Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club November 2013 In This Issue Club News.......................................2 - 11 Photography News......................12 - 18 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc............19 - 22 Schedule of Activities..................23 - 29 November 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 The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is !212 595 7869 [email protected] published every month by and for the members of the !!Hedy Klein Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included !718 793 0246 [email protected] with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- !! Joan Slatkin! able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed !212 260 7091 [email protected] issues are available at PWCC meetings. Field Trip!Susan Sigrist! Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of !212 758 0036 [email protected] photographic or general interest are always accepted. !!Paul Grebanier The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any !718 629 7164 [email protected] submissions which are published. Gallery! vacancy Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each House! vacancy month. Membership!Marlene Schonbrun Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. !212 662 3107 [email protected] !!Elena Pierpont Contact Information ! 212 956 4519 [email protected] Website Newsletter!Chuck Pine! www.parkwestcameraclub.org !212 932 7665 [email protected] Program!Marilyn Fish-Glynn E-Mail Address !212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] [email protected] Social!! Marvin Fink Club Mailing Address !718 469 5478 marvfi[email protected] 345 East 73rd Street, #8L, NY, NY 10021 !!Marjorie Gurd ! 212 662 5032 [email protected] Photo Notes Mailing Address 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Website!Bob Wine !212 758 5762 [email protected] Club Officers Workshop!Jerry Harawitz !212 673 2096 [email protected] President!!Ed Lee! !212 242 8714 [email protected] ! V. President!!Michael Schleiff! !917 359 6823 [email protected] Treasurer!!Myron Galef !212 249 1270 [email protected] Corres. Sec.!!Helen Bohmart Pine! !! Cover Photo !212 932 7665 [email protected] Curious Elephant Rec. Sec.!!Lee Backer! ! by Chuck Pine ©2013 !212 662 6740 [email protected] Pres. Emeritus!Chuck Pine!!!! !212 932 7665 [email protected] November 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 Holiday Party Club Dues joined at the end of last season (as a participant of Expanding CLUB The Park West Camera Club’s Renewal time for Park West Visions), your membership is annual holiday party is right Camera Club has come and good through September 2014.] around the corner. It is sched- gone. The Club’s fiscal year Everyone else, it’s time! uled for Monday evening, De- ended on September 30th. If You can, however, still re- cember 16th, and will take you have not yet renewed your new by bringing a check, made place at the home of our Presi- dues, you are no longer a out to PWCC, to any meeting dent Emeritus and our former member of the Club. As of Oc- and handing it to Membership first lady, Chuck and Helen tober 31st, non-renewing Chairperson Marlene Schon- Pine, on the Upper West Side. members will be removed from brun or by sending your check Plans will be announced at the Photo Notes mailing list (un- (made out to PWCC) to Club the November business meet- less you have indicated to Corresponding/Memberhsip ing. But I’m sure we’ll need Membership Chairperson Mar- Secretary, Helen Pine, 680 West plenty of volunteers to make lene Schonbrun that you want End Avenue #5D, New York some purchases, set up before to continue receiving the news- NY 10025. the party, run the kitchen op- letter). Of course, if you have any eration, plan some entertain- Yearly dues are $150, allo- questions about your member- ment, and clean up after the cated as $75 for membership ship, please contact Marlene at festivities. and $75 for the rental of Soho < [email protected]> or All members, their families, Photo Gallery. [Note—if you at 212-662-3107. and friends of the Club are in- vited to attend. The costs are Photo Notes yet to be determined but we Publisher:!Ed Lee usually keep them quite low. If you’ve got any sugges- Editor:!Chuck Pine tions, if you’d like to volunteer, Committee:!Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, Madeleine Barbara, contact either of the Social !! Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, Gladys !! Committee’s co-chairs: Marvin !! Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus,!! Fink and Marjorie Gurd. !! Helen Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt Contributors:! Bill Apple, Sarah Corbin, Ruth Formanek, !! Paul Grebanier, George Hansen, Elena Old Saying !! Pierpont , Chuck Pine, Helen Pine, and !! !! Judy Rosenblatt When you photograph people in color,… Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro you photograph their clothes. using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or other- But when you photograph wise believed to be in the public domain. people in black and white,… you photograph their souls. Credited images remain the sole property of their copyright holders—all rights reserved. November 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Park West History month to see and hear Arthur dance by nominating the new- Tress. His images. were differ- comer as president. CLUB The year was 1971, almost 43 ent,… very different. They No one was more surprised years ago, when a prospective were kind of dream-like, but than the newcomer himself. member showed up at the door more night-marish. The new- You could see his jaw drop. in the basement of the West comer was taken in—hook, You could see the expressions Side line, and sinker. of puzzlement on the faces of YMCA the members. Who is this new- to attend comer? Where did he come his first from? Why would the presi- meeting dent nominate him? of the If you haven’t figured it out Park by now, this newcomer was/is West Chuck Pine—and he declined Camera the nomination. His reason? Club. He He was too new to the Club. came to be There were others who knew at the meeting because the in- more about Park West and formation was published in Hockey Player were in a better position to one of the photography col- ©1970 Arthur Tress lead the group. umns that appeared in the The vice president at that He joined the Club the fol- daily newspapers of the time. time was Dan Arthur. His de- lowing week, at the monthly The guest speaker was pho- sire was to remain in that posi- business meeting, and learned tographer Eva Rubinstein, the tion. The treasurer, Rick of a class being offered by the daughter of pianist Artur McMillan, agreed to become then president, Gordon Wat- Rubinstein. She showed president. And so it was,… for son. It was a class in advanced dream-like images of nudes about a month. darkroom techniques. He and others of architectural in- Rick served as president in signed up for that class and September until his company began attending it as well as all suddenly transferred him to the regular Club meetings. Texas. Reluctantly, Dan as- At the March business sumed the presidency as per meeting, President Watson an- our Constitution. And, with a nounced that he would be little arm-twisting, he talked stepping down from his posi- Chuck into becoming the VP. tion at the end of the year. His In those years, with the last meeting as presiding offi- Club’s membership some- cer would be the annual year- where in the mid-20s, everyone Nude Sitting end competition and dinner. had to wear several hats. In ©1972 Eva Rubinstein (They were both held on the addition to being VP, Chuck same night, back then, at a res- was also the chair of the Dark- teriors. The visitor was so im- taurant.) He further shocked room and Workshop Commit- pressed by the speaker and the the 15 or so members in atten- group of people in attendance, tees as well as liaison to the Y. he came back the following November 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 October Competition by George Hansen CLUB Cumulative Point Totals PDIs Prints George Hansen!32 Elsa Blum!34 Marjorie Gurd!30 Hedy Klein!34 Michael Wakslicht!30 George Hansen!32 Paul Grebanier!28 Paul Grebanier!30 Carole de Beer!28 Bill Apple!26 Chuck Pine!28! Sarah Corbin!26 Paula Paterniti!24 Barbara Martens!22 Bill Apple!22 Paula Paterniti!20 Marilyn Fish-Glynn!22 Alice Somma!20 Hedy Klein!22 Madeleine Barbara!14 Natalie Manzino!22 Natalie Manzino!14 Joan Slatkin!22 Sarah Davis!20 Julie Foehrenback!20 Barbara Martens!20 Thanks to our November Evelyne Appel!18 judge, Ellen Denuto, for her Cheryl Richer!18 excellent commentary on our Christine Doyle!16 images. George Grubb!16 Myra Resnick!16 Thanks also to all those who Rita Russo!16 made this competition run so Karen Corrigan!14 smoothly: Jerry Harawitz!14 !George Hansen Dottie Mills!14 !Hedy Klein Dolores Roddy!14 !Joan Slatkin Madeleine Barbara!10 !Susan Sigrist Nicole Dosso!8 !Susan Hoehn Elena Pierpont!8 !Rita Russo Wilmarie Rios!8 !Bill Apple Thank you to all who com- peted and congratulations to all of the Image-of-the-Month and Honors Image winners. November 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Images of the Month ! by George Hansen CLUB PDI-of-the-Month Restaurant by Karen Corrigan Honor PDIs Cellar by Paul Grebanier Green Rose Hips by George Hansen Print-of-the-Month Sparring Stallions by Sarah Corbin Honor Prints Window Reflection by Bill Apple PDI-of-the-Month Bandshell Birds by Hedy Klein Restaurant Lexington and 53rd by Hedy Klein ©2013 Karen Corrigan Print-of-the-Month Sparring Stallions ©2013 Sarah Corbin November 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Competition Info Did You Know? CLUB If you enter the competitions, please read care- Did you know that the on-line PDF version of fully and save these notes for future reference: Park West Camera Club’s Photo Notes offers you advantages? You may enter up to four images each month Did you know that all of the website and but no more than two in any one category.