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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
Mist by Steve Balkin
“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
President: TBD
Vice-President: TBD
Treasurer: Dawn Dingee
Membership/Dues: Dawn Dingee
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Publicity: Jeff Breitman
Special Events Coordinator: Jeff Breitman
Program Director: Jeff Breitman
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Webmaster: Lazlo Gyorsok
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Hospitality:Karen Consolago
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Secretary:Denise Rueger
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Competitions:Bert Schmitz
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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
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The next Noble show for HCC is January 24, 2020 — Reception will take place Friday, January 24th at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm; closing at our February meeting 2/18/2020. Drop off dates are Saturday and Sunday, January 18th and 19th between 10:30 am and 5:30 pm
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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: "The winter cold"
The weather was predictably cold on the night of December 18th, but
our valiant group of shutterbugs convened at the Cobble for a most enjoyable
holiday dinner.
The entrée’s were plenty and deserts were grand,especially
Erick’s mousse cake. So only Jeffry and I were aware of the absence of his
chocolate egg cremes.
Click on any one of the pictures to see them in
full size. ~Steve Balkin.
Pictures by Lazlo Gyorsok and Steve Balkin
“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 "Black and White" assignment. Click on any one
of the pictures to see them in full size.
P ictures submitted by Nancy Zannini, Birgitt Pajarola, Dawn Dingee, Lazlo Gyorsok and Steve Balkin. Click on any one
of the pictures to see them in full size.
P innacles National
Park is our newest national park. It was originally established as
a national
monument in 1908 by President Theodore
Roosevelt, and was re-designated as a national park by
Congressional legislation in 2012 that was then signed into law by
President Barack
Obama in 2013.
The park is located in
Salinas Valley in Central California about 80 miles southeast of San
Jose. The park’s namesake comes from the leftovers of a volcano
that originated from the San Andreas Fault. My work takes me to
Salinas CA 3 times a year. On my last visit in early December, I was
able to do some hiking at the park with my sister. Several day
trails have been created which take you to the top by following a
series of switch backs that seem to never end. Between the top and
bottom of the High Peaks trail, just one of many trails available,
are 1,325 feet of elevation change and panoramic views. The trail is
only about 5-6 miles long but it seems much longer!
We were hoping to see
the condors as we were told they were plentiful in the park but sadly
we saw none. Actually, the only wild life we saw on our hike all day
was a few birds including a single crow. ON the drive out of the
park, I was complaining to my sister that I carried my camera and 2
lenses all the way across the country only to take a picture of a
crow and I was quite disappointed. BUT then on our drive out of the
park, we saw a coyote which I was able to capture so that made it all
worth it.
Please, click on the images to see the bigger sizes and the slideshow !
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