CICCA COURIER ROLL 69 EXPOSURE 02 PSA member since 1951 Summer-Fall 2018 CICCA Web Site: www.CICCACLUBS.COM Get ready for the CICCA Fall Salon!!! Annual CICCA “Club” competition to be held in Urbana on November 10! The Champaign County Camera Club has announced November 10 as the date for the 2018 CICCA Fall Salon. The day-long event, which concludes with CICCA’s annual fall business meeting where officers for the 2018-20 term will be elected, is being held in Urbana, Illinois. The venue for the fall salon is the historic Urbana Free Library located at 210 W. Green Street in Urbana. The library was founded in 1874 and is one of the oldest public libraries in Illinois. 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the current building which was designed by famed architect Joseph Royer, a University of Illinois School of Architecture graduate whose local works include the magnificent Champaign County Courthouse, Illinois Theatre, and Urbana Lincoln Hotel. Since its completion in 1918, the building has been The east side entrance of the original Urbana Free Library building on S. Race Street. Image courtesy expanded twice in Flickr user lindsayloveshermac under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0) 1974-75, and 2003-05. The fall salon is a club competition where member clubs compete against each other. The number of entries a club can have in the fall salon is limited to 50 digital photos in any combination of the three digital categories (nature, photorealistic, and abstract/altered reality), 50 monochrome prints in any combination of large and small, and 50 color prints in any combination of large and small. CICCA Reps: The deadline for all entries and entry fees to be received by the Champaign County Camera Club is Friday, October 19. CICCA Courier Page 2 Summer-Fall 2018 Salon Schedule, November 10: 9:00 a.m. Library doors on the south (W. Green Street) side of building open 9:30 a.m. Print judging / Projected image judging 12:00 p.m. Lunch on your own 1:00 p.m. Resume judging Annual Fall Business Meeting will be called to order at conclusion of judging The main (south) entrance of the Urbana Free Library on W. Green Street showing the 2003-05 expansion. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Daniel Schwen under Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0 Full event details and entry forms can be found in four documents on the CICCA website. The documents are: 1) 2018 CICCA Fall Salon Invitation; 2) Fall 2018 Salon Entry Forms Print and Digital; 3) CICCAPrintLabel-Word Format; and 4) CICCAPrintLabel-WordFormat-PDF. Click on or copy into your browser the following link to go to the download page on the CICCA website: http://ciccaclubs.com/fall-salon/documents-for-fall-salon Chairman for the fall salon is Jim Long (email: [email protected] phone: 217-621-8663). CICCA Courier Page 3 Summer-Fall 2018 The skyline of Muscatine, Iowa in winter as seen from the Illinois side of the Mississippi River. Photo by Ryno W. Olson, Great River Camera Club. On the banks of Muscatine: 2018 CICCA Spring Salon Recap The 2018 CICCA Spring Salon was held on May 19th in Muscatine, Iowa. A big CICCA thank you to Ryno Olson, Hal Woods, and members of the Great River Camera Club for their hard work in hosting the salon. The spring salon is an individual event, and members of the eight participating CICCA clubs entered a total of 797 photographs for judging. Of the photos entered, 31 percent were prints (all categories) and 69 percent were digital images (all categories). Congratulations to the following spring salon “Best of Show” winners: PRINT DIVISION: Small monochrome category: Mike O’Brien for “Ali and Friend,” Bloomington-Normal KodaRoamers; large monochrome category: Allen Wehrmann for “The Dark Hedges,” Champaign County Camera Club; small color category: Cynthia Gallo Callan for “Courting,” Springfield Camera Club; and large color category: Mike Barker for “Multnomah Falls,” Springfield Camera Club. CICCA Courier Page 4 Summer-Fall 2018 DIGITAL DIVISION: Nature category: Rita Burrows for “Icelandic Horse,” Quad Cities Camera Club; photorealistic category: Jim Long for “Milky Way at White Pocket,” Champaign County Camera Club; altered reality/abstract category: Rosa Silva-Hajj for “At The Airport,” Champaign County Camera Club. A slide show of photographs earning “honors” can be found on the CICCA website at ciccaclubs.com. Although the spring salon is not a club A view of the Norbert F. Buckley Bridge which carries Iowa Highway 92 competition, the Bloomington-Normal and Illinois Route 92 across the Mississippi River between Muscatine, Iowa KodaRoamers scored the highest and Rock Island County, Illinois. Photo by Ryno W. Olson, Great River Camera Club. number of member awards with 56. They were followed by the Springfield Camera Club with 50 total member awards, and the Champaign County Camera Club with 44 total member awards. The tables containing the complete results from the spring salon can be found in Appendix 1. Club News Champaign County Camera Club (#2): Mary Cattell Meetings are usually held on the second and fourth Monday of the month from late August through June. Regular meetings begin at 7 p.m. and are held in Room 1103 of the Siebel Computer Science building at 201 N. Goodwin on campus (just North of University High School) in Urbana. Since the Mondays vary and sometimes we meet offsite, check the schedule on our website. Visitors are always welcome. Find Us On-Line: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/champaigncountycameraclub/ Website: www.champaigncameraclub.org Officers of the Champaign County Camera Club for 2018-19 are: Allen Wehrmann, president; Kim Ormsby, webmaster; Mary Cattell, print chairman and CICCA representative; Martha Compton, digital chairperson; Tom Frey, treasurer; Jim Long, newsletter editor; and Jim McEnerney, moderator of the club's Facebook group. The Champaign County Camera Club began our club year on August 27 with the usual "Get Re-acquainted Night" where we all bring 20 images of our summer activities. Thanks to our wonderful club webmaster and CCCC Facebook master (Jim McEnerney and Kim Ormsby), we had several new people come to the meeting who were interested in joining. We acknowledged the ribbon and medallion-winners from the CICCA Spring salon (since we don't CICCA Courier Page 5 Summer-Fall 2018 meet in the summer). Three of our members received medallions: Allen Wehrmann: Monochrome Print (The Dark Hedges); Jim Long: Digital P-R (Milky Way at White At our second meeting on September 10, Jim Long and Jim McEnerney gave a presentation on calibrating our monitors/printers using several different software packages. For the newcomers, they also talked about how to resize our images for CCCC and CICCA competitions. Our third meeting on September 24 was held "off-site" at Larry Kanfer's studio (author of dozens of coffee table photo books, e.g., Prairiescapes, Barnscapes, etc). Larry discussed his new venture into INTERNATIONAL photography. Three CICCA clubs participated in our CCCC spring field trip to Allerton Park the last weekend in April. They are (L to Rt front) Denise O'Brien, Andrea Monninger & Vandana Bajikar (KodaRoamers), Vicki Padesky and Rich Seeman (Peoria CC) Back Row: Martha Compton, John Thomas, Kim Ormsby, Paula Kesler & Mary Cattell (Champaign County CC). Jim Long not pictured. Our first digital competition will be Monday, October 8 back in our usual venue (the Siebel Center for Computer Science just North of Uni High School in Urbana where we usually meet two Mondays per month). Our subjects will be A. Macro, B. Landscapes, and C. Architecture. The third category will be "open", i.e., it can be manipulated. (We try to have two photo-realistic and one open category for each competition.) On Saturday, October 13th, we hope to have our annual club fall foliage field trip -- destination TBD. CICCA Courier Page 6 Summer-Fall 2018 Several of our club members attended the PSA International Annual Conference in Salt Lake City at the end of September. Once back, our club members will be concentrating on the Fall Salon which we will be hosting in Urbana on November 10. We're hoping to plan a few fun activities for those who come early or stay late. Hope to see you all! Decatur Camera Club (#7): Terry Stoa Meetings are held from September through May on the second and fourth Thursday of each month. In November and December, no meetings are held on the fourth Thursday due to the holidays. We meet 6-8 p.m. at the Rock Springs Nature Center in Decatur. Above: “Home Aquarium” by Virginia Kickle. First Place Winner, Digital Imagery Manipulated, 2018 Illinois State Fair. Right: “Orange Poppy” by Virginia Kickle. 2019 AARP Calendar selection. Find Us On-Line: Website: www.thedecaturcameraclub.org/ FB page: www.facebook.com/DecaturCameraClub (this is our public page) FB page: www.facebook.com/groups/1486374658265541/ (this one is a Member's page...folks may ask to join) Officers of the Decatur Camera Club for 2018-20 are: Bill Hoffman ([email protected]), president; Larry Holder ([email protected]), vice president; Bonnie Rideout ([email protected]), secretary; Terry Stoa ([email protected]), treasurer; and Curt Knapp ([email protected]), board member. The 2018-19 program season began with a short business meeting followed by sharing images taken for our Summer Challenge: people, street photography and night photography. Our summer events included night/astrophotography at Bethel School in Friends Creek Park, shooting at the Monticello Railway Museum, the Macon County Fair and the Tall Grass Butterfly House in Pana. CICCA Courier Page 7 Summer-Fall 2018 “Heading Home” by Virginia Kickle.