Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club 2016 April This Issue Volume 78 • Issue 7 Club News......................................2 - 11 Photography News......................12 - 23 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc............24 - 26 Schedule of Activities..................27 - 33 Complete Index...................................34 April 2016 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 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. 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Elena Pierpont Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. 212 956 4515 [email protected] Newsletter Chuck Pine Contact Information 212 932 7665 [email protected] Website Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn www.parkwestcameraclub.org 212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] Social Marvin Fink E-Mail Address 917-699-3497 marvfi[email protected] [email protected] Website (interim) Michael Schleiff Club Mailing Address 917 359 6823 [email protected] 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Workshop Jerry Harawitz 646-823-7223 [email protected] Photo Notes Mailing Address 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Club O"cers President Ed Lee 212 255 9678 [email protected] V. President Michael Schleiff Cover Photo 917 359 6823 [email protected] Rosenholm Castle Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine 212 932 7665 [email protected] by Chuck Pine ©2015 Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle 212 595 4920 [email protected] Treasurer Maria Fernandez 908 447 8075 [email protected] Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine 212 932 7665 [email protected] April 2016 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !2 Editorial running Windows XP, Vista ,or four we currently have in each Windows 7. As I recall, several contest. I guess I could live CLUB Weighing In members volunteered to do- with this! nate an old computer for this However, combine this I read with enthusiasm the purpose. So what’s the delay? change with another item in minutes from the Club’s March In my opinion, the biggest the minutes, we could be business meeting. I would like item on the agenda was the spending hundreds of dollars to add my 2¢ to the discussion, item to eliminate tie-breakers for trophies, ribbons, plaques, although it is after-the-fact: at the Year-End Competition. USB drives, or whatever. I A question was raised From what I read, I have sev- think both items must be con- about the order of the images eral questions. Would the tie sidered as one unit. No matter shown in the monthly PDI breakers be eliminated for the what we decide, this will have competition. It seems that they Print-of-the-Year and PDI-of- to be proposed at the May are arranged alphabetically. the-Year contests? Could we business meeting and voted on This means that Bill Apple, end up with several winners in at the September business who raised the question, al- each contest? I hope not! That meeting; making it a moot ways comes first. This could be would sort of defeat the mean- point for this year’s year-end good or bad. On one hand, the ing of the word ”best.” What competition. Do we need to judge is fresh and is likely to about for the runners-up? We rush into this decision? offer more and better criticism. could possibly end up with a See you all in May. On the other hand, the judge dozen or more instead of the may give a middling score be- Chuck cause he or she is not familiar with the work of the group Photo Notes (the run-through not-with- standing). Maybe we should Publisher: Ed Lee arrange the images as we do in Editor: Chuck Pine the print competition—using Committee: Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, Madeleine the order in which the images Barbara, Ann Broder, Meg Darnell, Ruth Formanek, were received? Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus, Helen Hardware and software for Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt the Year-End Competition was Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Karen also on the agenda. The mem- Corrigan, Christine Doyle, Ruth Formanek, Paul bership has already approved Grebanier, Myrna Harrison-Changar, George Hansen, the appropriated the money Sal Maci, Natalie Manzino, Elena Pierpont, Chuck needed to purchase The RMF Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt Model 760 Judging System Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro ($245 plus $15 shipping). This using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. equipment will collect the scores from the three judges, All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or other- total the scores, and display wise believed to be in the public domain. them on a laptop computer Credited images remain the sole property of their screen. The only problem? We copyright holders—all rights reserved. need to provide a computer April 2016 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !3 Images of the Month March 2016 CLUB by John Brengelman Print-of-the-Month On the Ganges, Calcutta by Paula Paterniti Honor Prints Virtual Touch by Paul Grebanier Tony’s Fading World by Paul Grebanier Back View by Elena Pierpont Westminster Dog Show by John Brengelman Outing by Dinah Caapota Urban Geometry by Hedy Klein Sting Bike by Oggy Doytchinov Water Buffalo by Paula Paterniti © Paula Paterniti © Meg Darnell PDI-of-the-Month 1st Minute of Life by Meg Darnell Honor PDIs Petrol Station #1 by Marilyn Fish-Glynn Queen for a Day by David Francis Catching ZZZZs by Marjorie Gurd Daylight Breaks by George Hansen Three Dons by George Hansen Skater by Sal Maci Letchworth 2 by Natalie Manzino On the Q Train by Paula Paterniti Tiger’s Next Bhutan by Paula Paterniti Snow Egret by Elena Pierpont Mersiwoman by Larry Rubin Floral Still Life by Joan Slatkin Color Reflections by Martin Smith LocationLocationLocation by Jerry Vogel Icelandic Glacier by Jerry Vogel April 2016 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !4 Cumulative Point Totals through March 2016 CLUB by John Brengelman Congratulations to our winners and honorable Prints mentions! PDIs Paul Grebanier 110 Thanks to all who entered George Hansen 106 George Hansen 92 and competed this month Elena Pierpont 96 John Brengelman 90 Paul Grebanier 94 Hedy Klein 90 and to all who helped Marjorie Gurd 94 Sarah Corbin 86 make the competition run Madeleine Barbara 82 Madeleine Barbara 82 so smoothly. Christine Doyle 78 Oggy Doytchinov 76 David Francis 78 Elena Pierpont 76 And, a special thank-you Natalie Manzino 78 Edward Lewit 72 Sal Maci 76 Natalie Manzino 72 to our judge, Marilyn Chuck Pine 76 Sal Maci 70 Stern, for a job well done. Joan Slatkin 76 Bill Apple 64 Alice Somma 76 Paula Paterniti 64 For the rest of us, there’s Carole de Beer 72 Dinorah Capota 58 always next month! Edward Lewit 72 Calvin Eagle 48 Marilyn Fish-Glynn 70 Marilyn Fish-Glynn 38 Paula Paterniti 70 Marvin Fink 36 Janet Susin 70 Jerry Vogel 22 Julie Foehrenbach 68 Michael Blumenfeld 14 Harriet Josephs 68 Alice Somma 12 Karen Corrigan 66 Elsa Blum 10 Bill Apple 64 Karen Corrigan 6 Dinorah Capota 62 Ruth Yashpan 4 Calvin Eagle 62 Hedy Klein 62 Don Raney 60 Jerry Vogel 58 John Brengelman 56 Yuri Kalina 52 Competition Statistics Rita Russo 52 Dottie Mills 48 Prints PDIs Larry Sapadin 48 A/Honors 26.5% 25.8% Ann Broder 44 Jay Bitkower 40 A 11.8% 14.5% Michael Blumenfeld 34 B 50.0% 43.5% Meg Darnell 30 C 11.8% 16.1% Martin Smith 30 Niv Gidron 26 Entries 34 62 Ruth Formanek 14 Average Scores 5.9 5.8 Larry Rubin 14 Oggy Doytchinov 12 Michael Schleiff 12 Ruth Yashpan 12 Rain Bengis 8 April 2016 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org !5 Year-End Competition Expanding Visions 22 view (including the term project presentations). CLUB The Year-End Competition will Park West Camera Club’s This year will be a little be held on June 6th. It is differ- Expanding Visions photog- different from other years. ent from our monthly competi- raphy class is being offered All the field trips will be to tions: the rules of entry are dif- this spring into summer. It is the same destination—Times ferent; the judging is different; open to all interested photog- Square—the ”crossroads of the rewards are, too. raphers. This will be the 22nd the world.” This will allow Each Club member may consecutive year of Expand- us to familiarize ourselves submit up to four prints and ing Visions. with the destination and see four PDIs. But, and this is a big Expanding Visions 22 is a how we can work it into the but, all the submissions must marriage of a field trip class five different assignments. have been entered into one of with a class in photographic There is a common theme the monthly competitions held seeing. This nine week class running through the assign- this year (October through (Thursday evenings, May ments: Working the Subject.