PHOTO NOTES Park West Camera Club 2020 February
This Issue Volume 85 • Issue 5 Club News...... 2 - 17 Photography News...... 18 - 31 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc…….…32 - 34 Schedule of Activities…….…….35 - 41 Complete Index………………………42
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February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Club Officers
The Park West Camera Club is an independent President Ed Lee not-for-profit corporation. Guests are always V. President Michael Schleiff welcome. Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine The PWCC newsletter, Photo Notes, is published every month by and for the members of the Park Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are Treasurer Maria Fernandez available to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Submissions of full-length articles or smaller Committee Chairs items of photographic or general interest are Archive Inactive always accepted. The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any submissions Competition John Brengelman which are published. Hedy Klein
Photo Notes is optimized for viewing digitally. Field Trip Susan Sigrist Paul Grebanier Contact Information Gallery Karen Corrigan Website www.parkwestcameraclub.org House Marty Smith Membership Marlene Schonbrun E-Mail Address Elena Pierpont [email protected] Newsletter Chuck Pine Club Mailing Address 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn
Photo Notes Mailing Address Social Natalie Manzino 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Website Michael Schleiff Christine Doyle
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Cover Photo Male Silver-beaked Tanager by Chuck Pine ©2019
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Message tributed articles and images as well as those who proofread CLUB Recently, a number of new and helped distribute the members have joined Park newsletter. West Camera Club. We wish Be sure to attend our sec- them all well and the Club en- ond Portfolio Review where deavors to help, both photo- Jean Miele will again facilitate graphically and socially. One and critique with help from the of the first things we recom- audience member portfolios. mend is to check out the Club’s maintenance of the website. Our second Tabletop and Still website and to register and be Please direct any general ques- Life Workshop is coming up in able to access member features tions or problems concerning early March as well as our and files. the galleries to them. third Business Meeting in the As Christine Doyle, the FYI, Photo Notes, edited by latter part of that month. Club's Recording Secretary and our President Emeritus, Chuck Our best wishes and Website Co-Chair encourages Pine, has won the 2019 Direc- prayers go out to Chuck for his us: “members will be able to tor's Choice Award for best medical issues. create and update their own newsletter; Best Opinion Piece personal galleries and share by member Bill Apple; Best their work. (BTW, you can cre- Calendar Presentation, and ate multiple galleries if you Best Variety of Material. Con- Ed like.) The gallery template gratulations to all who con- comes with privacy settings that you can control. Photo Notes We encourage members to take advantage of this feature Publisher: Ed Lee and to make their galleries Editor: Chuck Pine public so that visitors to the website can see the great work Committee: Will Aimesbury, Bill Apple, Madeleine that our members are doing, in Barbara, Elsa Blum, Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, addition to the monthly com- Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus, Elena petition winners and honors Pierpont, Helen Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, and Puneet Sood images.” You can find Chris- Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Christine tine's Primer each month in the Doyle, Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, Larry Kreger, Table of Contents of Photo Virginia Lawrence, Ed Lee, Chuck Pine, and Judy Notes. You will also find a Rosenblatt, comprehensive schedule of Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro events, biographies of presen- using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. ters, descriptions of field trips, All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise and other activities as well as believed to be in the public domain. updates and cancelations. I thank both Michael Schleiff, Credited images remain the sole property of their the club Vice-President, and copyright holders—all rights reserved. Christine for their excellent
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Badlands & Black Hills Club Participation Nites
CLUB The Club is considering an ex- This coming year there will be tended field trip to Badlands four programs that require National Park and the Black member participation. Here’s a Hills of South Dakota. We’re quick rundown on these fun thinking about going in the and educational activities still summer of 2020. For those of on the agenda… you not in the know, this will include photo ops of Mount Rushmore,If interested, Custer State Park (home to the country’s largest populationplease of bison),respond and many other greatASAP spots for shooting landscapes, wildlife, • March 23rd—Theme Night: cowboys, and the old west in Light ”Photography” means general. ”to write with light.” This is Prices and exact dates have your opportunity to interpret not yet been determined. We’re this definition any way you’d just starting to investigate and • March 9th—Table Top and like. Be literal; be creative; be would like to know if you have Still Life Workshop The Club whatever. Just have fun and any interest in this trip. will provide the lights. The bring in some great images. If you are interested, please members will provide the let Chuck Pine know your in- props. This includes small tentions by contacting him by objects, glassware, flowers, and What part of… email at
experience despite the fact that we had to evacuate the town of Keystone due to a raging was sent in by Club member forest fire. What a trip! Will Aimesbury. Cool, huh?
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 CLUB
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 PWCC 2019-2020 Schedule
CLUB September 1 Chuck Pine Picnic 2 No Meeting (Labor Day) 9 Welcome Back 16 Guest Speaker (Leland Bobbé) March 23 Business Meeting #1 2 Competition #6 (Jill Waterman) 30 No Meeting (Rosh Hashanah) 9 Workshop—Table Top & Still Life 16 Guest Speaker (Charles Chessler) October 23 Theme Night—Light 7 Competition #1 Canceled 30 Business Meeting #3 14 No Meeting (Columbus Day) 21 Guest Speaker (Jane Schreibman) April 28 Halloween Costume Party and Shoot 6 Competition #7 (Thomas Mintz) 13 Competition Make-up November 20 Guest Speaker (Ismael Ferdous) 4 Competition #2 (Marilyn Stern) 27 Club’s Night Out—Sony Store 11 Workshop—Portfolio How-to 18 Guest Speaker (Bill Wadman) May 25 Business Meeting #2 4 Competition #8 (TBA) 11 Guest Speaker (Thomas Holton) December 18 Business Meeting #4 2 25 Memorial Day (No Meeting) 9 Competition #3 (Bill Wadman) 16 Holiday Party June 23 Winter Holiday 1 Year-End Competition (TBA) 30 Winter Holiday 8 Otto Litzel Dinner 15 ExCom Planning Meeting January 22 Summer Meeting 6 Competition #4 (Leland Bobbé) 29 No Meeting 13 Portfolio Review 20 Guest Speaker (John Millisenda) Field trips, classes, additional workshops, 27 Theme Night—Weather and the 2020 summer schedule will be pub- lished as the information becomes available. February 3 Competition #5 (Jean Miele) 10 Workshop—Photoshop (David Atlas) 17 Guest Speaker (Bill Brandt) 24 Portfolio Review
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Images of the Month February 2020 CLUB by John Brengelman
Print-of-the-Month Pay the Troll the Toll by Paul Greebanier
Honor Prints Northern Lights by Justine Carson Mercedes by Paul Greebanier Floating Bubble by Elena Pierpont
Print-of-the-Month Pay the Troll the Toll © Paul Greebanier PDI-of-the-Month Just Walk Away © Hedy Klein PDI-of-the-Month Just Walk Away by Hedy Klein
Honor PDIs Night Door by John Brengelman News Year Day by Julie Foehrenbach Street Ballet by Julie Foehrenbach Uzbek Man by Florence Forman Gated Community by Paul Greebanier Field of Dreams by George Hansen The Bland Houses by Harriet Josephs Carving by Natalie Manzino Copper-jumped Hummingbird by Chuck Pine Tropical Screech Owl by Chuck Pine My Future by Harriet Stein
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 Cumulative Point Totals through February 2020 CLUB by John Brengelman
Prints PDIs Oggy Doytchinov 58 Paul Grebanier 58 Chuck Pine 64 Susan Genaro 18 John Brengelman 54 George Hansen 54 Susanne Yellin 18 Madeleine Barbara 52 Will Aimesbury 52 Gabriel Levit 16 George Hansen 50 David Cassidy 50 Laura Toledo 16 Elena Pierpont 50 Janet Susin 50 Joel Bernstein 14 Justine Carson 44 Hedy Klein 48 Eloisa Huni 14 Natalie Manzino 40 Natalie Manzino 48 Virginia Lawrence 14 Paula Paterniti 40 Michael Schleiff 48 Rita Russo 14 Howard Stevens 40 Paul Grebanier 46 David Campbell 12 Sarah Corbin 38 Harriet Stein 44 Puneet Sood 12 Florence Forman 30 Christine Doyle 42 Jerry Vogel 12 Bill Apple 28 Julie Foehrenback 42 Madeleine Barbara 8 Larry Rubin 28 Florence Forman 42 Renée Harper 6 Alice Somma 28 Harriet Josephs 42 Indran Naidoo 6 Ann Broder 16 Elena Pierpont 42 Marvin Fink 10 Bill Apple 40 Nicole Dosso 40 Catherine Smith 40 John Brengelman 36 Congratulations to our Remy Deyglun 36 winners and honorable Howard Stevens 36 mentions! Justine Carson 34 Larry Sapadin 34 Thanks to all who entered Jay Bitkower 32 and competed this month Dorothy Mills 32 and to all who helped Karen Corrigan 30 make the competition run Lawrence Kreger 30 so smoothly. Paula Paterniti 30 Alice Somma 30 And, a special thanks to Larry Rubin 26 our judge, Jean Meile, for Joan Slatkin 26 an excellent job. Marty Smith 26 Ann Broder 20 For the rest of us, there’s Marshall Marcovitz 20 always next month! Susan Rauch 20 Gerald Reisner 20 Barry Fahrer 18
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 Competition Rotation Photo Notes Deadlines Committee Liaisons
CLUB The members of the Club, at Issue Deadline The Executive Committee the May business meeting, (ExCom) has decided to con- March 2020 March 2 voted to change one of the tinue for this coming year rules regarding our monthly April 2020 April 6 with the committee liaison competition. We will go back May 2020 May 4 model to spread the respon- to alternating the order of the Summer 2020 August 15 sibility among the entire Ex- prints and PDIs in our eight ecutive Committee. monthly competitions begin- The sooner articles and Here’s how it’ll work: ning in October 2016. Here’s Each of the ExCom mem- the schedule: items are submitted to Photo Notes, the quicker the editing bers (the five elected officers plus the President Emeritus) Month Judged First and revision process can begin. Once the Photo Notes issue will be assigned committees as a liaison. Each committee March Prints is complete, it is sent to the chair or co-chair will report April PDIs Website Committee for posting online and to the mailing list. to the ExCom through this May Prints liaison. In this manner, it is June PDIs felt that communication will flow much more smoothly, in both directions, between the committees. In addition, any concerns raised by the ExCom will be passed along to the committee chairs Photo Cartoon through the liaisons. of the Month Here are the committee liaison assignments for the 2015-2016 Club year: Competition Mike Schleiff Field Trip Chuck Pine Gallery Helen Pine House Christine Doyle Membership Helen Pine Newsletter Chuck Pine Program Christine Doyle Social Ed Lee Website Mike Schleiff Workshop Ed Lee
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 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
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 Volunteers Wanted Lunch, Anyone? Anti-Corruption Tips CLUB The Club is looking for volun- Park West’s president, Ed Lee, There are few things more teers to join our Audio Visual hosts an informal, unofficial frustrating than having a sub-committee of the House lunch meeting. It meets Friday great shoot, going to transfer Committee. The function of at 12:30 p.m. every two or your photos onto a computer, this “club-within-a-club” is three weeks. All Club members and getting this dreaded mes- to set up and operate the Club (and others) are invited to join. sage: “the file or directory is AV equipment, namely: the We get together at a wide corrupted and unreadable.” MacBook computer; the digital variety of restaurants around This issue plagues photogra- projector; and the boom box the City to eat and chat. phers of every experience sound system. This gear is level and often seems to used for our competitions, our happen at random. guest presenters, and other Here are six things you can Club activities. do to protect your images: Hands-on training will be offered to those who decide to 1. Read or write to a card at volunteer. least once every few months. All who volunteer will be The conversations vary 2. Always format your SD greatly appreciated! from travel to photography, card in the camera—don’t from cameras to lenses, and just delete the images. from personal stuff to Club 3. Don’t use the same card in activities. multiple cameras. The restaurants tend to be 4. Always use a card reader on the less costly side, often to transfer photos to a hard with lunch specials. We ask for drive or a computer. individual checks. Everyone 5. Never use an adapter to pays for what they eat and/or put a microSD card in a drink. And we have fun—lots camera’s standard SD port of fun! (unless it’s natively in cell The lunches usually last for phones, action cameras, or an hour-and-a-half or so to two drones). hours, but you may leave 6. Use low capacity cards whenever you wish. Following when possible. the food and talk, some of the group goes to a nearby spot for some shooting. If you are interested in join- ing the munch bunch, let Ed know. You’ll get an email a few days before the meeting. Please respond if you’ll be joining the group so we can reserve the required space.
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 PWCC Website 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
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 • 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 ProShow Gold the images will move) order button. ✦ Options on what to Here is an alternative way to Photodex, the maker of the display (Image Title, add images to your gallery: digital slideshow program Author, Captions, ProShow Gold, and other Thumbnails, etc.) ● After you log in, open the programs, which run only on ● Press the Update Gallery gallery you want to up- Windows computers, closed Options button to save load images to. its doors on January 31st. your settings and prefer- ● Press the Edit and Upload Their website went inactive ences. You can now add Images button (on the and users will no longer be images to your gallery. right), at the next page, able to get the latest version ● The website has a section press the Upload Images of the programs that they for images taken during Into This Gallery button. have purchased. PWCC field trips (PWCC ● Scroll down and press The programs will continue Club Outings). Galleries the Select button (bottom to work until Microsoft for field trip images are left). Your hard drive li- makes change to Windows created in the same way brary will open. which exclude the program’s as member galleries. ● Select images to be added code from being used. from your hard drive. To Add Images to Your The suggested "replace- (Multiple images can be Gallery: ment" is a Windows and Mac added by selecting mul- ● After you log in or after program called PhotoStage tiple files.) uploading images to Slideshow Software. ● 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
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 Member Bio by Virginia Lawrence CLUB
David Cassidy
outdoor work: the city, on Flickr and he has been some architectural, buying photo books of dif- some nature. David ferent photographers. His uses a Nikon Z6 cam- most recent purchase was a era, tripod, and neutral book of Helene Schmidt’s density filters. His which he got at the new Fo- preferred software is tografiska Museum. Helene mostly Lightroom and is a contributing photogra- David Cassidy considers Photoshop, as well as Topaz pher to National Geographic himself to be a long term DeNoise plug-in software. magazine. photographer who has He enjoys taking night David is happy to have always taken pictures, on photos and shooting during found the Club. He believes and off, even as a kid. He the blue hour after sunset. he can learn a lot from Club learned to develop film in He also enjoys walking members as well as presen- high school which helped around the city and shooting ters, speakers, and judges. him to become a serious spontaneously. He enjoys the camaraderie, hobbyist. Since he joined Visiting photo galleries the Club aspect of being a PWCC in the Fall of 2019, and museums is important member—not feeling alone he’s been entering out to David. He shares his work with it. He enjoys meeting competitions. Hearing with others with from the judges helps him the same inter- to be more selective about est and having what to shoot and he appre- discussions. ciates the judge’s valuable We’re sure feedback, most of which he David will grow wouldn’t have come up as a photogra- with on his own. pher as a result As for subject matter, of joining. David is drawn to long Welcome to exposure work with tripods PWCC, David! and enjoys doing a mix of
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 Member Bio out of that by Larry Kreger area with its CLUB development Larry Kreger schemes. Others Hi! I grew up in a home in included the Wilmette, Illinois where newsletter of photography and audio- LRI Internat- visual gadgets and ideas ional the were all around me. My Metro Chap- father was an executive with ter of the Bell and Howell. Young Presi- dents Organi- zation, and Maurice Villency furniture DNA testing and I had no stores. Most of the photo idea that I had significant work I did was pretty head Czech ancestry myself. on ( e.g., Chairman of YPO I am retired now and greeting guest speakers like have done volunteer work Henry Kissinger and other for the Training Institute big names who spoke at for Mental Health here in meetings). Manhattan for the last ten I knew how competitive years or so. the photo world was and My hobbies include being would never have just tried a (now-inactive) fire buff to do that alone, or pay and, lately, a fan of opera I was always more inter- much attention to “art” music, Tai Chi, and of ested in cinematography photos. Later, to keep up course, still photography. than still photo work, and with computer tech, I got Welcome to Park West, got my MFA in Film and TV an Associate’s Degree form Larry! from NYU in 1970. There- City Tech in Advertising, after I had a checkered career Illustration, as film editor, newsletter and Design. writer, and public relations One of my specialist dealing with cor- major life porations and associations. experiences I once did a newsletter was visiting for a short-lived group—a Prague a year society of major catalog and after the other large scale photo and Russians graphic studios. They were crushed the all down in what used to be Prague called the “Photo District” Spring. This before the City forced them was before
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 Medical Update back in New York have been Memory Cards by Chuck Pine consulted and they were also CLUB Photo Notes Editor in agreement. Digital photography relies I went back into Delray on memory cards. Which Medical Center and went Many of you have expressed ones we use depends on the under the knife last week. concern over the health camera we use, the amount The great toe and the front problems I’ve been going of shooting we do, and other joint of the third tow, both on through over the last month. factors. my right foot, were removed I sincerely thank you for Most of us use cards made (AKA amputated). your concern, well wishes, by one of the big names in I’m told that there will be and comforting thoughts. digital memory: SanDisk and little or no effect on my If you haven’t been able Lexar, but there are many walking (due to other prob- to keep up with my tale of others on the market, too. lems I am not too steady on woe, here’s a brief recap… Recently, a new name has I had some cuts on several of my feet already). I should been added to the list of high- still be able to drive. But best my toes (never a good thing end memory cards. This of all, this won’t have any when you’re diabetic). They name is not unfamiliar to affect on my ability and were not healing properly photographers—Manfrotto. desire to take pictures and because, unbeknownst to Yes, the same company work on them to my heart’s me, there was a blood-flow known for its tripods and content. problem in my right leg. The other photo accessories. I look forward to coming toes became infected. The new Manfrotto Pro back to the City in May. I Once we arrive in Florida RUGGED cards come in three look forward to leading the I had surgery on my right flavors—micro SD, SDXC, Expanding Visions.class. leg (angioplasty and a bal- and Compact Flash. They also And I look forward to the loon stent) to restore the come in two sizes, 64GB and summer field trip to the blood flow. I had an MRI, a 128GB. Black Hills and Badlands of nuclear medicine bone scan, All the buzz reports that South Dakota. and other tests to determine they are of excellent quality Your thoughts and the extent of the damage. All and competitively priced. prayers are more than just this while spending five Just be sure you buy your welcome—they are very days in the hospital. memory cards from a rep- much appreciated! They also operated on utable photo dealer like B&H my chest to install a central or Adorama. Why? Memory line catheter (called a Chuck cards are one of the more groshong) so they could commonly made knock-off pump me full of antibiotics items. on a daily basis In addition, I was receiving daily nurses visits to clean and care for my wounds. My doctors down here in Florida all agreed on what had to be done. My doctors
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 Depth of Field Leica’s only film camera still scanned the negatives to by Bill Apple being made, an interchange- Photoshop). No more able-lens rangefinder model. darkroom, unfortunately. Boundless? (The line-up also includes The M7 was good fun, digital rangefinders, SLRs, but eventually I returned to In my five decades of photo- other mirrorless models, even a digital camera and our 21st
PHOTOGRAPHY graphing I’ve long been torn an instant camera, the Sofort, century. I switched to an between two poles: getting the German for “immediately.”) updated Leica, the lookalike finest shots—and printing them My M7 afforded double joy, M10, a much younger brother myself—and possessing the and not just from its solid yet of my M7. (And, yes, on trade- finest equipment I could buy. slim profile, fashioned from a in the M7 held good resale Does the best equipment brick of brass. It became my value. Not so with other necessarily mean the best nostalgic return ticket to black- brands.) photos? and-white films of my youth. Lately, however, another Spoiler alert: probably not. Was it late-onset midlife crisis Leica has come along to You’ll still need your photog- (LOMLC)? elevate my pulse: the M10 rapher eye. But a little history My Leica also meant Monochrom. It’s a higher-r. first. “roughing it” photograph- esolution black-and-white-only I’ve long lusted for gear ically—it is woefully devoid model, with an improved that was out of reach when of automation (no autofocus, 40MP sensor versus my M10’s I was younger. It’s why I image stabilization, or much 28MP. I seldom shoot in chose an iPhone, not some else automatic). There is a color—it’s always been a Android knockoff, when meter. distraction—so why not? (see smartphones first came in. My workflow, by the way, “Like Leica,” this page) Naturally, I started hearing became hybrid: a lab developed Leica’s siren song long ago. my film—it costs!—then I Continued on next page Maybe it was Leica’s snob appeal that, um, appealed to me. Or maybe it’s just the best: real steak behind all the Leica sizzle. Leitz, Leica’s maker, has been around over a century turning out some of the best cameras, still made by hand in Germany. They invented 35mm, like Apple invented smartphones. (Yes, I’ve had many others: Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Like Leica? The time-honored German manufacturer, Leitz, recently more recently, a full-frame debuted its newest camera: a discreet digital rangefinder with scant Sony that weighed a ton. My automation, the 40 MP Leica M10 Monochrom. At $8,300 for the body, aching neck.) most photographers probably won’t be interested. It captures no color A few years ago I finally (or video), but does offer unique advantages to black-and-white shoot- jumped…over to a Leica M7, ers (see text). The advertising slogan: “The Liberation of Limitations.”
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 Sacrificing color means jettisoning the color-filter array routinely placed over digital camera sensors. Removing the filter actually helps black-and- white photos, so they’ll look
PHOTOGRAPHY far better than a standard RGB image later turned mono- chrome in “post.” Here’s why. Digital sensors “see” only in grays. Without the filtra- tion—and extra digital gym- nastics—sensors cannot sepa- rate color channels to record RGB images. The side effects: Colorized CMOS camera sensors capture only grayscale. To pro- graininess, noise, and other duce RGB images they’re topped with a checkerboard “Bayer” filter. pixel-poisoning problems that (Half green, paralleling the eye’s preponderance of green receptors; yet more processing tries to remaining quarters are red and blue.) The filter cuts light to the sensor and can introduce graininess and other artifacts. The effective pixel compensate for. count is also lowered, since not all pixels now respond to all wave- Losing the filter array, lengths. Leica’s M10 Monochrom eliminates the filter, yielding superior Leica claims, produces “excep- low-light performance and resolution, but black-and-white only. tionally natural-looking sharp- SOURCE: fstoppers.com ness.” Some say it’s closer to how film looks. Removing don street photographer Alan And, in another vein, filtration also means every Schaller. It’s provocatively ti- consider a new approach to single pixel does a complete tled, “The Liberation of Limita- helping certain stroke patients, light-writing job, rather than tion” (see “Limitations,” next weakened on one side of their splitting the pixels three ways page, and https://tinyurl.- body: “constraint-induced among red, blue, and green com/utfkmh9). And that is the movement therapy” (check (see “Colorized,” this page). Big Idea behind this column Wikipedia). You tie down the And the price for all this So: Can limits imposed by a “good” arm in order to luxuriousness? Cra-zee: $8,300. dearth of camera automation, strengthen the weaker. Such For the body alone. and the absence of color, actu- limb constraint can bring im- You can compose and focus ally free up a photographer to provement, maybe altering in the camera’s split-image op- be better? Perhaps. neural pathways. It’s the tical rangefinder—ask Chuck Recall Abe Lincoln’s log- Liberation of Limitation. Pine what that is—or on its cabin struggles and similar Moreover, chefs, artisans, Gorilla glass rear touchscreen. rags-to-riches stories of kid and artists likewise have im- But if you also want eye-level adversity. Modest beginnings posed—embraced voluntarily— EVF, which plugs into the hot- often build character. Maybe limitations in approaching shoe, ring up $635 more. you’ve also heard the philoso- their respective fields. It’s al- In rolling out this M10 pher Nietzsche’s saying: most like having one hand tied Monochrom, Leica has pro- “Whatever doesn’t kill you duced a video featuring Lon- makes you stronger.” Continued on next page
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 artist painted that over, for >) >) the sake of “modesty.” The restoration removes the cover-up (see “Boisterous Party,” this page).
. The biggest reveal: PHOTOGRAPHY Breugel had used just eight pigments—the number of https://tinyurl.com/utfkmh9 colors in a basic box of Crayola crayons—to create his masterpiece. Eight. If that’s not a limit, I don’t know what is.So would shooting with an $8,300 camera be limiting? Really?
London street photographer Alan Schaller is one of the London street photographer And might spending so much actually be liberating in and of itself, unleashing even greater creativity
Limitations faces of the new Leica campaign, with an accompanying video that showcases his monochrome work (see < Above, one of Schaller’s images from the new Leica M10 Monochrom. For more, visit Schaller’s website: merely to justify the camera’s heart-stopping behind their back, like the stroke centuries-old “secrets” to the price tag? Perhaps we’ll get a patients. Good chefs still beat Institute’s conservators. One chance to put that to the test. wire whisks in copper bowls area, for example, was appar- the old-fashioned way, master ently added cabinetmakers are still opting on later by for hand tools, and certain Breugel, an painters still grind pigments to afterthought. compound colors. And some Flemish artist Pieter of the male Breugel painted “The Wedding figures’ Dance” (1566), newly restored anatomy was and now the focus of a new a bit too, uh, exhibition at the Detroit Insti- prominent. tute of Fine Arts. In 2013 the Then at one canvas became famous because point of the city’s impending bank- another ruptcy. It almost went on the auction block to pay off munic- Boisterous Party Pieter Breugel, 16th-century Flemish artist, ipal debt, but luckily was res- painted “The Wedding Party” (1566) using only eight pigments, cued. according to conservators at the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts. A The painting’s restoration new exhibit on the just-restored painting showcases that and oth- er “hidden secrets” that conservators have uncovered (see text). has removed grime to reveal SOURCE: Wall Street Journal.
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 Gallery Watching by Ruth Formanek and Judy Rosenblatt
Warriors, James Coupe; I Can Make You Feel Good, Tyler Mitchell; The Lower East Side; PHOTOGRAPHY and CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop; Interna- tional Center of Photography, 79 Essex Street; through May 18th. from Warriors also contains a wrap-around by Judy © James Coupe balcony looking down on the Weeks after the opening second floor gallery; with its of Fotografista, a brand new will be a small cafe, and a more “modern architecture” look, photography museum here in spacious store than before. Its the scene reminded us of the city, another photography galleries are on the second and MoMA. This balcony gallery museum—our venerable old third floors. The school will be now houses an exhibit of friend, ICP—has reopened in housed in the basement. photos of The Lower East Side its new permanent home on We started our viewing on from the museum’s collection, Essex Street. Having covered the third floor with Warriors, a going back to the days of Fotografista, of course Ruth noisy video on three sides of reformer Jacob Riis. and I had to visit ICP in its a black box gallery, which Continued on next page new digs as well. reproduced some scenes from ICP started out in an the 1979 movie from The Lower East Side elegant mansion on Museum about gang Row, moved to a somewhat warfare—with a elegant setting on 46th Street, special twist. The then had to squeeze itself into explanatory text a bare-bones, low-ceilinged was poorly lit and space downtown while it hard to read, but sought a permanent site. Now, apparently, as part of a large multi-use through new tech- complex on Essex Street, it nology, viewers can breathe again and even could choose to incorporate its school and have their faces library, though its collection inserted in some of remains in New Jersey. Its new the scenes. This, quarters retain some of the we are told, gives stripped down look it just the video present left behind; ceiling pipes are day relevance. Re- exposed on the first floor, ally? which houses its lobby, what The third floor
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 This Is ICP’s salute to tradi- of them now iconic, have been We may not have done j. tional photography and also blown up to exhibit size. This ustice to the work of young to its new neighborhood, now show presented Ruth and me Tyler Mitchell, who gained devoid of pushcarts. with a world we knew very fame as the first black photog- Down on the second floor, little about; both the photogra- rapher to shoot a Vogue cover in the largest gallery space, phers and their subjects were portrait (of Beyonce, the
PHOTOGRAPHY with a soaring two-story ceil- mostly unfamiliar to us. singer). We walked through his ing and large window facing There’s a helpful video in “clothes line” of portraits of Essex Street, is the exhibit which the photographers talk black models printed on fabric called CONTACT HIGH: A about their experiences, but it and strung up like banners. It Visual History of Hip-Hop. The was frustratingly placed in the took us to a darkened room double entendre refers to the middle of things. We were the where viewers were lying on a contact sheets on display by only gray heads in a sea of pillowed floor gazing up at a photographers portraying Hip- young and black people, for ceiling video. Not wanting to Hop celebrities back in its early whom this exhibit might have lie on the floor, we just left. days. They are meant to give meaning, or just be fun to see. To sum up, the new ICP, insight into how the photogra- It wasn’t a profound explo- while not as elegantly housed phers approached their work. ration as much as a portrait as it used to be, is at least in an From these sheets (many in gallery revealing the visual adequate, modern space. There large enough format to be read styles and attitudes of creative, are no black marble restrooms, easily) selected photos, some confrontational black people as in elegant Fotografiska, to who took their music to a new get lost in. Both museums place and created a whole largely appeal to young, broad from CONTACT HIGH: culture around this leap. audiences in their initial offer- A Visual History of Hip-Hop ings. They have been taken to task by Times critics (see Weekend Arts section, Friday, January 31st) for what critic Jason Farago has called “a lowering of ambitions.” Let’s see what ICP comes up with next.
by Ruth We spent a few hours at ICP, surrounded by mostly very young people who had come to see the Hip Hop ex- hibit. It seemed to me that, if there is an important dance and music development, that’s where the emphasis
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February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 Bye-Bye PDN
Last week, Emerald Exposi- tions, the owner of Photo District News (PDN), announ- ced that PDN would no longer
PHOTOGRAPHY publish new content online or in print. The magazine had been a staple of the profess- ional photography industry, particularly for advertising and commercial photography. from I Can Make You Feel Good PDN’s articles covered a ‘concerned’ photography of © Tyler Mitchell wide range of topics that the brothers Capa, it searches included gear announcements, for a new mission. High-tech should be, and in videos, industry news, and more. In images may be a means to an rather than primarily on those addition, PDN produced a end but lack the ability to who photographed it. number of photo contests. make viewers concerned. ICP’s The very large (three huge Emerald will focus on their anti-war, anti-fascist, left– screens) of videos into which trade show business which liberal stance is gone, and with you are invited to place your includes Photo + Expo in New it the possibility of viewers’ own portrait is noisy and York and WPPI in Las Vegas. emotional and political confusing and made me feel Magazines like Outdoor involvement. Let the curators I had walked into an AMC Photographer, The British Journal look at the work of the old movie palace to see its trailers. of Photography and Aperture Photo League photographers What I did like, and what continue to serve niche and for inspiration! I believe ICP offers its new more visually sophisticated Whither photography? neighborhood in hopes of a audiences, but with compara- One might speculate that ICP’s welcoming response, is a selec- tively expensive subscription changes in identity parallel tion of old and mostly well- prices. How long can they changes in photography. known photos of the East Side. sustain themselves? Included are photos by Compared to the limited range Feininger, Eagle, Riis, and of early photographs, the field Lisette Model. She was my now includes film, video, teacher for one wonderful mixed media, phonography, semester, and her best-known graphics, etc., as well as pupil was Diane Arbus. abstract images devoid of a Searching for the unusual, relation to reality. Model found freaks, fat people, If you go to ICP, check out and dwarves in New York, the Essex Market. Buy their obviously influencing Arbus. soup and their bread (by Cafe It occurred to me that ICP Avignon) and eat on the is searching for an identity. second floor! No longer featuring the
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 Hit the Trail
What makes a trail so special that it receives National Scenic designation? Well, according to the 1968 National Trails System Act, 11 scenic trails were des-
PHOTOGRAPHY ignated “for the conservation and enjoyment of their nation- ally significant, historic, natur- Florida Trail al, or cultural qualities.” They vary in length, struc- ture, location, and landscape, but what each of these trails share is a noble mission to maintain and preserve this country’s incredible, wild, nat- ural lands for generations to come—and their crying out to be photographed. Here are six of ‘em that should not be missed. Continental Divide Trail
Natchez Trace Trail Appalachian Trail
New England National Scenic Trail North Country Trail
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 Where in the World
These photos were shot by PWCC member and President Emeritus, Chuck Pine, a few years back on a Club field trip
PHOTOGRAPHY to upstate New York. Can you guess where they were taken? Send your answers to us at
Photo Notes is looking for images for this ”Where in the World?” column. If you would like to stump and/or amaze your friends and fellow Club members, submit 4 or 5 images of your destination to
Last month’s destination was Svarlbard, a Norwegian island well above the Arctic Circle. Only one correct answer was submitted. Congratulations to Helen Pine!
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 Using Your Camera USB Ports by Chuck Pine Photography gear and Shooting Lightning most other electronic devices must/can be Which of the following state- connected to other gear.
PHOTOGRAPHY ments are true? In the old days there a) Lightning is beautiful. were serial ports and b) Lightning is dangerous. parallel ports. Then c) Lightning is easy to shoot. along came SCSI ports d) All of the above. (pronounced “scuzzy”) The correct answer is “d,” which were faster. all of the above. If you’re Today, most com- interested in photographing puters, printers, cam- lightning, here are a few things eras, and the like use you should know. what is called a USB First off, it’s almost impos- (Universal Serial Bus) sible to stand outside and try port. But there are sev- to press the shutter release eral different kinds of button fast enough to capture USB ports out there. a bolt of lightning. In my youth of light (or electricity, sends a The original USB port and I’ve tried to do it. If I got one signal to the camera to take a plug, also known as USB Type good shot out of every 100 shot. Simply amazing! A, is a rec- times I snapped, I would have tangular- been ecstatic! shaped plug There are two basic ways to and port. shoot lightning. The first is to Type A plugs use a slow shutter speed— are also di- several seconds or more— vided into so that you can capture at least speeds—“1” being the oldest one bolt of lightning. This is, and slowest and “3” being the for lack of a better term, it or latest and fastest. miss; but it’s better than trying The USB to shoot one at a time. Here are a few tips to keep Type B is found The second is to use a tool in mind when shooting a on peripherals known as a lightning trigger. lightning storm: like printers There are a handful of brands •. use a sturdy tripod; and scanner. It out here ranging in price from • cover your camera/lens to is squarish in a tad over $100 to a a bit under keep it dry; shape. $500. • don’t stand too close to the The latest USB Basically, a lightning trigger camera and tripod; port, Type C, is senses the bright flash of a bolt • Underexpose your images the smallest and of lightning and, at the speed by a full stop or even two. fastest available.
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 B & H Event Space Thursday, February 27 Street as a Muse B&H Photo offers free work- Speaker: Amy Touchette shops. Here are a few of the upcoming offerings EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC.
Wednesday, February 26 African Photographic Safaris Check out the B&H website at Speaker: Yaron Schmid
Wednesday, February 19 Gum Over Palladium Printing Speaker: Bob Carnie
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 BirdWatching
For more than three decades, BirdWatching magazine has published extraordinary photos taken by the world’s best bird photographers. The 2020 BirdWatching Photogra- phy Awards is now open for submissions. The contest is open to resi- dents of the U.S. and Canada, (excluding Quebec) who are EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. over the age of 18. Each photo must be submitted in .JPG format and cannot exceed 4MB © Chuck Pine in size. You may enter as many American Landscape photos as you like. Pricing is one (1) photo for $25 or two (2) Go to the website for all photos for $35. You can pur- Now in its ninth year, “The info on the judges, prizes, chase either of these packages American Landscape” is deadlines, rules of entry, and as many times as you like. Outdoor Photographer's to submit your images. To submit images, go to the premier annual photo
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 Schedule of Activities
The Park West Camera Club meets every Monday night (with some exceptions for holidays and a curtailed summer schedule). Please join us at a meeting or on one of our other scheduled activities. * Monday, February 24 All Club Monday night Portfolio Night meetings take place at the Soho SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Photo Gallery located at 15 Tonight is the second portfolio White Street, between West night of the Club year. Four Broadway and Church Street/ PWCC members will be Avenue of the Americas (6th presenting concise portfolios Avenue) unless indicated of up to a dozen or so images otherwise in the listings below. of their work. Interested? Following the schedule of Contact Club president, Ed activities are detailed direc- Lee, to reserve your spot. The tions to our meeting sites. reviewer for this evening is Check the PWCC Website slated to be Jean Miele. Gino,
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 to the general public, begins tin. She is the creative at 6:30 p.m. A $7 donation is director and publisher collected upon entry. The NYC of The PhotoBook Sierra Club Photography Review at Aperture. Committee meets at the Her writing on pho- Metropolitan Opera Guild, tography has been on the 6th floor of the Rose published in Aperture, Building at Lincoln Center. The American Photo, address is 70 Lincoln Center FOAM, and Lay Flat, Plaza, located on the north side among other publica- of West 65th Street, between tions, and she has SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Broadway and Amsterdam edited over seventy- Avenue, closer to Amsterdam. five books of photog- From the street, take the stairs, raphy. The PWP meet- elevator, or escalator up one ings are held at the level and proceed through the Metropolitan Opera revolving doors into the lobby Guild, in the Samuel © Jill Waterman to get the elevator to the 6th & David Rose Build- floor. ing, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza PDIs. Tonight’s judge is Jill (65th Street between Broadway * Monday, March 2 Waterman. Jill Waterman is a and Amsterdam Avenue). Monthly Competition photographer, editor, writer, The doors open at 6 p.m. and and educator based in New the meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Tonight is the fifth competition York since 1985. A night of the Club year. Who will win There is a $10 fee for non- photography specialist, she members of PWP. For details, the top honors? What will the pursues long-term personal judge say about your images? go to the PWP website at photographic projects inclu-
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* Monday, March 9 Workshop—Table Top & Still © Jill Freedman week only. For more info on Life this exhibit, go to the website establish the gallery in 1971 Join us for an exciting night at
Tuesday, March 10 Photo Event— Soho Photo Opening
Soho Photo Gallery is pleased to host a special gallery-wide memorial exhibition in honor of legendary documentary and street photographer Jill Freed- man (1939—2019) who helped
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 and digital media, is a top images of wildlife, birds, Tuesday, March 17 draw. Take the ’N’ or ‘W’ and flora, and his ongoing Photo Event— train to Queens and exit at project, "Agreeable Strangers,” Soho Photo Opening the Ditmars Boulevard station. which celebrates the beautiful Walk upstairs to 31st Street diversity of people and faces Soho Photo Gallery is pleased and follow the numbers to 22-4 he encounters. The curtain to host five individual shows 31st St, a Starbucks store. We’ll raiser for tonight is Marilyn by members of the gallery plus meet in front of the Starbucks Thypin—a long-time PWCC a group show. This exhibit at 1 p.m. Dress in layers and be member and photographer. runs through April 4. For more prepared for all weather condi- info on this exhibit, tions. Leader: Harriet Josephs, go to the website at SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Tuesday, March 17 Tuesday, March 17 Photo Op— Photo Event— St Patty’s Parade NY Photo Salon The Saint Patrick’s Day Pa- The New York Photo Salon is rade marches up 5th Avenue a forum offering the finest today. The fun starts before 11 photography. Their mission a.m. with the gathering at 5th is to build and maintain a Avenue and 44th Street. At 11 community of professional am the parade starts up the photographers in the City. Avenue up to 79th Street. Tonight’s meeting will be held Anywhere along the route at the School of Visual Arts, should offer great opportuni- 136 West 21st Street, room 418. ties to shoot the colors, the The doors open at 6:30 p.m. © Charles Chessler bands, the people, and every- and the presentations begin thing else. Be sure to wear a bit at 7 p.m. This evening’s guest * Monday, March 16 o’ the green while you’re out photographers are not yet Guest Speaker— there. known. Admission is free. Charles Chessler Tonight’s guest photographer is Charles Chessler. Charles is a New York City-based photographer. His work includes portraits and head- shots, cityscapes and city life,
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© Chuck Pine © Tom and Lisa Cuchara
* Monday, March 23 Greater Lynn, PSA, and to and marks the anniversary of Theme Night— various other camera and Greek independence, which Light nature clubs across the north- was declared March 25, 1821. The theme for tonight’s theme east region. They also judge The parade attracts some night is “light.” The actual photographic competitions, 150,000 spectators, with about word, “photography,” means teach various photo and Phot- 25,000 participants. The parade to write with light. You may oshop workshops. They have gathers around 5th Avenue interpret the theme in any way had several successful gallery and 64th Street and at 1 p.m. you can imagine. If you would exhibitions of their work, had the marchers proceed up 5th like to participate, bring up to photographs in Adirondack Life, Avenue to 79th Street. As with five minutes worth of images Birder's World, Wild Bird, the all parades and crowded photo to share with the Club. These WCC wolf calendar and other ops—think twice about bring- may be prints or PDIs. Rules of venues. The meeting, open to ing a tripod. competition do not apply but the public, begins at 6:30 p.m. PDI images must be properly A $7 donation is collected formatted for projection. upon entry. See the listing for February 26th for directions to Wednesday, March 25 the meeting site. Photo Event—Sierra Photo Sunday, March. 29 The New York City Sierra Photo Op— Club’s Photography Commit- Greek Parade tee is meeting tonight. The program is a presentation on Get ready for the macro photography by Tom New York Greek and Lisa Cuchara. Lisa and Independence Day Tom are passionate about their Parade. It has been photography (they even met in held annually along a camera club—sound famil- Manhattan’s Fifth iar?). They have presented Avenue since 1951. The event programs at NHCC, NECCC, celebrates Hellenic culture
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 32 Directions to Soho Photo Street Photography Tip at 15 White Street, between Avenue of the Americas and “Slow down, you move too West Broadway. Take the #1 fast” are the first words in The train to the Franklin Street 59th Street Bridge Song, also station (one stop below Canal known as Feelin’ Groovy. The Street). Walk one block north song was written by Paul Simon on West Broadway to White (of Simon and Garfunkel) and * Monday, March 30 Street, make a right turn, and Business Meeting #3 first performed by them on the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES This is the third business meeting of the Club year. and Thyme (although it was There’s always plenty of popularized a year later by a excitement in the air. We’ll group called Harpers Bizarre). continue with any unfinished But I digress! business from the November When you go out to shoot on business meeting (the minutes the street, take your time, walk of which may be found the slowly. It’s a common mistake December issue of Photo Notes). to walk fast, thinking you’ll New items of discussing on the cover more ground. It almost agenda will include the Ryan seems like people think “the Center exhibit, the image faster I go, the more interesting exchange/competition (?) walk half a block to the gallery. moments I’ll come across.” With the camera club in Take the A, C, or E train to the It ain’t necessarily so. The South Africa, the Club’s Canal Street station. Walk problem is that by walking fast Otto Little Memorial Year- south on Church Street/Sixth it becomes easier to miss the End Dinner, and a whole Avenue three blocks to White scenes that you are looking for. bunch more topics of interest. Street, make a right turn, and The slower you go, the easier it As usual, we’ll end the walk half a block to the gallery. is to look around and to be meeting with refreshments Although a longer walk, take ready to capture the moment and socializing. any other train to Canal Street, when it happens. walk west to Church Street, and follow the directions above. Driving? Street parking is available but limited.
* Monday, March 30 Competition Entry Deadline Please note that PDI entries are due by midnight tonight for next week’s competition.
February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 33 Table of Contents
Club News Photography News 2 Who’s Who at PWCC 17 Depth of Field 3 President’s Message 20 Gallery Watching 4 Badlands and Black Hills 22 Bye-Bye PDN 4 Club Participation Nites 23 Hit the Trail 4 What part of… 24 Where in the World 5 Badlands and Black Hills 25 Using Your Camera 6 2019-20 Schedule SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES 7 Images of the Month Exhibits, Workshops, Etc. 8 Point Totals 26 B&H Event Space 9 Competition Rotation 27 BirdWatching 9 Photo Notes Deadlines 27 American Landscape 9 Committee Liaisons 9 Photo Cartoon Schedule of Activities 10 Yahoo Group 28 Schedule 10 Flickr32 Group 33 Directions 10 Club Affiliations 33 Street Photography Tip 11 Volunteers Wanted 34 Table of Contents 11 Lunch, Anyone? 34 Panorama of the Month 11 Anti-Corruption Tips 12 PWCC Website 13 ProShow Gold 14 Member Bios 16 Medical Update 16 Memory Cards
Panorama of the Month Waves of Light Waves ©2016 Chuck Pine
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