LENS LINES The Official Newsletter of the Arundel Camera Club May, 2004

Programs Planned May 2nd Bay Bridge Walk - See Article May 5th Business Meeting - Choose Next Year’s Themes May 8th Carrie Murray Nature Center Michael Powell Raptor Photography Lesson II - (410) 396-0808 May 12th - Club Events Contest - See Article May 15th -16th Lancaster PA, Strasburg Railroad times TBA May 19th Banquet - Deep Creek Restaurant 6:30 drinks - 7:00 Dinner and awards Guests welcome - See Form (in hard copy newsletter) The 2004 Bay Bridge Walk is scheduled for Sunday, May 2 with new heightened security requirements for participants. Motorists needing to use the bridge that day are urged to do so early in the morning. Due to heightened security for the event and the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge, no one will be able to walk directly to the bridge to participate in the walk. At the end of the walk, buses will only transport participants back to designated parking lots. All participants must go to one of three designated parking lots, pass through security screening and by 1 p.m. board specially contracted wheelchair accessible shuttle buses that will transport them to the Eastern Shore side of the bridge. Buses will begin boarding at 8:30 a.m. Designated parking areas include: q·Naval-Marine Corps Stadium (serving Washington, D.C., Southern Maryland and Northern Virginia participants); q·Anne Arundel Community College (most convenient for those traveling from the Baltimore metro area), and the Chesapeake Business Park (best for those Bay Bridge traveling from the Eastern Shore or Delaware). Security screening will include, but are not limited to searches of personal belongings. Walkers should arrive early, and anticipate security-related delays that may be extensive due to the popularity of the event. To reduce wait-time, all participants are asked to limit the size and quantity of bags and personal belongings. There are no other parking areas available for the event. No parking will be available at the Bay Bridge or at Sandy Point State Park. A $1 donation is required for participants ages six and older to help defray the cost of the buses. Drinking water and portable restroom facilities will be available on the bridge. Maryland Transportation Authority Police officers will be stationed at intervals on the bridge to render assistance to walkers. In addition, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel from Anne Arundel and Queen Anne’’s counties will be available. In the interest of safety, running or jogging will be prohibited, along with pets, bicycles, skates, roller blades and skateboards. Children in strollers and participants in wheelchairs are welcome. The walk will be canceled for inclement weather, high winds or increased security-alert levels. No alternate date will be scheduled. In the event of inclement weather, the decision to cancel the event will be made by 6 a.m. and cancellation announcements will be made on local radio and television stations. Prospective walkers can learn more about the event or the status of the walk by calling the Hotline at 1-877-BAYSPAN or by visiting the Authority’’s website at www.mdtransportationauthority.com. 3 of 4 Corners as Photographed By Howard Penn Howard once again showed members all of the interesting things seen and well exposed and framed on a few business trips. Where ever Howard travels, he visits the local zoo. He gets inside to create terrific photos of the animals. Local scenery is not neglected. Dinner is not scheduled during Sunsets. Sunrises are not slept through. Howard’s carefully composed images are a joy for us to view. Thank you Howard for another beautiful show. Major Awards!!! Promoted to Unlimited Monochrome * Heyward Preacher * Club Events Contest The club events contest is the time when all of the club winners 1st Place through 4th Place compete with each other without class separation but in the categories of Slides, Color Prints, and Monochrome Prints. Members may enter one image in each category for every Club Event attended. Events include meetings and 4th of July Celebrations, anywhere Renaissance Festival Gambrills State Park Baltimore Zoo Christmas Party 1st Night Annapolis National Aquarium Table Top Night National Cathedral Hooper’s Island & Blackwater Roedown Harper’s Ferry Bay Bridge Walk 2004 New members may have taken some photos before becoming a member at the community festival events since last May 1st. These photo images are also eligible for the awards. Enter lots of images for a grand evening of pictures and stories. Warren Kahle’s Digital Landscapes The Arundel Camera Club learned many tips and equipment ideas from Professional Photographers of America’s “Master Photographer” Warren Kahle. Mr. Kahle has been awarded their Sweepstakes Award, given to the photographer with the highest average score on four prints at their year-end convention print competition, for the last four years. He has his prints made commercially on Kodak Endura Metallic Paper (Not available today for home printers). Warren creates his mat as a border around the image to match a tone within the image as part of the file sent to the printer via e-mail. His prints can be viewed at the NASA - Goddard Visitors Center in Greenbelt, The University of MD Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland National Bank, The Rouse Company, Murdock Development Company, the Maryland Cup Corporation, Bob Evans Restaurants in Bowie and Laurel, Cetrone’s Pizza in Bowie; and many private collections. Perhaps we should invite him back to inform us about his sales skills. Warren told us of photographing landscapes with digital equipment to show prospective buyers particular properties offered for sale as part of a new real estate development that includes mountains, flat areas, lakes, and a golf course. His digital camera enabled him to be sure that the aerial photos showed the desired angle and exposure while still flying in a helicopter. The digital camera can adjust over a wide range of light conditions without having to change cameras or film. A portable 40 gig hard drive with a viewing screen supplied extra storage in a small space for each days keeper images. For this kind of photography, people should be included to supply scale. Construction equipment needs to be avoided because the advertisements want to show a calm happy settled place to live and play. Warren did use Photo Shop to trim weeds and unruly tree branches from his images. His photos had increased saturation and the competition prints were printed darker to allow for the hot lights of the viewing box. He recommended 20% or less saturation added to avoid the light areas becoming white blow-outs. Our thanks to Warren for a beautiful show. April 14th Slide Competition Our Judge is our own very experienced and happily willing Scott Dine. Many of our members have been using Scott’s suggestions in our photography this year. His long experience in Journalistic photography and editing lends a sharper focus on the important elements of the image to tell the story to the viewer. Since photo contest judges in our experience make rapid decisions, instant impact through color or cropping becomes important for contest sides and prints. The photos for the living room or the office can be much more complex because they are viewed for a longer time, we hope. Novice Slides Theme Still Life (9 entries) ( 1st Place Alan Nicholaisen “Cow Lily Pair” ( 2nd Place Chip Bulgin “Crystalline Dream” ( 3rd Place Alan Nicholaisen “High Five” ( 4th Place Chip Bulgin “On the Half Shell” Unlimited Slides Theme Still Life ( 1st Place Elizabeth Gauld “Lily in Hand” ( 2nd Place Bei Ma “Chess” ( 3rd Place Godfrey Gauld “Many Worlds” ( 4th Place Bei Ma “Curves” ( HM Elizabeth Gauld “Fan and Flower” ( HM Dolphy Glendinning “The Party’s April Field Trip To Harper’s Ferry This field trip scheduled for the Saturday before Easter was split into two sections so that more members could attend. The second section was held on the 17th of April. Spring arrives in Harper’s Ferry a bit later than Severna Park. The folks on the 10th were greeted with a chilly day while the members who returned with the group on the 17th enjoyed bright sun on a very warm Spring day. Several members admitted to this editor that they went and enjoyed the hills surrounding Harper’s ferry. Jean Friday was happy to climb the walk for a better view of the valley. It will be interesting to see the images captured by Alan Nicholaisen, though he was not showing any last week. Hayward Preacher did have some unusual views of the railway. He walked way up the hill path. This editor was unable to get stories from the rest of the members who attended. Roedown Steeple Chase in Foul Weather Alan Nicholaisen, Jean Friday, Sunny Frank, Don Dement, And Betty Harris braved the wind and the threat of rain to attend this year’s Roedown steeple chase in Davidsonville. Due to the conditions, many people did not make the drive to the races which gave our photographers lots of room along the fence line. The horses ran and jumped fences while the five members of our club sloughed through the muck practicing panning and action shots. We would like to THANK Sandy Springs Bank for feeding our members lunch since the normal food vendors were not able to set up due to the wet conditions. NOTE from our WEB MASTER The Arundel Camera Club website URL is now http://arundelcameraclub.org/ Camera Club Member's image galleries are at Arundel Camera Club Galleries on PBase and are linked from the club website. Arundel Camera Club meets every Wednesday evening when school is in session. We meet at 7:30 and usually end around 9:00 p.m. at Severna Park High School, 60 Robinson Road, Severna Park in room G144. Meetings are open to the public, but only dues paying members may enter competitions. Annual dues are $15 per adult, $7.50 per full-time student. If a second family member joins the club, the second member's dues are discounted 50% or $7.50. For further information, check on the club website or feel free to call or e - mail any of the club's officers: President Howard Penn (410) 544-1742 e - mail hbpenn@erols.com 1st VP(s) Programs: Dolphy Glendinning (410) 267-0956 & Sara McNeely e-mail - saragary@ieee.org 2nd VP(s) Contests: Alan Nicolaisen (410) 757-3243 & Ernie Swanson e-mail - miswanson@aol.com Secretary / Treasurer Betty Harris (410)-729-0255 e - mail ef.harris@verizon.net Delegate Jean Friday 1 year (410) 647-3609 Delegate Ernie Swanson 2 year (410) 987-1066 Do you have and Idea for an Article for your Newsletter? Please e-mail your contributing article to the Newsletter Editor at tsquared@toad.net by the 4th Wednesday of Any Month to... Be a PUBLISHED AUTHOR and Make your Newsletter more interesting to our members!