Competition & General Meeting Night - May 15, 2012

Sue Craft our President welcomed 45 members and 3 guest to our May “AV Events” Competition and General meeting this evening

We started our evening off with Christine Wilkins announcing our judges Maya Sugarman & Christina Ramos from AV Press for this evenings AV Events competition. For this evening’s competition, we had 39 entries, 3 Prints Master; 15 Digital Master; 6 Digital Advanced Amateur; 9 Digital Amateur; 6 Digital Novice. Ms. Sugarman & Ms. Ramos gave brief critiques on each image as presented this evening.  All of the entries can be viewed on the results page.

Congratulations to all who won and thank you to all who participated. A Certificate of appreciation, honorary membership was presented to both of the judges and no host dinner as Greenhouse Café was held before the meeting with them. Thank you to everyone who helped make tonight a success.

Bryan Hudson welcomed our guest, new members and returning members.

Lyle Trustee & Dale Ware, our Nominating Committee presented the slate of candidates and called for a vote. President: David Wilkins; Vice President: Douglas Wade; Secretary: Holly Peskin; Treasurer: Terri Garner; and 2 Board Mbr positions: Helen Henry and Bonnie Matthews. A notice of Acclamation will be made and a vote will be taken by a show of hands rather than a ballet vote with only one candidate per position.  The Chairman called for the vote, via show of hands, vote passed, officers elected.  At the June General meeting the slate of officers will be sworn in office.

Lyle Trusty announced he had name tags to be picked up and if any members wants LPA name tags to see him.

It’s that time of year…Memberships Dues are due…see Terri Garner once you have either downloaded the LPA Application and completed it or pick one up at the meeting at the front table as you walk in.

Sue Craft announced that LPA now has a new Sound System!

Sue announced it was time for our annual Audit and we were in need of an audit committee of (2) members to perform the audit in July. Bill Liberto and Tom Van Langenhoven both volunteered.

Programs –June – Year End LPA Competition; Year End  George Glennie Slide Show LPA entrants and LPA winners; Bodie/Mono Lake Inspirational Field Sept 2012 trip; AVUHSD Youth Photos for PSA Intl Comp; LPA INstallaTion of officers.

Workshops- May –Photojournalism- Ray Santana;  June –Wedding Photography - Christine Romas (AVPress) (maybe); July – Sports Photography- Maya Sugarman (AV Press).

Competitions - June – Year End Competition; July – Action.

Field Trips –Jun 1 – Hot Air Balloons, Temecula; Jun 10 – Cherry Picking in Leona Valley (blossoms in March) ; Jul – Venice Beach; Aug 17-26 – AV Fair Walk About ; Sep 14-15 –Mono Lake & Bodie (Photographers Day at Bodie for an additional $50); Oct, - LA  Arboretum

PSA – PSA Interclub Judging in May

Plan to attend the PSA conference will be held September 16-22, in San Francisco, CA. There will be extra workshops and tours before the conference. The conference hotel will be the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Burlingame, CA. Room rates start at $126. The PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter Gallery is now on the PSA Website and was a recent PSA news item. Four LPA member’s images are being featured: Pat and Dale Ware, Lyle Trusty and Helen Henry. http://www.psa-photo.org/about-psa/psa-chapters/chapters-gallery/2nd-quarter-2012/.  For the third PSA PJ Interclub, congratulations go to Glenn Olson (Chainsaw Grandpa) who won 1st HM PJ Human Interest, and Sue Craft (Tour de California) 2nd HM Open. The third round results of the PSA Creative have been announced. Results are the following: Eryn Avatar Award (Kurtiss Humphreys), Lady in Pink Award (Nan Carder), Tulips HM (Pat Ware), and Old Diner HM (Dale Ware). LPA won the round, and currently are in first place. Entries for the third CPID Interclub competition have been judged and Barn Owl Take Off (Sue Liberto) won an Honorable Mention.  Entries for the third round of the PSA Nature competition have been submitted. The entries were taken from the top six scoring images from the George W Glennie Nature Salon that have not won any awards or HMs in the PSA Nature Competition in the past. The following images were submitted: The Wave 2 (David Wilkins), Barn Owl Take Off (Sue Liberto), Lion (Wes Burcham), Elephant Seal Gladiators (Chris Wilkins), Yosemite Valley View in Fall (Sue Craft), and Cheetahs (Don Bennett).  LPA again is trying self-judging, with the PSA Photojournalism Interclub Competition. Entries can be uploaded now for this competition. It is open to all LPA members, and any member that enters, will do the selection for the competition. At this time, there is only one entry… so if LPA members do not take advantage of this new system, we will continue as we have been doing. This is your way to be involved and be a part of this process.  In the Electronic Imaging Division Interclub, our club did very well. Winning awards were Moonbow (Diana Edgel), Sunset at the Naples Pier (David Wilkins), and Wedding Shoes (Arliss Dawson). Winning Honorable Mentions were Lucas-Vintage (Dee Hunter) and Reflections at the Wave (Chris Wilkins). http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?cID=1290   Entries for the last EID interclub competition are the following: Antique Baby (Dee Hunter), House on a Hill (Arliss Dawson), Little Red Riding Hood (Doug Wade), Pink Tulips (Wendy Ware), and Yosemite Valley View in Fall (Sue Craft), Yosemite Valley Chapel 5525 (Nan Carder). In the first Round of the PSA PJ Quarterly Two Stars or Less, Helen Henry (Last Kiss) won the first round. Her image Wesley was also accepted. Nan Carder had three acceptances, Ouch, Rick Hansen Relay 3897, and Waterford Glass Makers. Helen also won the PJ Open with Yellow Frisbee and Good Catch HM. Nan Carder won a year end Bronze Medal with Slider 2 for 2011.  The PSA Qrtly Photojournalism competition is open to all PSA members.    http://johnlarson.4t.com/PSA_PJ_Quarterly/index.htm    LPA members Helen Henry, Bonnie Matthews and Pat Ware completed judging the last PSA CPID Interclub competition. Three of our members will be judging the PSA Nature Interclub next month.  George Glennie: LPA entered the George W. Glennie Nature competition. This was the first time trying a different judging system where all entrants did the voting. Our club did very well receiving a tie for 17th place of 94 competing clubs from around the world. Diana' Edgel's Moonbow won Best Landscape. Don Bennett (Cheetahs), Sue Craft (Yosemite Valley View in Fall), and Chris Wilkins (Elephant Seal Gladiators) all won Merit Awards.  PSA Youth Photography Showcase due April 30, 2012 was done. We had four high schools participate – Lancaster High School, Highland High School, Quartz Hill High School and Knight High Schools. We should have the results in a couple of weeks.  PSA Clubs, Councils and Chapters Web Site contest due June 1, 2012 has been entered.   PSA Clubs, Councils and Chapters Newsletter contest due June 1, 2012 has been entered.

Here is the link to the winning images & slide show:  http://www.mvcameraclub.org/Glennie/2012/ResultsSlideShow/default.htm

Here are some PSA events coming up. The PSA web site has been revised with all of these competitions so take a look.  PSA Clubs, Councils and Chapters Web Site contest due June 1, 2012. LPA’s entry has been submitted.  PSA Clubs, Councils and Chapters Newsletter contest due June 1, 2012. LPA’s entry has been submitted.  Some fun individual competitions are the following (you must be a PSA member to enter here):  CPID Individual Creative Competition:  http://psa-photo.org/divisions/cpid/individual-creative-comp/  CPID Individual Competition:   http://psa-photo.org/divisions/cpid/individual-portrait/  EID Individual Creative Competition: http://psa-photo.org/divisions/eid/individual-creative-competition/  Print of the Month: http://psa-photo.org/divisions/print/print-of-the-month/

S4C

The last S4C competition is now completed for this season. Unofficially for the Skill Level A, (Cassie ) Doug Wade won an Award, and Juvenile Golden Eagle (Marv Brimer) won an HM. Hopefully this will help LPA maintain Third Place for Skill Level A.  In the S4C Skill Level AA, Yosemite Valley View in the Fall (Sue Craft) and Kitten (Dee Hunter) won an Award. Barn Owl Take Off received an HM. Hopefully this will keep the Lancaster Photography Assoc. in First Place for Skill Level AA.  Congratulations Lyle Trusty. Lyle was selected to be on the S4C Board of Directors this coming year. Four of our LPA members will serve on the S4C Board of Directors: Helen Henry, Lee Garner, Lyle Trusty and Nan Carder|

Announcements:

S4C Banquet is June 2nd and you can pay online. Next Competition won’t be until September 30th for Oct 2012

Photographer’s Day at Poppy Reserve  Summary -The auction raised over a $1000.00!

Poppy Festival- LPA’s 8th year of participation with over 17 volunteers, 13 of which were members selling photographic items, including framed photos, matted photos, greeting cards, journals, calendars and glass fused Poppy photo frames.  Record breaking year for sales (over $1200), with 20% of all sales donated to the LPA.  New method of keeping track of sales worked well.  All checks mailed in a timely manner to recipients, by our treasurer.

AV Fair – Fair Entry Registration opened on avfair.com April 2nd;  Volunteers sign-up sheets for LPA will be on website soon.
Southern CA Photographer’s Conference (SCPC) – June 16, 2012 at AV Fairgrounds –Presenters: George Lepp, Susan/Larry Cowles, Noella Ballenger, and more! LPA members-no charge to attend.

SCPC Photo Gallery 6 images, enter the best you have by June 8, submit image first on the LPA website. CORRECTED RULES: 16 by 20 inch (or larger) prints are recommended, mounted and matted, under glass, preferably in simple black frames. Minimum frame size 20 by 24 (or 480 sq inches), but recommended 22 by 28 inches or larger (616 sq inches or larger). The images may be in Color or Black and White. If printed on Artists Canvas they don’t need to be under glass, but should be framed as a painting for gallery display. (NOTE: If your image is selected by panel of judges to be in the SCPC Gallery, you will need to frame/matte/mount accordingly. Larger prints are strongly encouraged as they are representative of what one would see in a “gallery” show).

Librarian – Bonnie Matthews-If there are any members that would like to donate books to the LPA library, they will receive a donation letter if they would like so they can claim it on their taxes now that we are a non-profit.

Newsletter- Terri Garner our temp Newsletter editor wants to remind the members they can submit articles and pictures to her for the newsletter by the 23rd of the month. We still need a permanent editor.

Friday Night Discussion Group- Friday Night Discussion Group are the 2nd & 4th Friday night at 630pm at Denny’s at 20th W and Ave K . May 25 next deadline.

Sunday Monthly Breakfast- is held the 3rd Sunday of Month at AM Café on Sierra Hwy.