Newsblast — 01 December 2013

Tuesday, December 3, 2013, meeting: 7:00pm Login night for 2nd competition. The upload system for digital competition is ready to use. If you don’t see your name, you can email Lisa at lisabushee {at} verizon {dot} net.

7:30pm- 9:30pm – PSRI Speaker night.

New for this year is PSRI Speaker Nite – 2 accomplished PSRI photographers will speak on a topic – related experience of theirs (eg Travel, Nature, Portraits etc). The expectation is that not only will we see some nice images but also learn how the image was made, logistics and so on. Tonight’s presenters are: Mike Dooley who will be addressing “Seascapes” and Mary Doo will address “Landscape Photography.”

Anybody interested in sharing / educating – please contact Holly Trahan

PSRI Holiday Party 2013

HolidayPartyPSRI 2013 <– Print out and put on your refridgerator.

Call Louise Haley 401 822 3073 for any information

From Mary Doo, NECCC Inter-Club Digital Representative:

Please join me in congratulating our President, Karl Zuzarte, for winning 2nd Place at the Nature Section of the NECCC Fall 2013 Electronic Interclub Competition.

His winning image was “Common Tern in Flight”. This image, along with other winners, can be viewed here:
http://www.neccc.org/Comp%20Elec%20Images%20Nature%202013-11A/index.html

All winning images were selected on November 21 by a panel of 3 judges. 39 clubs participated in the Nature section (15 from Class A and 24 from Class B).

Also from Mary Doo:

Please join the Town of Richmond’s 2013 Photo Contest.
Don’t wait! The submission deadline is December 15, 2013!

Enter up to three 3 of your best shots to showcase Richmond, its landscape, nature, wildlife, and whatnot. There are so many opportunities over the seasons, endless places and great subjects to photograph.

Prizes:
1st Place: $75 gift certificate to Richmond Farmers Market and $25 gift certificate to Hunt’s Photo.
2nd Place: $50 gift certificate to Richmond Farmers Market and $25 gift certificate to Hunt’s Photo.
3rd Place: $25 gift certificate to Richmond Farmers Market and $25 gift certificate to Hunt’s Photo.
Honorable Mention: $25 gift certificate to Hunt’s Photo.

Winning images will be showcased at the Richmond Conservation Commission website. Prints will be displayed at the Town Hall.

Digital photo images should be submitted in JPG format, up to three entries per contestant, to either
richmondconservation@gmail.com or RichmondConservation@yahoo.com. Please see attached flyer for more detail.

2013_Phto_contest_Flyer

Also from Mary Doo:

Do you know if any of your photographer friends is interested in a large Gitzo tripod in excellent condition? It’s a 4 series tripod that goes up to 75+ inches, has individual leg spread and a geared centre column. Very solid and can be passed on to the great grand children! I bought it new in the mid-80s for over $600 if I remember, as much as a used car. My professional photography days are over and I don’t hire assistants to carry my equipment anymore 🙂 and in the past few years, I’ve hardly used it at all. Once last year and once this year is what I remember. It’s a bargain for what I’m asking, but few people seem to know the quality of the classic Gitzo tripods.

I’ve put it on Craigslist: http://providence.craigslist.org/pho/4209904522.html

From Mike Di Stefano:

Announcement
The Fine Art Of Photography
4th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition
Plymouth Center for the Arts

The Plymouth Guild is inviting all photographers to compete in the “Fine Art of Photography” fourth annual juried photography exhibition

The Plymouth Guild, Inc., a Massachusetts 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, owns and operates The Plymouth Center for the Arts. Our art center is located in center of historic downtown Plymouth, in a beautifully restored 1902 brick library building and an attached 1735 historic home. We are about 100 steps from Plymouth Rock. Each year, the Art Center attracts thousands of visitors and as a fully volunteer staffed community art center, offers high quality art shows in juried galleries, art classes, programs in the visual and performing arts, and other community based cultural events.

In April of 2014, we will launch our fourth juried photography exhibition known as ˜The Fine Art of Photography”. For this event we dedicate the entire Art Center, all our galleries, for a month-long show to celebrate photography. Over the last three years the show has attracted almost 2,500 entries from hundreds of local, regional, and national photographers. Last year we exhibited 220 photographs from 147 artists. The Exhibition draws a heavy attendance from the opening reception through to it’s closing.
We seek to produce a show of the highest quality and are convinced that the highly qualified photographers the “camera club culture” support are a key component towards that end. We invite the members of the Photographic Society of Rhode Island to participate, and look forward to viewing their images.

Attached is a “Save the Date” announcement that we request you post to your membership. The final prospectus will be available, January 1, 2014.