President's Notes February 2024
Next Meeting
Monday, February 19, 7-9 pm, Competition: Street Photograph and Open
Held at Patton Township Municipal Building Board Room, 100 Patton Plaza, State College, PA 16803. The entrance is to the left side of the building with an easy-access sidewalk direct from the parking lot.
This meeting will be a critique of photographs submitted by club members in two categories: street photography and open. The meeting will begin with a short discussion on critiquing photographs, focused on interpretation and finding meaning. Come prepared with all your good ideas!
Club Calendar
Monday, March 18, 7-9 pm Meeting: Workshop on Long Exposure, Movement, and Sequencing. This meeting will also include David Whiteman’s presentation on Lightroom Hacks. This is an in-person meeting.
Monday, April 15, 7-9 pm Competition: Sequences
News
This week, SCPC submitted 18 photographs by club members in the second round of the PSA Inter-club Competition. Thank you to Alan Lucas, Bill Duffy, and Trica Rubio for making these selections. The photographers represented are Lisa Cirincione, Chris Creager, Jane Liechty, Scott Pilutik, Chris Taschner, Carolyn Todd-Larson, John Larson, Kelly Russo-Petrick, James Valent, Bill Duffy, and James Thomas.
Exhibition. Congratulations to Gary Schubert for his Carpe Lucem: France in SuperBlue exhibition at the Huntingdon Museum of Art in West Virginia, November 4 to February 11.
Opportunity!
Our club is looking for a new Program Committee Chair. Our current chair, Bill Duffy is moving soon. Bill has done a great job in this position!
Responsibilities include:
- Convene meetings of the Program Committee
- Make recommendations about programs and competitions
- Survey members regarding interests and proposals for programs and competitions
- Compile and announce the annual schedule of programs
- Help to organize programs and/or delegate program leadership to committee members
The planning phase is especially active between May and September.
If you are interested in helping our club in this way, please contact anyone on the Executive Committee, or Jane Liechty jane.liechty@gmail.com.
New Competition
New Competition! We are working with the Pittsburgh Photography Club on a new competition called the Keystone Salon of Photography. This effort is led by Fred Doerfler, president of the Pittsburgh Photography Club. Many thanks to Carolyn Todd-Larson who also worked hard on this effort.
We had a great field trip to the Bellefonte Art Museum on Monday, February 5, to see exhibitions by Lisa Marie Cirincione and Jim Valent. Thanks, Lisa and Jim, for your presentations and excellent work!
Save the date! We have the opportunity to do photographs for the Central PA 4th Fest again this year on July 4. More information to come. All photographers will get a pass that gives them free access to all events.
Finally, the Art of the State 2024 juried competition is open for entries from January 12- May 3, 2024. More details can be found at https://statemuseumpa.org/artofthestate/.
If you have an event or exhibition that you would like mentioned in this newsletter, please email me at jane.liechty@gmail.com. My head is like a full hard drive; anything mentioned in passing may or may not be stored in my cache for later retrieval. Email is best!
See you on Monday!
Jane Liechty