Fox Valley Camera Club

Hi All,

 It’s March and time for spring to make an appearance. To start the season off right we have our March meeting on the 13^th at the Town of Menasha Community Center at 7pm.

This month our challenge theme is green. As usual you can email ahead to me at ian.9993@gmail.com, or bring your images to the meeting.

 Don Lorenz has agreed to give us presentation on digi-scoping, which is using a digital camera with a telescope for very long distance shooting. Time permitting; we will also have another photographer review from Jim J. as well as all the usual get together benefits of our meetings.

 Our annual Salon contest and dinner is coming along. Judging will be on April 21^st, that’s a Saturday, and the dinner will be on the 27^th, a Friday evening. I will have the menu available at the meeting, but we will have the dinner at Ione’s in the FVTC main building. Judging’s location will be announced then also. Everyone is welcome to attend the judging, and in fact, it is encouraged as it can be very interesting.

 Salon info will be updated soon, but the basic info from 2011 will mostly still apply. We haven’t yet chosen a theme. You can view the PDF’s by following the links on the club web site, http://foxvalleycameraclub.org/ under “pages” at the top of the right hand column you find “Annual Salon Info.”

We also have a few notices and a request this month. Kathy Somers has passed on a request from Appleton West HS. They currently have 53 students on photography classes and only just over a dozen cameras. If you have working film SLRs that you are no longer using, their donation would be greatly appreciated.

WACCO’s presentation by Moose Peterson is March 10^th (this Saturday) from 9-4 at the Midway Hotel in Brookfield . This is a  100 S Moreland Rd , just at the Moreland exit of I-94. Moose will be presenting on his nature photography, and perhaps some of his work at EAA’s fly-in. Pricing is $125 for the day, including lunch.

The latest PSA newsletter, The Projector, is linked here: http://psa-photo.org/my_psa/the-projector/

Information on the following activities and programs is included in this issue:

• PSA 74th Annual International Conference
• PSA Club Forums
• PSA Youth Photography Showcase
• PSA Club, Council, & Chapter Newsletter Contest
• PSA Club, Council, & Chapter Web Site Contest
• PSA Council’s Challenge
• Lincoln Camera Club Children’s Zoo Project
• Red River Paper in a Box Program

There will be an open house at the Picture This Gallery by Dave Heim and his sons on Saturday March 24^th from 6-9 pm. The show, “Waterfalls, Landscapes and Lake Superior” will show case images Matson, Paul and Dave have taken over the past six plus years in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; specifically Alger County, Hiawatha National Forest and Picture Rocks National Lakeshore Park.

 Finally, the Louisville Art Association’s 2012 National Juried Photo Show is putting out a Call for Entries: “Last year we had entries from 21 states and we would very much like to expand that this year. This year’s awards pool has been expanded to over $8,000 in cash and other awards and there are 8 categories, more than most other shows. The link to the prospectus is http://www.louisvilleart.org/LAA_About.html (click on “shows”, then “prospectus”) and entries are submitted at CaFEhttps://www.callforentry.org/festivals.php?apply=yes. Please call me if you have questions.

Louisville Art Association 2012 National Juried Photo Show

Bob Maynard, Chairman

303-547-0807

www.coloradoplateauphototours.com

I think that’s all for now, so see you Tuesday the 13^th!

Ian Simpson

Hi all,

It’s time for the February meeting, which will be the 14^th at our usual location at the Town of Menasha Community Center. We’ll get started at 7pm. This month we will be exploring some of the things to do with all those images taking up that bank of three hard drives (you are making extra copies, right?). Over the last year or two I’ve heard several suggestions for topics, and figured that we could combine a number of these together. So if you are into prints, collages, photo books, scrapbooking, or some other results, bring it along to show.

 Our challenge theme for this month is “Love” so bring along some images to enter. You can also email them to me ahead of time at ian.9993@gmail.com if you’d rather.

  For the rest of the season our challenges will be:

March: “green”

April: “humor”

May: “cliché”

 WACCO is sponsoring a seminar with Moose Peterson on March 10^th. Details at WACCO’s website, but I’ll also have flyers at the meeting.

 I’ve also received information on a few contests and I will bring along printed copies to the meeting also, but in the meantime, check these out.

 Here’s a new wildlife photo contest to benefit the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at the Wisconsin Humane Society in Milwaukee . There are some great prizes offered and they’ve got celebrity judges like Dan Small from Public TV’s Outdoor Wisconsin, and Jim Stingl from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Here is a link to the contest web page:  http://www.wihumane.org/calendar/wlphotocontestguidelines.aspx

 Here’s another one that focuses on farm images and is sponsored by the Lake County Heritage Farm Foundation in Illinois . The link for full info is http://www.lchff.org .

PSA Wisconsin Chapter has the 2012 Wisconsin Circuit Exhibition of Photography with a due date of March 10. http://wisconet.com .

See you next week,

Ian Simpson

Tonight’s meeting will be held at Photo World, at 3115 N Roemer Rd in Appleton. Call 731-5463 for directions. Bring your own beverages (no matter what type) and pictures to pass!

Here are some photos of our library show at the Appleton Public Library.  The show is on until December 30. 2011.

Sold at auction for 4.3 million, this image by photographer Andreas Gursky is now the world’s most expensive photograph.

Underwhelmed? Many are. It is 12 feet wide (and face mounted to plexiglass), so it is quite possible that a small image online cannot do it justice.

Personally, I like the picture. I have been digging the “supremely clean and simple” photographs lately, and this image fits in that category. Yes, the horizon is sliced thru the middle, but it balances well (for a reason I cannot supply words for, perhaps this is why it is so valued?). Even though I like the image, I can’t say its something I would seek out after winning the lottery.

What are your thoughts?

Jim

Visit the Appleton Public Library from now until December 30, 2011 to see a diverse collections of photos from the talented members of the Fox Valley Camera Club.  They are on display in the main foyer of the library directly across from the entrance.