SeptemberDECEMBER | Vol| Vol 2020-2021: 2016-2017: Issue Issue 1 04 Editor Erik Gehring - [email protected] Welcome to our NEW MEMBERS: Erik Beck Christine Brennan Lucas Hill Cameron Hughey Linda LaCroix We look forward to seeing you at upcoming meetings (if we haven’t already). “North River Distributaries” © Ed Esposito. Read Ed’s article on Drone Photography on pp. 8-9. Table of Contents Welcome, Contents p. 1 President’s Message p. 2 September Program Info pp. 2-4 BCC Event Recap pp. 4-5 NECCC and PSA News pp. 5-6 Member News pp. 7-9 Classes, Publications and Exhibitions pp. 10-13 Competition Results pp. 13-20 Member Resources p. 21 Advance Schedule in Brief for 2020-2021 p. 22 September 2020: Program Calendar In Brief Sep. 08 Opening Meeting with Pandemic Boston Sep. 15 Photo Critique / Lightroom Workshop Sep. 22 Projected Image Competition with Rick Cloran Sep. 29 Education - “What is Documentary?” with Glenn Ruga (w/ Newton Camera Club) www.bostoncameraclub.org 1 President’s Letter A Time to Share We’re off and running with our 140th season as a club! This will be one of the more unusual seasons in club history as we conduct all meetings online. But while there are limits with online meetings, they are also opportunities. We will hear from several photographers presenting from across the country in addition to more local speakers. The pandemic has been hugely disruptive to all of society, but like so many institutions, BCC is finding our way and will continue to bring us together around photography. While we won’t be meeting in person this year we will be sharing our photography as always. Many club members have put together an exciting year of programming to educate us, inspire us, and share our work. We added more Member Presentations and will be competing as usual with projected images and, in a more limited way, with prints and e-books. So whether you are shooting with a phone, DSLR, mirrorless, film, medium format, or pinhole camera we want to see the images you are making in Critiques, Member Presentations, Competitions, and Books as well as on social media. If I’ve learned anything in the short time I’ve been a member of BCC it is that we are a commu- nity based on the appreciation of each other and the sharing of our photography. Sharing is how we get to know each other and learn more about and improve the thing that brings us together. So get out there and make images and find ways to share them and connect with members! See you on Zoom. Tom Hill, President September 2020 Programming Opening Meeting - “Pandemic Boston - The Story behind the Project” Tuesday, September 8 With Edward Boches, Lou Jones, Margaret Lampert, Jeff Larason, Coco McCabe, Juan Murray Time: 7 - 9:30 pm, Zoom The Boston Camera Club kicks off its 2020-2021 season with a presentation by Honorary Lifetime club member Lou Jones and his collaborators on the Pandemic Boston online photography exhibit. The virtual exhibit re- ceived wide notice including a feature story in the Boston Globe. Edward Boches, the “ringleader” of the group says they will show their work and tell the story of how the six local photographers met each other through social media to collaborate on the project. They were able to create some- thing much greater and received much wider recogni- tion than any of them would have been able to achieve on their own with collaboration and subsequent marketing of the project. Artist bios at https://www.pandemicboston.com/artist-bios. 2 Photo Critique / Lightroom Workshop - Tuesday, September 15 Time: 7 - 9:30 pm, Zoom Submission deadline: Monday before the critique, 12 noon You’ll have the opportunity to receive an informal critique of your photographs and learn how to improve and manipulate them in Lightroom. We encourage the participation of members - please submit images and make suggestions for critical improvements to all images presented. The group is open to members of all lev- els. To upload images go to Club Programs>Photo Critique on the website. http://bostoncameraclub.org/d/d1d494eb-fccb-464f-a2aa-c5bf9caa72fd. Projected Image Competition - Tuesday, September 22 Time: 7 - 9:30 pm, Zoom Submission deadline: Saturday, September 12, 11:30 pm Categories: Open; Nature (PSA); Street Per the recent Executive Committee vote, all categories will be split up to A and B automatically by our Vi- sual Pursuits software, there is no need to search for separate A and B competitions for each category. Nature (PSA) The Nature Category requirements match those specified by the PSA. PSA Nature Definition: “Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict observations from all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well informed per- son will be able to identify the subject material and to certify as to its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality. Human elements shall not be present, except on the rare occasion where those human elements enhance the nature story. The presence of scientific bands on wild animals is acceptable. Photographs of artificially produced hybrid plants or animals, mounted specimens, or obviously set arrangements, are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No elements may be moved, cloned, added, deleted, rearranged or combined. No manipulation or modification is permitted except resizing, sharpening, cropping, selective lightening or darkening, and restoration of original color of the scene. No special effect filters can be applied. Any adjust- ments must appear natural.” https://psa-photo.org/index.php?nature-nature-definition Street: Here is a fine definition of treet photography on this WikiPedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography And if you Google “street photography” and then choose images, you’ll have a great number to look at and think about. It’s important to remember that street photography does not have to literally be on the street, and though it often does, street photography doesn’t necessarily have people. Judge: Rick Cloran (our 2019-2020 Judge of the Year) Rick Cloran has lectured and judged photographic exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada. He is an internationally recognized exhibitor and has had his work accepted over 2,500 times in international photographic salons and exhibitions. Rick has received numerous awards including twice receiving the prestigious Kodak Kinsley “Glass Eagle”. His pub- lication credits include Nature Photographer magazine and the Journal of The Photographic Society of America. Rick has been a member of the Greater Lynn Photographic Association since 1975. He is a past President and Treasur- er of the Association and was elected a life Vice President and member of the Board for his many years of service to GLPA. Rick is also affiliated with the Photographic Society of America (PSA), the New England Camera Club Council, Images © Rick Cloran. 3 where he is a Vice-President and the current Treasurer, and the Massachusetts Camera Naturalists (CamNats), a by invitation only organization dedicated to the art and teaching of natural history photography, where he is a past Chairman. In recognition of extensive judging, lecturing, and administrative work in support of local, regional and na- tional photographic organizations Rick has been awarded the designation of Honorary Member of the Photo- graphic Society of America (HonPSA), and Honorary Member of the New England Camera Club Council (Hon- NEC). His photographic proficiency has earned him the distinction of Master (MPSA) from the Photographic Society of America. Education - “What is Documentary?” with Glenn Ruga - Tuesday, September 29 (Joint Meeting with Newton Camera Club) Time: 730 - 9 pm, Zoom (Please note later than usual start time!!) Join the Boston and Newton Camera Clubs for an evening with Glenn Ruga, founder and Director of the Social Documentary Network and Executive Editor of ZEKE magazine. Glenn will present “What is Documentary?”. Drawing from examples on the Social Documentary Net- work website, he will discuss documentary photography and how is it different from and similar to photojournal- ism, street photography, fine art photography, and other photographic genres. He will also discuss a step-by-step process on how to embark on a documentary project. Lastly, he will look at contemporary criticism of docu- mentary for imposing narratives on communities and peoples without their consent and how photographers today are working to make documentary practice more Photo by Kristen Emack, winner of the 2020 ZEKE Award for Documentary inclusive of the subjects being documented. Photography, from her project “Cousins”. Glenn Ruga is the Executive Editor of ZEKE magazine (http://zekemagazine.com) and founder and director of the Social Documentary Network (http://socialdocumentary.net). From 2010- 2013, he was the Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. In addition, he is a photographer, graphic designer, curator, and he has created traveling and online documentary exhibits on the struggle for a multi- cultural future in Bosnia, the war and aftermath in Kosovo, and on an immigrant community in Holyoke, Mass. In 2012, Ruga was one of three curators of the New York Photo Festival where he curated three exhibitions including work by Bruce Davidson, Platon, and Eugene Richards, Reza, and Lori Grinker. In addition, Ruga has curated dozens of exhibitions of documentary work that have appeared nationally and internationally. BCC Event Recap Photo Challenge - Comet Neowise Images l-r: Jürgen Lobert; Devora Wise; Jürgen Lobert. 4 Images l-r: Erik Gehring; Will Korn. Photo Challenge - Architecture at Night Images clockwise from upper left: Rick Branscomb; Yehuda Inbar; Erik Gehring.