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April 2021 Photo Notes Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club April 2021 This Issue Volume 86 • Issue 8 Club News…………………..…..…2 - 29 Photography News………………30 - 40 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc….….…41 - 50 Schedule of Activities……..….….51 - 55 Complete Index………………….….…56 Over 25 members’ images inside! April 2021 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Club Officers The Park West Camera Club is an independent not-for-profit corporation. Guests are always President Ed Lee welcome. V. President Michael Schleiff The PWCC newsletter, Photo Notes, is published Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine every month by and for the members of the Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are available to nonmembers by email at no charge. Treasurer Maria Fernandez Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are Committee Chairs always accepted. The staff of Photo Notes Archive Inactive reserves the right to edit any submissions which are published. Competition John Brengelman Photo Notes is optimized for viewing digitally. Hedy Klein Field Trip Susan Sigrist Contact Information Paul Grebanier Website Gallery Vacancy www.parkwestcameraclub.org House Marty Smith E-Mail Address [email protected] Membership Marlene Schonbrun Elena Pierpont Club Mailing Address Newsletter Chuck Pine 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn Photo Notes Mailing Address 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Social Natalie Manzino Website Michael Schleiff Christine Doyle Workshop Vacancy Cover Photo Green Heron by Chuck Pine ©2020 April 2021 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Message she loved photography and found a home with us. CLUB A Swan Song? Three locations and 40 years later, Pat and I (as own- My photographic “career” ers) decided to retire after the began in 1963 when my folks value of the commercial co-op gave me as a high school space we had bought doubled graduation present of a serious in value. The digital revolution camera, a Yashica DSLR. I had a BA. I was also sworn in as a had come and conquered the previously joined the school’s second lieutenant and off to photography world. There was yearbook staff and they had a Fort Belvoir, VA (School of En- a slow but steady drop in film darkroom. I was now in busi- gineering) I went. The Vietnam roll counts and fewer custom ness shooting candids around War was ending and I did not prints to be made. We had in- the school: the students and go overseas. No more time for troduced 100s of our customers faculty, student government fun, just getting back to work to Photoshop and digital pho- and committee events; and, of and to the lab business. I met tography via our free work- course, sports and various my future wife, Pat in 1969 as a shops but in the early 2000s, other activities. customer. She was leaving her digital was a tool mainly used The 1964-5 World’s Fair in Wall Street editing job at the for retouching both prints and Flushing Meadow Park, anti- Daily Bond Buyer and after the generation of newly re- war protests, street, and family some earlier adult photo cour- touched slides and negatives. photography occupied my ses at Stuyvesant High School, shooting activities after high Continued on page 4 school. I joined a photo group/ co-op (Freelance Photogra- Photo Notes phers Association) on West 44th Street in Manhattan Publisher: Ed Lee during the summer before Editor: Chuck Pine I started college at Hunter. Here I had access to a studio Committee: Will Aimesbury, Madeleine Barbara, Elsa with a full darkroom as well Blum, Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, Renée Harper, as networking possibilities. Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus, Helen Pine, Two years later, with three Elena Pierpont, and Judy Rosenblatt friends from the co-op, we Contributors: Bill Apple, Benson Babu, John Brengelman, started Photographics Unlimited, Christine Doyle, Maria Fernandez, Eloisa Huni, Ed Lee, Dial-A-Darkroom, Inc. While Natalie Manzino, Chuck Pine, Helen Pine, Marlene attending Hunter College and Schonbrun, Marty Smith, and Alice Somma then City College, I was also Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro tending to our newly formed using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. custom photo lab and dark- All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise room/studio rentals business. I believed to be in the public domain. had also signed up for ROTC to navigate my military obliga- Credited images remain the sole property of their tions. At graduation, I received copyright holders—all rights reserved. April 2021 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Prints were still being made. projects—a photo model Early DSLR cameras cost tens website, and organizing model CLUB of thousands of dollars. Early workshops out west, as well as point and shoots were still running the New York Photo expensive. I bought a Nikon Safari Meetup group. I will Coolpix 4300 in 2003 for $499 remain a member of the Club and it only produced 4MP files. and help the newly elected Posting images on the Internet with all that I can. was in its infancy. During my tenure, I hope In 2006, with less business I have helped make PWCC in- and more time on my hands, teresting and enjoyable. The I joined the Meetup/Photo Nominating Committee will, Safari group where I met in the coming weeks, seek new Chuck and Helen Pine and candidates for the open posi- several other members of tions. The new Executive PWCC and subsequently Committee will be voted for at joined the Club. I also the final business meeting. All images belonged to the Camera Club © Ed Lee of New York because they had Be well! a studio and darkrooms. (Park West has held several model shoots at CCNY before they Ed downsized and moved to the lower Eastside.) After a couple of years as vice president and then acting president, and finally seven years as president, I have decided to step down and devote more time to my other April 2021 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 CLUB 2020 Winter/Spring PWCC Schedule April 5 Competition #7 (Moshe Katvin) December 7 Submission Deadline (You Be the Judge) 7 Competition #3 (Antonio Rosario) 12 Expanding Visions 27 (Intro) 14 Expanding Visions 26—Review 19 Guest Speaker (Richard Martin) 21 Theme Night—The Holidays 26 You Be the Judge 2 28 Winter Holiday May January 3 Competition #8 (Rifka Katvin) 4 Competition #4 (Kathy Baca) 10 Expanding Visions 27 (Review) 11 Photoshop Summit Video 17 Guest Speaker (Lisa Langell) 18 Guest Speaker (Anne Lawver) 24 ExCom/Business Meeting #4 25 Theme Night (Color Purple) 31 No Meeting (memorial Day) 31 Submission Deadline (Image Exchange) June February 7 Year-End Competition (TBA) 1 Competition #5 (Kay Kenny) 14 Otto Litzel Memorial Dinner ??? 8 Workshop (Macro/Close-up) 15 Guest Speaker (Thomas Holton) All the above activities will be conducted 22 Theme Night (Before/After) virtually using the Zoom software program. March This software may be downloaded and used 1 Competition #6 (Susan May Tell) at no charge to our members. As soon as it 8 Photoshop Summit Video is deemed safe to hold our meetings and 15 Guest Speaker (Christy McNamara) other activities at the Soho Photo Gallery, 22 Image Exchange (Pretoria, SA) in the field, or elsewhere, we will endeavor 29 ExCom/Business Meeting #3 to do so. Zooming The Club is using Zoom To download Zoom, go software to conduct all its to <www.zoom.us/download> Zoom is a web-based video meetings during the corona- and click on the “Download” conferencing software tool virus pandemic. An email button. It’s that simple! that allows users to meet will be sent to all PWCC Non-members who online. Zoom is compatible members prior to virtual would like to join our Club with Macs, Windows, meetings. This email will meetings may request the smartphones, and tablets. contain the link to join the link by sending an email to Zoom software is free to meeting. All you have to do <[email protected]> download to your devices. is click on the link. April 2021 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Images of the Month April 2021 CLUB by John Brengelman PDI-of-the-Month Karate Kids © Peggy Winkelman PDI-of-the-Month Karate Kids © Peggy Winkelman Honor PDIs Impalas in the Rain by Madeleine Barbara Foggy Sea Side by Annette Collazo-Comito The Honor PDIs are Shadow by Doris King shown on the following Lisboa by Paula Paterniti two pages. Psychedelic Wind by Paula Pillone Homage to Ruth Orkin by Joan Slatkin April 2021 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 CLUB A with Honors Impalas in the Rain © Madeleine Barbara A with Honors Shadow © Doris King A with Honors Foggy Sea Side © Annette Collazo-Comito Continued on next page April 2021 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 CLUB A with Honors Lisboa © Paula Paterniti A with Honors Psychedelic Wind © Paula Pillone A with Honors Homage to Ruth Orkin © Joan Slatkin April 2021 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 Cumulative Point Totals Submitting Images through April 2021 CLUB by John Brengelman The Club has over a dozen activities this year which ask Paul Grebanier 102 Marty Smith 64 you to submit images. These Paula Pillone 98 Jay Bitkower 62 include competitions, theme Julie Wosk 98 Howard Stevens 62 nights, workshops, classes, Natalie Manzino 96 Will Aimesbury 58 and more. Here’s what you Doris King 94 Eloise Huni 54 need to know: Laura Toledo 94 Larry Rubin 54 Nicole Dosso 92 Marlene Schonbrun 54 Images must be in .jpg Sarah Corbin 86 Annette Collazo-Comito 50 (JPEG) format and sized at Chuck Pine 86 Harriet Josephs 46 72 ppi resolution, 1400 pixels Helen Pine 86 Dorothy Mills 46 maximum width, and 1050 Peggy Winkelman 82 Ann Broder 44 pixels maximum height.
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