Eyeglasses by Mary Jean Winkler
“Photography
is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in
an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you
see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
Elliott Erwitt
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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
President: TBD
Vice-President: TBD
Treasurer: Dawn Dingee
Membership/Dues: Dawn Dingee
d1295@aol.com
Publicity: Jeff Breitman
Special Events Coordinator: Jeff Breitman
Program Director: Jeff Breitman
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Webmaster: Lazlo Gyorsok
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Newsletter: Lazlo Gyorsok
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Hospitality:Karen Consolago
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Secretary:Denise Rueger
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Competitions:Bert Schmitz
bschmitz@att.net
Salon Committee:
Brian Wilcox
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Lazlo
Gyorsok
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Bill Devoti
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Projector Coordinator: Brian Wilcox
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Liaison Representatives: PSA
- Jane Rossman
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NECCC - Bert Schmitz
bschmitz@att.net
Proud member of:
The Show at the Housatonic Frame Shop in Cornwall Bridge will
start on Oct 11 and run for two weeks. Opening reception Oct11th 5-8pm.Three
pictures maximum by participants.Hanging on the 10th.
The show will on display until Saturday October 26 end of business day. Work can be picked up any time Saturday or during the following week just set up a time with Steve Sperduto, the owner to meet. If you have any questions or need help in the framing of your work (provided at a discount rate) feel free to contact him at 860.619.8097, leave a message if he is not in with your name and phone number and he will get back to you promptly or contact him by email at
sssfineart@hotmail.com
Let
Lazlo know if interested.
Download Entry Form
Both Jeff and Dawn are stepping down as Co-presidents of the camera club. The club is currently looking for one or more of our members to step in as President. There are several other committee positions open such as VP and Salon Committee. If interested in any of these positions, please let Jeff or Lazlo know
Assigned Topic for the next month will be: "Autumn Colors"
Storybehind the pictures:
Since my unforgettable trip last
March, I was busy moving to Kent. My life entered a very chaotic, stressful
period and the last thing I could not do, was taking my camera out and create
something. However, I had tickets for Jacob's Pillow in Becket, Mass. and
went earlier than the professional performance took place. I wandered around
and came to the spectacular Inside/Out stage where some young kids were
rehearsing for a free performance later on
. My camera was packed btw.
moving objects in my car, totally unused since month.. I did not have the
time and care, nor did I remember how- and best to focus. Set aperture or
anything else, I just clicked like any smart phone user but with a Fuji
camera that needs some manual love. Fortunately the battery was not dead.
Here is the result.
“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
Click on any one of the pictures to see them in full size.
“Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
I hope all members had a good summer with lots of great photographs
that you will submit for the NECCC and PSA competitions this year. There
are some changes for the competitions in this new season, the most important
one is the bigger size of the images we can now submit.
Please read
the changes below and start preparing your images. For NECCC and PSA competitions,
images can now be 1400 pixels in the horizontal direction and 1050 pixels
in the vertical direction. Photographs must fit within those dimensions.
Unless your photograph’s proportions are in the exact ratio of 4 to
3, one of these dimensions will be less than the maximum. For example, if
you have a vertical photograph, the height will be 1050 pixels, but the
width will be significantly less than 1400 pixels. A square photograph will
be 1050 pixels by 1050 pixels under these rules. It is suggested (though
not a requirement) that entries be saved with the proper amount of compression
so that the file size does not exceed 800-1000 KB. If saving from Photoshop,
a quality setting of between 7 and 9 is usually sufficient to produce a
high quality file. Keeping the file size small makes e-mailing and handling
easier. It is strongly suggested that all photographs be converted to the
sRGB color space. That color space most closely approximates the capability
of monitors and projectors to display color and usually results in the best
presentation of your image.
By entering these competitions you give NECCC/PSA
permission to reproduce your photographs in connection with the activities
and publicity of the NECCC/PSA including display on the NECCC/PSA Internet
site. The copyright, however, remains with the photographer and the photographer
will receive credit when his/her photograph is used. If you object to this
stipulation, please do not enter your photographs.
Once a photograph
has been entered by the Housatonic Camera Club into a NECCC Interclub Competition
(either pictorial or nature), it may never be entered again. Entering a
photograph into the NECCC pictorial category means it may never be entered
in the NECCC nature category; also, a photograph entered in the NECCC nature
category may never be entered in the NECCC pictorial category. (Note: This
rule is for photographs the Housatonic Camera Club sends out to the NECCC
competitions, not for the in-house club competition.)
Photographs entered
by the Housatonic Camera Club in the NECCC competition, can be also entered
in the PSA competition.
Read the instructions how to resize for the web
Here is a short instructions on how to login and vote on the website.
A few pictures from the "Red and Black" assignment. Click on any
one of the pictures to see them in full size.
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P ictures from NECCC Nature Competition , October 2019. Click on
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P ictures from NECCC Nature Competition , October 2019. Click on
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P ictures from Members Showcase September 2019. Click on any one
of the pictures to see them in full size.
P ictures from Housatonic Frame Shop show 2019. Click on any one
of the pictures to see them in full size.
Sossusvlei, Naukluft by Birgitt Pajarola |
![]() Oryx''s meager breakfast by Birgitt Pajarola |
![]() Sossusvlei, Namibia by Birgitt Pajarola |
![]() Heron and the Fishermen by Lazlo Gyorsok |
Please, click on the images to see the bigger sizes and the slideshow !
Webmaster/Newsletter Editor:Lazlo Gyorsok