PHOTO NOTES Park West Camera Club 2020 February This Issue Volume 85 • Issue 5 Club News......................................2 - 17 Photography News......................18 - 31 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc…….…32 - 34 Schedule of Activities…….…….35 - 41 Complete Index………………………42 complete listings on last page February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Club Officers The Park West Camera Club is an independent President Ed Lee not-for-profit corporation. Guests are always V. President Michael Schleiff welcome. Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine The PWCC newsletter, Photo Notes, is published every month by and for the members of the Park Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are Treasurer Maria Fernandez available to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Submissions of full-length articles or smaller Committee Chairs items of photographic or general interest are Archive Inactive always accepted. The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any submissions Competition John Brengelman which are published. Hedy Klein Photo Notes is optimized for viewing digitally. Field Trip Susan Sigrist Paul Grebanier Contact Information Gallery Karen Corrigan Website www.parkwestcameraclub.org House Marty Smith Membership Marlene Schonbrun E-Mail Address Elena Pierpont [email protected] Newsletter Chuck Pine Club Mailing Address 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn Photo Notes Mailing Address Social Natalie Manzino 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Website Michael Schleiff Christine Doyle Workshop vacant Cover Photo Male Silver-beaked Tanager by Chuck Pine ©2019 February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Message tributed articles and images as well as those who proofread CLUB Recently, a number of new and helped distribute the members have joined Park newsletter. West Camera Club. We wish Be sure to attend our sec- them all well and the Club en- ond Portfolio Review where deavors to help, both photo- Jean Miele will again facilitate graphically and socially. One and critique with help from the of the first things we recom- audience member portfolios. mend is to check out the Club’s maintenance of the website. Our second Tabletop and Still website and to register and be Please direct any general ques- Life Workshop is coming up in able to access member features tions or problems concerning early March as well as our and files. the galleries to them. third Business Meeting in the As Christine Doyle, the FYI, Photo Notes, edited by latter part of that month. Club's Recording Secretary and our President Emeritus, Chuck Our best wishes and Website Co-Chair encourages Pine, has won the 2019 Direc- prayers go out to Chuck for his us: “members will be able to tor's Choice Award for best medical issues. create and update their own newsletter; Best Opinion Piece personal galleries and share by member Bill Apple; Best their work. (BTW, you can cre- Calendar Presentation, and ate multiple galleries if you Best Variety of Material. Con- Ed like.) The gallery template gratulations to all who con- comes with privacy settings that you can control. Photo Notes We encourage members to take advantage of this feature Publisher: Ed Lee and to make their galleries Editor: Chuck Pine public so that visitors to the website can see the great work Committee: Will Aimesbury, Bill Apple, Madeleine that our members are doing, in Barbara, Elsa Blum, Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, addition to the monthly com- Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus, Elena petition winners and honors Pierpont, Helen Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, and Puneet Sood images.” You can find Chris- Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Christine tine's Primer each month in the Doyle, Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, Larry Kreger, Table of Contents of Photo Virginia Lawrence, Ed Lee, Chuck Pine, and Judy Notes. You will also find a Rosenblatt, comprehensive schedule of Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro events, biographies of presen- using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. ters, descriptions of field trips, All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise and other activities as well as believed to be in the public domain. updates and cancelations. I thank both Michael Schleiff, Credited images remain the sole property of their the club Vice-President, and copyright holders—all rights reserved. Christine for their excellent February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Badlands & Black Hills Club Participation Nites CLUB The Club is considering an ex- This coming year there will be tended field trip to Badlands four programs that require National Park and the Black member participation. Here’s a Hills of South Dakota. We’re quick rundown on these fun thinking about going in the and educational activities still summer of 2020. For those of on the agenda… you not in the know, this will include photo ops of Mount Rushmore,If interested, Custer State Park (home to the country’s largest populationplease of bison),respond and many other greatASAP spots for shooting landscapes, wildlife, • March 23rd—Theme Night: cowboys, and the old west in Light ”Photography” means general. ”to write with light.” This is Prices and exact dates have your opportunity to interpret not yet been determined. We’re this definition any way you’d just starting to investigate and • March 9th—Table Top and like. Be literal; be creative; be would like to know if you have Still Life Workshop The Club whatever. Just have fun and any interest in this trip. will provide the lights. The bring in some great images. If you are interested, please members will provide the let Chuck Pine know your in- props. This includes small tentions by contacting him by objects, glassware, flowers, and What part of… email at <[email protected]> any other items that will fit on or by phone at 212-932-7665. a small table and just beg to be The last time the Club went photographed. Instructional out there was in 2002. We had tidbits on lighting, composing a wonderful photographic and the like will be available. experience despite the fact that we had to evacuate the town of Keystone due to a raging was sent in by Club member forest fire. What a trip! Will Aimesbury. Cool, huh? February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 CLUB February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 PWCC 2019-2020 Schedule CLUB September 1 Chuck Pine Picnic 2 No Meeting (Labor Day) 9 Welcome Back 16 Guest Speaker (Leland Bobbé) March 23 Business Meeting #1 2 Competition #6 (Jill Waterman) 30 No Meeting (Rosh Hashanah) 9 Workshop—Table Top & Still Life 16 Guest Speaker (Charles Chessler) October 23 Theme Night—Light 7 Competition #1 Canceled 30 Business Meeting #3 14 No Meeting (Columbus Day) 21 Guest Speaker (Jane Schreibman) April 28 Halloween Costume Party and Shoot 6 Competition #7 (Thomas Mintz) 13 Competition Make-up November 20 Guest Speaker (Ismael Ferdous) 4 Competition #2 (Marilyn Stern) 27 Club’s Night Out—Sony Store 11 Workshop—Portfolio How-to 18 Guest Speaker (Bill Wadman) May 25 Business Meeting #2 4 Competition #8 (TBA) 11 Guest Speaker (Thomas Holton) December 18 Business Meeting #4 2 25 Memorial Day (No Meeting) 9 Competition #3 (Bill Wadman) 16 Holiday Party June 23 Winter Holiday 1 Year-End Competition (TBA) 30 Winter Holiday 8 Otto Litzel Dinner 15 ExCom Planning Meeting January 22 Summer Meeting 6 Competition #4 (Leland Bobbé) 29 No Meeting 13 Portfolio Review 20 Guest Speaker (John Millisenda) Field trips, classes, additional workshops, 27 Theme Night—Weather and the 2020 summer schedule will be pub- lished as the information becomes available. February 3 Competition #5 (Jean Miele) 10 Workshop—Photoshop (David Atlas) 17 Guest Speaker (Bill Brandt) 24 Portfolio Review February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Images of the Month February 2020 CLUB by John Brengelman Print-of-the-Month Pay the Troll the Toll by Paul Greebanier Honor Prints Northern Lights by Justine Carson Mercedes by Paul Greebanier Floating Bubble by Elena Pierpont Print-of-the-Month Pay the Troll the Toll © Paul Greebanier PDI-of-the-Month Just Walk Away © Hedy Klein PDI-of-the-Month Just Walk Away by Hedy Klein Honor PDIs Night Door by John Brengelman News Year Day by Julie Foehrenbach Street Ballet by Julie Foehrenbach Uzbek Man by Florence Forman Gated Community by Paul Greebanier Field of Dreams by George Hansen The Bland Houses by Harriet Josephs Carving by Natalie Manzino Copper-jumped Hummingbird by Chuck Pine Tropical Screech Owl by Chuck Pine My Future by Harriet Stein February 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 Cumulative Point Totals through February 2020 CLUB by John Brengelman Prints PDIs Oggy Doytchinov 58 Paul Grebanier 58 Chuck Pine 64 Susan Genaro 18 John Brengelman 54 George Hansen 54 Susanne Yellin 18 Madeleine Barbara 52 Will Aimesbury 52 Gabriel Levit 16 George Hansen 50 David Cassidy 50 Laura Toledo 16 Elena Pierpont 50 Janet Susin 50 Joel Bernstein 14 Justine Carson 44 Hedy Klein 48 Eloisa Huni 14 Natalie Manzino 40 Natalie Manzino 48 Virginia Lawrence 14 Paula Paterniti 40 Michael Schleiff 48 Rita Russo 14 Howard Stevens 40 Paul Grebanier 46 David Campbell 12 Sarah Corbin 38 Harriet Stein 44 Puneet Sood 12 Florence Forman 30 Christine Doyle 42 Jerry Vogel 12 Bill Apple 28 Julie Foehrenback 42 Madeleine Barbara 8 Larry Rubin 28 Florence Forman 42 Renée Harper 6 Alice Somma 28 Harriet Josephs 42 Indran Naidoo 6 Ann Broder 16 Elena Pierpont 42 Marvin Fink 10 Bill Apple 40 Nicole Dosso 40 Catherine Smith 40 John Brengelman 36 Congratulations to our Remy Deyglun 36 winners and honorable Howard Stevens 36 mentions! Justine Carson 34 Larry Sapadin 34 Thanks to all who entered Jay Bitkower 32 and competed this month Dorothy Mills 32 and to all who helped Karen Corrigan 30 make the competition run Lawrence Kreger 30 so smoothly.