Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club 2017 April
This Issue Volume 80 • Issue 8 Club News…………………………2 - 21 Photography Ne..………………..22 - 27 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc………. 28 - 30 Schedule of Activities……..…… 31 - 39 Complete Index...... 40 complete listings on last page
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Committee Chairs
The Park West Camera Club is an independent not-for- Archive Myrna Harrison-Changar profit corporation. Guests are always welcome at meet- 212 663 1422 [email protected] ings and activities. Competition John Brengelman The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is 917-543-7957 [email protected] Hedy Klein published every month by and for the members of the 718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- Field Trip Susan Sigrist able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed 212 758 0036 [email protected] issues are available at PWCC meetings. Paul Grebanier 718 629 7164 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are always accepted. Gallery Karen Corrigan The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any 212 674 2201 [email protected] submissions which are published. House Marty Smith Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each 347 703 3905 [email protected] month. Membership Marlene Schonbrun 212 662 3107 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. Elena Pierpont 212 956 4515 [email protected] Contact Information Newsletter Chuck Pine Website 212 932 7665 [email protected] www.parkwestcameraclub.org Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn E-Mail Address 212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] [email protected] Social Natalie Manzino 917-757-7086 [email protected] Club Mailing Address 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Website Michael Schleiff 917 359 6823 [email protected] Photo Notes Mailing Address 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Workshop Tom Quackenbush 917 608 1923 [email protected] Club Officers
President Ed Lee 212 255 9678 [email protected] V. President Michael Schleiff 917 359 6823 [email protected]
Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine Cover Photo 212 932 7665 [email protected] Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle Dark-eyed Burrowing Owl 212 595 4920 [email protected] by Chuck Pine ©2017 Treasurer Maria Fernandez 908 447 8075 [email protected] Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine 212 932 7665 [email protected]
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 Editorial laid-back life style. It means leaving the four camera clubs CLUB May Day we belong to in the south. And, it means leaving the friends we I am sitting here, in front of my have down here. computer, finishing up this But it also means some ad- April issue of Photo Notes. My ventures on the journey north. mind is wandering as I try to Last, year, for example, we come up with an idea for this stopped at the Alligator Farm editorial. What can I write streamers. All this taking place in St. Augustine Beach to pho- about? What’s on my mind? in the school yard on warm, tograph in the bird rookery The only thing I could sunny, cloudless days. there. We also stopped in Old think of is… coming home! In But I digress! Car City to shoot all sorts of fact, Helen and I will be head- This year, May Day means decaying autos amidst the ing north in less than four leaving Florida and coming trees and overgrown grasses. weeks. We’re planning to leave back home to The City, New This year, who knows Delray Beach on May 1st, the York, the Big Apple. where we’ll stop and shoot? day known as May Day. Yeah, it means leaving the As a kid in a New York almost-perfect Florida weather. City public elementary school It means leaving the casual, Chuck back in the 50s, we were ”forced” to participate in cer- Photo Notes tain activities. One of those ac- tivities was dancing. We did Publisher: Ed Lee not learn how to cha-cha; we did not learn how to waltz. I’m Editor: Chuck Pine not really sure what dances we Committee: Will Aimesbury, Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, did learn—except for two. Madeleine Barbara, Ann Broder, Meg Darnell, Ruth We learned the Mexican hat Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus, dance. Why? No idea! Maybe Elena Pierpont, Helen Pine, Judy Rosenblatt and Puneet to celebrate Cinqo de Mayo?!? Sood The other was dancing around the May Pole. Why? No idea! Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Karen Maybe it had something to do Corrigan, Christine Doyle, Paul Grebanier, Myrna with the fact that May Day was Harrision-Changar, Sal Maci and Chuck Pine also a celebration for Interna- tional Workers Day, commem- Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro orating Socialism and Com- using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. munism. After all, all teachers back then were ”lefties.” All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise I still remember going believed to be in the public domain. around in circles. Twisting and turning. Weaving in and out Credited images remain the sole property of their with those long, colorful copyright holders—all rights reserved.
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month April 2017 CLUB by John Brengelman
PDI-of-the-Month Miguel by Madeleine Barbara
Honor PDIs Tree in Snow by Madeleine Barbara Half Dome by Justine Carson Early Morning Taj by Karen Corrigan Hotel Windows by Karen Corrigan Shipwreck by Meg Darnell Hallway by Carole de Beer Up by Carole de Beer A Man and His Dogs by Julie Foehrenbach Crib by Paul Grebanier Leenie’s Christmas Amaryllis by George Hansen Skaftafel by Natalie Manzino Girl on a Wire by Paula Paterniti Cuban Man Smoking Cigar by Rita Russo Through the Window by Michael Schleiff Sid by Puneet Sood © Madeleine Barbara Snow Tires by Joan Slatkin
Print-of-the-Month House of Sticks by Dinorah Capota
Honor Prints Cuba by John Brengelman Yonkers Landscape by Dinorah Capota Snow Monkey by Justine Carson Taking Down the Gurt by Sarah Corbin Trophy by Paul Grebanier City Scape by Paul Grebanier Pastural by Paula Paterniti What? by Alice Somma
© Dinorah Capota
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals PDIs through April 2017 CLUB by John Brengelman Natalie Manzino 104 George Hansen 92 Chuck Pine 92 Prints Carole de Beer 84 Paul Grebanier 82 Dinorah Capota 114 Hedy Klein 82 Paul Grebanier 90 Congratulations to our John Brengelman 80 Sarah Corbin 88 winners and honorable Harriet Josephs 80 George Hansen 86 Paula Paterniti 78 Natalie Manzino 86 mentions! Joan Slatkin 76 John Brengelman 80 Julie Foehrenbach 74 Paula Paterniti 74 Thanks to all who entered Madeleine Barbara 72 Oggy Doytchinov 62 and competed this month Christine Doyle 70 Hedy Klein 62 and to all who helped Larry Rubin 66 Elena Pierpont 62 Janet Susin 66 Alice Somma 60 make the competition run Elena Pierpont 64 Bill Apple 56 so smoothly. Ed Lewit 62 Madeleine Barbara 56 Rita Russo 62 Marvin Fink 40 And, a special thank-you Larry Sapadin 60 Larry Rubin 36 to our judge, Nir Arieli, for Alice Somma 60 Sal Maci 34 Bill Apple 58 Ed Lewit 20 doing a wonderful job. Jay Bitkower 56 Justine Carson 18 Marty Smith 50 Will Aimesbury 8 For the rest of us, there’s Sal Maci 48 Ann Broder 8 always next month! Michael Schleiff 48 Anna Cortez 8 Virginia Lawrence 44 Meg Darnell 8 Susan Rauch 44 Susan Genaro 8 Ann Broder 32 Jerry Vogel 8 Dinorah Capota 32 Ruth Yashpan 8 Meg Darnell 30 Nicole Dosso 28 Susan Genaro 28 Jerry Vogel 28 Karen Corrigan 24 Marilyn Fish-Glynn 20 Dottie Mills 18 Puneet Sood 18 Niv Gidron 16 Gordon Pellegrini 16 Justine Carson 14 Anna Cortez 14 Will Aimesburt 10 Rain Bengis 8 Peter Houts 8 Brenda Popowitz 8 Ruth Yashpan 8
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 CLUB
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Year-End Competition Expanding Visions 23 This year we will be shooting at destinations CLUB The Year-End Competition will Park West Camera Club’s ranging from the Upper West be held on June 5th. It is differ- Expanding Visions photog- Side to Coney Island in ent from our monthly competi- raphy class is being offered Brooklyn, plus midtown and tions: the rules of entry are dif- this spring into summer. It is downtown Manhattan areas. ferent; the judging is different; open to all interested photog- There is a common theme the rewards are, too. raphers. This will be the 23rd running through the assign- Each Club member may consecutive year of Expand- ments: Hand Held. submit up to four prints and ing Visions. Not too complicated, is it? four PDIs. But, and this is a big Expanding Visions 23 is a Lots of fun and educational. but, all the submissions must marriage of a field trip class Most of all, it will expand have been entered into one of with a class in photographic your vision in the photos you the monthly competitions held seeing. This nine week class take, the equipment you use, this year (October through (Thursday evenings, May and allow you to grow as a May). It doesn’t matter if the 18th thru June 29th) will photographer. images were awarded honors open your mind to new ways The photo instructor for or got a ‘C’— they are eligible of looking at photographs, Expanding Visions 23, as has for this competition. But, im- subject matter, equipment, been for all the previous E.V. ages may not be altered from and techniques. It will also classes, is Chuck Pine. the way they were originally allow you to explore parts of The introductory session entered. You can’t reprint a the City that you may not and the two review classes print; you can’t spot out a want to explore on your own. last for about two hours. The speck of dust; you can’t even The format of the class is four field trips/assignments re-crop an image, even if the simple: We start with an in- run for about an hour-and-a- judge said that would improve troductory session. We will half or so. the photo—it must be the orig- discuss equipment, tech- The tuition for all seven inal, unaltered image. niques, and the specifics of sessions is $60 or $15 per There will be three judges. the course; a term project will week (up to $60). The class is Each of the three will score be assigned. For the next two free to all PWCC members. from one to nine points for weeks we’ll go on field trips Cash or checks are accepted each image. The scores will be and work on assignments. for all payments—sorry, added together and the total The following session will credit cards are not accepted. will be announced immediate- bring us back indoors where Please let us know if you ly. Pictures can accumulate we’ll share our photographs, will be coming. Just drop us anywhere from 3 to 27 points. talk about our experiences, an e-mail of your intentions For each group of entries— and evaluate what and how to
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 CLUB
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April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 Workshop Nights Flag Day
CLUB Every Month, more or less, Flag day will be celebrated on Park West has workshop Wednesday, June 14th this nights—one for prints, and year. In honor of the holiday, another for PDIs (projected Photo Notes will be running a digital images). All Club mem- special page (or two) featuring bers are welcome to attend. photos of Old Glory, from 13 The next print workshop is stars all the way up to the slated for Wednesday evening, present 50, taken by our cur- May 17th at 7 p.m. at the Soho rent membership. studio of Nancy Sirkus. Regis- Go out and start shooting ter for this workshop with the now! Start searching through coordinator, Elsa Blum, at your files! All published im-
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 PWCC 2016-2017 Schedule
CLUB September March 4 Chuck Pine Picnic 6 Before & After 5 Labor Day 13 Competition #6 (Antonio Rosario) 12 Welcome Back 20 Guest Speaker (Tequila Minsky) 19 Guest Speaker (Bill Wadman) 27 Business Meeting #3 26 Business Meeting #1 April October 3 Competition #7 (Nir Arieli) 3 Rosh Hashanah (no meeting) 10 Passover (no meeting) 10 Columbus Day/Weekend Trip 17 Guest Speaker (Allan Markman) 17 Competition #1 (Erica McDonald) 24 Portfolio Night (or 24 Guest Speaker (John Milisenda) Competition Make-up) 27 PDI Workshop 31 Scary Things Scavenger Hunt May & Halloween Party 1 Competition #8 8 Gallery Reception November 15 Guest Speaker 7 Competition #2 (Jim Cummins) 17 Print Workshop 14 Portfolio Night 18 Expanding Visions 23 15 Print Workshop 22 Business Meeting #4 21 Guest Speaker (Rivka & Moshe Katvan) 25 Expanding Visions 23 28 Business Meeting #2 26-29 Weekend Field Trip December 29 Memorial Day (No Meeting) 5 Competition #3 (Bill Wadman) 12 Guest Speaker (Lois Youmans) June 15 PDI Workshop 1 Expanding Visions 23 19 Holiday Party 5 Year-End Competition 26 Winter Holiday 8 Expanding Visions 23 12 Otto Litzel Dinner January 15 Expanding Visions 23 2 Winter Holiday 19 ExCom Planning Meeting 9 Competition #4 (Sandra Carrion) 22 Expanding Visions 23 11 Print Workshop 29 Expanding Visions 23 16 MLKing Day/(Ron Haviv) 23 Workshop Field trips, classes, additional workshops, 30 Members Free-4-All and the 2017 summer schedule will be pub- lished as the information becomes available. February 6 Competition #5 (Ellen Denuto) 13 Portfolio Night 20 Guest Speaker (Erica McDonald) 27 Theme Night—Think Warm
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 Competition Rotation Committee Liaisons
CLUB The members of the Club, at The Executive Committee the May business meeting, (ExCom) has decided to con- voted to change one of the tinue for this coming year rules regarding our monthly with the committee liaison competition. We will go back model to spread the respon- to alternating the order of the sibility among the entire Ex- prints and PDIs in our eight ecutive Committee. monthly competitions begin- Here’s how it’ll work: ning in October 2016. Here’s Each of the ExCom mem- the schedule: bers (the five elected officers Photo Notes Deadlines plus the President Emeritus) Month First Shown will be assigned committees May Prints Issue Deadline as liaison. Each committee chair or co-chair will report May 2017 May 1 to the ExCom through this Spring Shooting Tip Summer 2017 June 5 liaison. In this manner, it is felt that communication will When you are outdoors in flow much more smoothly, the spring, whether it’s in The sooner articles and in both directions, between town or out in the field, the items are submitted to Photo the committees. In addition, important thing to remem- Notes, the quicker the editing any concerns raised by the ber is weather can be con- and revision process can begin. ExCom will be passed along stantly changing! Competition scores and cumu- to the committee chairs You need to be comfort- lative points are submitted as through the liaisons. able when out there. This soon after the competitions as Here are the committee means from head to toe, possible, usually one to three liaison assignments for the and everything in-between. days following the submission 2015-2016 Club year: Hats, gloves or mittens, deadline. The draft copy of insulated boots and thick Photo Notes will be sent to the Archives Maria Fernandez socks for the cold—and def- editorial staff as soon as possi- Competition Mike Schleiff initely in layers. Gusts and ble once all items are in place. Field Trip Chuck Pine downpours can ruin an The staff will then have two to Gallery Helen Pine outing if you’re not pre- three days to edit and return House Christine Doyle pared. Wind and water re- their comments. Membership Helen Pine sistance are also a must. Once the Photo Notes issue Newsletter Chuck Pine You can’t concentrate on is complete, it is sent to the en- Program Christine Doyle the scenery when you’re tire membership and the guest Social Ed Lee soaking wet, shivering, or mailing list. The Website Website Mike Schleiff in a corner cowering from Committee also receives a copy Workshop Ed Lee the weather. to be posted online. Always check the fore- cast and act accordingly.
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 PWCC’s Yahoo Group PWCC Flickr Group by Paul Grebanier
CLUB Do you have an idea to go out shooting but don’t want to go alone? Have a question about Did you know that there is a way for PWCC Photoshop, or your camera, or some technique, members to share their pictures with other but don’t have someone to ask? Know of a members and the world? Probably not! Eight great photo op or workshop that you’d like to years ago, a “Park West Camera Club” Group share with your fellow Club members? What was set-up on the “flickr” picture sharing and are you to do? social networking site, just for such a purpose. Ta Da! The Club’s Yahoo group is the an- Unfortunately, the idea never really caught on swer to your questions. You can communicate at that time. The weeds of neglect and disrepair with other PWCC members about these and have overgrown the site. But the structure is more. All you have to do is sign up for the still there—awaiting rehabilitation. group. It’s easy and it’s free. What a waste! All you have to do is send an e-mail to the Club at
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 CLUB
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 ExCom Mtg Minutes Business Mtg Minutes by Christine Doyle by Christine Doyle CLUB Recording Secretary Recording Secretary
March 27, 2017 March 27, 2017
Present—Executive Commit- personal galleries on the (This is a draft copy and has tee members: President Ed Club website. It was agreed not yet been approved by the Lee, Vice President Michael to wait to see what the membership.) Schleiff, Recording Secretary Workshop Committee re- Christine Doyle, and Trea- ported and what members I. Call To Order: President surer Maria Fernandez. Cor- would prefer. Ed Lee called the meeting to responding Secretary Helen order at 7 p.m. and intro- Pine and President Emeritus III. New Business/From the duced the other members of Chuck Pine did not attend. the Executive Committee: Chair/Otto Litzel Dinner: Ed passed around the flyer from Vice President Michael Copies of the Business Meet- the restaurant that Chuck Schleiff, Recording Secretary ing agenda, which had been suggested, Buca di Beppo, in Christine Doyle, and Trea- previously circulated by e- Times Square. He noted that surer Maria Fernandez. Cor- mail, and the Treasurer’s he and several other Club responding Secretary Helen monthly report were passed members have eaten at the Pine and President Emeritus out for review. restaurant before, both here, Chuck Pine were not in at- following an Expanding Vi- tendance. With 30 members I. Field Trip to Snug Harbor: sions class, and in Las Vegas, present, a quorum was met. It was noted that the field while on an extended field trip to Snug Harbor, Staten trip to Death Valley, and had II. Minutes of Previous Meet- Island, scheduled for April enjoyed their meals. ing: A motion to waive the 11th, falls on the first full day reading of and accept the of Passover. Also, because of IV. New Business/From the minutes was made, second- the late winter the gardens Chair/Expanding Visions 23 ed, and passed by vote. may not be in bloom by then. Report: Ed shared the longer The board agreed to ask the syllabus for Expanding Vi- III. Treasurer’s Report: Maria Field Trip Committee to con- sions 23 that he received reported that the Club has sider rescheduling. It will be from Chuck. It will be dis- collected $ 12,600 in member discussed in further detail at cussed in further detail at the dues (91 current members) the Business Meeting. Business Meeting. since September, 2016 and currently has $ 9,450 in the II. Old Business/Update/ V. Other: Michael and Chris- bank. Expenses since Sep- April 24th: Portfolio Night or tine will be giving another tember 2016 total $ 6,692. Workshop?: A topic for the tutorial on uploading images Members should contact April 24th meeting was dis- and creating galleries on the Maria if they want any fur- cussed. Christine suggested new website. ther details a free-for-all and/or addi- tional tutorials on creating
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 IV. Committee Reports
CLUB Archive: George Hansen re- ported for Chair Myrna Changar-Harrison. The Ar- chive Committee has identi- fied approximately 50 im- ages for the upcoming 80th Anniversary Exhibit at Soho be sent by next Tuesday or Gallery: Chair Karen Corrig- Photo Gallery in May. These Wednesday, followed by a an reported that 42 members images will not be framed. second notice if there are any had submitted multiple im- Instead they will be self mat- sizing or resolution prob- ages for the digital slide ted, covered with plexiglass lems. John also reported that show that will run with the and pinned to the wall. John the maximum height for a 80th Anniversary Exhibit at Brengelman has offered to print is 22” (to fit into the Soho Photo Gallery. There help install the exhibit. Ed print display box). are approximately 200 im- said the Archive Committee ages that will be shown in a Field Trip: Co-Chair Susan should reach out if they need loop on a monitor. Sigrist reported that there more help. Maria, who is a are several field trips sched- House: Chair Marty Smith member of the Archive uled for the remainder of the thanked all members for Committee, is tracking the Club year. She also noted helping to put away chairs costs for the exhibit. that she will reschedule the after the meeting. In response to a question April 11th trip to Snug Har- Membership: Chair Marlene from Michael, Maria report- bor, which conflicts with Schonbrun reported that the ed that the Archive Commit- Passover and advise Club Club now has 91 dues-pay- tee had not yet rented out- members of the new date. ing members. Because there side storage space as they Members should contact Su- are so many new members, need all the materials to put san or co-chair Paul Greban- she is behind in conducting the 80th Anniversary Exhibit ier with any new ideas for interviews for the Club together. Maria expects it future field trips. Will newsletter, Photo Notes and will be another six months Aimesbury offered to set up asked for volunteers to help before the Archive Commit- a field trip to take a tour with the task. Carole deBeer tee will be ready to place its with the Fort Tryon Park and Alice Somma offered materials in outside storage. Trust, which is looking for photographers. Ed noted their help. Competition: Co-Chair John that there is a mistake in the Newsletter: No report (Chair Brengelman noted that PDIs directions for the field trip to Chuck Pine was not in at- for the April 2017 competi- Green-Wood Cemetery on tendance). Ed noted that the tion must be received by April 5th: it should say the R latest (March 2017) Photo midnight tonight, and prints train (NOT the L train). He Notes was emailed to mem- must be submitted no later will alert Helen to make the bers and posted on the than 6:45 p.m. next Monday, change in the next weekly Club’s website, and a limited April 3rd. Notice of receipt reminder. number of hard copies are of PDIs, if requested, should also available.
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 Program: Chair Marilyn from the flood at the Club’s Fish-Glynn reported that she West Side Y location many CLUB has lined up competition years ago (the event which judges and speakers for the led to the creation of the Ar- rest of the club year as fol- chive Committee). Ed asked lows: who should be invited to the Competition Judges: April - member reception on May Nir Arieli; May - Lauren 8th. Marilyn suggested that Piperno; Year-End - Meryl invitations be sent to past Meisler, Marilyn Stern and judges and speakers; and David Chalk; Workshop: Chair Tom members of Soho Photo Speakers: April - Allan Quackenbush reported that Gallery, Sierra Club, and Markman; May - Robert Katrin Eismann can be avail- Professional Women Photog- Kalman able to do a workshop in raphers, among others. Ed Marilyn is trying to line up place of the one she had to will draft a letter. Anne Arden McDonald as a cancel in January. He sug- B. Update - April 24: Portfo- speaker/judge for the fall. gested that we schedule this lio or Workshop?: This was for the open night on April Social: Chair Natalie Manzi- addressed in the Workshop 24th (the night was left open no reported that she is the Committee report (see in case any meetings had to only current member of the above). be canceled due to winter Social Committee. She asked weather). A motion to agree members to consider joining, C. Update - Final Competi- to this was made, seconded, and also to volunteer to help tion Equipment: Karen Cor- and passed by vote. There with the reception for the rigan will bring in a PC to are other people available for 80th Anniversary Exhibit as use the new hardware and workshops but he will con- she will be out of the country software package for the fi- tact Katrin first. Marilyn then. (Alice Somma offered nal competition in June. suggested that a workshop to help.) Marilyn reported on Lomography or a visit to D. Other: Christine dis- that wine cannot be served the Lomography store on cussed the Club’s new Face- at the reception, in adher- West 8th Street be set up for book page, which Meg Dar- ence with the terms of Soho the summer. nell is maintaining. The issue Photo Gallery’s lease. of whether it should be an Website: Chair and Executive V. Old Business open or closed page was Committee liaison Michael raised a short time ago. A. Update - PWCC’s 80th Schleiff reported that a tutor- While the consensus of those Anniversary Exhibit at Soho ial on uploading images and present was that the page Photo Gallery and Recep- creating galleries was given should be open, it was tion: See Archive Committee before tonight’s business agreed to ask Meg to discuss report, above. All images meeting. Both Michael and the pros and cons in more shown at the 80th Anniver- Christine are available to detail before a final decision sary Exhibit will be repro- help with any questions was made. It was also agreed ductions except for a few members may have. that Meg is doing a great job. images that were rescued
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 VI. New Business 3. Upcoming Club Exhibits: Natalie Manzino has not yet CLUB From the Chair: heard back from the Ryan 1. Nominating Committee Chelsea Clinton Center for Club Officers: Rita Russo about a possible late 2017 offered to chair the Nominat- exhibit, and will follow up ing Committee for club offi- again. Marlene Schonbrun cers for the club year noted that there is another 2017-2018. Elections will be Ryan Center on the Upper held at the next business West Side at 97th Street near meeting in May. Amsterdam Avenue. Rain Bengis said she would inves- longer weekend trip for the 2. Otto Litzel Dinner: Ed ex- tigate as she planned to be in Columbus Day weekend in plained the background of the area shortly. October 2017. the Otto Litzel Dinner for the benefit of the newer mem- 4. Expanding Visions 23 Re- B. From the Floor: Nothing bers. The sit-down dinner is port: Ed reported that this held at the end of the Club year’s Expanding Visions 23 VII. Good and Welfare year in June to celebrate program will be starting on members who scored the Thursday, May 18th. There From the Chair will be seven sessions, which most points in competitions Indoor Model Shoots: Ed is will include trips to Madison for the year and other Club looking into setting up two Square, Lincoln Center, services. The dinner com- indoor model shoots to make Washington Square Park and memorates Otto Litzel, a up for the ones that were Coney Island, as well as two former Club president and canceled last year due to his review sessions. There is no author who continued to heart attack. The suggested cost to Club members. practice his craft even after dates are April 20th (Tues.), he lost his eyesight. Chuck 5. Future Long Field Trips - April 25th (Thurs.), or May suggested that this year’s Memorial Day and Later: 5th (Tues.). The shoots will dinner be held at Buca di This year’s Memorial Day be limited to 10-12 people. Beppo, a large family-style Weekend trip will be to Members who are interested restaurant in Times Square Longwood Gardens in Penn- should contact Ed. that has private rooms. The sylvania. The trip will in- NECCC (New England estimated cost would be $35 clude visits to DuPont man- Camera Club Council): This per person. A motion to ex- sions and the Brandywine year’s NECCC conference plore Chuck’s suggestion Museum, a fireworks display will take place on July 14th was made, seconded, and and light/sound show, and —16th at the University of passed by vote. Natalie hot air ballooning experi- Massachusetts campus in Manzino, Social Committee ence. Members should con- Amherst. The conference is chair, asked members to con- tact Chuck Pine if they are accessible by Peter Pan Bus. tact her ASAP if they have interested in attending or if Go to
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 B. From the Floor: Christine Cool Winter Photo Ops West Yellowstone, Montana reported that she has an old CLUB Canon Rebel xSI camera and Winter in New York City is a Canon 18-200mm zoom now all but a memory. But,… lens that she is no longer us- which memories do you ing and asked if any mem- have of the Big Apple. Was it bers might be interested in a winter wonderland? Or do either. Karen said that there you have less positive recol- are several groups that take lections? Here are some win- donations of cameras for ter destinations that you can teaching purposes. look forward to—they are Millinocket, Maine always great photo ops for VIII. Adjournment: The shutterbugs like us! meeting was adjourned at 8 p.m. Fairbanks, Alaska
IX. Refreshments and Social- izing followed adjournment. Traverse City, Michigan
Winter Photo Tips
1. Before you take your first step outside, check on the weather. Dress proper- Jackson Hole, Wyoming ly (in layers) and follow the Boy Scout motto, ”Be prepared!”
2. Travel light and bring only the essentials— especially if you’ll be trudging through piles- Silverton, Colorado high snow or traversing slippery ice. Lake Placid, New York 3. Check your histo- gram constantly. Be sure to not overexpose your images. If the situation is highly contrasty, try using some HDR techniques.
4. Have fun!
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 PWCC Website-Update upper right hand corner To Upload Images to Your by Christine Doyle (below the PWCC logo). Image Library: CLUB ● On the login page, scroll ● After you log in, click on Park West Camera Club has down to the bottom. You the My Account tab and a website that is interactive will see a box marked select My Image Library. and very user-friendly. Membership Information ● Scroll down and press the By creating an account and Membership Request. Upload Images button. and signing on to the web- Press the Membership In- ● Scroll down and press the site, members will be able to formation button. Select button. This will create and update their own ● On the next page, press open your hard drive. personal galleries and share the Create a new User Ac- ● Select images to be added their work. (BTW, you can count and Request Mem- from your hard drive. create multiple galleries if bership button. (Multiple images can be you like.) ● Scroll down to the box added at the same time The gallery template marked Login Name. En- by pressing multiple comes with privacy settings ter your email address as files.) that you control. your login name. Press ● Press Open in your hard We encourage members to Next. drive window. This will take advantage of this fea- ● On the next page you begin loading your im- ture and to make their gal- will be asked to create a ages. leries Public so that visi- password and reminder ● After your images are up- tors to the website can see question for that pass- loaded press Save Images the great work that our word. Please do so. and Proceed to Edit Page members are doing, in ad- ● On the next page you button. dition to the monthly com- will be asked for some ● At the Edit Page you can petition winners and hon- personal information. make changes to your ors images. You only need to fill in image titles. When done, All members are encour- the lines where required is press Save any changes and aged to join the website. The indicated. return to the original page. website contains links to ● A request will be sent to You can now go to your videos on a variety of topics the webmaster to ap- Gallery and upload your that will help guide you prove your request. The images. through many of these pro- webmaster will approve To Create a Member Gallery: cesses. Here are some de- the request and a mes- ● After you log in, click on tailed instructions on how to sage will be sent back to the My Account tab and get started: you that you can access select My Galleries. the website as a member. To Create Your Account: ● Scroll down to Member’s ● Enter into your browser Galleries and press the the following address: Add New Gallery button
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 • adding a Title or Descrip- ● This will take you to your can change the order of tion, or adjusting addi- gallery page, where you the images by clicking CLUB tional settings, such as— can change the order of and dragging. When ✦ Gallery Visibility the images by clicking done, press Save updates (Private, Organization and dragging. When fin- to image order button. Access or Public) ished reordering, press ✦ Transition (set how the Save updates to image Creative Tip the images will move) order button. ✦ Options on what to Here is an alternative way to We live in a 3-dimensional display (Image Title, add images to your gallery: world, but we photograph Author, Captions, using a 2-D medium. We ● Thumbnails, etc.) After you log in, open the need to photograph scenes ● Press the Update Gallery gallery you want to up- with layers that imply there Options button to save load images to. is depth in the scene. your settings and prefer- ● Press the Edit and Upload Once upon a time I was ences. You can now add Images button (on the in Greenland, about to pho- images to your gallery. right), at the next page, tograph a small church. ● The website has a section press the Upload Images Most were shooting it head- for images taken during Into This Gallery button. on; a few from a corner to ● PWCC field trips (PWCC Scroll down and press include two sides. Club Outings). Galleries the Select button (bottom I walked down a hill, got for field trip images are left). Your hard drive li- down low, and shot with a created in the same way brary will open. foreground including a big ● as member galleries. Select images to be added boulder and a field of yel- from your hard drive. To Add Images to Your low flowers. This gave the (Multiple images can be Gallery: image the appearance of be- added by selecting mul- ● After you log in or after ing 3-dimensional. tiple files.) uploading images to What do you think? ● Press Open in your hard your Image Library, open drive window. This will the gallery where you begin loading the images. want to display them. ● After your images are ● Press the Edit and Upload uploaded press the Save Images button (on the Images and Proceed to Edit right), then at the next Page button. page press either Display ● At the Edit New Images in Recent Uploads or Display Gallery page, you can re- All Images (depending on view and edit the image how recently the images titles. When done, press were uploaded). the Save any changes and ● When you end selecting return to original page but- images for your gallery, ton. press the Finished Mark- ● This will take you to your ing Desired Images button. gallery page where you
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 Depth of Field —some bearing pretentious By Bill Apple names, like Instagram’s “Clarendon” and “Perpetua” Altneuefotografie filters. The first is a secret high- contrast sauce; the second Altneue??? German, for lends an overall green cast, “Old-New”— Germans love named for a spot in Oregon. PHOTOGRAPHY compound adjectives. (It’s great for selfies, if you Perhaps you’ve visited want to look like the Jolly Prague’s Altneushul, the only Green Giant.) surviving and still-functioning Nostalgic When Kodak popu- So what could explain medieval synagogue, built larized cameras for all, and drug- this…Altneuefotografie? Mil- 1271, home to the Golem of stores handled developing, snap- lennials wielding camera Prague: a giant of clay, brought shots were often printed square phones weren’t even born in to life with an incantation, to with scalloped edges. Instagram’s the era their photos seek to shield the city’s Jews from and other “filters” can replicate simulate; for some, neither pogroms. old-time effects, and borders too, were their parents. How And Altneuefotografie? on digital photos. Here, the au- could they possibly relate to Think irony, oxymoron: Mil- those square black-and-white lennials snapping iPhone pho- snapshots with scalloped tos, post-processing them to ling, the Impossible I-1 Analog edges that a few of us grew up look like vintage Kodachrome, Instant Camera, with built-in on? (See “Nostalgic.”) say, or grainy Tri-X black-and- LED ring lighting and very All this post-processing white, then posting to Insta- pricey film: $2.50 a shot, said to “patina” seems perverse, but gram before you can say be “reverse engineered” from unique to photography. I’ve “megapixel.” Polaroid’s defunct product. In- never, for example, come These photos’ resemblance stant photography’s premise across software to add pops, to the real thing, alas, is but might help explain the filter hisses, and scratches to digital skin-deep, but maybe it’s the and altneuefotografie mania. music, to simulate a vinyl LP thought that counts. Used on digital photos, album. Something about pho- Most 50-year-old snaps software filters remove—and tographs seems to bring out were actually printed, and simplify—an “overabundance this nuttiness. many live on in albums and of information” that digital Recently, The Wall Street shoeboxes. Most smartphone sensors capture, writes The Journal reviewed five new in- photos, on the other hand, will Journal’s reviewer. After re- stant cameras, Polaroid-type never be printed, and that’s moval, what remains makes a creatures (see tinyurl.com/ partly the trouble: “Snapping photo look almost analog. That kw9xhyx), and such cameras (and hoarding) of mediocre —along with invented grain, might hold an answer. photos, [has] become all too intentional color shifts, and the The five start at $125, for easy with a phone,” as one mimicking of old-time film the Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 Neo writer opined. stocks—seems to be more of a Classic (for teeny 1.8 X 2.4-in. The altneue treatments crowd pleaser than straight photos). At the high end, $300 come courtesy of bits of com- digital photos. and up: the Leica Sofort—yes, puter code—software “filters” So why not cut to the chase, a Leica!—and one ugly duck- manufacturers ask, and take an
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 analog photo in the first place, an instant photo even, if you’re the impatient type? Why fiddle with phones, filters, simula- tions, and post-processing to turn an image into something it’s not? Start with analog. PHOTOGRAPHY Selling instant cameras to a generation raised on iPhones Pink Eye Fujifilm offers its instant camera (left) in five col- must be one tough sell. I’m not ors, including Flamingo Pink. The hope: to lure girls and sure the “designer colors” younger women from smartphone photography. In the early manufacturers offer is enough 1960s Kodak similarly offered a pink Flashfun Hawkeye, also (see “Pink Eye”), although aimed at “lady photographers.” girls and young women seem to be a target market. The pink ploy—and other Digital filters do have their more in photography, and that hues—has been tried before by place among photographers’ analog will always beat digital manufacturers. But is colored tools—I love Photoshop plug- with its grit and, well, photo- plastic enough to convince ins, especially Nik Silver Efex realism. young people of either sex to for black-and-white. Further, I remember the dentist who buy a special camera when for those of us who shoot with made my very first crown (for they’ve already got a pretty real cameras, not a phone, such a bicuspid gone bad). At the good one inside their phone? software has rendered obsolete time he smiled fancifully and Plus film costs money, and the many of the tinted and gradi- asked whether I wanted him to fact that every photo is a “one- ent glass filters we might once put in a filling just for show, to off”—an actual, singular objet have attached in front of our make my cap look more “nat- d’art—may make some shoot- lenses (see “Filtration, Old ural.” I thought then that he ers nervous. School”). was out of his mind. But To allay such anxiety there Interestingly, software maybe not. is a free smartphone app worth hasn’t figured everything out, considering: Google’s Photo- like how to replace polarizers, Scan (Android and iOS) allows for quashing reflections on your smartphone camera to windows. And software can’t digitize these little instant really save a poorly focused prints. So you can still post a shot. Not yet, at least. But next gazillion images to Facebook year, who knows? Sometimes, I find, soft- or Flickr. The app even re- Filtration, Old School Tinted filters ware filters make photos moves glare from glossy paper, over a lens can selectively bring out look too perfect, like every- fixes skewed prints scanned certain hues in black-and-white pho- one’s teeth these days: too while not lying perfectly flat, tography, or fix color casts that artifi- straight, too uniform, too and applies other enhance- cial lighting can bring to color pho- white, too phony-looking. ments, according to The Jour- tography. These days those issues That’s not my taste. I have nal. You can use it to copy any and much more are handled in-cam- long believed that less is photo, actually. era or by post-processing software.
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 PhotoWordJumble by Sal Maci
Unscramble these four scrambled words, one letter to each square, to form words pertaining to photography. PHOTOGRAPHY
Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer suggested by the clue.
Last month’s answers: LEns; mirROr; mAtRiX; poRtrAIt; ciRcuLAr Surprise answer: PARALLAX ERROR
Space Filling Panorama Valley Panorama, Cuba ©2017 Chuck Pine
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 Animal Photography??? Photo Cartoon-of-the-Month These images give the genre of ”wildlife photography” a new meaning. PHOTOGRAPHY
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 PhotoShopping taining the correct file size is is highlighted. Check to make by Chuck Pine always the same. sure that the Link between The following directions Width and Height, and slight- What Size are You? and images are for those of ly to the left, is active. You you using PhotoShop. If you should see lines pointing to the There’s an old saying that goes are using some other program, two words. If you don’t see something like this, ”Size Mat- either by Adobe or some other them, click on the Link Icon PHOTOGRAPHY ters.” In this case, I am not re- manufacturer, the steps are the and the connecting lines will ferring to clothing, to the size same or very similar. appear. of your McDonalds Big Mac Type in the Width that is (now available in Mini, Big, To get to the Image Size Dia- required—in this case I typed and Grand), nor to body parts. log Box, in the Menu Bar at 1400 (pixels). Voila, the Height I am referring to the final the top of the page, go to Im- automatically changed. size of your images, especially age > Image Size… and the If the new Height number to the size of your PDIs (pro- dialog box will pop up. You is greater than the required jected digital images). In fact, can also type Option-Com- one, hit the Tab key, and type there are no standards among mand-I (on a Mac; Alt-Control- in the number of the required photo organizations, particu- I on a Windows computer) Height. larly camera clubs. This is what you will see. For example, the New York City Sierra Club Photo Com- mittee asks for images to be submitted with 1,920 pixels on the longest side. Park West Camera Club, also in the Big Apple, asks for a maximum horizontal width of 1,400 pix- els or a maximum vertical height of 1,050 pixels. Boynton Beach Camera Club requests 1,024 x 768 pixels as the maxi- Use the Tab key to move down This is what the Image Size mum dimensions. If you be- to Resolution. Be sure the box Dialog Box will look like now. long to other photo groups, or to the right of the current enter contests which require number reads Pixels/Inch. If PDI entry, the sizes are most there is some other measure- likely different. ment, click on this box, scroll One usual ”standard” is the to Pixels/Inch, and then re- request for a resolution of 72 lease. Type in ”72,” or whatev- ppi (pixels per inch), Another er ppi is requested. You will is in the form of a JPG (or see the Width and Height JPEG) format. But even these numbers change. Don’t worry! vary from time to time. Hit the Tab key again until No matter what size is the number in the Width box asked for, the method for at- Click OK, and you’re done.
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 Photo Shopping But let’s get back to those The second kind of filter is by Chuck Pine lens filters. Even though soft- the ”polarizing” filter. It has a ware replaces most of them, scientific explanation which Lens Filters there are still three types which would take up an entire course are a must for most shooters. in physics or optics. However, Back in the day—I know, I start Why? Because their effects it’s easier to tell you what a po-
PHOTOGRAPHY off many of these columns cannot be replicated by digital larizer does: it reduces glare; it with this phrase, but I’m old; software (at least not yet). controls reflections; it makes and haven’t begun to lose my The first kind is actually cloudy blue skies ”pop.” It is memory,… yet—when film known by several names. truly a miracle filter! When was king and digital cameras Some call them a ”skylight” you buy one for a digital, or an were something from Star Trek, filter. Some call them ”UV” or autofocusing film camera, you we all used filters on our lenses ”haze” filters. And yet others must ask for a ”circular” polar- to make photographic images. call them ”protection” filters. izer—this does not refer to the There were two formats of No matter what the moniker, filter’s shape but rather to its filters back then. Those that they all perform the same func- internal construction. Avoid screwed onto tion—they protect the the ”linear” polarizers. the front of front of your lens from Finally, there are the ND, or our lenses damage (like from a neutral density filters. These and those foul ball at the baseball come in varying tones of gray. game) or from moisture Their purpose is to reduce the (like from a sprinkler, a amount of light which passes wave, or a giraffe’s long through them to help you fine tongue). They are clear tune your exposures. Some are (mostly) pieces of glass solid gray. These can range that or plastic. They usually from very dark gray to a very slipped come as screw-ins. And, they light shade. Some are ”gradu- into a filter holder attached to are the least expensive filters ated” filters, changing from the front of each lens. you’ll find on-line or on the dark gray on one end to per- Nowadays, many of the store shelves. Please note that fectly clear on the other end. functions that these filters per- some experts recommend And some are able to rotate formed are more easily accom- against these filters because and provide different shades of plished and controlled using anything that comes between gray in a single filter. Books software ”filters.” Just about your expensive glass (aka lens) have been written on ND fil- every photo editing program and your subject can degrade ters. I suggest reading one of on the market has them. And the image. As we say at home, ‘em either in print or on line. you can always buy more to ”Caveat emptor!” add to your collection. Disclaimer I do not, nor does anyone else in the Club, make a profit from the sales of these items. Chuck
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 NYBG Photo Classes Learning to See: Basic Composi- Photo Tips tion with Douglas Dubler; Sat- The NY Botanical Garden, in urday, May 20th; Pay attention to your back- the Bronx will be offering a grounds. Make them as series of photo classes this clean and clutter-free as spring and early summer. Go possible. Use a shallow to
EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. with Donald Gambino; Tues- day, June 6th the background during editing.
Use a slower shutter speed to add the sense of motion to your images. You ac- complish this using your camera’s shutter-priority exposure mode. Just remem- Fundamentals of Digital Pho- ber, if you go below 1/60th tography with Wayne and Beyond the Fundamentals with of a second, or so, you may Meghan Cahilly; Saturday, Wayne and Meghan Cahilly; need to use a tripod or April 29th; Saturday, June 10th; some other solid base for your camera.
Shoot portraits, especially of people, at your lens’ widest aperture (largest opening). Do this using your camera’s aperture-pri- ority exposure mode. You can Bokeh: Using Blur to Good Effect stop down (use a slightly Botanical Blues: Cyanotype with smaller aperture) to assure with Douglas Dubler; Satur- William Waitzman; Saturday, day, May 6th; that the eyes, nose, lips, June 24th. and ears of your subject are all in focus (unless you’re looking for some special, unusual effect.
Shoot your landscapes at small apertures to get the most depth-of-field.
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 B & H Event Space NECCC Photo
B&H Photo offers free work- The New England Camera shops. Here are a few of this Club Council’s 72nd annual month’s offerings: Photography Conference is scheduled to take place on the Thursday, April 20 campus of the University of Travel Photography Massachusetts in Amherst Speaker: Lester Lefkowitz Tuesday, April 25 during weekend of July 14th Travel Photography thru the 16th. Speaker: Jeff Cable Guest presenters will in- clude Charles Needle, Jack Reznicki, Roman Kurywczak, EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. Tim Grey, Bob Krist, Essdras Suarez, and many other recog- nizable names. The featured keynote Thursday, April 27 speaker is Bryan F. Peterson. Monday, April 24 Hidden Gems He is a contributing editor at Lightroom Speaker: Katrin Eismann Speaker: Lester Lefkowitz Popular Photography (now de- funct) and Outdoor Photographer Thursday, May 4 magazine. He is also the Photo Business Practices founder of the world’s number Speaker: Lester Lefkowitz one on-line school: Bryan Pe- terson’s School of Photography Check out the B&H website at at
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 Presidential
U.S. Presidents have become a part of our nation’s long and glorious history. Here are some east coast destinations to remember them, learn more about them, and record some photographic memories… Teddy Roosevelt ’s Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, Long John F. Kennedy Presidential Island, NY Library and Museum in Dorchester (Boston), MA EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. The editor of Photo Notes, Park West Camera Club’s award- winning monthly newsletter, wants you to submit images for the Portfolio Page. Please e- mail six to eight photos to FDR’s Presidential Library
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The Park West Camera Club * Monday, April 10 meets every Monday night No Meeting Tonight (with some exceptions for hol- There will be no meeting idays and a curtailed summer tonight so many of our mem- schedule). Please join us at a bers can celebrate the first meeting or on one of our other seder of the Passover holiday. scheduled activities. All Club Monday night meetings take place at the Soho
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Sunday, April 16 Photo Gallery located at 15 Photo Op—Easter Parade White Street, between West Broadway and Church Street/ Grab your Easter bonnet Avenue of the Americas (6th and stroll along Fifth Av- Avenue) unless indicated oth- enue in the annual Easter erwise in the listings below. Parade and Easter Bonnet Following the schedule of ac- Fri—Sun, Apr 14—23 Festival. This New York City tivities are detailed directions Photo Op—Auto Show tradition kicks off at 49th Street to each of our meeting sites. near St. Patrick’s Cathedral Check the PWCC Website Ushering in the latest automo- and travels up Fifth Avenue to
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 31 vine make for an unusual and and Victorian style buildings. often mysterious composition. The site is considered Staten Through this process I hope to Island’s ”crown jewel” and ”an reveal their extraordinary but incomparable remnant of New most often unseen beauty. York’s 19th-century seafaring While these still lifes often fit past.” It is a National Historic into Landmark District. We’ll meet the in Battery Park, up the stairs/ palm © Katrin Eismann escalator/elevator in the Staten of my Island Ferry Terminal at 12:45 hand, p.m. to take the 1 p.m. ferry. her phone for processing and SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES the fi- From there, we’ll take the S40 nal sharing. A Sony representative bus from Gate D for the 10- photo- will be present with cameras minute ride to Snug Harbor. graph for us to try out and to answer Sign up at any Club meeting or our questions. can be by contacting the trip’s leader: up to Susan Sigrist, at 212-758-0036 five or (Note—this is not a cell phone). © Allan Markman six times * Monday, April 24 the orig- Competition Entry Deadline inal size.” Learn more about Please note that PDI entries are Allan and his macro photogra- due by midnight tonight for phy at
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 32 images of shipwrecks and
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© Chris Nicholson guest speaker, Robert speaker is Loli Kantor. Loli is Kalman; winners of the an Israeli/American fine art Gallery’s 2017 International and documentary photograph- Portfolio Competition titled er whose work centers on per- sonal, community, and cultural memory. She was born in Paris, France, and raised in Tel Aviv, © Lauren Piperno Israel. She immigrated to the United States in 1984 and has may get under way with the since lived in Fort Worth, competition promptly at 7 p.m. Texas. In 2004, Kantor began SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES PDI entries must be submitted exploring the subject of Jewish by midnight one week prior to presence and absence in east- today—April 24th. Just a re- Johnson © Jaime ern Europe, both from a per- minder, you may enter up to sonal as well as a universal four images in tonight’s com- perspective, focusing mainly petition, but no more than two on Jewish life in Poland and in any one category. Tonight’s Untamed; and Park West Cam- Ukraine. Conceived as a short- judge is Lauren Piperno. Lau- era Club’s 80th Anniversary Ex- term project, the work has ren is a freelance photograph- hibition, in which photographs evolved into nearly a decade of er, a cultural anthropologist, and documents from the photographic exploration. and educator. She lives upstate Club’s past will be on display. Check her website
Tuesday, May 2 Wednesday, May 3 Photo Event— Photo Event— Soho Photo Opening PWP Monthly Meeting Soho Photo Gallery is proud to Professional Women Photog- present several exhibits for the raphers is a group of women month of May: four solo shows photographers who network of Gallery members, one of and share their images and ex- which is by the Club’s May periences. Tonight’s guest © Loli Kantor
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 34 Club meeting or by contact- ing the trip’s leader: Marty Smith at 347-703-3905 or
Sunday, May 7 Photo Op—Bike New York On the first Sunday in May each year, over 32,000 cy- clists come from around the * Monday, May 8 * Friday, May 5 Private Reception
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES world to roll through every Field Trip—Old Aqueduct Trail borough of New York City on PWCC Exhibit Today, the Old Croton Aque- streets totally free of cars. For The Club is holding a private duct Trail is a popular trail for one day, the roads are theirs, reception tonight to celebrate New York City hikers. It’s fair- the bridges are theirs, the City our 80th Anniversary Exhibi- ly straight, isn’t steep, and is is theirs. Produced in conjunc- tion at Soho Photo Gallery. The close to public transportation. tion with the City of New York, show includes prints and doc- This trail is actually the re- the TD Five Boro Bike Tour is uments from the Club’s his- mains of one of New York’s the world’s biggest charitable toric past. It also includes a most ambitious early engineer- bike ride. The route begins at digital slide show of current ing projects. After the Revolu- members’ images. The exhibit tionary War, Manhattan faced a is on display on the upper lev- fresh water crisis as the popu- el of the gallery. Please invite lation swelled and the streams your family and friends to and ponds which had previ- share in this celebration. ously supplied the growing city were quickly over- * Saturday, May 13 whelmed. In the 1830’s, after Field Trip—Gardens and fighting off epidemics of wa- Franklin and Church Streets Streets of the Lower East Side ter-borne diseases like cholera, (the Soho Photo Gallery cor- As a neighborhood, the Lower the city stepped in, building an ner) in Tribeca and continues East Side is a mixed bag. There aqueduct which drew water uptown through Central Park, are tenements remaining from from the Croton River, over 40 into the Bronx, back into Man- the late 19th century and there miles to the north. It is official- hattan and down the FDR Dri- are modern buildings that defy ly known as the Old Croton ve, then into Queens and explanation. There are people Trailway State Park. We’ll meet Brooklyn, taking over the from every walk of life and at the Information Booth in Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, every culture. We will wander Grand Central Terminal at 10 and finally across the Ver- through the streets of this his- a.m. (to catch the 10:43 a.m. razano-Narrows Bridge to the toric area seeking out many of train). Wear comfortable shoes; finish line in Staten Island. the gardens which span the bring snacks and water. After This is an all-day event. Pick entire history of the City. We the trip we’ll stop at a local your spot and have fun. The will meet on the southeast cor- restaurant for a meal and re- website has more details; go to ner of 2nd Avenue and East 8th freshments. Sign up at any
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 35 York City and is currently liv- * Thursday, May 18 ing in Brewster, NY. He is a Expanding Visions 23 member of the Soho Photo Tonight, the first session of the Gallery. Robert has exhibited all new Expanding Visions 23 widely across the country and class, is the introductory ses- has been published in Politico sion in which we discuss: the Magazine and F-Stop Magazine, equipment required; the as- among others. To learn more signments for the field trips about Robert and his images, (all of which fit into the head- Street/Saint Marks Place at 1 go to his website located at ing of Hand Held) and the term p.m. The closest subway stops
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES project; plus the destinations, are 1st and 3rd Avenue stations The curtain raiser for tonight is meeting places, times, etc. This on the ‘L’ train, the 2nd Av- long-time PWCC member, session is scheduled to begin at enue station on the ‘F’ train, former Club recording secre- 7 p.m. and will take place at the 8th Street-NYU station on tary, and former editor of our the Soho Photo Gallery. More the ’N’ and ‘R’ lines, and the newsletter, Bill Apple. Astor Place station on the ‘6’ train. The eastbound M8 bus stops on the corner. Sign up at any Club meeting or by contacting the trip’s leader: Susan Sigrist, at 212-758-0036 (Note—this is not a cell phone). © Nancy Sirkis information about the class can be found on pages 7 to 9 in this * Wednesday, May 17 issue of Photo Notes. Print Workshop All Club members are invited Fri—Sun, May 19—21 to bring a dozen or so prints Photo Op—Ukrainian Festival for this Club event. The prints New York City’s Festival of may be finished images, work Ukrainian culture, music, prints,or whatever. Bring them dance, and cuisine was estab- for an honest, but gentle, cri- lished in 1976. Organized by tique of your work. This work- the Saint George Ukrainian © Robert Kalman shop has limited space. You Catholic Church, it is held an- must sign up in advance with nually on the third weekend of * Monday, May 15 Elsa Blum at 516-621-3215 or May. The three-day program Guest Speaker—
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 36 world cuisines, cultures, and art in one of the country’s most diverse neighborhoods — Hell’s Kitchen. The Festival is New York’s oldest and largest running food event. It draws over one quarter mil- lion visitors over the course of the weekend. From open to * Saturday, May 20 close, visitors can browse the Field Trip—Gallery Hop offerings of 15 city blocks of SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES gourmet food and beverages. This afternoon, we’ll be hop- Asian to Cajun, and everything ping from gallery to gallery in Ridge Avenue up to Fifth Av- edible, along with fine art and the Chelsea section of Manhat- enue, makes a left onto Fifth crafts and an entire city block tan. There are literally 100s of Avenue, marching along Fifth of family friendly children’s galleries in the area, many of Avenue to 67 Street, makes a games and entertainment. The which are chock full of photog- right on 67 Street and marches action runs from 42nd to 57th raphy. We’ll research the cur- along the park up to the re- Streets, from mid-morning into rent shows and select the best viewing stand between 6th and the early evening. ones to visit. There’s also plen- 7th Avenues. ty to shoot on the streets, so * Sunday, May 21 don’t forget to bring your cam- * Monday, May 22 Photo Op—Norwegian era along for the ride. We will Business Meeting #4 American Parade meet in front of the Dallas BBQ During our fourth and final restaurant, 8th Avenue and The Norwegian American Pa- business meeting of the year, West 23rd Street, northwest rade celebrates the 17th of May we’ll have lots to discuss and corner, at 1 p.m. Sign up at any signing of the Norwegian Con- decide about the running of Club meeting or by contacting stitution in 1814, and the na- the Club. On the agenda: the the trip’s leader: Rita Russo, at tion’s freedom from Sweden. election of next year’s Club of-
April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 37 meeting is open to the public and begins at 6:30 p.m. A $7 donation is collected upon entry. See the listing under April 26 for the venue and directions to it.
Wed—Tue, May 24—30 Photo Op—Fleet Week © Bob Krist Comes Between Us where you Hosted nearly every year since will bring with you pieces of
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Wednesday, May 24 1984, Fleet Week New York is textured glass or plastic, or Photo Event—Sierra Photo the City’s celebration of the sea other translucent materials, to The New York City Sierra services. This annual event hold between your camera and Club’s Photography Commit- also provides an opportunity your subject. Tonight’s destina- tee is holding its meeting for the citizens of the Big tion is Madison Square Park. tonight. The program for this Apple and the surrounding We’ll meet on Broadway at evening is a presentation by 23rd Street at 6:30 p.m. freelance photographer Bob Krist. Bob works regularly on * Fri—Mon, May 26—29 assignment for magazines such Weekend Field Trip— as National Geographic Traveler, Longwood Gardens and Smithsonian, and Islands. These Brandywine Valley assignments have taken him to This weekend the Club will be all seven continents and have area to meet Sailors, Marines, heading down to southeastern won awards in the Pictures of and Coast Guardsmen, as well Pennsylvania and northern the Year, Communication Arts, as witness first hand the latest Delaware for a weekend of fun and World Press Photo compe- capabilities of today’s Navy, and photography. We’ll visit titions. During his work, he Marine Corps, and Coast several of the Dupont man- has been stranded on a glacier Guard. Fleet Week includes sions including Winterthur and in Iceland, nearly run down by dozens of military demonstra- Hagley. We’ll visit Longwood charging bulls in southern In- tions and displays throughout Gardens during the morning dia, and knighted with a cut- the week, as well as public vis- and return at night for their lass during a Trinidad voodoo its onto many of the participat- Fireworks and Fountains show. ceremony. He won the title of ing ships. Plus, there are all We’ll also have opportunities “Travel Photographer of the those uniforms flooding the to visit the Brandywine River Year” from the Society of City streets. What a photo op! American Travel Writers in 1994, 2007, and 2008. In 2000 * Thursday, May 25 his work was honored at the Expanding Visions 23 Eisenstaedt Awards for Maga- zine Photography in New York Tonight, the second session of City. Check his website Expanding Visions 23 class, is
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SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES end—it is, first and fore- regarding the Year-End Com- most, a time to honor petition. those citizens who’ve served the United States Directions to Soho Photo in times of war. The City at 15 White Street, between honors its fallen heroes Avenue of the Americas and with parades all over the West Broadway. Take the #1 five boroughs. The Little train to the Franklin Street sta- Sat—Mon, May 27—29 Neck–Douglaston parade tion (one stop below Canal Photo Op—Outdoor Art in Queens is reputedly the Street). Walk one block north largest. You can also follow on West Broadway to White The Washington Square Out- Brooklyn’s Memorial Day Pa- street, make a right turn, and door Art Exhibit is a now 87 rade (147 years old!), which walk half a block to the gallery. years old. The event showcases begins at 87th Street and Third Take the A, C, or E train to the fine artists and craftspeople Avenue. In Manhattan, head Canal Street station. Walk from around the New York uptown for a smaller parade in south on Church Street/Sixth metropolitan area, the nation, Inwood, which begins at Dy- Avenue three blocks to White and the world. Attendees come ckman Street and Broadway. Street, make a right turn, and from all over and are a cos- Check
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SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES 10 Workshop Nights 24 PhotoWordJumble 10 Flag Day 25 Animal Photography 10 Quality of Light 25 Photo Cartoon 11 2016-17 Schedule 26 PhotoShopping 12 Competition Rotation 27 Photo Shopping 12 Spring Shooting Tip 12 Photo Notes Deadlines Exhibits, Workshops, Etc. 12 Committee Liaisons 28 Photo Classes at NYBG 13 Yahoo Group 28 Photo Tips 13 Flickr Group 29 B&H Event Space 13 Club Affiliations 29 NECCC Conference 14 Archives Matter 30 Presidential 15 ExecCom Mtg. Minutes 30 Photo Tip 15 Business Mtg. Minutes 30 I Want You 19 Winter Destinations Schedule of Activities 19 Winter Shooting Tips 31 Schedule of Activities 20 Website—Update 39 Directions 21 Creative Tip 40 Table of Contents
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