Greetings all,

Our first meeting of the fall is coming up this Wednesday (Sept. 8th) and I wanted to take a moment and welcome everyone back. I hope you’ve had a great summer and have had a chance to get out and make some photographs. If you have, we’d like you to share one or two of them with us this Wednesday for our “What I Shot This Summer” program. Either bring some prints or send us some files electronically. This will be a chance to introduce yourself, talk a little bit about what excites you about photography, and share some of your work with us. We’ve changed the email address to which you send in your digital competition entries, the new address is:

contests@arundelcameraclub.org

Please make a note of it and use this address for the program on Wednesday so we can iron out any kinks in the submission process. Kindly submit your digital files by Monday evening so that the new contest chairs have time to get things organized. We’ll take images on thumb drives on Wednesday evening if necessary, just arrive a little early so we have time to move the files.

There is an open theme for competitions in September, so anything goes. The competition for digital images and Monochrome prints will be held on September 15th. and the competition for slides and color prints will be held on September 29th.

Our field trip for September will be to the National Zoo in Washington D.C. on either September 18th. or 19th. We usually take a look at the weather before deciding on a the actual day. You can either travel to the zoo on your own, or join us for car-pooling or caravan-ing (is that even a word??). We’ll fine tune the details the week before the field trip. This will be an excellent opportunity to photograph animals, which happens to be the contest theme for October.

Rounding out September, our program on the 22nd. will be on food photography. Steve Buchanan, a professional shooter who specializes in food, will be doing a live demonstration at the meeting just like he’d shoot for a restaurant, magazine article, or the like. Come see what it takes to make items on the menu look so mouth watering. As a bonus, you’ll also learn why you’d never want to eat the items photographed. He’ll explain what a food stylist does, talk about compositional and lighting decisions, and answer any questions you might have. It should be a really fun evening.

For general information and questions about the club, check out our website: http://www.arundelcameraclub.org.

That’s all for now, hope to see you Wednesday.

-Chip Bulgin

This is a reminder that the club will be having an exhibit of photographs at the gallery at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church.  This is before the first club meeting of the year, so there won’t be an opportunity to give verbal reminders. Since Chuck Gallegos will be out of town, if you wish to participate [...]

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This weekend (June 26th and 27th) is the official club field trip to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in DC. For anyone going on Sunday or not planning to attend this festival at all, a group of us are planning to head down to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday June 26th. From there we’re going [...]

Just a short notice about our upcoming field trip to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on June 26th. and 27th. If you are interested in going with the club, send an email to field-trips@arundelcameraclub.org

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Hi All, Sorry for the short notice on this, but I just discovered it last night: World renowned nature and landscape photographer Art Wolfe is currently on a national speaking tour. He will be in Alexandria, Va giving a six-hour lecture/seminar on June 5th. The cost of the seminar is $195 and includes lunch. Link [...]