May 19^th is our Portrait Competition and Dee Hunter has agreed to be our Judge.

Dee Hunter is the owner & photographer of Hunter Photography, located in Antelope Valley, CA.  She specializes in children and pets, but also shoot everything from aircraft to weddings. Dee’s favorite thing to do is to create unique and custom works of art that her clients will display and treasure in their homes and offices for many years.  Dee has been doing award winning photography since 1977.  Dee enjoys entering her work in the Antelope Valley Fair every year, where she has won numerous awards including Best of Show 4 times. Here are a couple of her images

*Please come join us for a no host dinner at the Greenhouse Cafe at 4:30pm on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 with Dee.

*The deadline to enter your images is May 12, 2015 at 11:59PM. Please remember, even if only entering prints you need to upload digital images of the print entries so they can be displayed for everyone to see during the judging.

PORTRAIT - Portrayal of a person or persons either posing or candid. An image is eligible for the Portrait class whether or not the image is acquired indoors – such as in a formal studio setting – or outdoors in a natural or artificial environment. Such elements include but are not limited to: the lighting, including the use of reflectors and diffusers; the arrangement of people, props; backgrounds; makeup; or apparel.

Please contact Bonnie Matthews-Franke at competition@lpaphotography.org if you have any questions.

[image1_left]WHAT : LPA Member Field Trip
WHERE : Will Rogers State Park Polo Grounds / “British Polo Day”
WHEN : May 30, 2015 ... Saturday
TIME : noon-5pm

Meet at Will Rogers Historic State Park and Polo Field at noon. This event will be the highlight of our day! In the 1930's, there were 25 Polo fields in Los Angeles. Today, the Will Rogers field is the only remaining one! Here we can eat our packed lunches, and then work ourselves around the field to get different vantage points for shooting. The event scheduled is “British Polo Day” and should be a fantastic photo opp. The “chuckers” (club games) begin at 2pm and end at 5pm. Parking fee is $12. 

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Please sign up here if you'd like to attend.

[image1_left][image2_right]Come join us and learn action photography tips from LPA member Holly Peskin.  She will tell you why YOU should be using back button focus!   You’ll be able to learn what combination of settings and skills you'll need to become more proficient in action photography whether your hand holding your camera or on a tripod.  You'll walk away with a better understanding of exactly what you need to do to produce sharp action images. Holly will go over the importance of back button focus, tracking, and select focus points. There'll also be discussion of the importance of faster shutter speeds, higher ISO's, and how to manage them, all while trying to capture the action!

[image1_left]Ice Cream Sundaes,
Good people
and
Great Photographs…
Doesn’t get get any better than that !!!

Join us on Tuesday, March 17th at 6pm at the senior center for a fun evening sharing your favorite images and enjoying an ice cream sundae. It’s all free to our LPA members and their guests.

Here’s how it works:

Upload your 8 favorite JPEG images (PG13 please) to the LPA website. The deadline for the upload to the website is March 13th.

On March 17th, enjoy an ice cream sundae with your fellow members and watch the slide show of our members photos.

When your images are presented, you can comment on them talking about where they were taken or how they were shot. If you don’t want to comment, that’s OK. We’ll just show the images for everyone to enjoy.

We all look forward to seeing and hearing about your images. Don’t be bashful; even if you’re a novice, we’d love to see what you created. It’s not intended to be a critique event…just a fun evening amongst us photogs.

[image1_left]Images can be submitted to the LPA Website for the March 2015 competition now through March 17th (NEW DATE), 11:59pm. The judge for this competition is a Marine biologist and world traveler, Lin Craft, from Fallbrook, CA. Lin strives to communicate the extraordinary beauty of the natural world through her wildlife and landscape photography. Lin shares her images with groups of all ages and backgrounds through her live narrated entertaining, educational slide presentations. She has won numerous awards for her photography and her images have appeared in various publications including books, brochures and calendars. Lin has had several exhibitions of her work and sells fine art prints and cards in local art venues.  She regularly judges for local camera clubs and for International Photography Exhibitions. Lin is president of the Fallbrook Camera Club and a past president and Fellow of the Southern California Association of Camera Clubs. She has held numerous positions in PSA and is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Nature Division.  Lin received her APSA in 2000. She is multi-starred in Exhibition Competition in Color, Nature and Travel.You’re invited to join Lin for a no-host dinner at 4:30PM at the Greenhouse Café, in Lancaster, before the Competition and General meeting.

[image1_left]LPA Field Trip to the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens.

The LPA invites its members and guests to join us at the Huntington on March 15 following the club's Sunday Breakfast.  Spring is in the air, trees are blossoming, and flowers are blooming.  The Huntington has 12 gardens and 15,000 plant varieties. The gardens include the Australian, Camellia, Chinese, Desert, Herb, Jungle, Rose, and more. Their art collection includes 650 paintings, including Blue Boy, and 440 works of sculpture. Exhibitions include photography, drawings, and paintings. The Huntington is located near Pasadena, about 1 hr. 35 min. from Lancaster. They are open weekends from 10:30 to 4:30 and charge $23 for admission ($18 for age 65+). For more information visit http://www.huntington.org/.

Please sign up here if you'd like to attend. You need to be a current LPA member and log into the site to sign up.

Come Help Us Beautify Our Preserve, January 31, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM - Prime Desert Woodland Preserve, 43201 35th St West (at K-8), Lancaster

As a follow up to the January 17 MLK Day of Service Prime Desert garbage (paper products) pick up, LPA members and friends are invited to do further clean up at the Preserve on Saturday, January 31, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

We will be focusing on removing non-degradables like glass, metal and plastics, which heavily dot the landscape in some areas, and some of which have been there since before the Preserve opened.

[image1_left]The LPA invites you to participate in a field trip to Randsburg on February 15, 2015.  Randsburg is a "living ghost town" only an hour away from Lancaster.  Gold was discovered in 1895 with the first post office opening in 1896.  After the gold and other metals played out the town population shrank to about 69 residents by 2010.  Many of the old buildings are still standing and, while many have been converted to serve tourists, main street looks much as it did 100 years ago.  There is a general store/ice cream parlor, antique stores, art galleries, a mining museum, church, and an old jail. Off main street are many period houses as well as iconic outhouses.  Today's Randsburg is a haven for eclectic personalities as well as dirt bikers and tourists.  For more information check the internet at http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/randsburg.html.

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