This year’s winners of the Image of the Year

You can see their photographs in the small gallery below.

These photographs came from those competed through the year and won a ribbon. Based on the cumulative competition results, the ranking in various competition classes are as follows:

Dennis Goulet, with Mike Di Stafano

Additionally, Dennis Goulet received the Charlie Miller Award for his photography, mentoring, and his work for the organization.

Congratulations to all.

Here are the images of the year:

This message is from Christina Richardson, chair of Multiscreen Competition

Wanted! Images for the MultiScreen Competition!

PSRI will be holding the MultiScreen Preselction Night on March 22nd 2011. In order to keep with the tradition of digital images being accepted up until midnight prior to a competition, Images for this preselection night will be accepted up until midnight on Sunday, March 20th.

Images must be submitted by March 20th

• Images must have been taken after May 1st 2010.
• Digital images should be submitted to multiscreen@psri.us

Sizing Files:

• Images should be no larger than 1024×768 @ 72 resolution. The maximum width of an image is 1024 pixels and the maximum height of an image is 768 pixels.

Naming Files:

• Naming files requires the subject’s number (found below), the subject’s name, the club’s name, and your name (last name first)
  Example: 10_funny_psri_richardson christina
• You may enter up to three images per subject. If you are entering more than one image per subject then you must identify your individual images within a subject with a 1, 2, or 3:
  10_01_funny_psri_richardson_christina
  10_02_funny_psri_richardson_christina
  10_03_funny_psri_richardson_christina
• A couple of the subject names may be too long to fit in the file name. Please use the provided shortened version of the name found in parentheses after the subject name. For example, a file name for Field of Dreams should look like this:
  19_fieldod_psri_richardson Christina.

And the Subjects are:

If you have any questions, please contact Christina Richardson at christinabeth@cox.net. Thank You!

They were running very strong sales, but I have just received a new e-mail with better deals yet. In case you do not get their e-mail newsletters, I thought I would share the e-flyer with you. The discounts I see on it are better than what people told me there today. For instance, there was a 10% discount I believe on ColorMunki on the floor, now I see $65 discount. On X-Rite ColorChecker Passport they were offering 10% or $10 I am not sure, but in the flyer the discount is $18. There are other goodies to test-drool over too!

Hunt’s Show Deals

It all ends on 11/07/2010, 11:59PM. Worth a look.

(article from Aug 2nd (yesterday) … so tomorrow means today)

Sky viewers might get to enjoy some spectacular Northern Lights, or aurorae, tomorrow. After a long slumber, the Sun is waking up. Early Sunday morning, the Sun’s surface erupted and blasted tons of plasma (ionized atoms) into interplanetary space. That plasma is headed our way, and when it arrives, it could create a spectacular light show.

“This eruption is directed right at us, and is expected to get here early in the day on August 4th,” said astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). “It’s the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time.”

The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, was caught on camera by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) – a spacecraft that launched in February. SDO provides better-than-HD quality views of the Sun at a variety of wavelengths.

Rest of the article

View the post at KeptLight.com

PSReye Magazine Cover

The PSRI magazine, PSReye Focus is on sale at 25% savings. In case you did not get a chance to purchase your own copy, or want to purchase additional ones for yourself or friends, the sale is offered directly by MagCloud and will end on March 21, 2010.

Shipping charges depend on the delivery speed, the lowest cost option at $1.40 per magazine arrives within about one week. MagCloud accepts PayPal or credit card payments and you will receive your copy in your mailbox within about one week although they indicate 1-2 weeks.

PSReye Magazine Cover

The PSReye Focus magazine, featuring the photographs and articles of PSRI members and Providence College photography students is available for purchase. It is the result of the hard work of two Providence College students, Emma Hansen and John Vaghi with contributions from many photographers and the keen and critical eye of the editorial board of the magazine. It is published on an on-demand printing platform and anyone can purchase as many copies as they want. The photographic contributions are great so is the print and paper quality. It should make an excellent Christmas gift or stocking stuffer for the photo buff and art lovers.

Order it directly from MagCloud. The holiday price until January 1, 2010 is $12.50 plus shipping. After that the price will go up to $15.00 plus shipping. Shipping charges depend on the delivery speed, the lowest cost option at $1.40 per magazine arrives within about one week. MagCloud accepts PayPal or credit card payments and you will receive your copy in your mailbox within about one week although they indicate 1-2 weeks.

We hope that you enjoy the magazine, which is most likely a camera club first.

A Photograph from The Exhibit

Photographer Mark Starr of (see his web site) will show photos of the Point Judith Fishing Community atthe South Kingstown Public Library/Peace Dale, 1057 Kingstown Rd., Peace Dale RI 02879 on Thursday, May 14, at 7 PM.

For more information: 789-1555
For directions: www.skpl.org

Mark Starr received a B.A. from Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Ct. He exhibits work and has won numerous prizes at the Mystic Arts Center, the Slater Memorial Museum and the Norwich Center for the Arts, and a portfolio of his work has appeared in the fine-art black and white magazine Lenswork. He is a selected artist at the Mystic Arts Center, as well as a member of the Artist’s Cooperative Gallery and the American Child Photographers Charity Guild.

He says of this presentation:

Having spent years in a museum environment documenting the area’s rich whaling and fishing history, I soon realized how important it was to record this industry before it, too, disappears. Over the past year I have had the privilege of accompanying many of the vessels on their journeys in order to photograph the fishermen at their work. One of the most surprising discoveries I made was how directly these black-and-white images create a continuum with the past. These fishermen proudly display black-and-white photographs of their family’s fishing heritage. Today’s images help them see that they are part of something larger than themselves—part of the great legacy reflected in those early images.