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The Newsletter of the Park West Camera Club! Photo Notes Our 75th Year Summer 2012 Presidentʼs Letter The Return of Paul Perkus Someone was needed to clean up the mess left by the departing president, but nobody wanted the job. So it’s up to me to get back in harness and lead PWCC through another exciting year of chal- lenges and accomplishments: our 76th year. I thank all the members for their confidence in me and disinterest in the job of president. The Nomi- nating Committee and I did our darnedest to in- terest someone else in the position. But you all were too smart. Well, here’s to another year in the saddle and to In This Issue my fellow and sister officers and committee heads. The Constitution Revision Committee will President’s Letter.................................1 be hard at work all summer. It will strive to im- Who’s Who & What’s What........2 & 3 plement changes that will speak to the concerns Club Info..................................3, 5 & 10 members expressed at the recent showdown at the B&H Space............................................5 Stage Door Saloon and elsewhere. Competition...............................6, 7 & 8 The Tyranny of Reality........................9 There are lots of other exciting events planned for Inquiries...............................................11 this summer, beginning with the 75th Anniversary Business Meeting Minutes................12 Otto Litzel Dinner on June 11th. Call for Entries...................................14 Gallery Watching...............................15 Now that the news is out of the way, why don’t Club Photos........................................19 you all settle down for a good read of the follow- Otto Litzel Dinner..............................20 ing pages? They are chock full of photo lore and Schedule of Activities...................21-29 enticing events to chase away post-election dol- Field Trip Reunion.............................30 drums. In the Mailbag....................................31 ! (continued on page 4) and so much more! Summer 2012 www.parkwestcameraclub.org Page 1 Park West Camera Club Committee Chairs Archives!!Myrna Harrison-Changar The Park West Camera Club is an independent not- 212 663 1422 [email protected] for-profit corporation. Guests are always welcome at meetings and activities. Competition! George Hansen! 212 595 7869 [email protected] The Park West Camera Club newsletter , Photo Notes, Hedy Klein is published every month by and for the members of 718-793-0246vv [email protected] the Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are in- Joan Slatkin cluded with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions 212 260 7091 [email protected] are available to non-members by e-mail (free) or Field Trip!! Susan Sigrist! postal service ($10 per year). Individual issues are 212 758 0036 [email protected] available at PWCC meetings. Inna Grubmair 646-355-6840 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are always ac- Gallery!! Christine Doyle cepted. The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to 212 595 4920 [email protected] edit any submissions which are published. Maria Fernandez 908 447 8075 [email protected] Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each month. House!! Seymour Perlowitz 718 338 6695 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the inter- Chuck Elster net. 917 796 7847 [email protected] Contact Information Membership! Marlene Schonbrun 212 662 3107 [email protected] Website www.parkwestcameraclub.org Newsletter!! Chuck Pine! 212 932 7665 [email protected] E-Mail Address [email protected] Program!!Marilyn Fish-Glynn 212 685 8784 [email protected] Club Mailing Address 345 East 73rd Street, #8L, NY, NY 10021 Social!! ! Sid Georgiou! Photo Notes Mailing Address 212 777 3960 [email protected] 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Telephone Tree ! Dottie Mills! 212 926 4375 [email protected] Club Officers Website!! Ruth Lowell President!!Paul Perkus! ! 212-362-4379 [email protected] 212 929 1687 [email protected] Bob Wine V. President!!Ed Lee! 212-758-5762 [email protected] 212 242 8714 [email protected] Workshop!! Jerry Harawitz Treasurer!!Myron Galef 212 673 2096 [email protected] 212 249 1270 [email protected] Corres. Sec.!!Helen Bohmart Pine! !! 212 932 7665 [email protected] Cover Photo Rec. Sec.!!Lee Backer! ! Dam Square at Night 212-662-6740 [email protected] by Chuck Pine ©2012 Pres. Emeritus!Chuck Pine!!!! 212 932 7665 [email protected] Summer 2012 www.parkwestcameraclub.org Page 2 Competition Info Did You Know? Here’s some information for our members regar- Did you know that the on-line PDF version of ding our Club competitions. All the details may Park West Camera Club’s Photo Notes offers you be found in the PWCC By-Laws (Article III) and/ advantages? or in the illustrated PWCC Competition Manual. Did you know that all of the website and e-mail There will be one slide, one print, and one pro- addresses are hyperlinks? That means if you jected digital image (PDI) competition each click on them, you will be taken to that website month. (if you are connected to the internet) or to your e-mail program to send an e-mail. Each member may submit up to four images each month but no more than two in any compe- Did you know that the images are in color and of tition. higher quality than when printed out? And, you can enlarge them a bit, too, for detail. Print and slide entries must be submitted to the Competition Committee by 6:45 p.m. on the eve- Did you know that reading Photo Notes on-line ning of the competition. PDIs must be via e-mail saves trees, landfills, inks, toners, water, and to <[email protected]> at least one other natural resources? week prior to the scheduled competition. Did you know that reading Photo Notes on-line All entries must be sized, labeled, formatted, etc. saves the Club over $100 each and every month? as described in the Competition Manual. Here’s a hint for the Year-End Competition held Photo Notes Staff in June. Each member may submit up to four Publisher:!Paul Perkus prints, four slides, and/or four PDIs. Only im- Editor:!Chuck Pine ages which competed in this year’s (October through May) monthly competitions are eligible. Committee:!Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, These entries must be unaltered from their origi- !Madeleine Barbara, Ruth Formanek, Sid ! nal entry. The Club does not keep records of Georgiou, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy ! ! which slides or PDIs you entered. You should Klein, Helen Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt make a list of all your entries (and their scores) Contributors:!Bill Apple, Leer Backer, for your own benefit when you are ready to Myrna Changar, Christine Doyle, Maria submit to the Year-End Competition. Fernandez, Ruth Formanek, George Grubb, George Hansen, Paul Perkus, Chuck Pine, Judy Rosenblatt Photo Notes is produced on a MacBookPro using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or oth- erwise believed to be in the public domain. Credited images remain the sole property of their copyright holders—all rights reserved. Summer 2012 www.parkwestcameraclub.org Page 3 Presidentʼs Letter Rules of Photography (continued from page 1) Were you ever in a boat on rough waters? Were you getting seasick? Other than taking a pill or The little woman and I headed east to Sicily and wearing a copper bracelet (does it really work?), Rome for a couple of weeks to regain our bear- or a medicated patch what is the number one ings after a tough spring of campaigning to find remedy for that queasy and dizzying feeling? another presidential candidate. I was always told (and, believe me, I have plenty We’ll be back for the big shindig on the eleventh of experience with this) to just keep looking at and look forward to seeing everyone. There may the horizon. Why, you might ask? Well, most even be a few pleasant surprises! seasickness has to do more with the brain than All the best, anything else. It starts with the liquid in your in- ner ear sloshing around. It’s that motion in your Paul head that causes the motion sickness because the brain can’t keep your world straight. However, by staring at the unmoving, stationary horizon, you can assuage your uneasiness. And so it is with photographs! If you look at an image and the horizon is just a tad off, just a smidgeon tilted, it doesn’t feel right. You either want to go up to the picture hanging on the wall and straighten it, or just walk away and forget it. Therefore, a very important rule of photography is to keep your horizons horizontal, in other words, parallel to the bottom of the picture frame. By the way, a horizon can be anywhere in an image: where the sky meets the ocean; where the sky meets the land; where the land meets the water; and so many other non-traditional hori- zon lines. The best way to achieve horizontalness is to snap the photo correctly in the camera. After the fact, there are many ways in image editing software to straighten out an image. Look at the horizons to the left for examples. Summer 2012 www.parkwestcameraclub.org Page 4 PWCCʼs Yahoo Group B & H Event Space Have an idea to go shooting but don’t want to go B & H Photo is offering free workshops in their alone? Have a question about Photoshop™, or newly redesigned presentation space. Here is a your camera, or some technique but don’t have sampling of some of the photography offerings someone to ask? Know of a great photo op or this month: workshop that you’d like to share with your fel- low Club members? What to do? Monday, June 11, 2012 Photographers' Rights in the 21st Century Ta Da! The Club’s Yahoo group is the answer to Speaker: Len Speier your questions.