————— Mary Toalson ——————————————— Millbrae Thanks to a method worked out by Robb Carr, 4 Nubian Man and His Ancestors as Prisoners, color shots can be converted to beautifully rich Abu Simbel, Egypt —————————————————————— Barbara Mallon ————————————— Livermore black and white images. 5 Nomad on the Move, Turkey ——————————————— Gloria, Fraser ————————————— Marin Photo The method, although somewhat tedious works HM The Pumpkin Sower, Cappadocia Turkey ———————— Dorothy Weaver ——————————— Marin Photo well and can be converted into a single key stroke by recording the steps as an Action. More about this later. Here are the steps: 1. If you have the space, convert the color image to a 16 bit format (Image>Mode>16bits/Channel). 2. Convert the mode to Lab. (Image>Mode>Lab. 3. Go to the Channels palette. Highlight the chan - nel marked “Lightness.” With the Lightness channel chosen, convert the image to Grayscale (Image> Mode>Grayscale). Discard color information. 4. Command-Click (Mac) or Control-Click (Windows) on the thumbnail in the Channels Pallette to bring up a selection in the image you are 8. Now you will be able to play with the opacity of working with. Inverse the selection (Command-Shift- the Solid Color layer and change colors to see what I for the Mac or Control-Shift-I for Windows). that does for you before you flatten the image. 5. With the selection still active, change the Mode 9. Make Action: Go into the Actions Palette. Pull one more time to RGB (Image>Mode>RGB). down triangle on right and choose New Action . Go 6. Now create a Solid Color New Fill Layer. through all the steps beginning with Mode = 16 bits (Layer> New Fill Layer > Solid Color). It will bring up through the Adjustment Layer Curves. Then hit Stop the color chart automatically. Choose a dark, rich Recording. You should name the Action appropri - color, close to black. You will be able to adjust the ately. If you have done it properly you need only to opacity of the Solid Color layer for different versions hit a Function Key that you might have chosen to of darkness, but you are not yet finished. recreate all of these individual actions in one stroke.

“Juniper Tree - Arches National Park” by Kevin Westerlund of Marin Photographic Club Winner: Color Salon Prints

“Tiger’s Nest Monastery, Bhutan” by Dorothy Weaver of Marin Photographic Club Winner: Color Amateur Prints Grayscale Mode Conversion Channel Mixer Conversion Carr Conversion SEPTEMBER 2006 4 SEPTEMBER 2006 11 FOTO FANFARE FOTO FANFARE PRINT DIVISION — MONTHLY COMPETITION PSA YYerbaerbaa Buena Chapter Chairs: Gene Morita, Gloria Fraser, Dorothy Weaver • Judge: Kenna Mawk • August 2006 presentsp 2006 CHAPTERH RALLYALLLYY Monochrome Amateur (MO/AMA) (4 prints) November 4-5, 2006 1 Lighthouse at Point Pines —————————————————— Diane Crouse ————————————— Marin Photo Crowneowne Plaza Concord Hotelotel 2 Joshua and His Shadow —————————————————— Aaron Latkin ——————————————— Livermore Concord, California Monochrome Advanced (MO/ADV) (7 prints) Join us in Concord for a weekend of photographicphic explorationexploration featuring informativenformative and entertaining programs. Saturday will feature Steve Traudt,Trraudt, APSA, who calls his photographsp Synergistic Visions.Visions.ions. Steve will share his knowledgeowledge and experi-experi- 1 Garden Path —————————————————————————— Tom Crouse —————————————— Marin Photo ence to help us learnrn to create our own synergisticstic images. In particular,particular, hee will share a wealth of expertisertise and knowledge 2 San Jose City Hall —————————————————————— Stephen Scharf ————————————— Livermore on some essential digitald topics including The MMagic of Panoramas, Gettingg Great Prints, Histograms andnd RAW,RAWW,, and Digital 3 Sea Cliff ————————————————————————————— Allan Smith ———————————————— Livermore Slide Shows to nameme a fewfew.. Saturday evening SteveS will present a special program on shooting sandhillhill cranes at Bosque del Apache in New Mexico. See the back of thiss form for a complete program.m. Monochrome Salon (MO/SAL) (15 prints) Sunday we will havee two outstanding programs.. Jim Goldstein will share hiss adventures in the Arctic photographingotographing Caribou 1 Rolling Hills —————————————————————————— Mary Toalson ——————————————— Millbrae with Art WWolfe.olfe. Committedmitted to the dramatic capturere of nature’snature’s beauty photographicallyraphically and the passion ofo sharing knowledge 2 Harry the Historian, Belize ————————————————— Gloria Fraser ————————————— Marin Photo with fellow photographyaphy enthusiasts, Jim strives to develop a legacy of introducingucing others to sites unseen and enabling others to share their artisticc vision with the world., 3 Wildcat Falls, Yosemite ———————————————————— Gerry Russell ——————————————— Livermore $$OVROVR RRQQ 66XQGD\XQGD\ 55RRREHUWEHUW ))RXUQLHURXUQLHU ZZLOOLOO JJLYHLYH XXVV DQ LLQGHSWKQGHSWK SSUHVHQWDWLRQUHVHQWDWLRQ RRQQ PPDNLQJDNLQJ WWHUUL¿FHUUL¿F WWUDYHOUDYHO LLPDJHVPDJHVV 55REHUWREHUW LLVV D UUHWLUHGHWLUHG 4 The Road Less Traveled ——————————————————— Bob Fournier ——————————————— Peninsula **HRORJLVWHRORJLVW +LV+LV ZRUNZRUN DDVV D FFRQVXOWDQWRQVXOWDQW LLQQ WWKHKH ¿¿HOGHOG RRII **HRHR 77KHUPDOKHUPDO 66FLHQFHFLHQFH WWDNDNNHVHV KKLPLP DDOOOO RRYHUYHU WWKHKH ZZRUOGRUOG ++HH LLVV DDQQ DDYLGYLG WWUDYHOHUUDYHOHU 5 Paraglider Over the Alps —————————————————— Barbara Mallon ————————————— Livermore and photographer havingaving traveled in Indinesia, South East Asia, the Far East,st, Europe, and Africa. Color Amateur (CO/AMA) (6 prints) 1 Tiger's Nest Monastery, Bhutan —————————————— Dorothy Weaver ——————————— Marin Photo ToTo reserve yourour room and insure the $79 rate, contact: CrowneC Plaza Concord Hotelel 2 Nasturtiums —————————————————————————— Phil Harris —————————————————— Millbrae 45 John Glenn Drive Color Advanced (CO/ADV) (15 prints) Concord, CAA 94520 Reservations:R (877) 348-24244 1 Tranquil Morning ——————————————————————— Allan Smith ———————————————— Livermore 2 After the Storm ———————————————————————— Steve Laudick ——————————————— Peninsula BeBe sure to tell them you will be attending the Photographicc Society of America meeting.ng. 3 Joyful Meeting between Two Old Friends ———————— Bilha Sperling ————————————— Contra Costa The cutoffcutoffff dateate for the special rate is Octobertober 7, 2006. 4 Two Lilies ———————————————————————————— Dick Schneider ——————————————— Millbrae Registrar: Kenna Mawk, 408-365-1875, [email protected]@sbcglobal.net 5 Sisters at the Fair ——————————————————————— Eric Ahrendt ———————————————— Livermore Color Salon (CO/SAL) (19 prints) ------CUT ------1 Juniper Tree - Arches National Park ——————————— Kevin Westerlund —————————— Marin Photo 2006 Chapterhapter Rally Registrationon Form Complete form, make checkeck for total to PSA, YYerbaerbae Buenauena Chapter and mail to: 2 Portrait of Stacey ——————————————————————— Wayne Miller ————————————— Contra Costa Kenna Mawk,k, 528 Felix WayWay,Way, San Jose,se, CAA 95125 3 Train Tracks in Morning Fog ———————————————— Gail Pierce ——————————————— Marin Photo 4 Patriotic Rider ————————————————————————— Bob Fournier ——————————————— Peninsula (Write(Write names as desired for name tags) PSAA Honors Chapterp (pleasease circle one)) Gold Rush YYerbaerba Buena 5 Three Trees ——————————————————————————— Stu Bacon —————————————————— Millbrae Name: ______HM Mabry Mill, Virginia ————————————————————— Shirley Tervo ———————————————— Millbrae Registration Fee Name: ______Creative Prints (C) (18) _____ Chapter member@$50@$50 ______1 Midnight Angel ———————————————————————— Eric Ahrendt ——————————————— Livermore Address: ______Non-chapter member@$60ber@$60 ______2 Oil & Vultures ————————————————————————— Beth Schriock ————————————— Marin Photo City/Zip: ______3 Truck Painted ————————————————————————— Denny Weigand ——————————— Contra Costa SaturdayS Luncheon _____ @$25 ______4 Plumed Beast at Night ———————————————————— Bob Fournier ——————————————— Peninsula State: ______Phone: (_____) ______-______-______5 The Flirt ————————————————————————————— Bob Cossins ———————————————— Millbrae Email: ______TOTALTOTTALAL ______HM Art 101: Photography in a Nut Shell ——————————— Bob Cossins ———————————————— Millbrae

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______Herb-marinated chicken breastreast _____ East Meets WestWestst & South Salad (Vegetarian)(Vegetarian)n) SEPTEMBER 2006 3 FOTO FANFARE FOTO FANFARE

NATURE IMAGES — BI-MONTHLY COMPETITION To far left: “Georgia’s Chairman: Mary Toalson • Judge: Lois Shouse • August 2006 Dune” by Judy VanEvera of Marin Nature B (6=3E+3S) Digital Club. Winner: 1SBreeding Laughing Gulls ——————————————————— Ed Sobolak ———————————— Millbrae Creative B PI 2EHoney Bee Swarm (Apis mellifera) To left: “Western in California Laurel (Umbellularia californica) ——————— Beth Schriock ——————— Marin Digital Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Falls Prey to Nature A (21=15E+6S) a Goldenrod Crab 1EWestern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Falls Prey to a Spider Lying in Goldenrod Crab Spider Lying in Ambush Ambush on a Wild on a Wild Tiger Lily ——————————————————————— Don Johnson —————————— Berkeley Tiger Lily” by Don 2 & W E Golden Crowned Sparrow Feeding on Poison Oak Johnson of Berkeley Zonotrichia atricapilla ————————————————————— Barry Grivett —————————— Livermore CC. Winner: 3ESequence — Caterpillar to Butterfly ————————————— Dale Mead ———————————— Berkeley Nature A PI 4EButterfly Sucks Nector in Peruvian Rainforest Pieridae species ————————————————————————— Gail Secchia ———————— Photochrome 5ELeopard in Tree ————————————————————————— Anne Sullivan ——————— Marin Digital HSRed-Billed Hornbill, Morning Sun —————————————— Bob Cossins ——————————— Millbrae Nature AA (18=9E+9S ) 1ESouthern Crowned Crane Parent Checks on Hatchlings, Balearica regulorum ——————————————— Teresa Duddy ——————— Contra Costa 2EPlains Zebra Stallions Spar over Mating Rights, Equus burchellii ————————————————————————— Teresa Duddy ——————— Contra Costa 3ETwo Juvenile Great Egrets (Ardea alba) Compete For Food ——————————————————————— Kiminari Akiyama ——————— Peninsula 4EElk Forges Stream In Winter (Cervus Elephas) —————— Wendell DeLano ———————— Alameda 5EWild Grey Wolf, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Canis lupus) ——————————————————————————— Jim Goldstein ——————— Photochrome HSRedent-Damaged Snowplant ————————————————— Barrie Bieler ———————— Contra Costa “Midnight Angel” by Eric Ahrendt of Livermore Valley Nature AAA (24=9E+15S) Camera Club. Winner: Creative Prints 1EAlpha Male Giraffe Butts Subservient Rival ———————— Leo dos Remedios ——————— Berkeley 2SSun Star Moving ———————————————————————— Kay Kennedy ————————— Rossmoor 3ESand Hill Crane, New Mexico ————————————————— Mike Geib ——————————— Livermore 4SRoseate Spoonbills Caring for Egg ————————————— Vicki Rupp —————————————— Marin 5 & W S Australian Eastern Yellow Robin Fakes a Broken Wing (Eopsaltria australis) —————————————————— Sherry Grivett ————————— Livermore HSGreat Egret Feeding Chick in Nest —————————————— Bob Fournier —————————— Peninsula Above: “Tranquil Morning” by Allen Smith of Livermore Valley Camera Club. Winner: CO/ADV prints To left: “California Poppy” by Bob Watters of Contra Costa Camera Club. Winner: Pictorial AAA Projected Images SEPTEMBER 2006 6 SEPTEMBER 2006 9 FOTO FANFARE FOTO FANFARE Ha! Here are the Answers PICTORIAL IMAGES — MONTHLY COMPETITION to That Tough Quiz Chairman: Mary Asturias, FN4C • Judge: Lois Shouse • August 2006 1) Alfred Stieglitz was the father of modernism in America for photography, painting, and sculpture. In 1905, he opened at 291 Fifth Avenue, his gallery Pictorial B (4=4E+0S) called "291 Gallery" to show off arty photographic 1E Fountain Fun ———————————————————————— Doris Jansen ———————————— Marin Digital prints of his and others, plus works by Picasso, 2E Mops Resting by the Pond ——————————————— Molly Fisher —————————————— Livermore Matisse, Cezanne. etc., artists then unfamiliar to most Americans. Pictorial A (20=16E+4S ) 2) Who used “Plato’s Cave” as a metaphor? 1E Fountain ——————————————————————————— Jenny Gu ———————————————— Peninsula Susan Sontag was one of the first philosophical 2E Two Tomatoes ——————————————————————— Ephrem Wu —————————————— Peninsula commentators with her "On Photography" book of 3E The Chase —————————————————————————— Ted Laufer ———————————— Photochrome essays. 4E A Break in the Rain ———————————————————— Allan Fleischer —————————————— Berkeley “Quiet Time in Peggy’s Cove” by Richard Silva of 3) Swiss photographer Robert Frank's vernacular 5E Oakland Candid —————————————————————— Cheryl Rinzler —————————————— Berkeley Peninsula Camera Club. Winner: Masters PI photographs in "The Americans" were so different HE Riverside Autumn ————————————————————— Xian Zhang —————————————— Livermore and original that he changed American photography Pictorial AA (19=13E+6S ) forever. 1E Heartful Domicile Greece ———————————————— Lee Daley —————————————— Marin Digital 4) Henri Cartier-Bresson's "The Decisive Moment" 2S Sunset in Montana ———————————————————— Maureen McGettigan —————————— Marin was probably the most influential for all documen - 3E Grand Prismatic Hot Spring, tary and street photographers. Yellowstone National Park ———————————————— Tom Debley —————————————— Alameda 5) What’s “bokeh?” Simply put, the quality of lens, 4E Sparrow Sunset —————————————————————— Bill Stone —————————————— Contra Costa looking at the out-of-focus areas when shooting 5E View from USS Red Oak Victory, Kaiser's wide-open. Richmond Shipyard No. 3 ———————————————— Chuck Davis —————————————— Berkeley Share the Experience HS Windmills, Mikonos ———————————————————— Joanne Gabel —————————————— Berkeley Official Federal Lands Photo Contest Pictorial AAA (22=13E+9S ) The Share the Experience Photo Contest is the 1E California Poppy —————————————————————— Bob Watters ———————————— Contra Costa official photo contest for the new America the 2E Sunrise, Owens Lake Bed ———————————————— Larry Salveson ———————————— Peninsula Beautiful - The National Parks and Federal 3S Early Light in the Eastern Sierra ———————————— Vicki Rupp —————————————————— Marin Recreational Lands Pass. We invite you to enjoy the 4E Configured Hills, Palouse ———————————————— Phyllis Barry ———————————— Marin Digital great sites, places, and spaces managed by the 5E Dawn Patrol, Sonoma Balloon Classic ———————— Joe Chan ———————————————— Berkeley Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of HE Wheat Tassels ——————————————————————— Martin Taylor —————————— Marin Digital Reclamation, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish Pictorial M (22=9E+13S) and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Forest Service. 1E Quiet Time in Peggys Cove ——————————————— Richard Silva —————————————— Peninsula They make fantastic settings for photography - so 2E Meadow of Flowers in the Canadian Rockies ———— Wendell DeLano ———————————— Alameda bring your camera! 3S Spring Has Sprung ———————————————————— Nancy Belcher —————————————— Berkeley Enter the "Share the Experience™" Photo Contest 4E Manzanita and the Pinnacle Rocks —————————— Bruce Finocchio ———————————— Peninsula for the chance to have your photograph featured on 5S Redwoods and Rhododedron ————————————— Chris Kibre ———————————— Photochrome the 2008 Federal Recreational Lands Pass! Plus, you HE Tuscan Farm House and Light ————————————— Gene Morita —————————— Photochrome have the chance to win trips to America's Federal Recreation Lands, a Ford Escape Hybrid SUV, and CASIO Digital Cameras and Photo Gear. To register: http://nationalparks.eprize.net/experi - “Rolling Hills” by Mary Toalson of Millbrae Camera Club. encephoto/. Winner: Monochrome Salon Prints SEPTEMBER 2006 10 SEPTEMBER 2006 5 FOTO FANFARE FOTO FANFARE for both prints and projected images be reviewed with the ultimate goal a simplifica - CREATIVE IMAGES — BI-MONTHLY COMPETITION tion of the classes. A committee was formed to Chairman: Wendell DeLano • Judge: Lois Shouse • August 2006 discuss the issue: Joe Hearst, Gene Albright, Teri, Joan, print chairs, etc. This committee has been (5=3E+2S) quite active during the past month. Creative B Journalism: Kay Kennedy has resigned 1EGeorgia's Dune ——————————————————————— Judy VanEvera —————————— Marin Digital from her long-time chairmanship of Journa- 2SLines and Angles —————————————————————— Mary Toalson —————————————— Millbrae Secretary thanked Susan Glasgow and Amory lism Chair on the Board because she has not Creative A (22=14E+8S) Donaldson for substituting as Secretary when she been able to resolve her hearing loss satisfac - 1EGiant Radioctive Caterpillar Feeding in the Night was away. torily. We thank her so much for her many (Caterpillus Radioactivus Giganteum) ————————— Armando Picciotto ——————————— Berkeley Treasurer’s Report: CD has matured and it was years of chairmanship and for filling in fre - 2EBlue Ghosts Walk the Moon —————————————— Jane Postiglione ————————— Contra Costa not possible to put the monies into an ING account quently for Baha Fahmy and for the Rossmoor 3EVibrant Cala Lily No 2 —————————————————— Tom Debley ——————————————— Alameda because they accept only personal accounts, not delegate. Another Rossmoor member, Walt 4SEggshells in a New Light ————————————————— Diane Conner ——————————————— Marin business accounts. $3000 of former CD was placed Braun, has agreed to become the new 5EBlue Tango ————————————————————————— Cheryl Rinzler —————————————— Berkeley into a new 5-month CD at about 5% return, the Journalism chair. His email address is on the HE Banana Slug ————————————————————————— Bill Stone ————————————— Contra Costa back page of the Foto Fanfare. rest retained in the checking account. Creative AA (26=13E+13S) The debit ATM cards have been ordered, as Electronic Images Chairman: There is a 1SAlien Intrusion ——————————————————————— Sherry Grivett ————————————— Livermore well as PayPal . PayPal will be established on our new on-line submission method being cre - 2EDreamier Vineyard ————————————————————— Robin Braunfeld ————————— Marin Digital website to be used primarily for registering for ated which can be used for both electronic 3SEye of the Cosmic Storm ————————————————— Richard Silva —————————————— Peninsula events on line. PayPal is not federally insured. images and slides. Gene Albright and Joe 4SLost in the Swirl —————————————————————— Shirley Tervo —————————————— Peninsula Vice-President’s Report: Looking into places Hearst have been working to make this as 5EDesert Truck ————————————————————————— Jan DeLano ——————————————— Alameda for Annual Luncheon, primarily in Berkeley and clear as possible. Gene has been sending up- HS Tulips in the Spring ———————————————————— Jim Silva —————————————— Photochrome West Oakland. Hopes to have something more def - dates to the delegates on a regular basis. The inite by next meeting. The Basque catherdral center program ultimately can also be used by indi - located in South San Francisco was suggested. vidual club members for submitting images. A Nominating Committee was established con - Basically, the club EICs must set up a table to sisting of Mike Johnson, Joan Field, Trenkins describe the club and members, specifying the McClain and Sherry Grivett. Mike declined to be level of each member and listing the upcom - president because of family health problems. ing competitions: The Honors application forms were available 1 general set-up for club and need to be returned as soon as possible, 2 member level list preferably by October board meeting. 3 competition list Print Chairs Report: Gloria Fraser and Dorothy When the information has been gathered Weaver were present and we discussed the labeling the rest of the work will be easy. It will be nec - of prints. They claim that it is 100% improved since essary to type info in only one time. the club delegates have been making sure that the Of Interest to Membership “Giant Radioactive Caterpillar designation is correct and obvious and that the The Butterfly Zone with live butterflies will Feeding in the Night labels are in the upper left-hand corner. They deter - be available until October 29 at the Conserv- (Caterpillus R;adioactivus mined that it would not be necessary to devise a atory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park. Giganteum)“ new label that all clubs would use, but they did Free tours of the Port of Oakland on the by Armando Picciotto provide a basic template. It was also decided that a third Thursday of each month through Octo- of Berkeley Camera Club; mandatory requirement of having the labeling cor - ber. For more info: Winner: Creative A Projected rect or rejecting the print would not be required. http://www.portofoakland.com/communit/se Images Teri Scheoch suggested that the various levels rv_tour.asp SEPTEMBER 2006 8 SEPTEMBER 2006 7