PSA Report for November 2014
By Nan Carder, EPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative
PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: The PSA Annual Conference will be held in West Yellowstone, Montana from September 27 to October 3, 2015. It is time to start thinking about whether to attend the conference. There will be three hotels available in West Yellowstone. The Holiday Inn West is the conference hotel with conference room rates of $109 and up. The Gray Wolf Hotel is several blocks from the Holiday Inn with rates of $89 for Queen/King beds. The Yellowstone Park Hotel has room rates of $99 for Queen/King beds.
This conference will be different in that there will be 30 half or full day tours offered during the conference. Some of the speakers will include Art Wolfe, Mike Moates, and Roman Kurywczak.
PSA Projected Image Division (First Round): Results are pending.
PSA Nature Division Interclub (First Round): The results for the first round Nature Interclub competition were announced. LPA did not have any Awards or HMs. LPA was 18th of 26 clubs.
PSA Photojournalism and Travel Interclub Judging: The Lancaster Photography Association (LPA) has been invited to judge the first PSA Photojournalism and the third Travel Interclub competition.
Ocean State International Exhibition: Entries for this year’s Ocean States International Exhibition closed October 25th this year. Results have been sent out to the participants, and the Lancaster Photography Association was 6th of 23 clubs. Every LPA member received at least one acceptance. Those competing were the following: Sue Craft, Diana Edgel, Darren Cole, Sue Liberto, Bonnie Matthews, Rock Myers, Scott Shackelford, Bill Sutton, Pat Ware, Chris Wilkins, David Wilkins, and Nan Carder. Each participating LPA member will receive a DVD with all of the winning and accepted images. Thank you to all of LPA members that took the time to enter this exhibition.
Southern California Roundup Chapter Event: On February 21, 2015, the PSA Southern California Chapter will have a photo event held at Descanso Gardens. Registration will open December 2014, More information to come. http://www.psa-socal.org/2015-photo-event.html
More information can be found at this webpage. If anyone would like information about the Photographic Society of America, please contact Nan Carder, EPSA at nancarder310@msn.com
