2016-2017 Skill Level Advancement

Congratulations to the following members! On July 1^st, we have SIX members move up to the next Skill Level.  Club rules provide that at the end of each competition year those persons who have attained two first place wins in digital or three EA's in prints (must be from three different) club competitions at their current level, they are advanced to the next level.  [Note: If a competitor wins both in the Digital division and in the Print division, they would need one Digital division first-place ribbon and a total of two Print division EA ribbons, won over two different Print competitions, to be advanced.] This will take effect on July 1, 2016, the beginning of the new competition year.

To Amateur:           

• Dale Taft  

To Advanced                      

• Denis Lust  

To Master:

• Diane Cable
• Sharna Lee
• Kathy Newman
• Ronald Yagi

Have A GREAT LPA Competition Year!

Images can be submitted to the LPA Website for the October 20th, 2015 competition September 15, 2015 through October 13, 2015 at 11:59pm. The judge for this “Open” competition is Dan Holmes. Mr. Holmes is a professional photographer based in Ventura California.

Enter here. 

 You’re invited to join Dan for a no-host dinner at 4:30PM at the Greenhouse Café, in Lancaster, before the Competition and General meeting.

Our competition Theme is “Open” which means anything from Abstract to Vehicles plus a few more you could think of. Images must be in good taste! Color or B&W images both are allowed.

This Is Your Chance to Show-Off 3 of your AV Fair images. Since they will be already printed, why not enter the prints? OR Enter 3 you have NEVER entered before, digital (jpg’s), prints or a combination of both (for a total of 3 entries).

October 20^th 6pm-9pm is the 2nd competition of our 2015-2016 competition year and our new LPA Competition Rules are in effect. Please make sure you know the new Rules, How to Enter, and Definitions. You will find all these on the LPA website under Competitions.

Competition Report - July 2015

• July 21, 2015, Action-Judge-Ross Way, dinner at Greenhouse Café at 4:30
• Oct 20, 2015, Travel- Judge-TBA
• Jan 19, 2016, Step Into The Past- Judge-TBA
• Mar 15, 2016 Creative- Judge-TBA
• May 17, 2016, Flowers- Judge-TBA
• Jun 21, 2016, EOY-Judge-Members

Would like to discuss the Oct “Travel” competition. Anticipate “LOW” participation, therefore, would like to take a member vote at the general meeting to change the theme to “OPEN” so the members who entered in the AVF would be able to compete with their best AVF entries. 

Images can be submitted to the LPA Website for the competition now through July 14th at 11:59 P.M. The judge for this Action competition is Ross Way. Mr. Way is an event photographer with AV Media who specializes in sports and action photography. He has a background in graphic arts and illustration, and after receiving his Associates Degree at Antelope Valley College, he attended the Art institute of Southern California in Laguna Beach, California. He covers a variety of local sporting events and is currently the team photographer for the Lancaster JetHawks, the Advanced Class A Affiliate of the Houston Astros. You’re invited to join Ross for a no-host dinner at 4:30 P.M. at the Greenhouse Café, in Lancaster, before the Competition and General meeting.

Our competition this evening is ACTION – Motion being portrayed as the dominant theme, includes sports.

July 1st is the beginning of our 2015-2016 competition year and our new LPA Competition Rules go into effect. Please make sure you know the new rules. http://www.lpaphotography.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=competitions:rules_2015