Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club 2017 April This Issue Volume 80 • Issue 8 Club News…………………………2 - 21 Photography Ne..………………..22 - 27 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc………. 28 - 30 Schedule of Activities……..…… 31 - 39 Complete Index................................... 40 complete listings on last page April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !1 Park West Camera Club Committee Chairs The Park West Camera Club is an independent not-for- Archive Myrna Harrison-Changar profit corporation. Guests are always welcome at meet- 212 663 1422 [email protected] ings and activities. Competition John Brengelman The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is 917-543-7957 [email protected] Hedy Klein published every month by and for the members of the 718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- Field Trip Susan Sigrist able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed 212 758 0036 [email protected] issues are available at PWCC meetings. Paul Grebanier 718 629 7164 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are always accepted. Gallery Karen Corrigan The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any 212 674 2201 [email protected] submissions which are published. House Marty Smith Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each 347 703 3905 [email protected] month. Membership Marlene Schonbrun 212 662 3107 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. Elena Pierpont 212 956 4515 [email protected] Contact Information Newsletter Chuck Pine Website 212 932 7665 [email protected] www.parkwestcameraclub.org Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn E-Mail Address 212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] [email protected] Social Natalie Manzino 917-757-7086 [email protected] Club Mailing Address 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Website Michael Schleiff 917 359 6823 [email protected] Photo Notes Mailing Address 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Workshop Tom Quackenbush 917 608 1923 [email protected] Club O"cers President Ed Lee 212 255 9678 [email protected] V. President Michael Schleiff 917 359 6823 [email protected] Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine Cover Photo 212 932 7665 [email protected] Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle Dark-eyed Burrowing Owl 212 595 4920 [email protected] by Chuck Pine ©2017 Treasurer Maria Fernandez 908 447 8075 [email protected] Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine 212 932 7665 [email protected] April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !2 Editorial laid-back life style. It means leaving the four camera clubs CLUB May Day we belong to in the south. And, it means leaving the friends we I am sitting here, in front of my have down here. computer, finishing up this But it also means some ad- April issue of Photo Notes. My ventures on the journey north. mind is wandering as I try to Last, year, for example, we come up with an idea for this stopped at the Alligator Farm editorial. What can I write streamers. All this taking place in St. Augustine Beach to pho- about? What’s on my mind? in the school yard on warm, tograph in the bird rookery The only thing I could sunny, cloudless days. there. We also stopped in Old think of is… coming home! In But I digress! Car City to shoot all sorts of fact, Helen and I will be head- This year, May Day means decaying autos amidst the ing north in less than four leaving Florida and coming trees and overgrown grasses. weeks. We’re planning to leave back home to The City, New This year, who knows Delray Beach on May 1st, the York, the Big Apple. where we’ll stop and shoot? day known as May Day. Yeah, it means leaving the As a kid in a New York almost-perfect Florida weather. City public elementary school It means leaving the casual, Chuck back in the 50s, we were ”forced” to participate in cer- Photo Notes tain activities. One of those ac- tivities was dancing. We did Publisher: Ed Lee not learn how to cha-cha; we did not learn how to waltz. I’m Editor: Chuck Pine not really sure what dances we Committee: Will Aimesbury, Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, did learn—except for two. Madeleine Barbara, Ann Broder, Meg Darnell, Ruth We learned the Mexican hat Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus, dance. Why? No idea! Maybe Elena Pierpont, Helen Pine, Judy Rosenblatt and Puneet to celebrate Cinqo de Mayo?!? Sood The other was dancing around the May Pole. Why? No idea! Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Karen Maybe it had something to do Corrigan, Christine Doyle, Paul Grebanier, Myrna with the fact that May Day was Harrision-Changar, Sal Maci and Chuck Pine also a celebration for Interna- tional Workers Day, commem- Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro orating Socialism and Com- using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. munism. After all, all teachers back then were ”lefties.” All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise I still remember going believed to be in the public domain. around in circles. Twisting and turning. Weaving in and out Credited images remain the sole property of their with those long, colorful copyright holders—all rights reserved. April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !3 Images of the Month April 2017 CLUB by John Brengelman PDI-of-the-Month Miguel by Madeleine Barbara Honor PDIs Tree in Snow by Madeleine Barbara Half Dome by Justine Carson Early Morning Taj by Karen Corrigan Hotel Windows by Karen Corrigan Shipwreck by Meg Darnell Hallway by Carole de Beer Up by Carole de Beer A Man and His Dogs by Julie Foehrenbach Crib by Paul Grebanier Leenie’s Christmas Amaryllis by George Hansen Skaftafel by Natalie Manzino Girl on a Wire by Paula Paterniti Cuban Man Smoking Cigar by Rita Russo Through the Window by Michael Schleiff Sid by Puneet Sood © Madeleine Barbara Snow Tires by Joan Slatkin Print-of-the-Month House of Sticks by Dinorah Capota Honor Prints Cuba by John Brengelman Yonkers Landscape by Dinorah Capota Snow Monkey by Justine Carson Taking Down the Gurt by Sarah Corbin Trophy by Paul Grebanier City Scape by Paul Grebanier Pastural by Paula Paterniti What? by Alice Somma © Dinorah Capota April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !4 Cumulative Point Totals PDIs through April 2017 CLUB by John Brengelman Natalie Manzino 104 George Hansen 92 Chuck Pine 92 Prints Carole de Beer 84 Paul Grebanier 82 Dinorah Capota 114 Hedy Klein 82 Paul Grebanier 90 Congratulations to our John Brengelman 80 Sarah Corbin 88 winners and honorable Harriet Josephs 80 George Hansen 86 Paula Paterniti 78 Natalie Manzino 86 mentions! Joan Slatkin 76 John Brengelman 80 Julie Foehrenbach 74 Paula Paterniti 74 Thanks to all who entered Madeleine Barbara 72 Oggy Doytchinov 62 and competed this month Christine Doyle 70 Hedy Klein 62 and to all who helped Larry Rubin 66 Elena Pierpont 62 Janet Susin 66 Alice Somma 60 make the competition run Elena Pierpont 64 Bill Apple 56 so smoothly. Ed Lewit 62 Madeleine Barbara 56 Rita Russo 62 Marvin Fink 40 And, a special thank-you Larry Sapadin 60 Larry Rubin 36 to our judge, Nir Arieli, for Alice Somma 60 Sal Maci 34 Bill Apple 58 Ed Lewit 20 doing a wonderful job. Jay Bitkower 56 Justine Carson 18 Marty Smith 50 Will Aimesbury 8 For the rest of us, there’s Sal Maci 48 Ann Broder 8 always next month! Michael Schleiff 48 Anna Cortez 8 Virginia Lawrence 44 Meg Darnell 8 Susan Rauch 44 Susan Genaro 8 Ann Broder 32 Jerry Vogel 8 Dinorah Capota 32 Ruth Yashpan 8 Meg Darnell 30 Nicole Dosso 28 Susan Genaro 28 Jerry Vogel 28 Karen Corrigan 24 Marilyn Fish-Glynn 20 Dottie Mills 18 Puneet Sood 18 Niv Gidron 16 Gordon Pellegrini 16 Justine Carson 14 Anna Cortez 14 Will Aimesburt 10 Rain Bengis 8 Peter Houts 8 Brenda Popowitz 8 Ruth Yashpan 8 April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !5 CLUB April 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !6 Year-End Competition Expanding Visions 23 This year we will be shooting at destinations CLUB The Year-End Competition will Park West Camera Club’s ranging from the Upper West be held on June 5th. It is differ- Expanding Visions photog- Side to Coney Island in ent from our monthly competi- raphy class is being offered Brooklyn, plus midtown and tions: the rules of entry are dif- this spring into summer. It is downtown Manhattan areas. ferent; the judging is different; open to all interested photog- There is a common theme the rewards are, too. raphers. This will be the 23rd running through the assign- Each Club member may consecutive year of Expand- ments: Hand Held. submit up to four prints and ing Visions. Not too complicated, is it? four PDIs. But, and this is a big Expanding Visions 23 is a Lots of fun and educational. but, all the submissions must marriage of a field trip class Most of all, it will expand have been entered into one of with a class in photographic your vision in the photos you the monthly competitions held seeing. This nine week class take, the equipment you use, this year (October through (Thursday evenings, May and allow you to grow as a May). It doesn’t matter if the 18th thru June 29th) will photographer. images were awarded honors open your mind to new ways The photo instructor for or got a ‘C’— they are eligible of looking at photographs, Expanding Visions 23, as has for this competition.