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President Howard Penn 410-544-1742 howwardpennphoto@ comcast.net
1st VP(s) Programs Donna Neal 410-551-6548 donabodona1@aol.com
Cathy Steele 410-544-3629 c.m.steele@juno.com
2nd VP Contests Chip Bulgin 410-518-6876 chip.bulgin@comcast.net
Secretary/Treasurer Sunny Frank 301-261-6181 sunnyfrank@covad.net
Delegates Dick Chomitz 410-721-5573
Webmaster David Joynerwdjoyner@gmail.com
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The Official Newsletter of the Anne Arundel Camera Club http://arundelcameraclub.org/
Programs Planned
April 2 Program April 9 Contest Digital and Mono, Open April 16 Program April 23 Contest Slide and Color Prints, Open April 30 Auction
Field Trip
April 26 Sat. Winterthur, DE
March Contests
Novice Digital - Below Two Feet March 12, 2008 1st Place Dawn Miller "Bayou Watcher" 2nd Place Angel Kidwell "Looking Up" 3rd Place Don Dement "Train Drama from the Asters" 4th Place Betty Harris "Yellow Lily with Reflection" HM David Harding "Flag" HM Betty Harris "Two Tulips" HM Bob Miller "Hungry Mantis"
Unlimited Digital -Below Two Feet March 12, 2008 1st Place Donna Neal "Spring Fling" 2nd Place Dolphy Glendinning "Fire Swan" 3rd Place Howard Penn "Three Wolf Pups" 4th Place Dolphy Glendinning "Icy Doughnut" HM Howard Penn "Bee and Shadow" HM Howard Penn "Red-Headed Duck"
Novice Monochrome Prints - Weather March 12, 2008 1st Place David Harding "High Plain" 2nd Place Dawn Miller "Storm over Glacier Valley" 3rd Place David Harding "The Snow is Coming" 4th Place Merle Bodycomb "Storm Comiing" HM Howard Penn "Snow at the Gorge" HM Howard Penn "Storm over the Bridge"
Unlimited Monochrome Prints - Weather March 12, 2008 1st Place Ernest Swanson "Into the Fog" 2nd Place Bob Miller "Alpine Hiking" 3rd Place Bob Miller "Frost" 4th Place Chip Bulgin "Distant Early Warning" HM Chuck Gallegos "Foggy Forest Road" HM Gene Crooks "Fog and Mist # 2" HM Donna Neal "Rainclouds"
Novice Color Prints - Natural Landscapes March 26, 2008 1st Place David Harding "Basalt Falls" 2nd Place Betty Harris "Reflection on Leigh Lake" 3rd Place Bob Miller "Desert Vista" 4th Place Gene Crooks "Light before the Storm" HM David Joyner "Hard Rain" HM Gene Crooks "Sunset Moonrise" HM Betty Harris "Lion and Castle"
Unlimited Color Prints - Natural Landscapes March 26, 2008 1st Place Howard Penn "Magic Moment" 2nd Place Howard Penn "Sunset after the Storm" 3rd Place Chuck Gallegos "Golden Autumn Marsh" 4th Place Ernest Swanson "Cypress Reflection" HM Chuck Gallegos "Blue Ridge" HM Ernest Swanson "Everglades"
Unlimited Slides - Selective Focus March 26, 2008 1st Place Dolphy Glendinning "Waiting for High Tide" 2nd Place Dolphy Glendinning "Bunch of Bubbles" 3rd Place Betty Harris "Two Tulips" 4th Place Betty Harris "Great Blue Heron Captiva" HM Betty Harris "Arlington Cemetery" HM Dolphy Glendinning "Fiery Petals"
The camera club’s April fieldtrip is to the beautiful estate and gardens of Winterthur, DE. Winterthur, an American country estate, is the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), an avid antiques collector and horticulturist. In the early 20th century, H. F. du Pont and his father, Henry Algernon du Pont, designed Winterthur in the spirit of 18th- and19th-century European country houses. The country estate is nestled in the heart of Delaware's beautiful Brandywine Valley. We will be able to explore the glorious 60-acre garden and surrounding landscape of woodlands, waterways, and rolling meadows. The Winterthur Experience: Adults $20 Seniors$18 Gardens and Galleries: (does not include the house) Adults $15 Seniors $13
World Wide Pinhole Photography Day Mark your calenders, pinhole photography day is on the last Sunday in April. This is an international event created to promote and celebrate the art of pinhole photography. Take some time off from the increasingly technological world we live in and to participate in the simple act of making a pinhole photograph, and help spread the unusual beauty of this historical photographic process. The Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is held each year on the last Sunday in April. Pinhole photography allows you to make a photograph that requires only a light-tight container (box, can,...) with a tiny hole in one side (as a camera) and any photo-sensitive surface in it. You can adapt an existing camera, or make the camera yourself. With your own camera, infinite depth-of-field, skewed perspectives, and slower exposures, you may ultimately become more creative and more selective about what you choose to photograph. How to Make a Pinhole Camera from an Oatmeal Can NOTE: The new Quaker oatmeal boxes have plastic lids and the bottoms are recessed 1/4 inch, so the opening in the oatmeal box needs to be centered 2 3/4 inches from the bottom of the box. Draw a small box 2 3/4 inches from the bottom of the oatmeal box (in the center of the oatmeal box). Try to place the little box beneath the smiling Quaker's face.CAREFULLY cut out the small box with an Exacto knife or with a one-sided razorblade. If you have a Dremel high-speed drill, a 3/8 inch hole can be easily bored into the box without having to use any sharp blades! After cutting the small square hole (or round hole with the Dremel), clean out any paper left in the opening. This is the "pinhole window" where the pinhole will look out at the world. Use a damp washcloth to clean out any oatmeal dust inside the box. Cut the contact paper to fit the top and bottom of the plastic lid. If your oatmeal box has a paper lid, you only need to spray paint it. If your oatmeal box is the "new" type with a plastic lid and recessed bottom, run a bead of Elmer's glue around the seam where the bottom piece attaches to the cylinder and let it dry before painting. Spray paint the inside of the box, and both the inside and outside of the lid, too. Also, spray the outside bottom after the Elmer's glue has dried. Do this on newspapers. There is an art to spray painting with aerosol cans: it is best to not "soak" the insides of the oatmeal box with paint. Spray in short bursts from several inches away, and constantly shake up the can. Use as little paint as possible because you must wait for the paint to dry before the pinhole can be installed, and because excess black paint can become "dust" after it dries. Dust is the photographer's worst enemy--it causes white spots on the finished pictures which are hard to remove. Carefully cut the ends off of an aluminum soft drink can. Cut a "pinhole plate", about 2 x 3 inches in size with rounded edges, from the aluminum can. The pinhole will be drilled in the pinhole plate. Instead of having a glass lens like "normal" cameras, the pinhole camera uses a tiny hole, a needle-sized hole, to form the picture inside the camera. The best size of pinhole for this camera body is one which is 1/100th of an inch in diameter. There is a fine needle which is that size--the #16 beading needle. Because the needle is small and difficult to handle, it must be glued into a handle to make a "pinhole drill." As illustrated below, the drill is easy to make, and once prepared, it can be used to make hundreds of pinholes in the soft aluminum stock cut from soft drink cans. Mix the epoxy in the cut-off end cap of a soft drink can. Place epoxy in the mouth of the clothspin and insert the needle until it protrudes about 1/4 inch. You may have to cut the back of the needle off to make it fit into the clothspin. If the needle protrudes more than about a quarter inch, it will easily break off when used to drill pinholes. The finished "pinhole drill" should look like this: notice the 1/4 inch length of the drill shaft. This is an important part of making a pinhole camera. It requires a delicate touch and a bit of patience. A fine pinhole will result in sharp photographs and will last for centuries! Following are the steps for using the "pinhole drill" to make a fine-quality pinhole lens. Hold the aluminum plate as shown and carefully press and rotate the "pinhole drill" until the tip of the needle barely shows through on the other side. When you see the tiny needle point sticking through the other side, stop drilling. Be careful to not push too hard on the "pinhole drill"--it must not stab completely through the aluminum on the first try. Carefully sand the tiny hole made by the needle's tip (again, a Dremel sanding bit can be used instead of fine sandpaper or emery cloth). Then, drill again, carefully and slowly until the hole is a bit larger. Sand the hole again on both sides. Drill again, sand again. It should take three or four drilling and sanding steps to get a beautiful, round 1/100th-of-an-inch-in-diameter pinhole "lens"! Finally, clean the hole by running water through it and patting it dry with a clean paper towel. Try not to touch the hole because oil and dirt from your fingers may partially fill the hole and cause it to take less sharp pictures. Before placing the pinhole plate inside the camera body, put electrical tape on two sides and make a circle of epoxy glue around the pinhole, without getting any glue on the hole itself. Then carefully place the pinhole plate inside the camera so that the pinhole is in the middle of the cut-out opening. Press the pinhole plate inside the camera for a few minutes, until the epoxy glue thickens. A tight seal around the pinhole plate prevents any light from leaking into the camera. The other place where light likes to leak into the camera is around the lid. From a file folder, measure and cut out two strips, 1 inch by 7 inches each. These strips will become the shutter guides. Cut two 10-inch strips of electrical tape and stick them over the shutter guides, leaving about 1 1/2 inches of tape overhanging each end of the shutter guides. The shutter is made from two parts. Cut a 1 1/2 x 2 inch piece from the file folder. Also cut from either the file folder or from heavier cardboard (such as a breakfast cereal box) a strip 3/4 x 5 inches long. Fold the strip in half, then bend out the two "legs" as above, put a spot of glue inside the handle and wrap electrical tape around it. Finally, glue the shutter handle onto the shutter slide. Hold the shutter handle down until the glue hardens. The result: a pinhole shutter! Place the shutter guides on the camera and align them over the pinhole box. Stick them down gently at first because adjustments will become necessary to allow the shutter to slide easily. Unstick one end of the shutter guides and insert the shutter. Re-align the shutter guides as necessary to allow the shutter to slide easily (but not too easily!) while uncovering and covering the pinhole. Ready for the last step? Slide the shutter open and, with an inkpen, make a visible mark above and below the pinhole. These marks allow you to line up the pinhole shutter's handle directly over the pinhole. This makes the shutter handle an aiming device which will be useful when you take pictures with your new pinhole camera. Finished! Notice the shutter handle sticking out from where the pinhole is located beneath the mark on the shutter guide. The smiling Quaker now is gagged; only his friendly eyes remain visible. This completes building the pinhole camera. Now it is time to set up a darkroom. Pinhole cameras must be loaded with film in a darkroom, and the pictures taken with them can only be developed in a darkroom. The drugstore wouldn't know what to do with film exposed in an oatmeal-box pinhole camera: this is a do-it-yourself process. Before loading the camera, check the "new" plastic lid to be sure that it is completely painted black, on both sides. The new lids fit tightly to the camera box, but if not completely black, light may come through causing a "light leak" and ruining any pictures made with a leaking camera!
Around Town
Sun, 06 April 2008 10:00 am
Saturday, April 12,
2008
Contact: Lloyd O. Tydings; Naturalist
Sat, 12 April 2008 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
April 12 & 13, 2008
Washington
DC New ProShow Two-Day Training Classes Join us for an unforgettable learning experience. The new, two-day ProShow Seminars offer in-depth training for both new and experienced users of ProShow. You'll learn everything from making your first show, to unlocking the power of ProShow Producer's advanced features in a hands-on classroom. Class Schedule and Topics Choose to attend one day or both. It's up to you. A discounted rate is available for customers attending both days.
Day One: Beginners
Day Two: Advanced Users Register Now: Call 1-800-37-PHOTO or click here to register for a Seminar. Remember, space is limited. Seats are awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Sat, 19 April 2008
The National Museum of Natural History Exhibit: October 30, 2007 – April 27, 2008.
Nature’s
Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards Exhibition
2007 - Sixty award-winning images from the annual Nature's
Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards competition
are displayed. Also featured are photos by the Conservation Photographer
of the Year, Howard Ruby. 2008 Nature and Digital Seminars with John Shaw Location: Tremont Grand & Conference Center, Baltimore, MD Dates/Time: April 12 and 13 , 2008, 8:30AM - 4PM
Cost: $160 for one day, $225 for the full weekend (add $20 if registering at the door) Registration: On-line at www.photosafaris.com or by calling 206-463-5383. On April 12&13, 2008 our company, Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris (photosafaris.com) is offering a weekend nature and digital photography seminar with renowned photographer John Shaw. John will be presenting on nature photography on Saturday and digital workflow and Photoshop on Sunday. We’ve held these seminars in numerous cities over the past few years and each one has been very well attended and received.
Sun, 27 April 2008 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun, 27 April 2008 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Annual Club Banquet will be held at Windows on the Bay May 21, 2008 Drinks at 6:30, Dinner to be served at 7:30
Paid reservations should be in by the May 7th club meeting. Three entrees are offered and all come with rolls and butter, a salad, unlimited non-alcoholic beverages, and dessert (chocolate mousse or seasonal berries.) All dinners are $29 and the club will pay for the tax and tip which is $7.76 per person. Alcoholic beverages are not included. Please submit your reservation using the from below to Sunny Frank. If you have questions, please talk to Sunny at a club meeting, call her at home at (301) 261-6181, or send her an email at sunnyfrank@covad.net. For those who might not be able to make a meeting, your check and dinner selection can be mailed to Sunny Frank, 1703 Peartree Lane, Crofton, MD 21114. Make checks payable to the Arundel Camera Club.
Dinner Selections:
Prime Rib of Beef – a 12oz cut of slowly roasted rib of beef, served with au jus and a creamy horseradish sauce, served with Windows’ gourmet mashed potatoes and vegetable medley.
Salmon Imperial – Fresh Norwegian Salmon fillet topped with jumbo lump crabmeat, bound in a seasoned mayonnaise, topped with Windows’ Imperial sauce, and baked golden, served with rice and vegetable medley.
Chicken Marsala – Plump boneless chicken breast grilled and topped with a Marsala wine sauce with mushrooms, served with Windows’ gourmet mashed potatoes and vegetable medley.
Windows on the Bay is located at 1402 Colony Raod in Pasadena. Their telephone number is (410) 255-1413 and their webpage is www.windowsonthebaypasadena.com .
Bring your cameras! We got some wonderful shots last year at sunset on the docks. ************************************************************************
Name(s): ________________________________________________________________ Dinner(s) @ 29.00 x ____________ = $ __________________________________ # of attendees Payment – check (preferred) or cash Dinner Choice and number (please put name if responding for more than one): Prime Rib _________________ Salmon Imperial ___________________ Chicken Marsala ___________________
Vegetarian or special dietary requirements: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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