PSA Report for July 2016
PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA) REPORT FOR JULY 2016
By Nan Carder, APSA, MPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative
psa-photo.org
PSA Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX: In 2016, the PSA conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas from September 10-17. The conference hotel is the Wyndham, San Antonio Riverwalk.
Registration remains open at this website: http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?2016-psa-conference
PSA PID Creative Interclub (Round 3): Results and congratulations for the winners of the last round of the Projected Image Division Creative Interclub: Honorable Mention for Gal Shooting Blown Away (Shirl Airov-Bieling), Honorable Mention for Pontiac Style 2793 (Pam Vick), Award and Best of Show for Sandhill 5451 (Nan Carder), and Award for Wisteria Girl (Kathy Newman).
PSA Projected Image Division Individual Portrait Competition: Congratulations Kathy Carson Newman! Results from the Projected Image Division (PID) Individual Portrait competition have been sent to the participants, and Kathy received a Judge’s Choice with her image The Covering. The Individual Portrait has three competitions yearly, and entries for Round 3 will close July 11, 2016. This competition is free to all PSA members. Again, congratulations Kathy.
PSA Membership Milestones: Congratulations to the Lancaster Photography Association, 15 year Membership Milestone certificate at the recent Southern California Council of Camera Club (S4C) awards banquet. PSA awards certificates to PSA members when a membership milestone has been reached in PSA.
Christine Wilkins , the Photographic Society of America (PSA) Membership Milestone Director presented the Membership Milestone certificates to S4C-member clubs and S4C at the banquet.
Douglas P. Wade attended the event and received the certificate for the Lancaster Photography Club’s Membership Milestone for 15 years of continuous membership in PSA. LPA President Doug Wade received the certificate. Congratulations LPA!
PSA Website Contest: Doug Wade is in the process of judging the PSA Website Contest - small clubs. Thank you for your service.
PSA International Exhibitions:
Pacific-Atlantic International Exhibition: Shirl Airov Bieling Scott Shackelford, and Nan Carder received multiple acceptances in the recent Pacific-Atlantic International Exhibition (including Greece, Singapore, US). They received acceptances in Open Monochrome, Nature, Open Color, and Travel.
S4C International Exhibition: Entries remain open for this year’s S4C International Exhibition.
This year again, S4C will offer 14 Sections across five PSA divisions.
PID Color: General (Open) and Theme: Scapes (Landscapes, Cityscapes, or Seascapes)
PID Monochrome: General (Open) and Theme: Animal(s)
Nature: General (Open) and Wildlife
Photo Travel: General (Open) and Theme: People Engaged in Activity
Photojournalism: General (Open) and Theme: Human Interest
Print: Small Color General (Open) and Theme: Creative
Small Mono General (Open) and Theme: Animals
The closing date will be July 17, 2016. Print judging will be July 23, 2016 and the Digital Medal Round judging will be July 30, 2016.
For information on the Photographic Society of America, please contact Nan Carder, APSA, MPSA, at nancarder310@msn.com
