Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club April 2013
In This Issue Who’s Who & What’s What...... 2 & 3 President’s Letter...... 3 Competitions...... 4 & 5 Boston Field Trip...... 6 Expanding Visions...... 7 Club Info...... 8 & 9 Election Procedures...... 10 Minutes...... 11 Meet the Members...... 13 Auction...... 14 Year-End Competition...... 14 Portfolio Page...... 15 Depth of Field...... 16 Gallery Watching...... 18 Inquiries...... 22 B&H Event Space...... 22 Adorama Workshops...... 23 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc...... 24 Schedule of Activities...... 25 - 31
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Committee Chairs
The Park West Camera Club is an independent not-for- Archives!Myrna Harrison-Changar profit corporation. Guests are always welcome at meet- !212 663 1422 [email protected] ings and activities. Competition! George Hansen! !212 595 7869 [email protected] The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is !!Hedy Klein published every month by and for the members of the !718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included !! Joan Slatkin! with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- !212 260 7091 [email protected] able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Field Trip!Susan Sigrist! !212 758 0036 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of !!Paul Grebanier photographic or general interest are always accepted. !718 629 7164 [email protected] The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any Gallery!Maria Fernandez submissions which are published. !908 447 8075 [email protected] Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each House!Seymour Perlowitz month. !718 338 6695 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. !!Chuck Elster !917 796 7847 [email protected] Contact Information Membership!Marlene Schonbrun !212 662 3107 [email protected] Website !! Elena Pierpont www.parkwestcameraclub.org ! 212 956 4515 [email protected]
E-Mail Address Newsletter!Chuck Pine! [email protected] !212 932 7665 [email protected] Program!Marilyn Fish-Glynn Club Mailing Address !212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] 345 East 73rd Street, #8L, NY, NY 10021 Social!! Marvin Fink Photo Notes Mailing Address !718 469 5478 marvfi[email protected] 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 !!Marjorie Gurd ! 212 662 5032 [email protected]
Club Officers Telephone Tree!Dottie Mills! !212 926 4375 [email protected] President!!Paul Perkus! ! !212 929 1687 [email protected] Website!Ruth Lowell !212 362 4379 [email protected] V. President!!Ed Lee! !!Bob Wine !212 242 8714 [email protected] !212 758 5762 [email protected] Treasurer!!Myron Galef Workshop!Jerry Harawitz !212 249 1270 [email protected] !212 673 2096 [email protected] Corres. Sec.!!Helen Bohmart Pine! !! !212 932 7665 [email protected] Rec. Sec.!!Lee Backer! ! Cover Photo !212 662 6740 [email protected] Meandering Pres. Emeritus!Chuck Pine!!!! by Chuck Pine ©2013 !212 932 7665 [email protected]
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Letter Helen Bohmart Pine from tion, the Salmagundi Club. their Florida sojourn. New officers will be instal-
CLUB Spring Fun • Thursdays, May 2nd thru led, awards for service and June 27th. Expanding Vi- competition achievements Spring is here and photogra- sions 19. Chuck Pine’s an- will be given out, plus phers who live in the colder nual class to enhance pho- other thrilling activities! climes are thinking thoughts of tographic seeing while Of course, there are many love—of photography. The traveling to interesting out- other great happenings both Club has an exciting agenda door locations in the City. club-related or at other venues for the spring, so let me high- Always a great opportunity listed in the Schedule of Activi- light a few items. Details are to explore and learn! ties, or perhaps not yet listed. available in the Schedule of Ac- • Monday, May 13th. Election Spring is a great time to be a tivities or elsewhere in this is- of Officers. Be sure to at- photographer. A time which I sue of Photo Notes. tend this one! Who will be always look forward to with • Tuesday, April 9th. Rooftop the next President? pleasure! Project. See things from a • Monday, June 3rd. The new perspective, High Up! Club’s Year-End Competi- All the best. Meet at a member’s home tion wherein three judges on Riverside Drive at 5 p.m. select the best images of the for evening light and a past year’s competitions. Paul great sunset, we hope. An- • Monday, June 10th. Otto other one is scheduled for Litzel Dinner. We plan to April 24th (see the listings). have it at last year’s loca- • Thursday, April 11th. Gal- lery Hop. Join me for the Photo Notes second such event of the Publisher: Paul Perkus season, this time to view Editor: Chuck Pine the photo galleries on 57th Street and nearby. We may Committee: Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, Madeleine Barbara, stop in a few interesting Ruth Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Helen atria along the way, so Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt bring your camera. Contributors: Janna Amelkin, Bill Apple, Christine • Monday, April 29th. Club Doyle, Marilyn Fish-Glynn, Ruth Formanek, Paul Auction. A big spring event Grebanier, George Hansen, Paul Perkus, Chuck Pine, for the Club. Bring your old Helen Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt, photography related items to sell, checkbooks, and in- Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro terested friends. Come a using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. little early to review the All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or other- stock on hand. This meet- wise believed to be in the public domain. ing also marks the return of President Emeritus Chuck Credited images remain the sole property of their Pine (our auctioneer) and copyright holders—all rights reserved. Corresponding Secretary
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month by George Hansen CLUB PDI-of-the-Month
Snowface by Chuck Pine Chuck Pine Chuck
Honor PDIs Snowface PDI-of-the-Month Mermaid by Janna Amelkin ©2013 Bumper Stuffed Toys by Bill Apple Climbing the Dune by Madeleine Barbara Seltzer Bottles by Madeleine Barbara Riverside Park Garden by Rain Bengis Decay by Ann Broder Morris Jumel by Carole DeBeer Circle Around Sun by Marilyn Fish-Glynn Macaque Monkey by George Grubb Swans in Japan by George Grubb Ismir by Marjorie Gurd Progression by George Hansen Red Bull Gives You Wings by Barbara Martens The Head (1) by Elena Pierpont Slide-of-the-Month Showing Off by Chuck Pine Statue with Homeless Barn Door by Cheryl Richer © Joan Slatkin Corona Park, Queens by Rita Russo Lotus Textured by Joan Slatkin
Slide-of-the-Month Statue with Homeless by Joan Slatkin
Honor Slides none
Print-of-the-Month Havanese Meet-Up by Sarah Corbin
Honor Prints Print-of-the-Month Goats and Red Door by Sarah Corbin Havanese Meet-Up Web Droplets by Alice Somma ©2013 Sarah Corbin
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals by George Hansen CLUB PDIs Thanks to our April judge, Madeleine Barbara 96 Marilyn Stern , for an excellent Barbara Martens 90 job of critiquing and judging Chuck Pine 88 our images. Eileen Duranko 86 Congratulations to the George Hansen 84 winners of Image-of-the-Month Marilyn Fish-Glynn 82 and Honors. Thanks to all who Natalie Manzino 80 Prints entered the competitions. Paul Grebanier 78 Barbara Martens 95 And a special thanks to all Bill Apple 76 Elsa Blum 90 who made this competition George Grubb 74 Madeleine Barbara 80 happen. Hedy Klein 74 Natalie Manzino 66 Rita Russo 74 Paul Grebanier 62 Competition Committee Joan Slatkin 74 George Hansen 62 by George Hansen Rain Bengis 68 Hedy Klein 62 Ann Broder 66 Bill Apple 58 The Competition committee Cheryl Richer 66 Marvin Fink 38 has a request for all members Nicole Dosso 64 Sarah Corbin 36 who compete in our monthly Carole de Beer 60 Chuck Pine 26 print competitions. Elena Pierpont 60 Alice Somma 22 Prints must be securely Barbara Berg 58 Ruth Formanek 20 mounted. Photo corners are Marjorie Gurd 58 Ann Broder 14 not enough—use some kind of Jerry Harawitz 54 Dorothy Mills 14 removable tape to keep your Michael Wakslicht 54 Evelyne Appel 6 pictures from sliding around Janna Amelkin 52 Fonda Charne 6 on the board. Dorothy Mills 50 Michael Wakslicht 4 Prints must be labeled with Sarah Davis 40 the maker‘s name, a descrip- Myra Resnick 40 tive title (for identification Christine Doyle 38 purposes), and a mark indicat- Ruth Lowell 26 ing the top of the print. Many Gilbert Rios 26 of the entries are on boards or Evelyne Appel 24 mats that have been used over Dolores Roddy 22 and over—without removing Bob Wine 12 Slides or covering the old info. Use a Miguel Paoli 10 Joan Slatkin 90 new label for each entry (and Susan Sigrist 56 not Post-It notes). Use differ- Marilyn Fish-Glynn 52 ent mats/boards for vertical Rita Russo 38 and horizontal photos and Elena Pierpont 14 place the label on top of the previous one. Thanks for cooperating.
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Boston 2013 We leave New York City on First come, first (re-) Friday, May 24th, traverse the served! CLUB The Park West Camera Club is 230 odd miles to the Boston An information sheet will now planning a 4-day, 3-night area, settle into our motel for a be available at Club meetings. trip to Boston, Massachusetts good night’s sleep, and then For more info and/or res- and the surrounding area (if awaken to two-and-a-half days ervations, contact Chuck Pine we have enough cars) which of Boston and its environs. We via phone at 646-549-0187 or includes Lexington, Concord, depart on Monday, May 27th, e-mail at
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Expanding Visions 19 trips and assignments will be May 16 followed by another review. Trip #2—Central Park CLUB Get out your calendars. Find a Then, the last trip and assign- Leading Lines and Repetition ment and the final review (in- bright red or blue marker. Cir- May 23 cluding the term project pres- cle each and every Thursday Review of Trips 1 & 2 from May 2nd through June entations). The basic thread running 27th. These are the dates for May 30 through the assignments in the all new version of the ever- Trip #3—Madison Square Park Expanding Visions 19 is Draw- popular Expanding Visions. Framing As usual, this nine-week ing Your Attention—all of the class will be free to Park West weekly assignments will have June 6 Camera Club members, and to do with ways to lead the Trip #4—Brooklyn Bridge Park only $75 for non-members (or viewer’s eyes to the subject Triangles and S-curves matter and keep them there. $15 per session up to the $75 June 13 The term project will also deal maximum payment). Review of Trips 3 & 4 Expanding Visions is a with drawing your attention to marriage of a field trip class the subject in your images. June 20 with a class in photographic Not too complicated, is it? Trip # 5—Riverside Park seeing. We throw in composi- Lots of fun and educational, Selective Focus but most of all it will expand tional and technical aspects as June 27 your vision in the photographs well. This nine-week class will Final Review open your mind to new ways you take, and allow you to grow as a photographer. of looking at photographs, sub- As usual, the instructor of this ject matter, equipment, and class is the creator of the Ex- Here’s the class syllabus: more. It will also allow you to panding Visions concept, and explore five of the City’s parks PWCC’s president emeritus, May 2 that you may not have visited Chuck Pine. before. Introduction—Overview of Equipment, Assignments, Des- The format of the class is Fees (for those non-PWCC tination, and Techniques simple: We start with an intro- members taking the class) are ductory session. We will dis- due at the first session (or at May 9 cuss equipment, techniques, each session if paying by the Trip #1—Battery Park and the specifics of the course; week). Cash or check only. a term project will be assigned. Rule of Thirds For the next two weeks we’ll Let us know if you’ll be attend- go on field trips to different ing by sending a message to places around town and work
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 Competition Info Did You Know?
CLUB Here’s some information for our members re- Did you know that the on-line PDF version of garding our Club competitions. All the details Park West Camera Club’s Photo Notes offers you may be found in the PWCC By-Laws (Article III) advantages? and/or in the illustrated PWCC Competition Did you know that all of the website and e- Manual. mail addresses are hyperlinks? That means if There will be one slide, one print, and one you click on them, you will be taken to that projected digital image (PDI) competition each website (if you are connected to the internet) or month. to your e-mail program to send an e-mail. Each member may submit up to four images Did you know that the images are in color each month but no more than two in any com- and of higher quality than when printed out? petition. And, you can enlarge them a bit, too, for detail. Print and slide entries must be submitted to Did you know that reading Photo Notes on- the Competition Committee by 6:45 p.m. on the line saves trees, landfills, inks, toners, water, evening of the competition. PDIs must be e- and other natural resources? mailed to
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 Wanted… PWCC Flickr Group by Paul Grebanier CLUB Did you know that there is a way for PWCC members to share their pictures with other members and the world? Probably not! Seven years ago, a “Park West Camera Club” Group was set-up on the “flickr” picture sharing and social networking site, just for such a purpose. Unfortunately, the idea never really caught on at that time. The weeds of neglect and disrepair have overgrown the site. But the structure is still there—awaiting rehabilitation. What a waste!
…volunteers to write for the Park West Camera When we go on field trips and attend other Club’s Photo Notes. Could be on a continuing PWCC events and take pictures, how do we basis or as a one-shot deal. Experience not nec- easily share them? We don’t! How do we get essary. Enthusiasm is a must-have. Don’t worry feedback on these images? We can’t! The Solu- about spelling or grammar or the like—our tion? Join our flickr group with many other crack editorial staff handles all the details. members, and actively add to and comment on Some suggestions for individual articles or the images to be viewed there. monthly columns are: For those who are not flickr members al- ready, you should know that the site allows • photo magazine reviews members to store and share their pics with mil- • photo workshop reviews lions of other members throughout the world– • Club field trip reviews and also with non-members. Uploading pic- • photographic gallery reviews tures and making comments is easy. Groups of • equipment reviews images and people that share an affinity are • technical/technique articles also easily created and can be shared by any- • photographic hints and tips one. The site is free to join. But if you really be- • computer hints and tips come an active member, showing over 200 pics, • photographic poetry full membership costs $25 a year. • photography puzzles (X-word, jumbles, To view the Park West Camera Club Group, word-search, etc.) go to
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 Election Procedures the May business meeting, African Safari, Anyone? nominations will again be CLUB At the March competition accepted from the floor. An opportunity has come to meeting we began our yearly The third phase of the elec- the Club—a ten-day photo sa- election procedures when tion process is the election it- fari into Kenya at the height of President Paul Perkus ap- self. This occurs at the May the Great Migration in Masai pointed the Nominating business meeting. If there is Mara Game Reserve. Also in- Committee. This year the only one nominee for each po- cluded are nights in Lake Na- Committee’s responsibility is sition, then the presiding offi- kuru National Park, Lake Nai- huge since Paul has announced cer at the meeting can ask the vasha, and Nairobi. that he is stepping down from secretary to cast a unanimous The dates of the trip are Oc- the presidency after three very vote for the slate. Should there tober 4th to the 13th, 2013 (not successful years. The Commit- be more than one nominee for including flight days before tee presented a preliminary re- any of the five positions, then a and after the trip). The cost is port at the March business written ballot must be pre- under $5,000 plus air fare from meeting. pared and a secret vote taken New York to Nairobi (another for that/those position(s). (The $1,200 to $1,500). You will be secretary can still cast the staying at four- and five-star unanimous vote for the unop- hotels and camps. A maximum posed candidates.) of six photographers will be on Members must be present this tour. Transportation will to cast a vote. Ballots will be be in 4X4 vehicles with only counted by the Nominating three photographers per car. Committee and announced be- You will receive personal- fore the end of the business ized attention from world- meeting. renowned photographer, Paolo Finally, the outgoing offi- Torchio. He will show you The Nominating Commit- cers will be thanked and the daily the best techniques for tee will present its final re- incoming Executive Committee wildlife photography. At night, port—a slate of at least one installed at the Otto Litzel he will teach you post-produc- nominee for each position on Memorial Dinner held on the tion techniques and how to the Executive Committee second Monday in June. improve your photography. (president, vice president, Special bonuses include a treasurer, corresponding- welcome dinner upon arrival membership secretary, and re- and a final day lunch at the cording secretary) to the mem- world-famous Carnivore Res- bership at the last meeting in taurant. During the safari, all April (the night of the Club meals are included as well as Auction). all park fees and airport pick- Also at this last meeting in up and drop-off. April, nominations will be Interested? Contact Chuck opened to the floor. At each at
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 Business Meeting has yet been chosen. Maria by Christine Doyle reported that she still has not CLUB Acting Recording Secretary been able to contact Maggie Peyton at the Manhattan This is a draft copy and has Borough President’s Office; not yet been approved by the Marilyn Fish-Glynn noted that membership. because Scott Stringer will be leaving the Borough President Call to Order – President Paul apartment. George will send a post, it is possible that Maggie Perkus called the meeting to notice of these activities to will be accompanying him. order at 7 p.m. A quorum was Chuck Pine to include in the House – Chuck Elster present. next newsletter. thanked everyone for helping Competition – Joan Slatkin to put away chairs and keeping Minutes of Previous Meeting – reported that members who the gallery space clean. The minutes of the November have entered slides in competi- Membership – Marlene 26, 2012 meeting were tions in the past have decided Schonbrun reported that the approved. that they will no longer do so. membership count is 74 (70 Paul Perkus suggested this active and 4 inactive). Treasurer’s Report – Bank matter be discussed further Newsletter – Paul Perkus balance of $13,630. $320 is under New Business. reported that the deadline for reserved for trips, leaving an Field Trip – Paul Grebanier articles for the April newsletter adjusted balance of $13,310. announced that two field trips is April 1st. are scheduled for the coming Nominating – Chuck Elster Committee Reports week: one to the Kings County reported that some officers are Archives – George Hansen Distillery and another to going to continue in their (speaking for Myrna Changar) Flushing Meadows Corona positions, but Paul Perkus will reported that members of the Park. Bill Apple, leader of the be stepping down as pres- Archive Committee are distillery trip, stated that he ident. Paul offered to mentor working on Phase Two of their believes that members will be the next Club president. Janna Scrapbook project, and would able to use tripods on the field Amelkin suggested the Club like additional members to trip. There is a fee of $8 to sam- consider establishing a co- help with the scanning. A ple whiskey produced at the presidency, which, if adopted replacement scrapbook of a distillery; there is no charge for by the Club, will entail chang- suitable size has been found. taking photos. ing the Club’s Constitution. The Archive Committee is also Gallery – Maria Fernandez Discussion among members working on an audio/visual reported that Gladys ensued. history of the club, and will be Hopkowitz has arranged a Program – Marilyn Fish- contacting older and former Club exhibit at the Calumet Glynn reported that Marilyn club members to discuss both store for the last two weeks in Stern is tentatively lined up to the contents of the scrapbook September 2013. Installation is judge the April 1st competi- and their reminiscences. The tentatively scheduled for tion. Marilyn has not lined up next meeting of the Archive September 16/17; the opening any judges for the year-end Committee is on Wednesday, is tentatively scheduled for competition as a motion to April 3rd, at 10 a.m. at Myrna’s September 18/19. No theme change it is pending. The
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 speaker for April 15th will be through June 27th. A fact sheet dinner. Marilyn will report Raissa Venables. for the workshop is available. back as to the status of the CLUB Social – The Social Com- Extended Field Trip to Boston upcoming rent increase. mittee has refreshments set up – Planned for Memorial Day for after tonight’s meeting. weekend. New Business from the Floor Paul reported that Sid Discussion of Monthly Chuck Elster suggested that Georgiou is doing better. Competition – Paul reported a system of naming shadow or Website – No report (no that the Executive Committee assistant board members to fill chair present). recommends that the slide part in when the respective officers Workshop – Ed Lee of the monthly competition be are away be considered. Paul reported that there will be a discontinued. Joan Slatkin Perkus asked the Nominating portfolio review on April 8th noted again that members who Committee to explore this and a Photoshop workshop on enter slides have decided that option. April 22nd. they will no longer do so. Maria Fernandez an- Chuck Elster put forth a mo- nounced that she is stepping Old Business tion to remove “slide” and down as chair of the Gallery Motion to eliminate year-end “slides” from the section(s) of Committee. competition and replace it with a the Bylaws and Constitution Bill Apple asked if the regular monthly competition – that relate to competitions. deadline for entering PDIs Motion put forth by Cheryl Otto Litzel Dinner – could be shortened since he Richer and seconded by Jerry Members voted to hold this does not think loading and Harawitz at the last business year’s Otto Litzel dinner at the proces-sing them for competit- meeting. Following discussion Salmagundi Club on June 10th. ion night should take that long. among the members of the Marilyn Fish-Glynn and Paul Eileen Duranko and Sarah pros and cons, a vote was Perkus will follow up about Corbin, who have both taken taken: 8 in favor, 11 opposed. the arrangements for the din- on this task in the past, said As the motion was defeated, ner. Marvin Fink suggested that the process was more time the year-end competition will that Club funds be used to -consuming than he imagined. continue as is. Paul Perkus defray the cost of the dinner. Marilyn Fish-Glynn asked asked the Competition Com- Marilyn noted that the rent the if members would like her to mittee to look into some of the Club pays to the Soho Photo ask certain competition judges other suggested alternatives to Gallery to use the space for its to return more often than every replace the year-end competi- meetings will be going up other year, which is her current tion that were raised during shortly, as Soho Photo Gal- practice. The consensus of the the discussion. lery’s rent was recently raised, members was that Marilyn is and that the Club should not doing a fine job selecting New Business from the Chair spend its money yet. Currently judges and should continue to Club Auction – Set for April the Club pays $120 per meet- do as she sees fit. 29th. Ed Lee has prepared ing, but it is not yet known Elena Pierpont asked if instructions, inventory sheets how much that will increase. PDIs of prints could be inclu- and a press release. A discussion ensued among ded in the competition slide- Expanding Visions – This members as to the pros and show that is circulated each year’s Expanding Visions class cons of using Club funds to month. Discussion followed will start on May 2nd and run defray the cost of the year-end about who would undertake
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 the task, including following Meet the Member example, he spent four to five up with members to make sure by Janna Amelkin months in Australia, but had CLUB that they submit their PDIs, only limited opportunities to and whether a rule should be Michael Schleiff was born and see this country. He would like adopted that bars members raised in New York City. He to go back to some of the from competing if they don’t earned a Bachelors Degree in places he traveled to in the submit a PDI of their print. Print Management at Roches- past, such as Machu Picchu, Paul Perkus asked that mem- ter Institute of Technology. He Yellowstone, and Yosemite. At bers fully consider the issue did film photography and the time, Michael did take and discuss it further at the worked in the darkroom for his some photographs in these lo- next business meeting (May). classes at the Institute as well cations, but he was not really as for himself. Subsequently, serious about it. Good & Welfare Michael worked for large cor- About five years ago, Mi- Paul reported that life- porations purchasing printed chael started working digitally, member Gary Koulish is doing materials. initially using a point and well. Gary has spoken with Sid shoot camera. Subsequently, he Georgiou, who reports he is used a Nikon D3000, and a few doing better. Paul and Gary years ago he purchased a plan to visit the Bill Brandt Nikon D5200. Because he exhibit at MoMA this Friday. wanted to improve on his pho- Paul also saw the Roman tography, Michael looked into Vishniac show at ICP and camera clubs by using the recommends it (a review of the internet and talking to people. show will be printed in the He likes that Park West has April Photo Notes). competitions and critiques, be- Marilyn Fish-Glynn cause these sessions give him reported that the Soho Photo ideas and help him expand his Gallery will be doing a show horizons. Michael looks for- on New York street photo- Michael took photos on ward to taking some of the day graphy next month. and off for many years and af- trips the Club organizes, at- ter he retired he picked up his tending meetings, and making Adjournment interest in photography again. new friends along the way. The meeting was adjourned In the beginning he actually Welcome to Park West at 8:20 p.m. did not take many pictures, but Camera Club, Michael. concentrated on creating in Why? Photoshop. Eventually, he be- More Why? gan to take more pictures. Why is abbreviated such a Michael has been taking Why do supermarkets make long word? photos of landscapes, birds, the sick people walk all the and other animals. He has way to the back of the store to Why didn't Noah swat traveled a great deal for his get their prescriptions while those two mosquitoes? work, but did not always have healthy people can buy ciga- the opportunity to see much of rettes at the front? the countries he visited. For
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 Going, Going, Gone Year-End Competition CLUB April 29th is the date for the The Year-End Competition annual PWCC auction. Mem- will be held on June 3rd. It is bers and guests are invited to different from our monthly bring any photography, com- competitions: the rules of entry puter, or photo-related items are different; the judging is dif- which they want to sell. ferent; the rewards are, too. Items must be brought on bid on and win. Purchased Each Club member may the night of the auction start- items must be taken home at submit up to four prints, four ing at 6:00 p.m. but not later the conclusion of the auction. slides, and four PDIs. But, and than 7 p.m. (Sorry, but items Items not sold will return to this is a big but, all the submis- may not be stored earlier at their original owners and must sions must have been entered Soho Photo.) Each item must be taken home that night. Un- into one of the monthly com- be accompanied by a com- wanted items may be disposed petitions held this year (Octo- pleted “Auction Inventory of in the trash receptacles. ber through May). It doesn’t Sheet” which includes your Those people who sell matter if the images were name, a description of the items will be paid their per- awarded honors or got a ‘C’— item, a minimum opening bid centage at the Club’s business they are eligible for this com- (optional), and what percent of meeting in two weeks on May petition. But, images may not the final selling price you wish 13th. If you cannot attend, a be altered from the way they to donate to the Club (PWCC check will be mailed to you. were originally entered. You gets at least 20%, but you can [Note—if you’re not a PWCC can’t reprint a print; you can’t give more—up to 100%). These member please be sure to leave spot out a speck of dust; you forms will be available the your mailing address with us can’t even crop a slide with a week prior to the auction; they so we can send your payment piece of tape—it must be the will also be available on auc- in a timely fashion.] original, unaltered image. tion night. Good shopping! There will be three judges. Definitions Each of the three will score from one to nine points for Depth of Field—The degree to each image. A Club member (one who is good at math) will which the scene remains in add the scores and immedi- acceptably or perceived sharp ately call out the totals. Pic- focus in front of and beyond tures can accumulate any- the focal plane. A larger aper- where from 3 to 27 points. For ture number (i.e., f/16) pro- each group of entries—prints, duces a broader depth of field. slides, and PDIs—there will be A smaller aperture number one winner (the Print-, Slide- (i.e., f/2.8) can be used to and PDI-of-the-Year) plus four As a buyer, you must have throw the background out of runners-up. cash on hand, (or a personal focus, drawing the viewer's Good luck to all the en- check if you are a Club mem- eye to the main subject. Often trants! ber) to pay for the items you abbreviated as DoF.
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 Portfolio Page CLUB This month we feature the photographs of the Club’s Recording Secretary, Helen Bohmart Pine.
“All of these images were shot at an Indian powwow last month in Fort Pierce, Florida, just an hour or so north of our condo in Delray Beach. It was a field trip sponsored by one of our camera clubs down here, PASFLA (Photographic Arts of South Florida).”
All images ©2013 Helen Bohmart Pine
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 Depth of Field ing, which can actually bring What’s this to do with pho- By Bill Apple on creative paralysis. Who can tography? Well, camera makers keep track of 120 crayons? aren’t insulated from market- Crayola Crazed Who can keep track of 120 any- ing trends. They’re selling thing? cameras these days in more As a tyke, it took me years to (A chart located here styles and varieties than ever. PHOTOGRAPHY master coloring between the
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 size and megapixel count, and I often cope with too many color palette to create Starry zoom ranges when lenses are features by ignoring them, not Night or those famous Sun- built in. And let’s not forget the letting them overwhelm me. I flowers. Certainly, he mixed frivolity factor: color, important figure I can learn what I need pigments, but I’m equally cer- when accessorizing your out- to, when I need to, and pick up tain that he did far more with fits. the rest later. That’s also a good far less. PHOTOGRAPHY All this adds up to gazil- strategy for software as com- lions of choices. Even more, plex as Photoshop: learn a core Street Photography considering how features are of operations, and whatever By Marilyn Fish-Glynn implemented. Lack of a spacious else you need you can master LCD, for example, could be a as the situation demands. For- In conjunction with their April deal-breaker. Likewise, convo- tunately, the Internet offers themed exhibit on street pho- luted menus might nix a pur- many free how-to videos and tography, the Soho Photo Gal- chase in favor of a camera advice. lery (PWCCs hosts) is sponsor- whose body bristles with dials, Business is slowly discover- ing a panel discussion and a switches, and buttons, for ing that too much choice might screening of a documentary quicker, more direct access to be, well, too much. Researchers film about New York street settings. several years ago comman- photographers. And other features. My deered a supermarket for a few Everybody Street illuminates mirrorless Olympus PEN E-P3, days. On certain days, shop- the lives and work of New neat and compact, offers a pers could choose among 24 York’s iconic street photogra- “Scene” menu like many be- flavors of jam in the jam aisle; phers and the incomparable ginners’ models (though the on other days, that choice was city that has inspired them for Olympus isn’t for novices). Set pared to just 8 flavors. Per- decades. The documentary it for Fireworks, Beach, Night versely, the more flavors on pays tribute to the spirit of Photography, Portraits, and display, the less jam sold that street photography through a several other photographic day. Shoppers couldn’t decide, cinematic exploration of New tasks. The camera then takes so they moved on. York City, and captures the vis- care of exposure settings, so We live in a more compli- ceral rush, singular persever- you needn’t remember just cated world than did our par- ance and at times immediate how you handled those tricky ents. That shouldn’t put you danger customary to these art- fireworks last July 4th. Was it a off or stifle photographic crea- ists. The film features Bruce fast or slow shutter, high or tivity. But why deny yourself Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Jill low ISO, narrow or wide f/ learning opportunities by tak- Freedman, Joel Meyerowitz, stop, over- or underexposed ing the features and conven- Rebecca Lepkoff, Mary Ellen shot? Not to worry. The camera iences manufacturers offer in- Mark, Jeff Mermelstein, and will know. stead of turning to your own others. But relying on that Scene resourcefulness? The panel discussion will feature, I’m afraid, is guaran- Likewise, giving a child 8 include a number of the pho- teed to make anyone dopey. crayons can only foster creativ- tographers who are participat- You’ll never master capturing ity far more than providing 120 ing in the Gallery’s featured fireworks—or the principles in- crayons. I cannot prove that, street photography exhibit. volved—if you let your camera but it makes sense. I imagine April 25th; 6 p.m.; at the do all the heavy lifting. van Gogh didn’t need a 120- gallery—don’t miss it!
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 Gallery Watching assistant and was greatly in- just the right tones. I think the by Ruth Formanek fluenced by Atget, Kertesz, dark, brooding atmosphere in and Judy Rosenblatt and especially the night pho- much of his work (the Shadow tography of Paris by Brassai. side of the exhibit) goes far be- This month we highlight Bill Scrapbooks of his youth and yond a straight documentary Brandt at MoMA. examples of his early work approach. Brandt, who died in PHOTOGRAPHY start off the exhibit. In London 1983, never had a chance to Bill Brandt, Shadow and Light; he set out to document the experience digital technology. Museum of Modern Art, 11 various strata of British soci- He stuck with black and white, West 53rd Street; through ety: “The extreme social con- feeling he didn’t do well with August 12th trast during those years before color. the war was, visually, very in- In Section 2 Brandt photo- Judy writes: spiring for me.” And so in Sec- graphed coal miners in the Before seeing this exhibit, Bill tion 1 we have the upper northern mining towns; here a Brandt’s name conjured up for classes enjoying the races at miner, blackened from his day me only vague images of dis- Ascot or a game of backgam- in the mines, eats dinner with torted nudes on beaches. That mon, as well as a chamber- his wife, or, in another image, his work encompasses so maid testing the temperature is washed down by his wife. much more is the revelation of One of Brandt’s most beautiful this superb retrospective. The images, to me, is that of an un- exhibit’s plan tells the story: it employed miner in Jarrow: A is divided into six clearly de- dark, hunched figure on the fined sections: London in the right side walks toward us 30s, Northern England, World pushing a bike laden with a War II, Portraits, Landscapes, bag of his meager coal pick- and Nudes. Coming to appreci- ings. He stands out against the ate Brandt’s earlier work by silvery path he’s on, which Epsom Derby writing about it here, I can of a cuts through a field of dark readily understand why he is ©1935 Bill Brandt bath grass. If you look closely you considered England’s foremost and a 20th Century photographer. working class men in a pub. Actually, Brandt was born Although he considered this to a wealthy family in Ger- early work as documentary many in 1904; it wasn’t until and stated that after the war he 1934 that he finally settled in turned more to the “poetic England, always going to great trend” in photography, I feel pains to obscure his German his work to be full of poetry origins. He took up photogra- from the start. Note the word phy when, suffering from tu- “visually” in the above quote. berculosis as a teenager, he His concern for aesthetics and was sent to Swiss sanitariums. strong composition was ever His later wanderings took him present; he felt strongly that he Going Home to Vienna and Paris, where he must make his own prints and ©1937 Bill Brandt worked briefly as Man Ray’s manipulated extensively to get
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 can see where Brandt probably Section 4, his portraits of emi- Towards the end of the war, manipulated the shot to make nent British artists, actors, and he wrote, “My style changed the figure stand out more completely. England was no starkly. A hill rises through longer a country of marked gray mist in the background. social contrast. Whatever the This can bring up the argu- reason, the poetic trend of pho- PHOTOGRAPHY ment that the beauty of an im- tography, which had already age can undermine its social excited me in my early Paris message. But I think the sense days, began to fascinate me of weary struggle is very pal- again. It seemed to me that pable here. Brandt’s dark there were wide fields still un- scenes of Halifax, (England) explored. I began to photo- are also memorable, some with graph nudes and landscapes. a silvery road—or a "snicket" Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane —cutting through them. Georges Braque had a definite influence on my The publication of two ©1960 Bill Brandt work at this time. books of his early work se- “Feeling frustrated by mod- cured Brandt’s reputation as a literary figures—all in their ern cameras and lenses which photographer during the 1930s own environments. In Section seemed designed to imitate and led to assignments in lead- 5 Brandt applies the same sen- human vision and conven- ing British picture magazines. sibility to brooding literary tional sight, I was looking During WWII (Section 3) he landscapes that he does to his everywhere for a camera with was commissioned by the Brit- early cityscapes. As I've men- a very wide angle. One day in ish Ministry of Information to tioned, I feel Brandt’s work a secondhand shop I found a photograph people in air raid was poetic from the start, even 70-year-old wooden Kodak. I shelters, along with Henry though he only applied that was delighted. Like a 19th- Moore, who drew them. His word to his later work (to be century camera, it had no shut- scenes of sleeping children and covered by Ruth). The earlier ter, a wide-angle lens, and its others taking shelter wherever work I’ve covered here pre- aperture, as minute as a pin- they could, are affecting re- sents a unique and enduring hole, was focused on infinity. minders of what Britons had to record of mid-century Britain “I began to let myself be endure during this time. by a virtuoso photographer. I guided by this camera and in- Brandt also wandered Lon- prefer it to the later, surreal stead of photographing what I don during blackouts and took nudes, for which Brandt is re- saw, I photographed what the luminous photos of deserted nowned. camera was seeing. I interfered streets lit only by moonlight, very little, and the lens pro- which he found “so soft, like Ruth writes: duced anatomical images and stage lighting.” Again, here is Bill Brandt wrote about his shapes which my eyes had the incongruity: a horrible war photography in a 1948 article. I never seen. For over fifteen calls forth cityscapes of great have used parts of it and you years I was preoccupied with beauty. Is the message can read all of it and get more photographing nudes. I strengthened or diluted? information on him online, at learned very much from my Still another facet of Brandt’s The Bill Brandt Archive Kodak. It taught me how to photography can be seen in
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 him? Does he express an atti- If, however, like Brandt, tude toward the nude—seen you use your camera to distort one, seen ‘em all? This dismis- the reality of a nude body, does sive view contrasts, however, the photograph not just resem- with contemporaries’ descrip- ble a surrealist image? Is it not tions of Brandt as ‘empathic.’ surrealist-like rather than sur- PHOTOGRAPHY Most photographed nudes realist? Or am I quibbling? are influenced by the ancient Fellow Club Members: Do Greek ideal. Think of the pro- not let this exhibit leave town portions of the Venus of Milo, without seeing it! probably a standard dress size East Sussex Coast 14 or 16. Bill Brandt’s non- Two other “do not miss” ex- ©1959 Bill Brandt standard nudes, due to his hibits are: Kodak’s wide-angle lens, differ weight of a body or the light- ness of a movement. In the Thierry Cohen, Darkened Cities; end, it had also taught me how at Danziger Gallery, 527 West to use modern cameras in an 23rd Street; until May 4th unorthodox way. In 1961, I dis- carded the Kodak altogether.” Judy writes: Brandt’s nudes are his Thierry Cohen, born in Paris in most innovative work: His 1963, is considered a pioneer of photographs of curled-up tor- digital photography. I have to sos on the East Sussex beach state straight out that I think look like Henry Moore sculp- what he has achieved here is tures. His models’ knees and amazing and profound, and I bottoms rise to form moun- London hope everyone who reads this tains or rocks, arms become ©1952 Bill Brandt will see his work. He has ex- columns, fingers become living tended Brandt’s vision of city creatures set against smooth from the Greek ideal in their nights with a whole new per- beach pebbles. Buttocks as- distortions, positions, and pos- spective in mind: to show us sume balloon proportions in tures, and could never find a what our night skies would some prints. Brandt’s titles re- dress in Macy*s. look like if city light pollution fer to sites, not to the model, One could also debate the hadn’t wiped them from our for example, ‘East Sussex issue of surrealism, defined as view. Beach,’ suggesting that his in- the combination, inside the To do this, he photo- terest was on the form quali- same frame, of elements not graphed various city views ties and environment of his normally found together, re- during the day, which could nudes, not on their erotic sulting in the production of easily be turned into darkened value. One can, of course, con- unrealistic, illogical, and fan- skylines in Photoshop. The cit- tinue to interpret: Does his tastic effects. As such, the ies he covered are Paris, Tokyo, omission of the name of the compositions contribute to the Hong Kong, Shanghai, Rio, Sao model in favor of the locale freedom of artistic production. Paulo, Los Angeles, San Fran- suggest what was important to Think of Dali! cisco and New York. Next he photographed night skies in
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 were most other college stu- white mist and fog which add dents at the time, to an army to the drama. reclamation farm for ‘re- Don’t miss the show! education.’ In 1971, he found what became his lifelong pas- sion, photography, and he has Back-Up Day PHOTOGRAPHY worked for news magazines and as a freelancer, mostly in Sunday, March 31, was World Japan. Back-Up Day. Like Mother’s Celestial Realm has been de- Day, Earth Day, and Ground- scribed as a symphony of dark hog Day, Back-Up Day is a and light, of both substance somewhat arbitrary, made-up New York City and emptiness. Vertical peaks date to help people become © Thierry Cohen emerge from mists that veil a more aware of something im- deep abyss. Tall trees are portant. Instead of calling at- dwarfed by precipices, sug- unpolluted locations, like de- tention to Mom, the environ- gesting a sense of mystery and serts, at the same latitudes as ment, or prognosticating ro- infinity. the cities. Then he combined dents, Back-Up Day stands as All images are from the Yel- city and sky images—in effect an annual reminder of a simple low Mountains, known as the restoring our actual city skies. fact: If you don’t have good back- Mount Huangshan range. With We can now see our great ur- ups, you will inevitably lose data. its 72 peaks, it has been a main ban achievements dwarfed and This message is doubly im- subject of Chinese artists for silenced by the dazzle and portant for photographers. You centuries. The range is located immensity of the star-filled must back-up your image in Anhui province, not far cosmos. files!—unless you’re looking from Shanghai. In Bill Brandt’s words, we for disaster (or you simply just are “given again a sense of don’t care about your photos). wonder.” If you can’t make There are many ways to as- the exhibit, you can view it on- sure the safety of your files: line at his website located at use storage facilities on/in the
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 Accessory Quiz Workshops @ Adorama Wednesday, April 24th Myths in Digital Photography Can you name this photog- We have listed the workshops Speaker: Tim Grey raphy accessory? No prizes, at B&H for many years now, just a fun challenge! Send and some members have been Tuesday, April 30th your guesses to the website asking why we don’t list those The Passionate Photographer PHOTOGRAPHY
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 PhotoTalk Northern Lights, Anyone? by Chuck Pine PhotoTalk is a cable TV pro- gram devoted to…guess what? I am thinking about planning Well, you’re almost right—it is a Club field trip to photograph about women in photography. the northern lights—the Aurora The episode airing in April fea- Borealis. Anyone interested?
tures fine art photographer, Here’s the basic outline for Aurora Borealis Aurora Martine Fougeron, and is the trip. It’ll occur next winter, hosted by Barbara Leven, the in January or February. We’ll Club’s critic at our April port- fly to Bergen on the southern folio review. coast of Norway and take a
ExHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. PhotoTalk airs in Manhat- few days to explore this World tan only on one of the munici- Heritage Site city. We then pal channels: RCN’s 82, FIOS’s board our Hurtigruten ship to 33, and Time Warner’s 34. This sail north along the Norwegian episode will air on Tuesday, coast, exploring many small April 9th at 8 p.m., Thursday, towns, dozens of fjords, is- April 18th at 9 p.m. and on lands, and the like. We disem- ms Nordlys Sunday, April 28th at 11 a.m. bark in the town of Kirkenes For those of us not living on along the border with Finland the Island of Manhattan, you and Russia where we spend a can see the program via live few more nights. Finally, we streaming on channel #1 at fly to Oslo to spend time there
Oslo, Norway offering several workshops in lodging in the cities and towns. New Mexico, Utah, and Wyo- Interested? Let me know at ming where you can shoot
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 Schedule of Activities
The Park West Camera Club * Monday, April 8 * Tuesday, April 9 meets every Monday night Portfolio Review Night Field Trip—Rooftop Project (with some exceptions for Four or five Club members are We continue shooting for the holidays and a curtailed sum- invited to bring a concise port- rooftop project as we return to mer schedule). Please join us at folio of their work for an in- the scene of the first event in a meeting or on one of our depth review and critique. this series, on the Upper West other scheduled activities. Each will present up to 12 im- Side, the home of Marlene All Club Monday night ages on the same subject or Schonbrun. We meet in the SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES meetings take place at the Soho theme. Our critic for this eve- lobby of her building, 315 Riv- Photo Gallery located at 15 ning’s review will be Barbara erside Drive, at 104th Street White Street, between West Leven. Barbara is a New York (the entrance is actually on Broadway and Church Street/ City-based fine arts photogra- West 104th Street), at 5 p.m. Be Avenue of the Americas (6th pher specializing in close-ups sure to dress for the weather. Avenue) unless indicated oth- of details in the world around Since we’ll be shooting both erwise in the listings below. us. She has judged at Club before and after sunset, be sure Following the schedule of ac- competitions, presented her to bring a tripod to achieve tivities are detailed directions work to the Club, and presided those rock-steady shots. Sign to each of our meeting sites. over one of our previous port- up at a Club meeting or contact Check the PWCC Website folio reviews—all with great Barbara Martens, 551-655-8068,
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 House, 49 Fulton Street (near gallery hops—this time to the cludes the usage of perspec- South Street Seaport). The clos- City’s original art and photog- tives and colors of the classical est subway is the #2 or #3 train raphy hot spot, upper Mid- Renaissance, the Expressionist at the Fulton Street station, but town Manhattan. We’ll meet exploration of the relationship others are nearby. A $2.00 do- on the northeast corner of East between color and emotions, nation is requested. 57th Street and Madison Ave- and the Cubist experimenta- nue at 11 a.m. (in front of the tion of depicting an object in * Wednesday, April 10 Fuller Building) and explore multiple viewpoints on canvas. Field Trip—Butterflies from there. There are dozens of The result is the mesmerizing PWCC member Marvin Fink galleries plus lots of street ac- impact Raissa’s photographs
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES works as a volunteer guide at tivity as well, so bring your have on us, the viewers, al- the American Museum of camera and this can be a shoot- lowing us to imagine the Natural History's live butterfly ing field trip as well. Be sure to dreams, nightmares, and exhibit. He has obtained free sign up for this trip so we events that took place in those passes for Park West mem- know whom to expect and/or spaces. For more information bers—admission normally to wait for if you’re late. on Raissa, you are invited to costs about $30. We’ll meet on check out her website at the front steps at the Central * Monday, April 15
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 * Monday, April 22 Club meeting or contact Bar- Workshop Night bara Martens, 551-655-8068, For this evening the Workshop
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES go up from there. All Club Club’s Photography Commit- members are encouraged to tee is holding its meeting to- stairs, elevator, or escalator up attend, contribute, and partici- night. The program for this one level and proceed through pate. evening is Determining Creativ- the revolving doors into the ity, a presentation by photog- lobby to get the elevator up to Tuesday, April 23 rapher Carl Heilman II. Carl the 6th floor. Photo Event— brings over 30 years of photo Tuesday Evening Hour experience and enthusiasm for Thursday, April 25 Photo Event—Soho Gallery Tonight’s slide presentation is many different aspects of pho- Cruising Columbia Gorge by Ron tography to his presentations. During the month of April,the Nelson and Al Lees, retired He has been working with entire Soho Photo Gallery is editors, travelers to 155 coun- Photoshop since 1997 and with being devoted to Street Pho- tries. See the listing under a digital SLR since 2007—and tography. Tonight there will be April 9th for more info. thoroughly enjoys the freedom a screening of a documentary afforded by digital photogra- film followed by a panel dis- * Wednesday, April 24 phy. Carl Heilman has led cussion. All are invited. See Field Trip—Rooftop Project photo workshops since the page 17 for more details. early 1990s. You may see more We continue shooting for the of Carl’s images at his website Saturday-Sunday, Apr 27-28 rooftop project as we return to
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 * Monday, April 29 will discuss the equipment re- PDI Entry Deadline quired, the assignments for the PDI entries are due tonight for field trips (all of which fit into next week’s competition. the theme of Drawing Your At- tention) and term project, plus Tuesday, April 30 the destinations, meeting Photo Event— places, times, etc. This session Tuesday Evening Hour is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. and, of course, blossoming and will take place at the Soho cherry trees. Admission to the Tonight’s slide presentation is Photo Gallery. Special Country—Mustang in
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Garden is $20/$15 for seniors. The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Northern Nepal by Miriam Bal- Sunday, May 5 both days. There are many muth, Professor of Reading Photo Op—Photo Safari Education, world traveler. See ways to get to the Garden, The New York Photo and Sa- which is located in Prospect the listing under April 9th for more info. fari Meet-Up group will be vis- Park, but the closest subway iting Roosevelt Island today. In stop is the Eastern Parkway/ Wednesday, May 1 case you are not aware, Roose- Brooklyn Museum station on velt Island has a new park that the 2 and 3 trains. Other ven- Photo Event— Audubon Photo Club opened last year, the Four ues for the blossoms them- Freedoms Park, a memorial to selves, but not the festivities, The NYC Audubon Photo Club President Franklin Roosevelt. include Manhattan’s Riverside meets tonight. These meetings The group will be meeting at Park, Newark, New Jersey’s are for all photographers. The the subway token booth of the Branch Brook Park, and many cost is $7 per meeting, or $45 F train’s Roosevelt Island sta- areas of Washington, DC. for the year/$35 for Audubon tion at 11:30 a.m. First, you members. Please pre-register at should join the meet-up group * Monday, April 29
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 * Monday, May 6 well. Members will receive a Monthly Competition copy in advance. As usual, This is the last monthly compe- we’ll end up with refreshments tition of the year. The point and a bit of socializing. standings are bound to change. Will you be here to witness the Tuesday, May 14 results first hand? Full rules Photo Event— are available from the Compe- Tuesday Evening Hour tition or the Membership Tonight’s digital presentation Committees at any meeting, is Grand Canyon—West Rim to SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES and on our website. Remem- Uyuni, Bolivia River by Vicki Dolce, environ- ber, print and slide entries © John Paul Caponigro mentalist, writer of nature and must be submitted by 6:45 p.m. macro tutorials. See the listing so that we may get under way Tuesday, May 7 under April 9th for more info. with the competition promptly Photo Event— at 7 p.m. PDI entries must be Tuesday Evening Hour * Wednesday, May 15 submitted by midnight one Tonight’s digital presentation Field Trip—Bronx Zoo week prior to today—April is Scandinavia by Gary Kazin, Spring has sprung, and by now 29th. Tonight’s judge is Peter railroad enthusiast, engineer, it should be warming up Kolonia. Peter is a professional photographer. See the listing nicely, so how about a trip to photographer and a senior edi- under April 9th for more info. the zoo? All your favorite ani- tor at Popular Photography mals will be out in their best magazine. * Thursday, May 9 outfits for you. And, best of all, Expanding Visions 19 the Bronx Zoo is free on Wed- Tuesday, May 7 Tonight is the first field trip/ nesdays. Our leader, Jerry Photo Event— Harawitz, will be taking the Soho Photo Opening assignment of the all new Ex- panding Visions 19 class. To- BxM11 express bus from Madi- Soho Photo Gallery is pleased night’s assignment is on the son and 29th Street. The bus is to announce that in May 2013, rule of thirds. This session will scheduled for 9:45 a.m., so be the gallery will be devoted to begin at 6:30 p.m. and will take early. If it is more convenient Seeing the Unseen: Equiva- place in Battery Park. for you, the bus also picks up lence in Photography, a special exhibition curated by John * Monday, May 13 Paul Caponigro and Alison Business Meeting Hoornbeek, featuring guest Tonight is our final business artist John Paul Caponigro and meeting of the year and we 13 Soho Photo artists. The re- have a lot of business to cover. ception will run from 6 to 8 To begin with, we will be vot- p.m. The show will run ing for next year’s officers. We through June 1st. The gallery will also be approving the bud- hours are Wednesdays to Sun- get for the 2013-2014 Club year. days, 1 to 6 p.m., and by ap- Lots of other items are on the pointment (and, of course, dur- Pattycake agenda to be discussed, as ing our PWCC meetings). ©2012 Chuck Pine
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 passengers on Madison and many others. There will be Tuesday, May 21 54th Street at 9:56 a.m. and games and fun activities for the Photo Event— from Madison and 99th Street children. There will be live Tuesday Evening Hour at 10:09 a.m. You will need a stage entertainment of interna- Tonight’s digital presentation Pay-Per-Ride MetroCard (or tional music and dance at 55th is Northeast India and Tiger Sa- bring lots of coins). You can Street. The Fair runs from noon fari by Laurie Campbell, educa- also take the #2 subway to the to 5 p.m. on both days and tor and world traveler to 192 Pelham Parkway station and stretches from 42nd Street up countries. See the listing under walk 2 blocks to the Bronx to 57th Street. Bring your cam- April 9th for more info. River Gate (Gate B) to meet up era, bring your walking shoes, SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES with Jerry at around 10:40 a.m. and bring your appetite. Wednesday, May 22-29 To register, contact Jerry at 646- Photo Op—Fleet Week 823-7223 or e-mail him at * Monday, May 20
April 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 p.m. and will take place at the Tuesday, May 28 Directions to Soho Photo home of our instructor, Chuck Photo Event— at 15 White Street, between Ave- Pine. [See below for direc- Tuesday Evening Hour nue of the Americas/Sixth Avenue tions.] Please note, if there are too Tonight is the annual year-end and West Broadway. Take the #1 many participants, we will have to fund raiser and dinner party. train to the Franklin Street station split into two groups, an early Reservations are required—call (one stop below Canal Street). group at 4:30 p.m. and late group 212-964-3936. The digital pres- Walk one block north on West at 7 p.m. entation this evening will be Broadway to White street, make a Worldwide Architecture by Car- right turn, and walk half a block * Friday-Monday, May 24-27 los Esguerra, computer analyst to the gallery. Take the A, C, or E SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Field Trip—Boston and landscape photographer. train to the Canal Street station. See the article on page 30 of See the listing under April 9th Walk south on Sixth Avenue/ this issue of Photo Notes for for more info. Church Street 3 blocks to White complete details. Please note, Street, make a right turn, and the deadline for reserving a Wednesday, May 29 walk half a block to the gallery. spot and paying the deposit is Photo Event—Sierra Photo Although a little bit longer walk, take any other train to Canal Monday night, April 15th. The New York City Sierra Street, walk west to Church * Monday, May 27 Club’s Photography Commit- Street, and follow the directions tee is holding its meeting to- immediately above. Evening park- night. The program for this ing is limited, but available. evening has not yet been an- nounced. The meeting, open to the general public, begins at Directions to the Pine’s 6:30 p.m. A $6 donation is col- at 680 West End Avenue at 93rd lected upon entry. See the list- Street, Apartment 5D: Take the ing under April 24th for direc- #1, 2, or 3, trains to 96th Street tions and details. (exit at the south end of the sta- tion) or the M7, M11, or M104 * Thursday, May 30 bus to 93rd/94th Streets. From the Expanding Visions 19 train or bus, walk the few steps to 93rd Street, make a right turn and No Meeting Tonight is the third field trip/ head west to the apartment en- There is no meeting tonight in assignment of Expanding Vi- trance on the corner of West End celebration of Memorial Day. sions 19. Tonight’s assignment Avenue and West 93rd Street. is on framing your subject. Very Interesting… * Monday, May 27 This session will take place in Madison Square Park and be- PDI Entry Deadline Men can read smaller print gins at 6:30 p.m. Please note that PDI entries are than women can; women can due tonight for next week’s hear better. year-end competition. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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