Foto FanFare Newsletter June 2013 www.n4c.org & n4c.photoclubservices.com N4C Incorporated 1952 [email protected] Mark your Calendars for these upcoming events! Q.T. Luong National Parks Project Contra Costa CC May 30 7:15pm 2013 PSA International Conference September 15 – 21 N4C Calendar June 2013 10 -Board Meeting 7:30pm First Methodist Church Highly HonoredAward! 1600 Bancroft, San Leandro 15 – Competitions Judging Nature’s Best Wildlife Competition! Contact Gene Albright for PI location [email protected] Diana Rebman, Photographer Contact Gene Morita or Joan Field for Print location This photograph of a female Mountain Gorilla rolling her Gene Morita, [email protected] eyes at me was taken in Rwanda in Aug 2011. It was awarded Joan Field, [email protected] 16 – Happy Father’s Day!!! "Highly Honored" in the Endangered Species category of the July 2013 Nature's Best Photography competition. 4 – Happy 4th of July!!! It has also been selected to be included in the Smithsonian 8 -Board Meeting National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC "Windland 7:30pm First Methodist Church Awards" exhibit. The show will hang from June 7, 2013 through 1600 Bancroft, San Leandro 20 – Competitions Judging early 2014. Contact Gene Albright for PI location I encourage anyone visiting Washington, DC to stop by and [email protected] see this exhibit. The images are stunning! Contact Gene Morita or Joan Field for Print location Congratulations Diana Rebman! Gene Morita, [email protected] Joan Field, [email protected] Berkeley Camera Club CONTRA COSTA CAMERA CLUB ED NIGHT Q.T. Luong is a full-time freelance nature and travel photographer from San Jose. Born to Vietnamese parents in France, he was trained as a scientist (PhD U. Paris). The revelation of the high Alps led him to become a mountain climber and wilderness guide. When he came to the US to conduct research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, he fell in love with the National Parks. After he became the first to photograph all of them in large format, Ken Burns featured him in "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" (2009). He has been profiled in more than a dozen press articles (eg, Boston Globe, National Geographic Explorer, Parks Magazine, Outdoor Photographer) and called a "modern master." His photographs have been published in three dozen countries, are the subject of two coffee table books, and have been seen in museum and gallery solo exhibits on both US coasts. All photos © Q.T. Luong Visitors are Welcome A $5 donation from guests outside of the Contra Costa Camera Club will be requested. June 2013 Page 2 of 17 PSA Annual Conference: Overview http://www.psa-photo.org/conference/ One of the most enjoyable activities of PSA is the week- long Annual Conference. The Annual Conference is held in September or October in a different location each year. All locations are in the United States because of the difficulty in transporting the prints, society supplies, and awards across borders. The past PSA Conference locations illustrate the great variety of photography settings that participants have enjoyed. Background information can be found in the history of the PSA Annual Conference that was prepared for the PSA 75th Anniversary. During the Annual Conference registrants can participate in photo tours, classes, workshops, and photo shoots. There is an Opening Meeting of the Society with award presentations, an extensive Print Exhibition, a variety of programs, featured speakers in the evenings, social events, a vendor area with product demonstrations, numerous photographic activities, and a Banquet on the last evening. The PSA Annual Conference is the social event of the year. For many members, it is their first PSA activity. The Conference is a great way to meet people, have a personal encounter with someone whose photography is known, and renew longtime acquaintances. Beginning April 1 each year, http://www.psa-photo.org/conference includes all the information needed to register for the PSA Annual Conference: 2013 PSA Conference, Portland, Maine Conference Hotel Photo Tours Classes & Workshops Meetings Schedule Tours, Classes, Programs & Workshops Schedule Meals Vendor Area Featured Speakers Conference Registration Form Pre & Post- Conference Photo Trips Translations June 2013 Page 3 of 17 Amory’s Crazy Photo Contest Winners!!! Congratulations to all that entered! 1st Place Palm Sunday By Jeff Dunn Alameda PS 2nd Place Gulls enjoying the sunset by David Fry June 2013 Page 4 of 17 3rd Place Gull on duck By Martin Nicholas Berkeley CC 4th Place These boots are made for … OK … you tell me Bob McNutt DVCC June 2013 Page 5 of 17 Best in Show Winners Best in Show First Place Creative Projected Images - Basic Abstract Carnival @ Night Gary LaMusga Diablo Valley Camera Club Best Wildlife First Place Nature Projected Images - Basic Alaskan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) vying for a chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) at the McNeil River Falls. As many as 1 of 3 fish caught are eaten by bears preying on the successful fishers. Austin Brewin Berkeley Camera Club Best in Show First Place Nature Projected Images - Advanced Lioness cleans blood off a cub's face. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania Bob Sturm Peninsula Camera Club June 2013 Page 6 of 17 Best Wildlife First Place Nature Projected Images - Masters Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Feeding on Salmon, Haines, Alaska Wendy Hannum Marin Photo Club Best in Show First Place Pictorial Projected Images - Advanced Shooting Star, Aurora Borealis and the Canadian Night Sky Carol Zychowski Marin Photo Club Best in Show First Place Monochrome Prints - Advanced Virtues Crushing Vices Beneath Their Feet in the Cathedral Doorway, Strasbourg, France Edward Mestre Livermore Valley Camera Club June 2013 Page 7 of 17 Best in Show First Place Color Prints - Masters Becca John Goyer Livermore Valley Camera Club Best in Show First Place Travel Prints - Advanced Grand Canal - Venice, Italy. The Grand Canal, a major water-traffic corridors in Venice, is used by public transports known as veporetti, private water taxis, as well as by the iconic gondolas. Gene Dominique Berkeley Camera Club Prints May 2013 Color Prints (67 Prints), Judge: Wendell DeLano Color Prints, Basic Level (7 Prints) 1 The Taj Mahal, the White Marble Mausoleum in Agra India Chris Johnson Livermore 2 The Barcelona Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe, 1929 Susan Mayne Marin 3 Certain Death Pete Giordano Marin Color Prints, Intermediate Level (18 Prints) 1 16th Street Wallscape Number 1 Charles Kiene Marin 2 Sweet Home Havana Doug Kaye Marin 3 Window in the seawall Stephen Busch Contra Costa 4 Gulls in Flight off Coast of Norway Richard Finn Livermore 5 Looking North from the Racetrack. Death Valley National Park. Jim Moule Berkeley HM A stream runs through a forest in China Raymond Suen Peninsula June 2013 Page 8 of 17 Color Prints, Advanced Level (21 Prints) 1 Lunchtime in a Public, Private Restaurant, Havana, Cuba Rodney Sweet Contra Costa 2 Stormy Spring Day Clarence Luckett Livermore 3 Peacock in a teak forest Justine Carson Millbrae 4 Prime and Decline Marti Cagwin Marin 5 California Palace of the Legion of Honor at night - San Francisco Keith Cockerham Marin HM BEIJING IN THE WINTER Jorge Brown Contra Costa Color Prints, Masters Level (21 Prints) 1B Becca John Goyer Livermore 2 Secret Granary Michael Fredrich Livermore 3 Spring is in the Air Tim Christoffersen Rossmoor 4 Western Chinese Mountains Tim Christoffersen Rossmoor 5 Zebriske at Dawn Ron Winter Millbrae HM Pot and tomb Joe Hearst Contra Costa Monochrome Prints (57 Prints), Judge: Wendell DeLano Monochrome Prints, Basic Level (7 Prints) 1 Sylvia, a WWII War Bride from Liverpool, turns 95 Susan Mayne Marin 2 Daniel & John Phil Shaw Marin 3 Yerkes Observatory Lake Geneva Wisconsin Pete Giordano Marin Monochrome Prints, Intermediate Level (13 Prints) 1 Warming up steam locomotive Chris Nelson Diablo Valley 2 The Pier Ron Rothbart Berkeley 3 Grace Cathedral Raymond Suen Peninsula 4 Crew ready and waiting Chris Nelson Diablo Valley 5 Cowboy Jeans Dorothy Weaver Marin Monochrome Prints, Advanced Level (21 Prints) 1B Virtues Crushing Vices Beneath Their Feet in the Cathedral Doorway, Strasbourg, France Ed Mestre Livermore 2 Laughing at the Clouds Selden Parmelee Contra Costa 3 Isolation Clarence Luckett Livermore 4 Zabriskie Badlands - Death Valley Kevin Westerlund Marin 5 Rulan John Lankes Livermore HM Different Strokes Jan Schmidt Millbrae Monochrome Prints, Masters Level (16 Prints) 1 Harmony John Goyer Livermore 2 Encounter with a Statue of Mary Tim Christoffersen Rossmoor 3 Jitterbugging Jane Postiglione Contra Costa 4 Utah Mesa - One Michael Fredrich Livermore 5 Stairway - Scotty's Castle Ron Winter Millbrae Travel Prints (32 Prints), Judge: Wendell DeLano Travel Prints, Basic Level (15 Prints) 1 On The Road, Loaded With Supplies - Ladakh, India Suzanne Brown Marin 2 Emerald Lake and The President as Seen from Emerald Lake Lodge, Yoho National Park, Canada, Irene Jones Livermore 3 Christ Church, Philadelphia, Built 1727-1754 Stephen Busch Contra Costa June 2013 Page 9 of 17 4 The first iron bridge was built in 1779, it was across the river Severn in England Susie Kelly Marin 5 McConkey's Ferry Inn where Washington Dined Before Crossing the Delaware Stephen Busch Contra Costa Travel Prints, Advanced Level (17 Prints) 1B Grand Canal - Venice, Italy. The Grand Canal, a major water-traffic corridors in Venice, is used by public transports known as veporetti, private