July 2018 Vol. 35, No. 7

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1 In This Issue President s Letter Page 3 Digital Scores Page 4 Year End Party and Awards Page 5-6 Upcoming Events Page 7 Useful Web Resources Page 7 Members Images Page 8-16 Board Meeting Minutes Page 17 July 2018 Vol. 35, No. 7 Dennis Ostgard The Watchman in Moonlight, Zion National Park 1

2 InFocus, the Newsletter of the Puget Sound Camera Club The Puget Sound Camera Club (PSCC) welcomes new members of any level of expertise in digital and film photography. The Club meets the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at Maplewood Presbyterian Church in Edmonds, Washington. Activities include education, review of work, and exhibition opportunities. The Club was organized in 1984 and is a member of the Photographic Society of America and the Northwest Council of Camera Clubs. Officers Phone President Margery Robison Vice-President Jack Broom Secretary Mary Tevis Treasurer Yvonne Shimek Digital Director Dave Patzwald Print Director Chris Currie Member-at-Large Henry Heerschap Committees Chairperson Phone Archives Henry Heerschap Audit Mary Pease Digital Dave Patzwald Education Jack Broom Equipment Henry Heerschap InFocus Editor Henry Heerschap Membership Lynne Greenup NWCCC Delegate Lauren Heerschap Prints Chris Currie PSA Representative Renata Kleinert PSA Nature Competition Renata Kleinert PSA Pictorial Competition Renata Kleinert Refreshments Emily Patzwald Webmaster Henry Heerschap Puget Sound Camera Club (PSCC): Northwest Council of Camera Clubs (NWCCC): Photographic Society of America (PSA): 2

3 President's Message Hi PSCC Members, We have just had our 2018 Year End Banquet with a very tasty dinner and many members being honored with service and photography awards. Officers were elected and Kelsey Barnes, a University of Washington student in Museum Studies, provided a program about the photography of former members Paul and Shirley Kovac. If you missed the banquet this year, I hope you can attend next year. Election of officers for several positions included: Margery Robison for President, Jack Broom as Vice President, Chris Currie as Print Director, and Henry Heerschap for a second two-year term as Member-at Large. To facilitate recruitment of new officers and to meet requests for more education, the Board has restructured the Vice President's job to have it focused on educational programs while Henry Heerschap, in his Member-at-Large position, will take on planning and advertising field trips. Please think about volunteering to be on the new Field Trip Committee to work with Henry. The digital, print and photo journalism awards given out for our amazing photos are listed elsewhere in this newsletter. As your newly elected President, I'd like to tell you a little more about myself. I have been a member of PSCC since April 2014 and Vice President for one year. I was introduced to photography during childhood as my father and both grandfathers were active amateur photographers. I loved helping Dad in the darkroom and learned about light meters and f-stops early on. Didn't make it easy when my friends with Brownie cameras were getting better photos, but now I'm ever so grateful for that start. Photography as a hobby came and went over the years while family and career responsibilities were taken on. Currently I enjoy landscape, macro, and night photography. As club VP this past year, I've had an opportunity see what is involved in keeping the organization operating and enjoyed getting to know other officers and club members better. Even with this experience, the presidential role will be new and I'll greatly appreciate all of your patience, assistance and good wishes. Finally, I'd like to personally thank Lauren Heerschap for her enthusiastic and capable leadership as President the past four years and hope to continue at her high level. Following a very successful field trip to Dunn Gardens in May we are taking a bit of a break from formal field trips for the summer. If you have the urge to help plan one during this time, please contact Henry Heerschap at henry@heerschap.com. Our next social event will be the Annual Ice Cream Social on Digital Night, August 13. Be sure to bring your favorite topping and the Board will provide the ice cream. Margery (AKA Margie) Robison July Assignments Digital Panoramas Print Old & Rusty For the full list of assignments, go to Margery Robison Giant Himalayan Lily Seedpods 3

4 June 2018 Digital Images Competition Assignment: Sports Judges: Margery Robison, Danika Pease, Jack Broom Commentator: Marc Weinberg MP most popular Category Title Maker Total Assignment Village Sports Day, Pemba Island, Tanzania Marc Weinberg 24 First Place, MP Belly Flop Marc Weinberg 23 Sailing Regatta & Wind Surfing Mary Pease 22 Looking for the Next Jump Lynne Greenup 21 The Horse Show Renata Kleinert 21 Baseball Edith Wang 20 Fund Run Start Andy Royce 19 Altered Reality Growing Fire Danika Pease 24 First Place, MP Unusual Black Eyed Susans Mary Pease 21 Creatures Eel for Lunch Lori Jones 24 First Place, MP Ring Neck Andy Royce 23 Swans Renata Kleinert 23 Open Old Montana Danika Pease 24 First Place The Watchman in Moonlight, Zion National Park Dennis Ostgard 24 First Place, MP Haleakala with Clouds Bill Royce 23 The Golden Rock Craig Rowley 23 Dials and Gauges Craig Rowley 22 Iris Renata Kleinert 22 It's Nice to be Liked Henry Heerschap 22 Mountain Bluebird Lynne Greenup 22 View From Monet's Bridge #2 Lauren Heerschap 22 The Iris Painter Henry Heerschap 22 The Mittens and Merrick Butte Bill Royce 22 The Thinker and the Tower Dave Patzwald 22 Twisted Attila Laszlo 22 Boy at Crane Festival Chris Currie 21 Chihuly Edith Wang 21 Coquille River Lighthouse Dennis Ostgard 21 Paris Opera House Dave Patzwald 21 Giant Himalayan Lily Seedpods Margery Robison 21 Here We Have Barnacles Jack Broom 21 Magnolia Blossom Jack Broom 21 Gerbera Daisy Chris Currie 21 Soothing Sight Mary Pease 21 Ursem, Noord Holland Lauren Heerschap 21 Guardians of the Garden Lynne Greenup 20 Poppy Emerging Margery Robison 20 Red Cloud Church Andy Royce 20 Fish Chris Currie 19 4

5 2018 PSCC Year End Banquet and Awards Another great PSCC party commemorating great photography and good friends, not to mention delicious food. We elected Margery Robison as President, Jack Broom as Vice President, and Chris Currie as Print Director. Henry Heerschap agreed to stand for reelection as Member-at-Large. Dave Patzwald (Digital Director), Mary Tevis (Secretary) and Yvonne Shimek (Treasurer) will continue in their positions. Big thanks to Lauren Heerschap and Al Koskie for their contributions to the club. UW Museum Studies graduate Kelsey Barnes put on a wonderful presentation featuring the work of late PSCC members Paul and Shirley Kovac, putting their work together in the context of the Seven Elements of Art. She presented us with examples of Paul s printed black and white work as well as a slideshow of Shirley s Crystal Photography. Kelsey also made available money to fund a new award for 2019: the Paul and Shirley Kovac Creativity Award for uniquely creative work by PSCC members. Kelsey was presented with a card signed by members present as well as a print of one of Shirley s crystal photographs. Outgoing President Lauren Heerschap presented the Lucille Ainsworth Service Award to incoming President Margery Robison for Margie s great work as Vice President, putting together wonderful education events and field trips. The George Ferrara Mentor award went to Bill Ray for his education efforts, both inside the club and beyond. See the next page for the winners of the Print, Digital, and Photojournalism Awards. 5

6 2018 Year End Awards Ray Thorsteinson Award for Best Photojournalism Jeanine Langerud Looking for Bargains in Hong Kong Digital Image of the Year Lynne Greenup Digital First Place Henry Heerschap Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park Digital Second Place Jeanine Langerud Clematis Digital Third Place Bill Ray Elegant Dismount Print Image of the Year Henry Heerschap Sunrise in Tucumcari Print Third Place Bill Royce Morning at Denny Park Print First Place Henry Heerschap Floating Umbrellas Print Second Place Lynne Greenup San Xavier Mission Print Honorable Mention Jack Broom Poppy Emerging Print Honorable Mention Bill Royce Reflections on Ice 6

7 Upcoming Events Education Night July 30 Maplewood Presbyterian Church 7 to 9 PM. What s in Your Image with Bill Royce Join Puget Sound Camera Club for an exciting and informative evening of learning more about image analysis and several new techniques available in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC taught by our own award-winning member Bill Royce. Bill has recently become certified by PSA as an Instructor of Image Analysis and has great skill using Lightroom and Photoshop. One of the exciting topics he will cover is ways of fixing boring skies. For this demonstration, Bill needs a few images (reasonably high quality JPG) with boring sky. So bring one on a thumb drive if you wish. Several will be selected to fix. The meeting will be held at Maplewood Presbyterian Church, th Ave W, Edmonds, We will be taking free-will contributions of $5 from each attendee to help offset the costs of future education nights. For examples of Bill s photographic art, see Useful Web Links Digital Asset Management guru Peter Krogh has a very interesting system for digitizing old photos using a DSLR (or mirrorless camera) and Lightroom. He sells a whole course on his techniques, but has an excellent summary in this video recorded at B&H Photo in New York City. He worked this out while digitizing his own family archive. Well worth watching all the way through if you re considering doing this yourself. There are lots of great resources on landscape photography on the web, dealing with technical issues, gear, and the rest. Creativity is an area that can always use more emphasis. That s covered in the article Five Advanced Landscape Photography Tips by photographer Spencer Cox. Another creative tool is the notion of conceptual contrast. Instead of contrasting colors or tones, you look for contrasting subjects. Wet and dry, soft and rough, hot and cold are all examples. Here s a good article on the subject: 7

8 Renata Kleinert Swans The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation. Susan Meiselas Andy Royce Ring Neck We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us. Ralph Hattersley Mary Pease Sailing Regatta & Wind Surfing 8

9 Bill Royce The Mittens and Merrick Butte Craig Rowley Dials and Gauges Lynne Greenup Looking for the Next Jump Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. Diane Arbus Dennis Ostgard Coquille River Lighthouse 9

10 Everybody looks at what I am looking at, but no one sees what I see. Fèlictè de Lamennais Renata Kleinert Iris Jack Broom Magnolia Blossom Chris Currie Gerbera Daisy Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities. Frederick Sommer 10

11 Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. Paul Strand Danika Pease Growing Fire Edith Wang Chihuly Lauren Heerschap View from Monet s Bridge The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. Andy Warhol 11

12 A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths. Anonymous Marc Weinberg Bellyflop Renata Kleinert The Horse Show Marc Weinberg Village Sports Day, Pemba Island, Tanzania My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera s eye may entirely change my idea. Edward Weston 12

13 Henry Heerschap The Iris Painter Chris Currie Boy at Crane Festival Mary Pease Soothing Sight Dave Patzwald The Thinker and the Tower 13

14 Danika Pease Old Montana Craig Rowley The Golden Rock Bill Royce Haleakala with Clouds Lynne Greenup Mountain Bluebird Jack Broom Here We Have Barnacles 14

15 To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. Henri Cartier-Bresson Lori Jones Eel for Lunch Henry Heerschap It s Nice to be Liked Attila Laszlo Twisted A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. Irving Penn 15

16 Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. Sebastian Smee Dave Patzwald Paris Opera House Lauren Heerschap Ursem, Noord Holland Mary Pease Unusual Black Eyed Susans Life is like a camera. Just focus on what s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don t work out, just take another shot. Anonymous 16

17 Minutes of the PSCC Board of Directors Meeting - June 18, 2018 The meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM. Present were Lauren Heerschap, Henry Heerschap, Margery Robison, Dave Patzwald, Yvonne Shimek, Al Koskie, Jack Broom, Chris Currie Mary Pease, and Lynne Greenup. A motion was made to approve the minutes taken on May 21, 2018; the motion was seconded and passed. VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT: A big thank you goes out to Margery for her excellent job as Vice President, for wonderful education opportunities and field trips this past year. She has now volunteered to step up as a nominee for the position of President. Henry Heerschap has kindly volunteered to be the director of the field trips and is looking to the membership for ideas for future trips as well as leaders. At this time there are no summer field trips planned. Details of future field trips will be in the next newsletter or ed to the membership. TREASURER'S REPORT: Yvonne Shimek reports that the bank balance for PSCC as of June 2018 is $2996. We currently have 60 members and at this time there are no members dues in arrears. Mary Pease volunteered to do the audit of the PSCC books in July Thank you, Mary. OLD BUSINESS: Dave Patzwald, Digital Director, reports that the digital entries for the Year End Awards have been judged by the PSA Study Group and ribbons have been ordered. Al Koskie, Print Director, reports that the prints for the Year End Awards have been judged and ribbons and plaques have been ordered. It was discussed that an honorarium for judging of prints be paid to Alan Moody. Motion was made for $50 honorarium, seconded and passed. University of Washington student, Kelsey Barnes will present her Museum Presentation class project of the Kovac's photography, at the Year End meeting, June 25, Her project consists of a display of Paul Kovacs' black and white photography. A slideshow of Shirley Kovacs' crystal photography will be presented as well. In honor of former members, Paul and Shirley Kovac, a new Creativity Award will be established for next year. This new award will be explained to the membership in a future . The award has been funded with the proceeds of the sale of items of the Kovacs' camera equipment. NOMINATING COMMITTEE: Lauren Heerschap thanks Mary Pease, Lynne Greenup and Bill Royce for their time and effort in finding nominees for the positions, President, Vice President and Print Director. The nominees are: Margery Robison for President, Jack Broom for Vice President and Chris Currie for Print Director. NEW BUSINESS: Webmaster, Henry Heerschap, discussed the new service for website hosting that will be a safer and more secure site for the PSCC business. The new service is called SiteGround. FIELD TRIP COMMITTEE: Henry hopes to have one overnight field trip next year. He looks forward to suggestions and research by members for future field trips. A delegate from PSCC, for the Northwest Council of Camera Clubs, is needed. Discussion followed, and Margery moved to elect Lauren Heerschap, who accepted. Motion was seconded by Yvonne Shimek and passed. Location for the July 16, 2018 Board Meeting will be determined, and information sent out in an to the membership. The meeting was adjourned at 8:25 PM. Respectfully submitted, Lynne Greenup, substitute for Secretary 17