PROGRAM FOR APRIL. PSA Members. Speaker will be Carlos Hernandez

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1 . Houston Photochrome Club Volume MMXV No. 4 April PROGRAM FOR APRIL Speaker will be Carlos Hernandez PSA Members Did you know? PSA Online Courses are a PSA-member benefit, designed to help beginning and advanced photographers improve their skills in a guided manner. They are free to all members and usually take place oniine. Besides the quintessential images of the animals of the Serengeti, there will be info on how to book your trip with outfitters and save money. Tanzania is a safe place in West Africa 1500 miles from the Ebola crisis. He will give info on lenses and photographic techniques on Safari. The trip was done in early March This was a private trip with his wife and a friend photographer so we had the safari vehicle for ourselves. At the end of the day I had a sore finger. You won t want to miss this so join us at 7Pm April 9 at the Tracy Gee Community Center, 3599 Westcenter Drive, which is one block inside Beltway 8 between Westpark and Richmond. Carmen Sewell. Some of the courses are: PHOTOGRAPHY INSTRUCTION; PORTRAITS IN AVAILABLE LIGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS ;STILL LIFE PHO- TOGRAPHY If you are interested in this service but are not a member see James Gamble, Don Pederson or Carmen Sewell. Deadline for digital submission All digital entries must be sent to Philip Tan ptchromer@gmail.com by April 4 Entries received after that will not be eligible for April Competition FYI the deadline is always the Saturday before the competition meeting. 1

2 Inter Club Results The March GSCCC Pictorial competition was judged by the Greater New Orleans Camera Club. Our entries and scores were : Anna Hummingbird F.Joe Schmitt 15 2nd place Male Cardinal Jane Ashley 11 The Strawman Scott Meyer 9 Zoo Lights James Gamble 8 Congratulations to Joe. Results of March 2015 PSA PID competition Judged by the Tacoma Photographic Society Our entries and scores were: Anna Hummingbird Life Off Joe Schmitt 10 Great Egret in Flight Joe Smith 10 Sitting Like a Lady Jennifer Wen 9 Under the Umbrella Janet Chung 9 Autumn Leaves Carmen Sewell 8 Zoo Lights Philip Tan 8 Jane Ashley Houston Photochrome Club Inter-Club Chairman Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt Cookies for April Charlene Baugh 2 ATTENTION: All Competition Participants Images must be submitted according to club guidelines or your image may not be included in the monthly competition Please follow the sizing instructions carefully: A horizontal image cannot be longer than 1024 pixels along the horizontal side; A vertical image cannot be longer than 768 pixels along the vertical side. ( Vertical images cannot be sized 1024 pixels along the vertical side!) The size of the JPEG image is not to exceed 1MB.( See above for pixel size.) Rename the image according to the guidelines below. For example: A Nature Assignment of birds by John Brown would appear as NA_Bird_BrownJ.jpg ( NG for Nature General, PA for pictorial Assigned, PG for Pictorial General and BW for monochromes) DO NOT use first names, nicknames or initials only, for identification. Also, the size of the title is limited to 35 characters when naming images. It is important that the guidelines for naming files be followed when submitting images for the monthly competitions otherwise you run the risk of not being credited with your entries. Images that are not easily identified will be discarded.

3 March2015 Competition Judges: Charleen Baugh, Acree Carlisle, James Gamble Nature Assignment Animals Nature General Cheetah Philip Tan 24 It's Dark Down There Scott Meyer 23 Orangutan Counting Fingers Julie Cheng 23 Birch Reflections Charleen Baugh 21 Monkey Business Joe Schmitt 22 Cranes into the Sunrise Joe Smith 20 Seriously Eric Westling 22 Evening Swim James Gamble 20 Red Tailed Hawk Joe Smith 22 4 images Avg. 21. Kiburi Scott Meyer 21 Hanky Panky in the Park Jane Ashley 20 Pictorial General Shedding Mountain Goat Donnie Walton 20 Mushroom Jellyfish Julie Cheng 24 Attitude-Attitude Carmen Sewell 20 Enron Building Helen Weng Pan 23 Bison Fighting Helen Wen Pan 20 Bird Bath James Gamble 23 Penguins Stephanie Rudd 19 Angkor Wat Joe Schmitt 22 Profile View C.T. Edwards 18 Row of Trees Janet Chung images Avg Sydney Opera House Helen 22 Weng Pan Sea Urchins Carmen Sewell 21 Pictorial Assignment Patterns/Texture Dunes Galore Eric Westling 21 Angkor Wat Interior Joe Schmitt 23 Field of Light Janet Tan 21 Reflected Patterns Philip Tan 22 Santorini 6184 Charleen Baugh 21 Pendulum Display Eric Westling 22 Lighted Staircase Jane Ashley 20 Thread Bracelets Ninfa Palazolla 22 Light Painting Philip Tan 20 Radishes Stephanie Rudd 21 Making Glass Object C.T. Edwards 19 Chaco Canyon Masonry Donnie Walton 21 A Welcoming Sign Ninfa Palazzola 19 Scroll Window Janet Tan 21 Blacksmith Shop Donnie Walton 18 ZigZag James Gamble 20 White Arches, Blue Gate Ninfa Palazzola 18 Textures by the Water Charleen Baugh images Avg Highrise Patterns Jane Ashley 19 Row Houses C.T. Edwards 19 Black & White/Mono Ropes Carmen Sewell 18 The Way Egrets Showing Love Julie Cheng images Avg Clouds Over Bay Joe Smith 23 Scooter Girl Scott Meyer 22 Fencing It In Eric Westling 21 Honeymoon James Gamble 21 Total Entries - 56 Gymnastic Show Helen Weng Pan 21 Participants - 17 Brighton Shadows Carmen Sewell 20 Avg. Score Little House Behind the Big Donnie Walton 19 House Leaves C. T. Edwards 19 3 Agave Ninfa Palazzolo 19 Vietnam Lady Joe Schmitt 17 Parking Garage Patterns Jane Ashley images Avg. 20.2

4 Competition Assignments for 2015 Month Pictorial Nature April Abstracts Birds May Architecture Moving Water June Lights at night Wildflowers July Vehicles Leading Lines Aug Outside your +Comfort Zone Butterflies/Moths (may include Larval forms) Sept Cultivated Flora Sunrise/Sunset Oct Urban Scapes Macro Nov Creative Trees/Leaves Dec Churches/ Mission Insects/Spiders (No butterflies) Jan 16 Landscapes Reflections Photography Exhibition The BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition will be in Houston, TX from January 30, 2015 through May 31, 2015 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Details are below. Free to museum members and available to others with a General Admission. Information about the museum can be found here: option=com_content&view=article&id=2&itemid=2 James Gamble is putting together a trip to the BBC Wildlife Exhibition (see article ion the preceding page). He will be sending information as soon as it is finalized. Assignments for April Nature Birds: The focal point of the image is a bird or a group of birds in a natural setting. The hand of man should not be present in the image. Interest and aesthetic appeal must be present in nature images. A posing bird is good, but a bird doing something is even better Pictorial Abstracts: Abstract Art (photography) can be defined as having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation. It is a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Looking Ahead to May Nature Moving Water: The image must capture moving water. In nature, moving water can be the surf, waterfalls, streams, rain, droplets of water, etc. The water can be blurred or frozen, but the viewer must sense that it is moving. The movement can be impacted by the shutter speed used to capture it and other photo techniques. Pictorial Architecture: Architectural photography is the photographing of buildings and similar structures that are both aesthetically pleasing and accurate representations of their subjects 4

5 Wildflower Trip Bluebonnets: The "Blue Triangle" (Hempstead, Brenham, to Navasota) As of March 25, about half way in the blooming cycle. Should be first good weekend, April 4-5th. Probably full strength by April I will be going this week, April 4th and will report back. Eric Other Bluebonnet Reports Charleen reports that she went out last weekend and found wonderful fields of Bluebonnets & other areas of mixed flowers. south of San Antonio. I-35 South around all the little towns in that area and got off the main roads and wandered around the back roads. Check out "Lucky" Road South (there's a South & North Lucky Rd.) There is an exit off I-35 and turn off on various side roads from there and also between Somerset and Poteet. There were some red poppies around Pearsall, but she didn't have time to really investigate that area. She followed some of the areas mentioned below in Gary Regner's posts on the web. Big Bend Bluebonnets Well it rained in Big Bend this spring turning the desert green and popping out the wildflowers. The bluebonnets were exceptional as were the desert marigolds, but there were a lot of others as well and the cactus is going to be brilliant. Big Bend has its own variant of bluebonnet which is about 16 inches tall and a very dark blue. These images were shot March Carmen I think the flowers will still be good in these areas this coming weekend, but then probably past after that. I believe (hope) flowers will be next in the Fredericksburg/Llano area. Plan to head that way mid-april & see. Charleen 5

6 Houston Photochrome Club is a member of the Gulf States Camera Club Council and the Photographic Society of America 6