[image1_left] WHERE: Antelope Valley Senior Center – 777 W Jackman Street, Lancaster

WHEN: Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

TIME: 6:00 P.M.

LPA members will get to vote for the 2015-2016 End of Year photo awards. All 1 st Place digital winners, and Excellence Award print winners are eligible to compete for awards. Remember to bring your prints, or send in with a friend.

View photos from:

• PSA Youth Showcase entries from Antelope Valley High School District
• LPA members award winning S4C and PSA photos
• Recognitions and Awards Presentation
• Installation of 2016-2017 LPA Board Members
• We’ll celebrate the end of LPA’s 2015-2016 year with cake!

Competition- Flowers May 17, 2016

Submission Deadline is May 10th at 11:59 P.M.

[image1_left] Winn Krafton will be our judge for the May competition. 

Winn is a Los Angeles businesswomen whose primary hobby is photography. Winn uses photography as her primary creative outlet and as an excuse for vacations and travel. She has for a number of years been a member of PSA, S4C, and The Pasadena Photochromers. She started posting the camera club’s meetings on Meetup.com and the Photochromers are one of its earliest photo clubs.

Winn is always searching for something interesting and challenging. Over the years she has taught junior high Science and English; been a manager in a CPA firm; managed the credit card division of a major California savings and loan: and been a long term volunteer with the Metropolitan Opera Auditions Program.

Her photographic interest are quite varied and she competes in all S4C’s photographic categories. In 2007, Winn won PSA’s picture of the Year.

The definition for the Flowers competitions is as follows. 

FLOWERS - Single or multiple blossoms of one or more plants, including Desert Wildflowers.

WHERE:  Antelope Valley Senior Center – 777 W Jackman Street, Lancaster
WHEN: Tuesday, June 28, 2016
TIME: 6:00 P.M.

[image1_left]The Lancaster Photography Association (LPA) is hosting a free workshop to help those in our community who want to enter photos in the AV Fair Photography Exhibit.  This workshop is designed to aid you in selecting your level/division, your classes, the entry process, and will be followed by a demonstration on how to mount your photos.

Download 2016 AV Fair Photography Exhibit Rules

Download Guide to Choosing Photography Classes

View How to Mount your Prints for the Antelope Valley Fair

WHERE:  Antelope Valley Senior Center – 777 W Jackman Street, Lancaster
WHEN: Tuesday, July 26, 2016
TIME: 6:00 P.M.

[image1_left]The Lancaster Photography Association (LPA) is hosting a free workshop to assist those in our community who want help in preparing prints for the AV Fair Photography Exhibit.  Bring your prints and foam core.  We will demonstrate the process, provide assistance, and supply the additional items needed to mount your photos: cutting blades, straight edges, newspaper and spray adhesive. 

View How to Mount your Prints for the Antelope Valley Fair

It’s movie and popcorn night at the LPA!  Please join us for a free showing of the documentary film
Finding Vivian Maier at the AV Senior Center, from 6:00 – 8:00 P.M.

Who is Vivian Maier? Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. By chance at auction, Amateur historian John Maloof bought a storage locker full of her photos and crusaded to put this prolific photographer into the history books. Maier's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her. Now she is considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers.

Flower/Macro Photography Workshop
On April 19th, Noella Ballenger will be returning to the LPA and presenting a Flower/Macro photography workshop. She will share tips, and will be available to provide individual help at our photo stations around the room. Bring your cameras! If you have accessories such as teleconverters, extension tubes, tripods, or flashes, bring them. If you have a light tent or light source to share please bring them. Please bring flowers, and/or any small interesting objects to photograph and to share. A macro lens, or telephoto lens, is nice, but not required. 

Noella is a professional nature and wildlife photographer, and author. She also teaches on-line photography classes, and offers a monthly photo critique “Image Talk” through Apogee Photo Magazine. She has presented programs, flower workshops and judged for LPA, and was a presenter at the Southern California Photography conference.

Please join Noella for a no-host dinner at 4:30 P.M. at the Greenhouse Café, in Lancaster, before the workshop. 

LPA Upcoming Competitions: May – Flowers, July – Macro

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Photo Essay Slideshow

[image1_left] Join us on April 26th with Hutch Hutchison presenting Photo Essay Slideshow. Slideshows are nothing new to photography and even with all the tech advances they remain a great medium for sharing a special moments and images, especially where the goal is to evoke impact and emotion. As photographers we have one element already “nailed down” by having wonderful images at our disposal. There is more to a great slideshow than just flipping through your shots. George “Hutch” Hutchison share tips and techniques to bring emotional power to your next slideshow.

“Hutch” grew up in his father’s darkroom and has had a life-long passion for photography. He has won numerous accolades and awards for his photography, including the 2015 PSA Photo Essay Slideshow Gold Medal. He is also a frequent judge and presenter for S4C and local camera clubs.

LPA will take its first trip to the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 N College Ave, Claremont, CA 91711 on Saturday, May 14, 2016. The gardens showcase California native plants. Complete information is available on the Botanical Garden website www.rsabg.org. We will meet at the entrance kiosk at 8 am. Driving time from Lancaster is approximately 2 hours.  The garden closes at 5 p.m. Admission is $8.00 regular and $6.00 Senior.  Picnic tables are available in the parking lot on a first come first serve basis.