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]
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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/
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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. Dave was fortunate enough to work down the hall from
Serenity, 1st Novice Digital, Pixie Girl, HM Advanced Digital, Bruce Edwards Jennifer Heinz
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Competition Corner October 5 Competition Results, continued
Novice Digital (18 Entries) Advanced Digital (41 Entries) 1st Serenity...... Bruce Edwards 1st Sunglasses at Eastern Market ...... 2nd This Girl Is On Fire. . . Petrice Henley ...... Beth Fabey 3rd Summer Morning. . . .William Bailey 2nd Two white feathers in a .Pitcher 2...... Roz Kleffman HM Eagle Head...... Samuel Lane 3rd Observers...... Bill Collins HM Horse Love ...... Petrice Henley HM Shy Against the Sky. . .Karen Smale HM Cedar Waxwing. . . . Monica Hawse Novice Monochrome Prints (3 Entries) HM Effervescent BCCC. . . Stephen Bruza 2nd Under the Pyramid (MP) ...... HM Koi...... Warren E. Wilson ...... Jin-chung Hsu HM Pumpkin Spice 2019 . . Robert Howard AWARDED IN THE ADVANCED CATEGORY ALSO HM Slide...... Steve Abramowitz HM Pixie girl...... Jennifer Heinz Novice Color Prints (0 Entries)
Advanced Monochrome Prints (21 Entries) Kennedy, 3rd Advanced Monochrome Prints, Jeanine Cummins 1st Ocracoke Lighthouse . .Bill Collins 2nd Under The Pyramid. . . . .JC Hsu 3rd Kennedy...... Jeanine Cummins HM Farm Table Veg and Jars ...... Beth Fabey HM Resting_in_the_Reeds . Bill Collins HM Spocott Windmill Museum Jars ...... Beth Fabey
Advanced Color Prints (25 Entries) 1st All_That_Remains. . . .Bill Collins 2nd Country_Store_Jars. . .Bill Collins Shy Against the Sky, HM Advanced Digital, 3rd Sweet Books...... Robert Howard Karen Smale HM Time Marches On CP. . Beth Fabey HM Autumn Mum_CP. . . .Monica Hawse HM Calla Lily 17-27. . . . .Stefan Kaben HM Pond Colors ...... Vincent Ferrari
More Competition Photos
on page 6.
Autumn Mum, HM Advanced Color Prints, Monica Hawse
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Competition Corner October Competition Results, continued
Cedar Waxwing, HM Advanced Digital, Horse Love, HM Novice Digital, Monica Hawse Petrice Henley
Eagle Head, HM Novice Digital, This Girl is on Fire, 2nd Novice Digital, Samuel Lane Petrice Henley
Effervescent, HM Advanced Digital, Pond Colors, HM Advanced Color Prints, Steve Bruza Vincent Ferrari
More Competition Photos on page 7.
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Competition Corner October Competition Results, continued
Two White Feathers in a Pitcher, 2nd Advanced Digital, Calla Lily, HM Advanced Color Prints, Roz Kleffman Stefan Kaben
Koi, HM Advanced Digital, Warren Wilson Summer Morning, 3rd Novice Digital, William Bailey
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Facing Our Fears Get your work out there to be seen by Steve Bruza
Most creative people like to show off their work. come across for why people don’t post online, are: (1) Whether to their family, friends, or people at camera Other people are so much better than me, (2) People club, it’s a desire we have to be able to share what aren’t going to like my photos, (3) People may not like we have created with the hope of gaining feedback, subjects I photograph, (4) My work isn’t good enough. whether in smiles, likes, comments, or getting awards I understand where these are all valid concerns for at competitions. We all have a myriad of different, someone unfamiliar with posting their work online. disparate reasons for wanting to share our photos with But whatever the reason we can come up for why we others, and not just keep it on our computers for only don’t want to post our work online, there can be a our eyes to see. But, for some people, there is a real counterpoint with reasons why we should. Yes, there trepidation in posting their work online. will always be people better than us – but also people Several years ago, Bowie-Crofton Camera Club set up not as good as us, too. Yes, some people won’t like our a Flickr group so people could post any image and get photos – but a lot more people will. The only one who feedback. In recent months contributions have tapered will ultimately judge how good our work is, and will off and I want to encourage you to post your photos always be - ourselves. so we can build up this friendly community and have The point of this discussion is to help encourage any members benefit of helpful comments to improve as B-CCC members who may have reservations about photographers. This is especially true for novices as posting their work online, to join in the celebration of well as advanced members experimenting with new their creative journey and to share in what our camera techniques. There’s a link to our Flickr group on the club does to support and encourage its members by main B-CCC website or use www.flickr.com/groups/b- posting on Flickr. And finally, an insightful quote from ccc/ Note: New users will need to set up a free account. Scott Adams, creator of ‘Dilbert:’ “Creativity is allowing I know some are fearful about posting photos to the yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones B-CCC Flickr group. The most common reasons I’ve to keep.”
Free Photographic Supplies Available Clarence Carvell is giving away some items of interest by Clarence Carvell
If you are interested in any of the items below, some black/some bronze/some silver. contact Clarence Carvell at: [email protected] • 2 dozen pieces of picture glass, various sizes, all Everything listed is free to the first person who is new. interested. • Enlarger chassis, Omega D5, new, with • 1 dozen archival print boxes, 16 x 20 x 3, metal baseboard. Just needs a lamp house which I never corners, some black/some gray, good condition. got around to. • An armful of Neilson frame parts, various sizes,
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How-To Meeting - November 23 Converting Color to Black and White - Bryan “BJ” Ramsay by Stefan Kaben, VP How-To BJ started his photography hobby with a Kodak collection. BJ is a regular contributor to Orchids Instamatic camera and 12 exposure Black and White magazine and was the primary contributor to the film in the early 1960’s, processing negatives and prints Smithsonian’s Orchids Calendar in 2016. in the family bathroom (darkroom). This hobby grew through high school…then life happened. The camera took a back seat until 2005 when he bought his first digital camera and experienced the ability to process images in the comfort of his office chair. As an avid printer he has focused on perfecting both As the President of the St. Marys County Camera his “in camera” Club, BJ regularly shares his skills with the members. “If photographic you want to really learn something, teach it” are words skills and his post- he embraces. He is now focusing on fine art printing, processing skills, black and whites and nightscapes, trying to maintain always intent on a connection with the emotion felt while actually delivering high quality prints. capturing the images in the field. His presentation will cover some thoughts on black and white photography, Photoshop,
and fine art photography, and then jump in with both feet on some introduction to As his photographic skills grew, they were heavily advanced B&W influenced by two master photographers in particular image processing. (after Ansel Adams of course): Vincent Versace with Some of BJ’s his Photoshop mastery, and Joe McNally with his work appears on incredible off-camera lighting skills. Those influences this page. were then improved by the great mentorship of James Osen while working as a volunteer photographer for the Smithsonian Institution recording their orchid
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November Field Trip - Nov. 14 The Best of Bowie by Stanley Turk, Field Trip Leader
Most B-CCC field trips are far home, requiring long travel times and some overnight stays. The club never had a field trip in its backyard. This field trip will feature photo opportunities locally and avoiding Beltway driving. Bowie is a very old and historic city. The city history starts in Colonial America, with the Revolutionary War, Civil War through post World War II. Bowie, Huntington or Collington offers opportunities to photograph photo opportunities will present themselves for club plantations, railroad and horse racing. competitions. We will meet at 10:00 a.m. in Allen Pond Park in the We will then visit the Belair Stables and Belair parking lot by the Ice Arena. Allen Pond Park is an Mansion, both very historic spots. Note that no tripods interesting area with a pond and skate park. Next, we allowed inside any facility, but they can be used on the will go to Bowie City Hall and Mill Creek Pond. Many outside grounds. As of this printing, we will not be able to enter the facilities. Finally, we will go to Old Bowie and visit Memorial Park and the Bowie Railroad Museum. We will finish the Best of Bowie Tour with a late lunch (early dinner) at Old Bowie Town Grille (tentative).
Program Meeting - November 16 Rich Issacman - Street Photography by Catherine Sheppard, VP Programs
November’s Program Speaker, Rich Issacman, is an appears regularly in local galleries and shows, including Annapolis-based photographer and member of the exhibits at BWI Airport and the Federation of Art’s Digital Photography Club of Annapolis and of the Circle Gallery in downtown Annapolis. He is, as well, a Muddy Creek Artist Guild. His presentation will be on skilled drone photographer and this year had a solo street photography. exhibit of drone images at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. Issacman has traveled widely and through photography strives to capture images that capture a You can see a sample of Issacman’s work at his strong sense of place and memory. Issacman’s work website at rich-issacman.pixels.com.
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Make a 2021 Custom Month-per-Page Photo Calendar the Easy Way A how-to guide to calendar making by John Krout A photo calendar is a great platform for making provide calendar creation. While considering how to your photos visible to family and friends on a constant create a 2012 calendar, I evaluated a few. At the time, yearlong basis. For most photographers, there are two none offered the two features I wanted, and many major stumbling blocks on the road to producing a offered fewer design options than most online calendar calendar: creating the actual layout of days, and the creation services.What I chose to do instead was a cost of physical copies. I have created two different Do-It-Yourself approach. That allowed me to print page layouts for a 2021 calendar, with a page for each borderless photos for my calendars, using a desktop of the twelve calendar months. Below you will find ink jet printer with that capability, and to include out how to obtain the layout files, so you can add the thumbnail months on each month page. It gave your photos to create a complete custom calendar me access to far more fonts than any online service containing your photos. offered. The Do-It-Yourself approach also saves a lot of money. For the Do-It-Youself approach, I decided to I first set out to create a custom month-per-page create month pages using the free OpenOffice Impress photo calendar in the autumn of 2010. At the time I application, now LibreOffice Impress. LibreOffice is a had amassed a number of striking photos of Tucker free, downloadable suite of applications with the same County, West Virginia, my family’s favorite vacation site, capabilities as Microsoft Office. The Impress application and I wanted to make a page-per-month wall calendar enables slide deck prep, like PowerPoint. depicting that part of the world. I investigated a few online calendar creation services, and chose one to You can see two sample pages from my 2020 use for my 2011 calendar. From that initial experience, calendar in the illustration on this page. I chose the I learned important things. First, I wanted to print theme of Flowers for that calendar photos borderless, edge-to-edge, preferably calendar. The month page on high contrast glossy paper. The online services I is a Table, a layout concept evaluated used card stock only, and could not print that was introduced a borderless. At the time, many online calendar creation couple of decades ago services provide a variety of options for frame-like in Microsoft office, and borders around photos, which I consider to be a less soon after in OpenOffice. than ideal use of ink and paper space. Second, I wanted In each month page, each each month page to include thumbnails of the prior day is a table cell. Text can month and the next month, a feature I had seen in be added to each cell to many commercial calendars. I found no online calendar describe say, a birthday, creation service that could include such thumbnails in anniversary, holiday, and month pages. Third, the online services require that so forth. It is even possible photos for custom calendars be uploaded to their to embed a photo in a servers. Security of those uploads is never guaranteed. table cell, or use a photo If you want to retain control of your photos, you may as a backdrop for a month table. I don’t recommend wish to avoid such services. Fourth, it turned out that that backdrop concept unless the backdrop is very my 2011 calendar cost me about $21 per copy, with a light pastels, to avoid reducing the contrast of the day minimum print run of 12 copies. I thought that was far numbers and text in table cells. The two thumbnails too expensive. months are also tables, each inserted into a cell of the month table. You can see those two thumbnails in the The calendars were very popular with my family upper left corner of the month table. and friends. For my 2012 calendar, I began looking for alternative approaches. Various software packages Continued on page 12.
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Make a 2021 Custom Month-per-Page Photo Calendar the Easy Way, continued A how-to guide to calendar making by John Krout Yes, it is feasible to embed a table within a cell of a their website for that info. Google is a good source bigger table. Month thumbnails are examples of the for culture days. Try googling Easter 2021; Google will usefulness of that capability. show you the date. The US Naval Observatory web site, www.usno.navy.mil, was my source for full moons and Producing physical copies of a calendar involves new moons for many years. For a couple of years, the more than design and printing. I chose a low-cost USNO web site has been shut down pending security binding technique called comb binding, widely used upgrades. I am sure the 2020 pandemic further delayed for creating a small print run of reports and proposals. restoration of the site. TimeAndDate.com is one site I found inexpensive desktop machines to punch holes providing the same info, though in a less convenient in pages and insert a plastic cylindrical “comb” through form. the punched holes to bind the pages. Initially I bought a bottom of the line, all-manual comb binding machine. REUSABLE STANDARD YEARS A few years ago I upgraded to a binding machine with One morning in July, 2020, I woke up in the morning a motorized hole punch mechanism. with this remarkable thought: there are 14 standard My cost per calendar copy in 2012 was about $12. years! Seven are 365-day years, each beginning on a It has risen a bit to about $12.50 per copy because, a different day of the week. The other seven are leap few years ago, I switched from card stock to a glossy years, each beginning on a different day of the week. paper known as brochure paper. Brochure paper is not Here is an example of the basic reason why the concept as glossy as good quality ink jet photo paper, but is a of Standard Years is useful. Both 2021 and 2027 begin whole lot better than card stock, and is printable on on a Friday. I can reuse the month pages for 2021 in both sides like card stock or general-purpose paper. 2027. My calendars from 2012 through 2020 cover Below I will offer some suggestions for producing a many of those standard years. So I do not have to re- calendar without buying a binding system. You can create those month pages. Instead I can reuse them. choose the way that works best for you. In the next few weeks I reused month pages or created month page files for almost all of the standard years. I After a couple of years, I worked out a way to decided I would give away my file of month pages for produce very professional looking month pages each year online, starting with 2021. consistently. I created a master Impress file containing months and thumbnails. To create a month page in a HOW TO FIND THE 2021 MONTH PAGE FILES ONLINE new calendar, I simply copied a month from the master First of all, I created the 2021 month-per-page files Impress file, and copied two thumbnail months from in two formats: ODP, which is the LibreOffice Impress the master file. format, and PPT, which is the PowerPoint 1997-2003 HOW TO FIND CONTENTS FOR MONTH PAGES format. All later versions of PowerPoint can read and edit the PPT files. The files contain a page of You can choose what to include in month pages. instructions, a page in which the current layout of the In addition to federal holidays, and culture days like month pages is explained in detail, blank pages for Valentines Day, St Patrick’s Day, Election Day, and the cover and each page of photos, and of course the Easter, I include equinoxes, solstices, and full moon month pages. Here is the URL for the ODP file: and new moon days. The latter are valuable because my son and I like to take photos of the night sky. www.drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Nacr I also include family birthdays. The U.S. Office of nals9HTXUHU8zg0Ef1UQ-YwNZT1C Management and Budget (OMB) publishes online lists of Federal holidays for several upcoming years. I use Continued on page 13.
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Make a 2021 Custom Month-per-Page Photo Calendar the Easy Way, continued A how-to guide to calendar making by John Krout Here is the URL for the PPT file: it all at home. So here are production alternatives: FARM IT OUT: Export your completed calendar design www.drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1soKd from Impress or PowerPoint to a PDF file. Take that PDF file to a printing firm for printing and binding. OvbQrQT6qHHmCSw8efdJwMZziQVm Remember to request glossy brochure paper. Note that Staples and OfficeDepot could not print color Second, I decided recently to create a second, more borderless when I checked with them a couple of compact layout for the month pages, using Portrait years ago, but Minuteman Press could do that. When I orientation for each page. Each page has a month on evaluated Staples and Office Depot printing capabilities the bottom of the page and room for photos at the a couple of years ago, I asked each to print a page from top of the page. This layout requires 6 sheets of paper my calendar PDF file. The stores had no trouble printing instead of 13, and roughly half the ink of the original a PDF file, though they could not print borderless. This month-per-page layout. As a result, this layout reduces option clearly trades effort for expense. My guess is production costs. I have not printed a calendar in this that the cost per 13-page calendar for a small print run format, but my guess is that the cost per copy printed might be $18 or more. The printing companies might and bound at home would be about $7. also require a fairly large minimal print run. To use comb binding for this compact layout, I HYBRID: The idea here is to print copies at home, suggest cutting 11 inch plastic combs to 8.5 inches, and because most of the printing cost is ink and paper, and binding across the top. avoid the cost of a binding machine as well as binding Here is the URL for the ODP compact layout file: time. I admit I have not researched the practicality of this approach. Make sure to call the printing companies and confirm they can do this before you try it. Print at www.drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1JTC home, then take the unbound physical calendars to a JKF69jMYLjA5I3F2G8QYF61uQDABb printing company for binding. The cost per calendar will be greater than a totally Do-it-Yourself approach,
because paying for binding includes paying for labor as Here is the URL for the PPT compact layout file: well as materials. Have fun! www.drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Qa0 PrIVpjdLF749V3pomuWOsZff3DSXi About the author:
Please feel free to change the formatting I have John Krout received his first camera in 1964, and has applied to the month pages of the files. Different fonts, been taking photos ever since. He enjoys anything in different colors, et cetera can be applied to suit your the sky: birds, fireworks, the Milky Way, carnival rides, own tastes. Also there is no reason not to include more active weather, air shows, hot air balloons, and rocket than one photo for each month. I have sometimes launches. His photos of rock concerts were published in included 3 on a photo page, which is very practical for Ampersand magazine in the 1970s and 1980s. Currently portrait orientation photos in a landscape orientation he uses a Canon EOS 6D and a Canon EOS 7D mark page space, and once I included 5. II. He has a masters degree in computer science, and SOME PRODUCTION OPTIONS worked as a software engineer for most of his life. For me, by far the most time-intensive effort is to find He has been writing about creative uses of personal and lay out photos for a specific theme. That dwarfs the computers since the early 1980s. He lives in Arlington time to print and bind copies of calendars. However, I VA with his son, many personal computers, and too admit not everyone has the time and inclination to do many cats.
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This month’s Parting Shot is from Harry Smith. If you would like your image and story presented here, send it to: [email protected]. I love to photograph in Maryland. The state has so much to see, like Baltimore, Annapolis, the Chesapeake Bay, the mountains, the countryside, gardens and farms. There are state and federal wildlife reserves. From the mountains to the seashore, from the Potomac River to the Mason-Dixon Line, there is much to see. Here is one of Maryland’s most famous landmarks. -- Harry Smith
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