State College Photo Club
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March 2023 Edition
From Carolyn Todd-Larson, 2022-2023 President
President’s Notes are intended to provide you with current news about the photo club and a notice and agenda for the next meeting. They are also emailed to dues-paying club members usually a few days prior to our next meeting.
Next Meeting Monday March 20 7:00 pm
Meeting location:
Patton Township Municipal Building Board Room
100 Patton Plaza
State College, PA 16803
Entrance is to the left side of the building with an easy access sidewalk direct from the parking lot
Meeting Agenda: Theme: Print Competition plus Open Digital Competition
Themes for both competitions are “Open”.
Detailed instructions for the print competition were emailed to you. Please bring your print(s) to the meeting. Prints should be printed on the photo paper of your choice. The size limit is no more than 12”x 8.5”. It should be unframed and unmatted. However, if desired you can mount on foam core. Put your name and the photo title on the back of the print.
We are pleased to host Danielle Crowe, Advanced Photography Instructor for the State College Area School District, who will be judging the prints in person and providing live feedback.
For the open digital competition, please go ahead and score the photos by 12 noon on Monday by visiting https://pollunit.com/polls/2023march-scpc-opendigital. When you try to score the first photo it will ask you if you want to continue as guest or login. Continue as guest and provide your name.
Upcoming Dates:
January 10-April 4: State College Photo Club Exhibit at the Elk Creek Café + Aleworks,Millheim, PA. Tear-down date is the morning of April 4. Please see announcements about this soon.
March 19, 2023: Photo Club Luncheon at Elk Creek Café + Aleworks. There are a few more openings for lunch. Email Bill Duffy at wjduffypa@gmail.com to make a reservation
March 20, 2023: Monthly Meeting Competition “Print (Any Subject)”, or Open.
April 1, 2023: PSA Inter-club competition 3rd Round photos due
April 4, 2023: Hanging date forState College Photo Club exhibit at Schlow Library, downtown State College – please see announcements about this soon.
April 17, 2023: Monthly meeting. Guest Speaker: R. Thomas Berner on Photojournalism. This is intended to help prepare you for the Photojournalism competition in July.
May 15, 2023: Competition Theme “Not Your Ansel Adams Landscape” and Advice Session
For more dates, please consult the Calendar-at-a-Glance at www.statecollegephotoclub.org
Announcements:
Revised Website! Thank you to Ann Taylor-Schmidt, Jane Liechty and Brad Shearer for their help in fixing a broken website. We have a workable website now, that also works with iPhones, but we need to work some more on getting it up to speed in terms of photo uploads and other issues. We expect to tweak and refine it over the coming months. Please visit www.statecollegephotoclub.org and check it out!
PSA Inter-Club Round Two: Congratulations to David Whiteman for achieving a Merit Award for his photo “Refraction” in the second round, which was judged by the Edinburgh Photographic Society in Scotland.
The results for all the photos submitted are as follows:
| Black Moshannon | Brad Shearer | 9 | |
| Atlantic City Shoreline | Carolyn Todd-Larson | 9 | |
| Refraction | David Whiteman | 13 | Merit |
| Golden | James Valent | 9 | |
| Sharpie | Lou Saporito | 10 | |
| Sunset at Bass Hole | William Duffy | 8 |
The good news is that we are ranked seventh out of twenty in the overall standings in Group F.
State College Youth Showcase: Thank you to everyone who helped to vote on the Youth Showcase photos. 65 photos in total were submitted. Your votes helped us narrow down the final choices. On Monday March 13 Carolyn Todd-Larson, Lisa Cirincione, Richard Shore, and Ann Taylor-Schmidt made the final choices of 14 photos. We believe we have some very strong candidates for this year’s PSA showcase. We will announce and show the photos on Monday March 20 at our regular meeting, and once we get the permissions needed, we can display them on our website and on Facebook.
Photography Opportunities in the Near Future:
Art Alliance Photography Class: Check this out at https://artallianceofcentralpa.org/
The Penn State Pow-Wow: April 22-23. “Powwows are American Indian celebrations of community and spirituality, featuring American Indian drum and dance as well as American Indian vendors offering American Indian arts and crafts items.” If you are interested in a fabulous photojournalism opportunity plan to attend! For more info visit https://www.bellisario.psu.edu/powwow
Central PA 4th Fest: It’s back! As it was before the pandemic. The photo club has a tradition of providing photographers to document the events and fireworks. We are again being invited to provide photographers for the 4K race, the parade, the fireworks, and all the activities at the venue during the 4th of July celebration. We will discuss at our Monday meeting. Again, another photojournalism opportunity! Check out their website at https://www.centralpa4thfest.org/.
We look forward to your presence on Monday March 20!
Carolyn Todd-Larson
President