Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club March 2013 March In This Issue Who’s Who & What’s What.......2 & 3 President’s Letter.................................3 Competitions.... ...........................4 & 5 Boston Field Trip.................................6 Expanding Visions..............................7 Club Info.......................................8 & 9 Election Procedures..........................10 Rooftop Update.................................10 Minutes...............................................11 Committee Reports...........................11 Auction...............................................12 Year-End Competition......................12 Meet the Members............................13 Depth of Field....................................16 Gallery Watching..............................18 Inquiries.............................................21 B&H Event Space..............................21 Adorama Workshops.......................22 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc.................23 Schedule of Activities...............24 - 30 PhotoShopping.................................31 March 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! !212 595 7869 [email protected] The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is !!Hedy Klein published every month by and for the members of the !718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included !! Joan Slatkin! with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- !212 260 7091 [email protected] able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Field Trip!Susan Sigrist! !212 758 0036 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of !!Paul Grebanier photographic or general interest are always accepted. !718 629 7164 [email protected] The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any Gallery!Maria Fernandez submissions which are published. !908 447 8075 [email protected] Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each House!Seymour Perlowitz month. !718 338 6695 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. !!Chuck Elster !917 796 7847 [email protected] Contact Information Membership!Marlene Schonbrun !212 662 3107 [email protected] Website !! Elena Pierpont www.parkwestcameraclub.org ! 212 956 4515 [email protected] E-Mail Address Newsletter!Chuck Pine! [email protected] !212 932 7665 [email protected] Program!Marilyn Fish-Glynn Club Mailing Address !212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] 345 East 73rd Street, #8L, NY, NY 10021 Social!! Marvin Fink Photo Notes Mailing Address !718 469 5478 marvfi[email protected] 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 !!Marjorie Gurd ! 212 662 5032 [email protected] Club Officers Telephone Tree!Dottie Mills! !212 926 4375 [email protected] President!!Paul Perkus! ! !212 929 1687 [email protected] Website!Ruth Lowell !212 362 4379 [email protected] V. President!!Ed Lee! !!Bob Wine !212 242 8714 [email protected] !212 758 5762 [email protected] Treasurer!!Myron Galef Workshop!Jerry Harawitz !212 249 1270 [email protected] !212 673 2096 [email protected] Corres. Sec.!!Helen Bohmart Pine! !! !212 932 7665 [email protected] Rec. Sec.!!Lee Backer! ! Cover Photo !212 662 6740 [email protected] Flapping Gallinule Pres. Emeritus!Chuck Pine!!!! by Chuck Pine ©2013 !212 932 7665 [email protected] March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Letter It is rewarding to see one’s New in Photo Notes vision affirmed, to see a reluctant new committee chair grow into CLUB Starting next month in Photo mastery of the position, to see Notes there will be a portfolio September Song everything working smoothly, as it page. Each Park West member We appointed a Nominating does at competitions, and to get to will have an opportunity to Committee for next year’s officers know other members better, from share a small portfolio of his/ at the competition on March 4th, the shy to the boisterous. One is her images with the rest of the to get a jump on the search for a also the chief spokesperson for the new president. I trust the other Club to the outside world. Being Club and the world. officers will continue for another president is an opportunity to en- If you are interested, please year if asked by the committee, as gage with photography and pho- submit five or six images, I expect they will be. tographers beyond the Club. sized as for a competition, to I will ask the Nominating So, it’s a great job, working <[email protected]> Be sure to Committee for an interim report at with great people. I recommend it. include the title and year shot the March business meeting and to And despite the title of this for each image. You may also give their final report and nomina- piece, spring is nigh, with longer include a short statement to days and inviting weather. So en- tions to the Club at the April 29th accompany your images. joy, and take your camera. meeting, which is also that of the Each month’s portfolio will club auction. (We are not auction- be chosen based on first-come, All the best. ing the officers’ positions.) Nom- first-shown. inations from the floor will be ac- cepted at this meeting and suc- ceeding meetings prior to the elec- Paul tion at the May business meeting. (See PWCC Constitution, Article Photo Notes VI—Elections, for complete info.) So once again I earnestly en- Publisher:!Paul Perkus courage all members to consider Editor:!Chuck Pine stepping forward to be a presiden- tial nominee. I, and all the other Committee:!Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, Madeleine Barbara, ! officers, will make extra efforts to ! Ruth Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Helen make the regime change smooth ! Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt and supportive. We really work as Contributors:! Janna Amelkin, Bill Apple, Lee Backer, ! a team nowadays, so there’s al- Myrna Changar, Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, ways a hand to clap you on the George Hansen, Barbara Martens, Paul Perkus, Elena back, or a shoulder to cry on. Pierpont, Chuck Pine, Helen Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, Running the club is like learn- Marlene Schonbrun and Sonya Smith ing how to operate a new camera, with all sorts of cute buttons and Photo Notes is produced on a MacBookPro creatively stimulating subpro- using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. grams, that challenge our precon- ceptions, but help us to grow as All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or other- photographers and as persons. It wise believed to be in the public domain. can be tough at times but the posi- tives far outnumber and outweigh Credited images remain the sole property of their the negatives. copyright holders—all rights reserved. March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month ! by George Hansen CLUB PDI-of-the-Month Japanese Cemetery by Madeleine Barbara Honor PDIs Rust and Dirt by Rain Bengis Best Seat by Ann Broder Snow 01 by Christine Doyle Leftovers by Eileen Duranko Snow Chair by Eileen Duranko Baskets by Marilyn Fish-Glynn PDI-of-the-Month Shadowed Dormer by Marilyn Fish-Glynn Japanese Cenetery Bald Head by Jerry Harawitz ©2010 Madeleine Barbara Crossing the Street by Jerry Harawitz Smile by Hedy Klein Around Noon by Barbara Martens Slide-of-the-Month Night Flight by Chuck Pine Neon Abstract Leaf in Water by Gilbert Rios © Joan Slatkin Roadsign by Gilbert Rios Slide-of-the-Month Neon Abstract by Joan Slatkin Honor Slides Obama #1 by Marilyn Fish-Glynn Print-of-the-Month Love Story by Barbara Martens Honor Prints Old Man India by Elsa Blum Plitvice Forest by Natalie Manzino Print-of-the-Month Love Story ©2013 Barbara Martens March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals by George Hansen CLUB PDIs Thanks to our March judge, Eileen Duranko!78 Don Burmeister , for an excel- Madeleine Barbara!76 lent job of critiquing and judg- Barbara Martens!72 ing our images. George Hansen!70 Congratulations to the win- Marilyn Fish-Glynn!68 ners of Image-of-the-Month and Natalie Manzino!68 Honors. Thanks to all who en- Chuck Pine!66 Prints tered the competitions. Bill Apple!64 Barbara Martens!82 And a special thanks to all Hedy Klein!62 Elsa Blum!78 who made this competition Paul Grebanier!62 Madeleine Barbara !72 happen. Rita Russo!60 Paul Grebanier!58 Joan Slatkin!60 Natalie Manzino!58 Nicole Dosso!56 Hedy Klein!56 George Grubb!54 George Hansen!54 Rain Bengis!54 Bill Apple!52 Cheryl Richer!52 Marvin Fink!30 Barbara Berg!50 Chuck Pine!26 Carole de Beer!50 Ruth Formanek!20 Ann Broder!48 Ann Broder!14 Jerry Harawitz!46 Sarah Corbin!14 Elena Pierpont!46 Dorothy Mills!14 Tuscan Muse Marjorie Gurd!44 Alice Somma!8 Michael Wakslicht!44 Evelyne Appel!6 The seats for the Tuscan Muse Janna Amelkin!38 Fonda Charne!6 Fine Arts Through a Lens are fill- Dorothy Mills!38 Michael Wakslicht!4 ing! To completely fill the class Sarah Davis!32 with inspired and creative pho- Myra Resnick!32 tographers Tuscan Muse will ex- Christine Doyle!26 tend their early bird reduced Evelyne Appel!24 pricing through March 31st. Ruth Lowell!24 Fine Art Through a Lens is Dolores Roddy!22 your opportunity to create, be Gilbert Rios!20 inspired, see Tuscany, and to be Bob Wine!12 Slides wined and dined by Italy’s much Miguel Paoli!10 Joan Slatkin!70! beloved Master Chef, Enrico Ca- Susan Sigrist!48 sini. Marilyn Fish-Glynn!44! For complete details and reg- Rita Russo!30 istration, go to their website at Elena Pierpont!14 <www.tuscanmuse.com> March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Boston 2013 We leave New York City on First come, first (re-) Friday, May 24th, traverse the served! CLUB The Park West Camera Club is 230 odd miles to the Boston An information sheet will now planning a 4-day, 3-night area, settle into our motel for a be available at Club meetings.