State College Photo Club

Anupam Pal wins Smithsonian Competition

Former club member Anupam Pal has won in the 5th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest Altered Images Category. Anupam's entry, Miniature children playing in a drinking fountain. took first place.

"The fountain was shot in Pennsylvania and the children (Anupam's niece and nephews) in Chakdaha, India. 'The person in the background is me,' says Pal. 'The idea was to show the necessity of cleaner and safer water, not just for drinking but for everything.'" —Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine

Anupam's winning image may be viewed here.

Photowalk - August 9, 2008

Our next Photowalk will be August 9 at Golden Pond in Huntington County near Stone Valley.

The car pool will pull out at 9 am from the High School South Building parking lot, so make sure you show up a few minutes early. We should be out there around 9:30. If you're driving yourself, try to be out there around that time (we'll hang around for a few minutes for folks to show up).

If the parking lot is crowded (e.g. swim event going on or something), just look for us at the end that's the least crowded.

For scheduling purposes, you can figure we'll leave no later than 12, putting us back at the school around 12:30. We can certainly leave earlier if everyone's got their shots, or generally had enough of the great outdoors.

Photographs from the Polaroid Collection

There will be a photo exhibit at the Palmer Museum for three months starting July 12.

"Ansel Adams and Edward Land: Art, Science and Innovation, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection", July 12 to September 9, 2007 - Palmer Museum of Art
865-7672

July 12th, 12:10PM Lecture by Joyce Robinson,
Curator of the Palmer Museum of Art

Website Under Upgrade

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Annual winners, new categories

Annual winners for Slide, Digital and Online competitions have now been posted in the Winners' albums. In addition, everyone can now read the PSA Judge's comments on each of last year's winners of the online competition in Online Photo Contest Albums - Annual Judging Album.

The first online contest for our 2006/7 year is now open in the Online Contests Album and there is a completely new Gallery: Upload for Online Digital Contest, where members can upload images for entry in the digital section of the judged competition at meetings. Deadline for uploads is noted in each album and only club members can upload in this gallery.

Please note that starting with this year, uploaded images for both online and meeting competition should be sized to 1024 pixels on the longest side, if you are able to do it.

Digital projector has arrived

Message from Wendy Holder

"The Digital Projector has arrived and last night we had a meeting with Bill Mertens - our future webmaster, Tony - our slide projectionist, Tom King, Harry, and me. Todd Giddings, who has offered the use of his laptop couldn't attend because he is away and will return on Friday."

Annual Judging - Update

The results of our annual online contest and comments from the PSA judge are in. We will announce them in our annual awards dinner on 15th May at Hoss's

Film Developing Tip

Try YorkPhoto.com for film developing. You can do it on the internet. I have had good results. Download just the pictures you want printed. Trying to get info on making slides. Will let you know.

Update: York Photo Lab does not do color slides at this time.

Wonderful photos everyone

Congratulations, all slide and online contest winners of January and February 2006. Really outstanding work.

Don's forget to enter your photos for the current online contest and vote on the entries.

Sorting of contest entries

We now have a new way of sorting the contest entries based on number of votes received. The entries with least number of votes are placed at the top of the albums to increase their visibility. Therefore, you will notice that when you enter your votes, the order of the photos change.

Note that, the order of the entries do not reflect the score of the entries.