David Wilkins, our President, welcomed 46 members to our October General meeting this evening.

The meeting started off with Wayne Staley introducing our judge, Ted Dayton,  for this evenings “Structures” competition. He is a professional photographer from Valencia, and is a member of the Santa Clarita Camera Club. He has previously judged for an LPA competition, and we were thankful to have him return. We had a total of 33 entrants, and 91 entries for this competition in all 9 categories . There were 3 Slides, 13 Novice Digital, 15 Amateur Digital, 18 Advanced Amateur Digital, 15 Master Digital, 5 Novice Prints , 6 Amateur Prints, 5 Advanced Amateur Prints, and 11 Master prints.

Many members valued his brief critique for each image, as he emphasized “Recording” vs. “Interpretation”.  Additionally, he emphasized heavy cropping, or less cropping in order to more accurately tell the  story of the image. There was a no host dinner prior to the competition. The judge was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation, an honorary membership, and $75 for travel expenses.

Many thanks to everyone for making it yet another great competition night !

David Wilkins, our President, welcomed 43 members to our September General meeting this evening.

The meeting started off with Douglas Wade introducing our guest speaker Jodi Champagne, who was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona and was a mother at the age of 15. Her creative ventures were put on hold while she raised her family and then devoted herself to the corporate world of engineering. After retiring from the business world, she became consumed in the passion of photography; "It didn’t take long to have the ability to create a vision through the lens". She took a beginning photography course at AV College, and soon after got her first DSLR.

Her work began as portrait, wedding, family and sports photography and moved to a more artistic vision of seeing the world with compassion and heart.

David Wilkins, our President, welcomed 52 members to our August General meeting this evening.

The meeting started off with Douglas Wade introducing our guest speaker Rick Edwards, who delivered to us a beautiful presentation featuring “The Beauty of African Wildlife” and shared his insights into wildlife photography.  He was assigned as the official photographer for Kenya Wildlife Service, and provides photos and stories to the BBC Wildlife Magazine and National Geographic. He is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, and perfected his photography while living in Nairobi watching wildlife in the many parks in Kenya and East Africa. He photographs from inside his vehicle with a 600mm f4.0 lens, which allows him to photograph outside the “ring of confidence” with the animals, and he tries to capture ‘action & reaction’. He answered many members questions regarding technique and such, and also touched on his post production procedures. He added that through the months and years of being around the some of the same animals, and as they became  more familiar with him and his vehicle, that he was able to start shooting some shots within that “ring of confidence”.
Like the cheetah  that literally came into his jeep and was sitting on his lap !  A Certificate of Appreciation and Honorary LPA Membership was presented to Rick, as well as dinner at Greenhouse Café before the meeting . Thank you for a great program with amazing photographs that inspired many of us to one day visit this magical continent, Africa !

Our newly elected President, David Wilkins, welcomed a full house to this July “Action” themed Competition and General meeting . There were 57 members and 5 guests.

The meeting started off with Christine Wilkins introducing our judge for the evening’s competition, Phillip Kocurek. He is a professional wedding photographer living locally here in the Antelope Valley. For the evening’s competition, we had a total of 94 entries : 11 Master Prints, 24 Master Digital, 4 Advanced Amateur Prints, 10 Advanced Amateur Digital, 6 Amateur Prints, 21 Amateur Digital, 13 Novice Digital, and 5 slides. Mr. Kocurek critiqued each image as presented this evening. All of the entries can be viewed on the results page.

Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to all who participated. A no host dinner with the judge was held at the Greenhouse Café before the meeting. A Certificate of Appreciation, and an honorary LPA membership was presented to the judge after the competition was finished. Many thanks to everyone who helped make it a great night!

View all the entries here.

We had 53 members and  4 visitors attending our Photo of Year /Installation of Officers General Meeting this evening. Sue Craft welcomed everyone and announced tonight was our Photo of the Year Competition and Installation of Officers meeting.

Sue Craft presented the PSA Youth Showcase which included PSA Awards, HM’s and Acceptances.  Certificates were to be given to the students. There were 403 entries of which 270 were accepted. 5 schools participated including Antelope Valley HS, Highland HS, Pete Knight HS, Palmdale HS, and Quart Hill HS.

End of the Year Competition began, all 1st Place Photos were shown and the Member’s Voted.

The George Glennie Nature Salon LPA Entries were presented to the membership.

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.

Sue Craft our President welcomed 62 members  to our April General meeting this evening.

We started off this evening with David Wilkins introducing our guess speaker, Steve Sieren,  who is a Fine Art Landscape Photographer from Southern California.  He presented his program tonight called “Creative Dramatic Landscape Photography”.  You can find his work displayed in National Park visitor centers, California State Park Foundation Headquarters, local art gallery shows, restaurants and scenic calendars. He enjoys leading workshops in California’s wild mountain, deserts, rugged coastlines and rolling oak hillsides. Steve spoke about how he creates dramatic landscape photography and offered tips on how to creative dramatic images.  To name a few of the tips he shared:  tonal range-light to dark; silhouettes;  3 things to making better B&W photography: shape,  tone & texture; weather leads to interesting opportunities; shots can be shot either vertical or horizontal-check both;  minimalism; experiment; use light painting; change perspective and others. Check out Steve’s Blog at stevesieren.wordpress.com. A Certificate of appreciation, honorary membership and $75 travel expenses were presented to Steve, and before the meeting he had dinner at the Greenhouse Café with some of the members. Thank you for a very educational program, everyone walked away learning something new tonight!

Sue Craft our President welcomed 63  members and 1 guest to our March “Portrait” Competition and General meeting this evening

We started our evening off with Wayne Staley announcing our judge Larry Cowles for this evenings Portrait competition. For this evening’s print’s only competition, we had 47 entries in 4 categories distributed as follows: 9 Novice, 15 Amateur, 9 Advance Amateur and 14 Masters. Mr. Cowles gave brief critiques on each print as presented this evening.  Congratulations to all who won and thank you to all who participated. A Certificate of appreciation, honorary membership and $75 travel expenses were presented to Mr. Cowles. Thank you to everyone who helped make tonight a success.