PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA) REPORT FOR MARCH 2016

By Nan Carder, APSA, MPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative

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PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: In 2016, the PSA conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas from September 10-17.  The conference hotel will be the Wyndham, San Antonio Riverwalk. There will be an exciting lineup of photo tours, workshops, programs, featured speakers, and social activities. Tours will include the following:

An all day tour to the historic San Antonio missions will be offered as well as early morning and late day photo tours of the missions. There will also be an all day tour to the Texas Hill Country that will include a stop at the LBJ Ranch.  In addition, there will be a River Barge tour, a River Barge Dinner tour, a tour of the San Antonio Botanical Gardens and Japanese Tea Garden, a King William District tour, a Double Decker Bus tour and walking tours.

Registration will begin April 1, 2016 at this website: http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?2016-psa-conference

PSA Projected Image Division Interclub: The Lancaster Photography Association entered the third round of the Projected Image Division (PID) in Group A.  The following images and with their makers were entered: “Bristlecone Pine Star Trails” (Sue Craft), “Geisha” (Shirl Airov-Bieling), “Hummingbird Flight” (Kathy Newman), “Light up the Sky” (Dale Taft), “Mono Lake Yellow Sunrise” (Richard White), “Pixley Burrowing Owls” (Arliss Dawson).

PSA PID Creative Interclub: The Lancaster Photography Association entered the second round of the PSA PID Creative interclub. Entries are the following: “Flamingo Pose” (Darren Cole), “Geisha Descanso” (Shirl Airov-Bieling), “Hook and Ladder” (Terry Dickerson), “Lost Girl” (Helen Henry), and “Magical Egret” (Holly Peskin), and “Painted Peacock” (Sue Liberto).
PSA Projected Image Division Individual Portrait Competition: The Individual Portrait Competition is an annual competition organized by the Projected Image Division (PID).

The competition is open to Individual Members of The Photographic Society of America (PSA), and is free of charge.

The competition will have three Rounds.

Round 1 closes March 28

Round 2 closes May 9

Round 3 closes July 11

Each Round will award the following prizes: First, Second, and Third. Also, the following awards will be awarded: Best Male, Best Female, and Best Child, Best Monochrome, Best Indoor, and Best Environmental

The number of Honorable Mentions is dependent on the number of participants. For more information, please go to this website:  www.psa-photo.org/pid/ipc

PSA Newsletter Contest: Doug Wade has entered the Lancaster Photography Association in the PSA Newsletter Contest. Good luck LPA.

PSA International Exhibitions:

Greek Circuit: Shirl Airov-Bieling entered some of her images in the Greek Circuit. She had acceptances in Nature (Pink Jellyfish), and PID-C (Gal Shooting). Shirl also received an acceptance in the Scenic City International Photographic Exhibition (SCIPE) with her image Gal Shooting Blown Away”. Shirl should have enough acceptances for her first PID-C star and will apply in a couple of months.

Coachella Valley International Exhibition: Entries are now closed for this exhibition. The medal round judging will be March 12^th, 2016 and report cards will be emailed by March 19^th. LPA members entering this exhibition are the following: Shirl Airov-Bieling, Nan Carder, Diana Edgel, Scott Shackelford, Chris and David Wilkins.  Good luck to all.

PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter Event: The Southern California Roundup Chapter of PSA held their 2016 Annual Photography Event on Saturday, February 6, 2016.

Gary Potts, GMPSA, from Las Vegas, NV, did a great job with his blog showing the different results with his image Old Salt with post processing software using Nik, On1, and Topaz software. http://www.psa-socalchapter.org/gary-potts-blog2.html

PSA-member pictures are now posted on from webpage: http://www.psa-socalchapter.org/home.html

Ocean State International Exhibition: The Lancaster Photography Association has had members participate in the Ocean State International Exhibition as a club the past couple of years. This exhibition has moved their date from October to March. LPA needs at least six of their members to participate. The top six scores will be used to determine the winners of this club competition. Acceptances go for PSA individual stars. Medals are given to individuals. Any LPA member is welcome to participate. LPA members who have already entered are the following: Shirl Airov-Bieling, Nan Carder, Diana Edgel, Helen Henry, Scott Shackelford, and Darren Cole will enter. More information can be found at this website: http://www.psri.us/os-exhibition/ose-2016/

For information on the Photographic Society of America, please contact Nan Carder, APSA, and MPSA, at nancarder310@msn.com

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA) REPORT FOR JANUARY 2016

By Nan Carder, APSA, MPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative

PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: In 2016, the PSA conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas from September 10-17.  The conference hotel will be the Wyndham, San Antonio Riverwalk. There will be an exciting lineup of photo tours, workshops, programs, featured speakers, and social activities. Registration will begin April 1, 2016.

http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?2016-psa-conference

PSA Projected Image Division Interclub: The Lancaster Photography Association has entered the second round of the Projected Image Division (PID) in Group A. Images entered are the following: “AV Fireworks” (Tom Van Langenhoven), “Bull Bison at Yellowstone” (Ramon Rosario), “Ilulissat in the Midnight Sun” (Christine Wilkins), “Lone Tree” (Doug Wade),  “Oak Tree” (Helen Henry), “Pilgrim and Mosque” (Richard Wood).

PSA PID Creative Interclub: Congratulations Kathy Newman. Her image “Paisley Self Portrait” has won the Projected Image Division Creative Inter-club “Best of the Best” Gold Medal.

The Lancaster Photography Association competed in Group A this competition this season. All winning images from Group A, B, and C were then re-judged. There is one "Best of the Best" Gold Medal image selected and Six "Best of the Best" Silver Medals. This means that Kathy’s image was the best image of the 2014-2015 competition season.

There were 29 nine clubs that could submit six images for three competition rounds. Please go to this website to see all of the "Best of the Best" images for 2014-2015.

Congratulations again Kathy! Well deserved.

http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?2014-15-pid-cic-best-of-best

PSA PID Creative Interclub Judging: The Lancaster Photography Association has been asked to judge the first round January competition.  Judging will be Helen Henry, Rock Myers, and Kathy Newman.

PSA PID Individual Creative: Entries for the second round will be due on February 20, 2016. Nancy Speaker, who also participates in the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs, is the new PID Individual Creative Competition Director. Her email address is the following: pid-icc-director@psa-photo.org

PSA International Exhibitions:

1^st New Bi-continental Photo Circuit: Shirl Airov-Bieling entered some of her images in the 1^st, N.E.W. Bi-continental Photo Circuit and had very nice results. She had acceptances in PID-Color (Rider on White Horse), PID-Monochrome (Leopard), and Nature (Bee, Birds Taking Flight, and Pink Jellyfish). Her image Pink Jellyfish earned an FIAP (International Federation of Photographic Art) Honorable Mention 1.  

http://newphotocircuit.com/gallery/25-2015/98-gallery-awarded-2015

Scott Shackelford now has enough acceptances to apply for his first PSA Projected Image Division – Color Star. Scott now has at least 18 acceptances with six images.

Coachella Valley International Exhibition: All Lancaster Photography Association members are invited to participate in the Coachella Valley International Exhibition. Entries are open. This year the exhibition will provide these PSA Division Classes:

PID Color Class:

• General
• Theme (Water, Steam, Snow, and/or Ice)

PID Monochrome Class:

• General
• Trees

Nature:

• General
• Wildlife

Entries will close on February 27^th, 2016

Medal round judging will be March 12^th, 2016

Report cards will be emailed by March 19^th
More information may be found at this website: http://www.cvdcc.org/exhibitions/

PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter Event: The Southern California Roundup Chapter of PSA will hold their 2016 Annual Photography Event on Saturday, February 6, 2016, at the Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa (Orange County) during the Lunar New Year celebrations.

More Information about the PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter Event (the event is free for all PSA members): More information may be found at this website: http://www.psa-socalchapter.org/home.html

Ocean State International Exhibition: The Lancaster Photography Association has had members participate in the Ocean State International Exhibition as a club for the past couple of years. This exhibition. LPA needs, at least, six of their members to participate. The top six scores will be used to determine the winners of this club competition. Acceptances go for PSA individual stars. Medals are given to individuals. Any LPA member is welcome to participate. The entry fee is $5.00 to enter four images. More information can be found at this website: http://www.psri.us/os-exhibition/ose-2016/

Dale Taft recently joined the Photographic Society of America. Welcome, Dale.

For information on the Photographic Society of America, please contact Nan Carder, APSA, MPSA at nancarder310@msn.com

PHOTOGRAHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA) REPORT FOR DECEMBER 2015

By Nan Carder, APSA, MPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative

 

PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: In 2016, the PSA conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas from September 10-17.  The conference hotel will be the Wyndham, San Antonio Riverwalk. There will be an exciting lineup of photo tours, workshops, programs, featured speakers, and social activities.

http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?2016-psa-conference

PSA Projected Image Division Interclub: The Projected Image Division (PID) judging results for the first round of the PID Division Group A were released. This year is the first year that the Lancaster Photography Association has participated in Group A (the top level of the five groups).

Congratulations go to Sharna Lee and her image Claudette, which received an Honorable Mention.  Other participants were Darren Cole (F16 Image), Bonnie Matthews-Franke (Tracy 1533), Wayne Staley (Vail Aspen), David Wilkins (Seattle Skyline at Sunset), and Ron Yagi (Ventura Harbor Village).

To see Sharna’s image, please go to this web page:
http://www.lpaphotography.org/mediagallery/album.php?aid=889&page=1

PSA PID Individual Creative: Here are the LPA results for the first PSA PID Individual Creative Competition.

The first Round of the 2015-16 PSA Individual Creative Competition has been judged and area members did well. Rock Myers of Lancaster, CA, received Third Place for his image “Prowler;” and Kathy Newman, also of Lancaster, was awarded a Judge’s Choice for “Hummingbird Flight” and an HM for “Thought.”  Congratulations!

Any PSA member can enter at no cost- the closing date for Round 2 is February 20. For information about this competition: http://psa-photo.org/index.php… and a gallery of the Round 1 Award images: http://psa-photo.org/index.php?2015-16-pid-icc-round-one

Entries will be due on February 20, 2016. Nancy Speaker, who also participates in the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs, is the new PID Individual Creative Competition Director. Her email address is the following: pid-icc-director@psa-photo.org

PSA International Exhibitions:

Shirl Airov-Bieling had the following images accepted at the Grand Canyon Circuit: BW Flower (PID-M three acceptances) and Wingwalker (PID-C). BW Flower was also accepted at the Mississippi Valley International Exhibition (PID-M) and Shirl received an Honorable Mention with Chimp and Mother.

Scott Shackelford also had acceptances in the Grand Canyon Circuit, plus he had five acceptances and two Honorable Mentions (20-Mule Team Silhouette (PID-C) and ATV Scarred Sand Dune (PJ) from the Cal Pac International Exhibition.

PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter Event: The Southern California Roundup Chapter of PSA will hold their 2016 Annual Photography Event on Saturday, February 6, 2016, at the Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa (Orange County) during the Lunar New Year celebrations.

More Information about the PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter Event (the event is free for all PSA members):

Friday, February 5:
2:30 – 6:00 PM Two-Part Photo Walk-About: “Model Shoot” and “Sunset” at Huntington Pier

Saturday, February 6:
8:00 Registration Badge Pick-up

Several companies describing photo products, including photo books, offering discounts Signed Jeff Sullivan books for sale, workshops sign-up, schedule sign-up

8:30 Introductions: New members, long-time members, those traveling a distance, speaker Jeff Sullivan, "Little Known California Photo Opportunities"
(Break at an appropriate time) – 30 minutes

Several companies describing photo products, including photo books, offering discounts

Signed Jeff Sullivan books for sale, workshops sign-up, schedule sign-up
 Jeff Sullivan, “Little Known California Photo Opportunities” Announcement: Night Photography Opportunity (must be present to sign-up)

11:30 Lunch: The Fireside, Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa
Several companies describing photo products, including photo books, offering discounts Signed Jeff Sullivan books for sale, workshops sign-up, schedule sign-up

1:00 Introductions: Photography Students, PSA Leaders, Chapter Officers

Joanne Stolte, “Using the Chapter Web Site and Facebook page”
Larry Cowles, "Ten Tips for Making Photo Books" 

Speaker to be announced, “Example Photo Book: Steps to Complete a Photo Book” (Break at an appropriate time) – 15 minutes

Several companies describing photo products, including photo books, offering discounts


Signed Jeff Sullivan books for sale, workshops sign-up, schedule sign-up 


George “Hutch” Hutchison, “Example Photo Essay: Steps to Make a Photo Essay using Lightroom” Joanne Stolte, “Tips for Making a Photo Essay & the PSA Photo Essay Contest” 


4:00 Socialization
Drawingfor photography-related items (must be present to receive drawing item) All PSA Members: Create a PSA Member Gallery; submit items to the Chapter Blog New Members: Review of PSA Membership Benefits

Several companies describing photo products, including photo books, offering discounts
 Signed Jeff Sullivan books for sale, workshops sign-up, schedule sign-up 


4:30 Event Concludes 

Photo Shoot on hotel grounds: Models in traditional Vietnamese dress celebrating the New Year

For information on the Photographic Society of America, please contact Nan Carder, APSA, MPSA at nancarder310@msn.com

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA) REPORT FOR OCTOBER 2015

By Nan Carder, APSA, EPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative

PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: The PSA Conference in West Yellowstone has ended. It was a great conference with 36 tours into the Yellowstone National Park during the conference. Ramon Rosario was so busy taking tours, and being a tourist, that he was never seen. The elk were in mating season and were very active. Some of the photographers were able to view a bull and cow elk mate. That was X-rated, and no images have been on Facebook yet.

Some of the male elk attacked at least three cars. One rear window was replaced. We heard that one bull elk in the Madison River area ran into a group of photographers, and everyone scattered quickly. No one was hurt.

The conference speakers were excellent and quite a few of the speakers did conference tour/workshops in the Yellowstone National Park. The photographers worked one on one with those attending.

The Southern California Council of Camera Clubs (S4C) was second in both the Monochrome and Nature Section of the Councils’ Challenge. S4C was second overall.

In 2016, the PSA conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas from September 10-17.  The conference hotel will be the Wyndham San Antonio Riverwalk.

http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?future-conferences

PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter Event: The Southern California Roundup Chapter of PSA will hold their 2016 Annual Photography Event on Saturday, February 6, 2016, at the Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa (Orange County) during the Lunar New Year celebrations.  The featured speaker will be Jeff Sullivan who has just published "Photographing California" and he will speak on "Little Known California Photo Opportunities." The afternoon speakers will address "Making Photo Books." Several photo opportunities are being arranged: Friday afternoon until sunset (Huntington Beach Pier at sunset), all day Sunday (the Lunar New Year celebrations at the Orange County Fair Grounds), and Sunday morning (Huntington Pier Surfers and Beach Volleyball).

http://www.psa-socal.org

Chris Wilkins volunteers again! Besides Chris volunteering for the Membership Milestone Program Director position, Chris has also volunteered to become one of the PSA Exhibition Standards Directors. She will receive applications from organizations from the Balkans requesting PSA-recognition for their exhibition. All organizations that receive approval for PSA-recognized exhibitions agree to conform to the PSA Exhibition Standards. Thank you, Chris, for your service.

PSA International Exhibition 2015: All three of Shirl Airov-Bieling’s accepted images were shown at the PSA International Exhibition. Helen Henry, DFS4C also had two images accepted in the Projected Image Division (Milky Way with Windmill and Planes of Fame). and were shown at the West Yellowstone conference. This is one of the largest international exhibitions in 2015. Over 500 photographers participated in the Projected Image Division (PID) competition.  There were 1951 images entered in PID Color with 597 acceptances and there were 1563 images entered in PID Monochrome with 468 acceptances. There were exhibitors from 47 countries participating in this one division’s competition.

All of the PSA catalogs from all of the divisions are now on-line: http://www.psa-photo.org/psa-international/

For information on the Photographic Society of America, please contact Nan Carder, APSA. EPSA at nancarder310@msn.com

 

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA) REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2015

By Nan Carder, EPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative

PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: Registration is now closed for the PSA Annual Conference, which will be held in West Yellowstone, Montana from September 27 to October 3, 2015. Ramon Rosario, Brent and Nan Carder, EPSA, will be attending the conference this year.

PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter Event: The Southern California Roundup Chapter of PSA will hold their 2016 Annual Photography Event on Saturday, February 6, 2016, at the Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa (Orange County) during the Lunar New Year celebrations.  The featured speaker will be Jeff Sullivan who has just published "Photographing California" and he will speak on "Little Known California Photo Opportunities." The afternoon speakers will address "Making Photo Books." Several photo opportunities are being arranged: Friday afternoon until sunset (Huntington Beach Pier at sunset), all day Sunday (the Lunar New Year celebrations at the Orange County Fair Grounds), and Sunday morning (Huntington Pier Surfers and Beach Volleyball).

http://www.psa-socal.org

PSA Galleries:  One of the benefits of the Photographic Society of America (PSA) is having an individual gallery on the PSA-member website galleries. One gallery is the PSA Southern California Roundup Chapter gallery. Many of our Lancaster Photography Association (LPA) members who are PSA members have created galleries.  Anyone can see what these LPA members are doing, and they also can see some of their photography work.

Please take a look at these LPA member galleries on the PSA Chapter website, and check out their work: Shirl Airov-Bieling, Nan Carder, EPSA, Darren Cole, Sue Craft, Sue Liberto, Rock Myers, Kathy Newman, Ramon Rosario, Scott Shackelford, Leslie Sutton, Bill Sutton, Chris Wilkins, and David Wilkins.

These galleries can be updated at any time.

http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?southern-california-member-galleries

http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?galleries

 

 

PHOTOGRAHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA) REPORT FOR AUGUST 2015

By Nan Carder, EPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative

 

PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: Registration remains open for the PSA Annual Conference, which will be held in West Yellowstone, Montana from September 27 to October 3, 2015. Ramon Rosario, Brent and Nan Carder, EPSA, will be attending the conference this year.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (PSA) REPORT FOR JULY 2015

By Nan Carder, EPSA, DFS4C, PSA Club Representative

PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: PSA Annual Conference, West Yellowstone: Registration remains open for the PSA Annual Conference will be held in West Yellowstone, Montana from September 27 to October 3, 2015. For more information, please go to the following web pages.

PSA Yellowstone Conference

PSA Conference Hotels

PSA Conference Schedule

PSA Conference Tours