David Wilkins, our President, welcomed 45 members to our General Meeting night.

Douglas Wade, our Vice President and Program Chairman, introduced our speaker for the evening Curt Gideon, who did his presentation on “Wedding Photography”.

Curt Gideon is an AV and destination wedding photographer that is a master of wedding photography. He does additional work for the City of Lancaster (often you will see his work on the cover of the OUTLOOK), and his wedding photographs are featured in the main window display in the store, The Forge on the BLVD. He is a multiple competition winner for his photography and is one of the busiest photographers in the area and abroad.

Working with wedding parties is unique for the photography business. People are excited about this time in their life and want the best, but most couples have not done this before. He will pose them for the best images. They will need the trust of someone that will deliver their special memories. He covered the communication required between what the couple wants (and other family members), the locations desire, the budget, the shot list. Even items like the venue, caterers, and working with videographers. Dealing with things that can go wrong, on that special day. The limo is late, the flower girl lost her right shoe, the flowers are the wrong color, etc... Making sure to get the images and not hold up the wedding party, so they are free to enjoy the day.

David Wilkins, our President, welcomed 45 members to our “Nature” competition night.

Tina Crowe introduced our well liked, returning  judge Joanne Stolte. Since 1998, Joanne has been deeply involved in regional photo clubs, currently serving as president of S4C, the coalition of southern California camera clubs. She lives in Glendora, where she formerly served as Vice President of the Glendora Color Slide Group; and is a member of the Pomona Valley Camera Club. She is General Chair of the S4C International Exhibition. Joanne is very active in the Photographic Society of America (PSA).

We had a total of 68 digital entries and 12 prints.  Congratulations to all the winners!

For print entry participants, we had 0 novices, 0 amateurs, 0 advanced amateurs and 12 masters.

For digital entries, we had 15 Novice, 3 Amateur, 22 Advanced, and 28 Master.

Douglas Wade opened the evening’s annual Holiday Dinner gathering with nearly 45 people in attendance.

Once again, with the volunteer help and organization of many who arrived early, the Senior Center room came alive with tables lined in candy cane colored red & white covers, topped with lovely winter pine greenery and pine cones.

Dinner this year was Mexican food catered by Green Burrito which included the likes of all the fixings for tacos with corn chips too. The dessert table this year was potluck, and filled with all sorts of homemade and store bought goodies. All of the cakes, bars, cookies, fudge, etc were attracting people like bees to honey! Coffee, tea, and bottled waters were also available. Everything was super delicious, and we were all happy to sit and enjoy our meals with our fellow LPA members.

David Wilkins, our President, welcomed 51 members to our October General Meeting and competition night. He began the evening by announcing the need for volunteers for open positions (field trip chair, assistant newsletter editor, and librarian). David then turned the evening over to Bill Sutton, our co-Competition Chair.

Bill Sutton introduced our judge, Diane Racey for this evenings “Human Interest” competition. In Digital we had 9 Novice, 8 Amateur, 17 Advance and 24 Masters. In Prints we had 4 Novice, 3 Amateur, 9 Advanced and 13 Master. All results for the competitions can be seen on the LPA website. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to those who helped in making this another great competition evening! There was a no host dinner prior to the competition. Ms. Racey was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation, an honorary membership, and $75 for travel expenses. Thank you Ms. Racey!

David Wilkins, our President, welcomed 51 people to our Program night featuring “Creating Powerful Images “ by Dan Holmes. Dan is past President of the Channel Islands Professional Photographers Association, a member of Professional Photographers of California, and the Professional Photographers of America. He specializes in Fine Art Nature, Events, Commercial, and Workshops.  He has traveled extensively: climbing, trekking, and photographing in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and the USA. He has a unique ability to capture light, color, emotion, and tension in his images.  “Whether it is a landscape, a wedding, or a farm worker, it is all about light, emotion and impact.”His photographic workshops cover: creating powerful photographs, digital workflow, field workshops & photo adventure tours. He will be leading photo workshops in Alaska, Nepal, Namibia, and the western US. Dan’s work has been widely recognized with regional, national and international awards, including: California Nature & Landscape Photographer of the Year; Kodak Gallery Award; Black and White Spider International, Creative Asia, and others. He has had multiple local and regional showings, with his images displayed in public and private collections in the USA, Mexico, Holland, Chile, Brazil, and South Africa. His commercial work includes projects in agriculture, retail, music, and events. Dan’s presentation will entertain, educate, and inspire us in this journey we call life and photography.  He will take us on a humorous journey through our evolution as photographers, lead us on a visual journey through some of our most amazing places, and discuss how to create powerful imagery.

Douglas Wade, our Vice President, welcomed 35 members to our Program night featuring Food Photography with Ed Ouelette. Ed educated the members on how the pros do quality food photography. Whether they just take photos of their beautifully plated dinner with their cell telephone cameras, or attempt a more serious gourmet photography moment, our attendees learned how to do it better.  Ed Ouellette showed our LPA members the secrets to quality food images. He set up a complete studio for food photography. Lights of varying sources, light modifiers, cameras, lenses, etc. Tethered to his laptop and our projector, attendees were able to view images live as Ed took the shots. He demonstrated how to make the food look more visually appealing and some of the tricks of the trade.  A few of the tips Ed shared:

Douglas Wade, our Vice President, welcomed over 40 members to our “Vehicles” competition night.

Our new competition chairs Tina Crowe and co-chair Bill Sutton pulled the event off flawlessly.  Our judge this evening was Suzanne Gonzalez.  She is the president of the Glendora Camera Club.  She has been a photographer since 1977.  She has attended Tri-Community Photography Program/School for almost 20 years continuously and sells photo packages to schools, groups, weddings, and special events.   She was accompanied by Diane Racey, who offered additional comments during the critique session.  We had 69 digital entries and 16 prints.  Congratulations to all the winners!

David Wilkins, our President, welcomed over 47 members to our End of Year Competition, S4C/PSA Photography Celebration, and Installation of Officers.   

The 1st place winners for the 2012-2013 competed for the Year End - Members Choice Awards.  All results for the competition can be seen on the LPA website.  Congratulations to ALL the Winners!  Each will received a certificate and ribbon, and will be awarded an acrylic plaque with their name, and the title of winning photo.

Thank you to Chris Wilkins and Wayne Staley, Competition Chairs for the past two years.  They will be notifying those of you who won your second LPA in your blue ribbon this year, in your level, as you will get to move up July 1.