THE VIEWFINDER Comments from the President ”We Are Making Photographs to Understand What Our Lives Mean to Us.” -- Ralph Hattersley
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Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 40, Number 3 • November, 2020 Bruce Edwards’ “Serenity” won first place in Novice Digital for the October Open competiton. See more winners on pages 4 - 7. THE VIEWFINDER Comments From the President ”We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” -- Ralph Hattersley by Jeanine Cummins, President Grateful. and ethnologist in the early 1900’s, whose work focused on the American Indian and the American We’re in the 11th month of 2020. Everyone was so West. Curtis wanted to document the North American excited about this new decade we were entering; it Indian before white expansion and the federal was about having a vision and hoping for change. government destroyed what remained of their culture In January, I wrote that the number 20 symbolizes a and way of life. Contemporary American Indian strong need to learn patience, learn to take your time. photographers have felt his work didn’t always label Well, 2020 has been a year of many lows and some everything or identify his subjects; over 600 tribes highs, and there was a strong need to learn patience, were pigeonholed into a small group of only a few which is always good when you take pictures. tribes. Check out photographers Wendy Red Star, Opportunities to photograph this year haven’t gone Wil Wilson, and Zig Jackson (Rising Buffalo). Zig away but have been altered and challenging to say Jackson is the first Native American contemporary the least. The Coronavirus taught us to see differently, photographer represented at the Library of Congress. refocus our creativity and what we’re feeling. How These photographers want to show the complexity of we photograph does help us to understand our Native American Indians. surroundings and what our lives mean to us. Continued on page 3 Edward S. Curtis (1868 – 1952) was a photographer Out & About p. 3 Upcoming Events p. 3 This Month’s Schedule Table of Contents: Competition Corner p. 4 - 7 November 2 Competition Theme: Close-Up Facing Our Fears p. 8 November 9 Photo Talk Shadows Free Items p. 8 November 14 Field Trip Best of Bowie How-To Meeting p. 9 November 16 Program Drone Images Field Trip p. 10 November 23 How-To Meeting Converting to Black & White Program Meeting p. 10 November 30 No Meeting -- Make a Calendar p. 11 - 13 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 40, Number 3 • November, 2020 Articles for The Viewfinder EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE VIEWFINDER is distributed via Articles should be sent via e-mail to President Jeanine Cummins ............ 240-461-2914 e-mail early in the month and at [email protected]. Attachments . [email protected] the first meeting of each month as MS Word, .txt, or .rtf files are VP Programs during the club year. Contributions of acceptable. Photos and illustrations Catherine Sheppard .......... 301-262-2819 articles of interest to photographers should be separate attachments. [email protected] are welcomed. VP Membership Photographs should be submitted Bob Matthews ............... 301-785-1151 The deadline for submitting articles electronically as JPEGs with a “high” . [email protected] is the second Monday of the month quality compression setting. The VP Competition Roz Kleffman ................ 301-464-1867 prior to publication (ie, articles optimal photograph will be no . [email protected] submitted in early October will more than 800 pixels in its greatest VP How-to be published in the November dimension. Stefan Kaben ................ 301-459-0955 newsletter). [email protected] VP Photo Talk Membership Rates Photographic Society Charles Jemmott ............. 301-249-3245 of America (PSA) . [email protected] Individual ........$40.00 Treasurer Family ............$55.00 The Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Monica Hawse ............... 443-534-1160 is a member of the Photographic . [email protected] Meeting Nights Society of America (PSA) and of Secretary Wanda Jenifer................ 301-946-3090 The Bowie-Crofton Camera Club the Maryland Photography Alliance . [email protected] meets the first through fourth (MPA). PSA Representative Monday nights of each month For information regarding the Denise Hill .................(301) 809-1399 September through May in the . [email protected] benefits of a PSA individual Fellowship Hall of the All Saints Newsletter Editor membership and Lutheran Church at US 301 and Mt. Vincent Ferrari............... 301-249-2210 for PSA-sponsored events contact . [email protected] Oak Road in Bowie. Meetings begin Denise Hill (301) 809-1399 or Immediate Past President -Roz Kleffman at 7:30. Visitors are always welcome. e-mail [email protected]. STAFF Competition Assistant Open .................................... Database Manager Dick Russell ................. 410-923-2022 . [email protected] Field Trip Committee Leaders Vincent and Leslie Ferrari............301-249-2210 . [email protected] Webmaster Bev Shomo . [email protected] Web Editor Vincent [email protected] Exhibit Coordinator Bob Matthews [email protected] Bowie-Crofton Camera Club P.O. Box 515 Bowie, Maryland 20718-0515 2 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 40, Number 3 • November, 2020 Comments from the President, continued from page 1 by Jeanine Cummins, President We have many things going on during November. topics. Read this month’s Viewfinder for additional Stan Turk was able to reschedule his field trip information. photographing the Best of Bowie (Nov. 14), which November is always a special month because it is was canceled last season due to Covid. Our monthly the beginning of the holiday season, leading us into a competition theme is Close Up (Nov. 2). Photo Talk will new year. We use this time to say what we are grateful address our next competition theme of shadows. Our for, although Covid has taught us otherwise. Celebrate program speaker will talk about drone photography veterans, teachers (American Education Week), (Nov. 16); we will have a How-To on BW conversion American Indians, and family. (Nov. 23). As usual, our Vice Presidents have been very diligent trying to bring you relevant and interesting Be safe. Be Grateful. 1 Out and About What B-CCC members are up to this month by Vincent Ferrari, Editor We have nothing to report this month. If you have a e-mail with the information to this newsletter, so that photograph in a gallery show, or have some other news we can announce it in this column! to report about your photography, please send an Upcoming Events News about non-club related photographic events by Vincent Ferrari, Editor The Adobe Max Creativity Conference sessions are Hagerstown, Maryland, is hosting a juried photography available on-line for free. Go to: www.max.adobe.com/, exhibit. The deadline for submissions is November 20. and click on “watch sessions”. Filter for photography Cash prizes will be given. You can learn more and enter and you will find lots of videos on photographic at: www.wcmfa.org/call-for-entries/ subjects by experts in the field. Closer to home, Photoworks at Glen Echo Park is Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions, formerly Nature Visions, also hosting a juried exhibit. The title of the show will has free virtual speaker presentations on Nov. 7. You be “A Walk in the Park”. They are looking for images must register for each speaker session. Speakers that show the rich and diverse wildlife and the dynamic include Rick Sammons and Kristi Odom. You can also landscapes that exist within the DMV area The deadline enter competitions. Visit: for submissions is November 9. For more information, visit: www.naturevisions.org/ www.glenechophotoworks.org/archives/3587/a-walk-in- The Museum of Fine Arts of Washington County, in the-park-call-for-entries/ 3 The Viewfinder • Bowie-Crofton Camera Club Volume 40, Number 3 • November, 2020 Competition Corner October 5 Competition Results by Roz Kleffman, VP Competition Club year 2020- 2021 is off to a great start. Cynthia learned something. Keith did a fabulous job educating the audience via The results of the October 2020 OPEN competition are ZOOM in the October competiton. Her comments were on the page 5. clear and concise. I am certain that everyone on the call December Competition Judge Dave Joyner will judge for the “Shadows” competition by Roz Kleffman, VP Competition You have about four weeks to sift through your Howard Penn at The Naval Academy. Howard provided photos or make some new ones for our December, both encouragement and wise advice to this newbie. 2020 “SHADOWS” competition. Dave Joyner will be David likes to say, “ Howard was a photography black our judge for “SHADOWS”. Competitions will continue belt guiding a scrawny white belt”. Now, armed with to be via Zoom. All entries must be uploaded to the his Sony A7R3, David is making giant strides in the website by December 1, 2020 by 11:59 p.m. Remember photography world as a judge. David has served in a that prints are being judged as digitals. You still need variety of roles at the Arundel Camera Club: webmaster, to print the image but will be submitting the digital file newsletter editor, program chair, and competition co- of that print that you made as well as a proof of print chair. Now he is their co-webmaster. image. If you have questions about submitting images Some of his photos can be found at: please call Roz 301-814-3760 or Beth Fabey. We did not have many novice prints last competition. I want to www.behance.net/wdjoyner encourage the novice printers to get busy. and on instagram @w.d.joyner. David Joyner joined the Arundel Camera Club in the Please give a warm ZOOM welcome to David Joyner late 1990’s as a beginner with a Nikon D50 in hand. as our judge for “Shadows” on December 7, 2020.