Over 50 people, including 6 visitors, attended our meeting.

Our program this evening, “The Art of Photographing Children” was presented by Julie Sutton, of Sutton Photography.    Numerous beautiful, very professional looking, award winning photos were on display, and digitally projected.

Over 41 people attended our meeting.  We had a couple of visitors, one of which is ready to turn 100 years old!  Joshua Robison 14 years old joined LPA tonight and is now our youngest member.  His Grandpa, Gary, was the lucky winner of the 50/50 drawing and won $70.50.

Over 52 people (and a couple of visitors) showed up for our second competition of the photo year, with many beautiful prints, slides, and digital entries (click to see Division A and Division , all of a Nature theme.

Our judge, Diane Racey, joined her first camera club in 1981, has been a school photographer since 1982, and a very active member of PSA since 1985, as well as an active member of S4C. Diane started her photographic expedition in the darkroom, with black & white, and has now gone digital. She has a background in Fine Arts. Diane’s critiquing session was an excellent learning experience for all.

“Insights into Photography” by Marshall La Plante

Over 50 members were present tonight for a special digital photo presentation by photographer Marshall La Plante.  He currently specializes in editorial work, with a focus on aerial action adventure, aircraft-to-aircraft, aerial scenic and extreme sports photography. He also has a passion for photographing Los Angeles cityscapes.

Marshall’s photos were unique, full of emotion, patterns, and vivid color.  His comment, “no rules apply, think about what is marketable” adds a whole new level of creativity to photography. 

What a turnout!  We had over 68 people in attendance, surely a new record.  Many new faces were present, and quite a few of them joined the club.  Most of the visitors found out about the club when visiting the photography exhibit at the AV Fair.

Another “first” happened tonight, as we had added digital entries to our competition schedule.  Over 50 digital entries were displayed, judged, and critiqued.  Entries were broken down into 2 categories (A-Advanced/Amateur and B-Novice/Amateur).  Congratulations to Ken Kuehne on his 1st place entry “Wendy’s Balloon”, and to John Shedrick for his 1st place winner, “Moss In Water”.  This was our “test run” for digital competitions, and Paul Craft, our digital competition chairperson, did an amazing job.  

Dave Anderson gave an inspiring digital show of last years AV Sky Parade depicting balloons in every size, shape and color.  On Labor Day weekend, Dave arrived early and was able to capture sunrise pictures and the early balloonist's preparing for the morning flight.  His program has inspired many in the club to get up at 0(dark)30 and head to Marie Kerr Park on Labor Day weekend.  The balloonist's will fly all three mornings and launch between 6:30 - 7:00am.  There will be wine tasting as well from Noon - 4 pm.  For more information go to www.avskyparade.org  to get all the details.  See you there!  Thanks Dave for a great show.

John Wells was the lucky winner of the 50/50 drawing and went home with $37 extra dollars in his pocket.

Dave Anderson gave an inspiring digital show of last years AV Sky Parade depicting balloons in every size, shape and color.  On Labor Day weekend, Dave arrived early and was able to capture sunrise pictures and the early balloonist's preparing for the morning flight.  His program has inspired many in the club to get up at 0(dark)30 and head to Marie Kerr Park on Labor Day weekend.  The balloonist's will fly all three mornings and launch between 6:30 - 7:00am.  There will be wine tasting as well from Noon - 4 pm.  For more information go to www.avskyparade.org  to get all the details.  See you there!  Thanks Dave for a great show.

John Wells was the lucky winner of the 50/50 drawing and went home with $37 extra dollars in his pocket.
 
 

Our new board took over this month, and the meeting was led by Dennis Goodno, our new President.  The highlight of the evening was a video presentation from the Luminous Landscape collection… the Ship Breaking Yards of Bangladesh.  Valuable information was presented on composition, cropping, lighting, and contrasting humans/objects with enormous subjects.