Photochrome Camera Club

Image-Fest 2009, Saturday, November 14 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM with lunch!

All Member Competition

Do you miss regular competition for your images? If so, you will be able to get your fix at our end of the year competition, Saturday, November 14. Mark your calendars now.

Although you may simply submit your images, you are encouraged to attend the competition. Those who did last year stayed till the very end. The competition will be judged by outside officials. Three judges will be assigned for each category. All images will be projected. No comments from judges, just viewing and ranking. This event will be a feast for your eyes!

Each member of Photochrome may enter five images (slide or digital submission) in each of the following categories*: Pictorial, Nature, Photo Travel, Photo Journalism, and Creative. Awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th places will be given out at the end of the year for each of these competitions. All winning images, and the Image of the Year will be presented in a slide show at the Annual Banquet. Start putting your best in a folder. If you submit the maximum number of images allowed we are talking 49 images each. Go for it!

Each member may submit four images in each of these special categories:

• Jack Cannon Perpetual Trophy – Best image of a recognizable San Francisco Subject
• The Walter F. Sullivan Memorial Award – Best Landscape or Seascape
• The Jules H Strauss Memorial Award – Best image of a Floral Subject
• The Dr. J. Humberto Arrieta Memorial Award - Best Portrait
• The Roy Humphries Memorial Award – Best image containing a Rose
• The Jaques & Margot Segal Award – Best image of a National Park or Monument

Rules & Deadlines:

Naming conventions—All Entries:

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Categories are:

• P—Pictorial
• N —Nature
• C —Creative
• PJ —Photojournalism
• T —Travel

Specials:

• Recognizable San Francisco subject —SF
• Landscape or Seascape —LandSea
• Floral Subject —Floral
• Portrait —Portrait
• Rose — Rose
• National Park or Monument —NatPark

Special Rules: For Pictorial, Nature, Photo Travel, Photo Journalism, and Creative— Image-Fest uses N4C definitions. They may be found on the www.n4c.org website.

Deadline (no exceptions):

• Submit digital images by NOVEMBER 6 to photochromeprojectionist@gmail.com
• Submit slides by November 5 Meeting

If you have questions feel free to ask the coordinator of the Image-Fest: Stacy Boorn. sboorn@aol.com, 415-731-6470.

Report by Gary Larsen

Martin Taylor - Maritime Park: Rigging

Shiver me timbers! Its Photochrome members already on another field trip. Make them walk the plank! These swabs included Bob Nelson, James Elliot, Sus Cho, Alan Heald, George Gibbs, Gary Larsen, the lass Pam Nelson and the lad Martin Taylor. Anyway, they gathered at the San Francisco Maritime Museum at Hyde Street on July 11, 2009 where they tried desperately to blend in with the landlubbin’ tourists since everyone was packin’ a big camera hangin’ from their necks. Old ships and the pier itself were the focus of our field trip. Rust, barnacles, seaweed, and even grease were captured by some hands while vessels, rope ends and rigging were photographed by other buccaneers. The Balcultha, Hercules and Eureka Ferry with all their loot were centers of attraction followed by booty goods lying on the pier. The day was overcast providin’ ideal lighting conditions for close-up shots and images with very little or no sky. Every now and then, ye could hear laughter or comments those scurvy tourists made to one another as they referred to us: “Arr! What are they doin’ taking thar crazy photos?” Of course they were just blimey tourists interested only in photographing each other with a boat in the background. Before leaving, a few of us swabs met in a tavern to splice the mainbrace (drink) with a clap of thunder (strong coffee) and discuss the day’s photographic take in. Yo-ho-ho!

Gary Larsen and the other photochrome board members have been working on creating a Brochure that tells prospective members about our beloved club. Gary is working to distribute these to local branch libraries and he may be asking for you help in this task.  In the meantime, if you would like to take a look at the brochure please follow this link and download the pdf. If you want to be prepared why not print out a couple of copies and put them in your camera bag just in case you come across a potential new member while you’re out shooting?

Burr Preston

Thanks to everyone who took the time and made the effort to submit images for our on-going book project. We had a terrific response and you can see all the entries here. The project commitee will now take some time to rough out the book’s format and layout.  Once that is complete we will come back to our membership to ask for any specific images if there are holes to be filled, and/or text to flesh out the book. Keep watching this site for progress reports.

Burr Preston

Submissions for the book project are rolling in and you can take a sneak peak at the images your fellow Photochromers have submitted here: http://www.theothermartintaylor.com/photochrome/thumb.html

There is still time to contribute to the first round of image submissions and you can read details of what we’re looking for and h0w to submit your contributions here: http://photochrome.org/2009/05/26/photochrome-to-publish-a-book/

Juts a couple of reminders;

• the email address to submit pictures to is  mh.taylor@yahoo.com NOT the usual photochrome projectionist website.
• do not send full sized images – 1024 pixels on the longest side is more than adequate
• please send jpg images NOT psd files
• please make the file name self-explanatory (your name, image title, etc.) not just as your camera numbered the files originally
• file names should not include punctuation, only alpha-numeric characters (no #,*,@ symbols etc)

Thanks and we look forward to seeing more of your entries.

See the post on our Photo Book Project.

Send in your best shots and words of wisdom to Martin Taylor by July 14.

Here’s the format:
For the first review, send ONLY 1024 pixel (longest side) images to this special address: mh.taylor@yahoo.com . DO NOT send full size images—instructions for those final selections will follow later.

Images should be contemporary so that they will be relevant to our target readers. Images should be recognizably ‘San Francisco’ and not overly disguised by Photoshop effects. Images should be taken in San Francisco or of San Francisco (how about documenting the places that offer the best views of the city itself; include views of San Francisco from Marin, Treasure Island, Oakland). A subcommittee of your Photochrome Board will act as editors and designers of the book and may work
with you in that capacity to tweak your entry or to combine it with similar submissions.