Photochrome Club Post Pandemic Revival

Post author By glarsen
Post date June 27, 2021

Photochrome Club Announcement

Photochrome is coming back! We are happy to announce that Photochrome will start meeting again on Tuesday, July 20, Ebenezer Church, at 7:30 p.m. This will be an Open Subject (OS) meeting.

As a reminder, you may submit 4 images as follows: Resize your images to be 1024 pixels on the longest side. Save as a Jpeg file. Name your image as follows: OS-your name-title. Example: OS-Joe Smith-Beach Sunset.jpg. Email, with the images as attachments, submit to: projectionist@photochrome.org. You will receive an acknowledgement email letting you know if the images were submitted successfully.

Our second meeting will be on Tuesday, August 3, also OS. After that, we will either meet on the first Tuesday of the month, or the first and 3rd Tuesdays of the month, depending on how often members want to meet. This will be decide at the first meeting on July 20.

The deadline for submitting images is midnight Monday before the Tuesday meeting.

If you have a problem submitting, bring your images on a flash drive to the meeting.

Note: You must be vaccinated to attend.

Photochrome Meetings Suspended

Post author By glarsen
Post date March 17, 2020

Here is the announcement we all have been expecting. To stay at home until April 7, 2020. Consequently, our meetings are suspended at least until Thursday 4/16/2020. More information to come.

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3/19/2020 Theme Night Meeting

Post author By glarsen
Post date March 16, 2020

This meeting should be a great one. The theme will be Street Entertainers. When you are walking down a street, especially in San Francisco, you might see musicians playing all sorts of instruments. Maybe others will be singing or dancing. If you are lucky, you might even see a mine or someone dressed up as a super hero. Snap those photos and send them in then prepare for a fun night on Thursday.

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Birding for Everyone Your Bird Photography Opportunuty

Post author By glarsen
Post date March 6, 2020

Hi Members:
Here is information about the Birding for everyone Walks. It’s a great opportunity to photograph birds:
A rotating group of naturalists will lead these walks. Missi Gavic and Bob Hirt, Alan Hopkins, and Megan Prelinger.
First Saturdays of the month, 10 am to 12 noon at the SF Botanical Garden. Meet just inside the entrance gate near the SFBG Bookstore at 9^th Avenue /Lincoln Way.
Admission for SF residents is free, non-residents pay a fee.
Next walk March 7, no walk April 4 due to Golden Gate Park Anniversary Events.
Check out the SF Nature on line at: http://sfnature.org/index.html

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Big Picture Competition

Post author By glarsen
Post date February 20, 2020

2020
Competiton
Details

Open To All Photographers Worldwide

BigPicture is open to all photography enthusiasts and professionals alike worldwide to compete for a chance to win the $5,000 grand prize. See eligibility restrictions below.

Competition Overview

Now in its seventh year, BigPicture encourages photographers from around the world to contribute their work to this competition that will both celebrate and illustrate the rich diversity of life on Earth and inspire action to protect and conserve it through the power of imagery. Chaired by award-winning conservation photographer Suzi Eszterhas, this competition welcomes high-quality nature, wildlife and conservation images and is open to all photographers around the world. Enter your nature, wildlife and conservation images for a chance to win cash prizes and be exhibited at the California Academy of Sciences.

Entry Fees

Each photographer can enter photos as follows:

$25 for up to 10 single image submissions in any category

$15 for 1 Photo Story submission (4–6 images)

Entrants are limited to up to 10 single image submissions per registered email address and may register an unlimited number of email addresses. Payment is made on a secure web page using a major credit card. Entry fees must be completed by the competition deadline (March 1, 2020) to be eligible to win. Images are not entered into the competition, eligible for prizes, or made viewable to judges until the contest fee is paid. Entry fees are used to provide the competition prizes and help the Academy in its mission and are non-refundable.

Competition Period

The BigPicture Photo Competition begins at 12:00 am North American Pacific Standard Time (PST) on December 1, 2019 and closes at 11:59 pm North American Pacific Standard Time (PST) March 1, 2020. Presented by the California Academy of Sciences.

Eligibility

BigPicture is open to all photographers worldwide, except employees, volunteers and Board Members of the Academy (as well as their sponsors) and the immediate families and individuals living in the same household as such employees, volunteers and Board Members. Academy reserves the right to verify, in its sole judgment, entrant eligibility. Void where prohibited.

Image Rights

Entrants retain ownership and all other rights to submitted photographs subject to the following: By entering the Competition, each Entrant grants to the Academy a non exclusive, irrevocable license to reproduce, publish and display submitted images in all media throughout the world directly in relation to the Competition in perpetuity. This includes but is not limited to use in the context of the Academy website and social media sites, the exhibition of winning images* at the Academy, and promotional and marketing materials regarding the Competition and Exhibition. In other circumstances, commercial opportunities may exist for awarded photographers to benefit from the use of their image, such as print sales or merchandise: where a commercial benefit is likely to arise, permission will be sought in advance and terms and conditions will be agreed upon with the photographer.

*Winning images include images designated as grand prize, first place, and finalist images.

Additional Information

Full Rules, Terms and Conditions

Submit Photo(s)

2020
Competition
Categories

$12,000 in Cash Prizes to be awarded to the 2020 winners!

The Grand Prize winner will receive $5,000 for the best overall image in the 2020 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition and be featured in the annual exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. The first place winners of the seven official categories will each receive $1,000 in cash and also have their winning images featured in the annual exhibit. Up to 6 additional finalists will be awarded a certificate of recognition for each category, with the exception of the Photo Series category. The Photo Series category will have one First Place awarded.

Art of Nature Aquatic Life Winged Life Landscapes, Waterscapes, and Flora

Terrestrial Wildlife Human/Nature Photo Story: Coexistence

Competition now open!

Ready to submit your entries to this year’s photo competition?
Please review the image checklist below and make sure you have completed those
steps before you begin. Have questions? Email us at bigpicture@calacademy.org.

Image Checklist

All files should follow these image specifications: .jpg or .jpeg format in Adobe RGB; must be 120 dpi; should be a minimum of 1500 px on the long edge and maximum 3000 px. No borders, watermarks or signatures allowed. Your image(s) will be immediately disqualified if these elements are included.
All files for the Individual Photo categories, should be submitted with the following naming convention: lastname_firstinitial_title.jpg (replace spaces with underscores).
All files for the Photo Story: Coexistence category, should be submitted with the following naming convention: lastname_firstinitial_story_title.jpg (replace spaces with underscores).
If you are submitting to the Photo Story: Coexistence category, please have 4–6 images prepared.
Please read the 2020 Guidelines and Rules.

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02-06-2020 Photochrome Meeting

Post author By glarsen
Post date February 3, 2020

Our next meeting will be Open Subject on Thursday February 6, 2020. Format your images with longest edge at 1024 and submit your jpeg’s to: projectionist@photochrome.org.

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Photochrome 2020 Calendar

Post author By glarsen
Post date January 13, 2019

Go to Club Activities or Members Info. to see the 2020 Calendar.

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05/24/2018 Field Trip to Urban Ore

Post author By glarsen
Post date May 4, 2018

Lets do some junkyard photography! That’s what this field trip is all about. We have three acres to wander through photographing all sorts of building materials and household goods to electronic equipment and musical instruments. The list goes on and on. Half of this recycling center is indoors while the rest lies in stacks or piles outside. Lets meet at the church parking lot between 8:45 and 9:00am to arrange carpooling to Urban Ore. We will want to arrive at Urban Ore around 9:30am. This will give us plenty of time to photograph cool stuff.

Flashes and tripods are alright although I recommend a monopod due to tight spaces at times.

Directions: Urban Ore Eco Park is located at 900 Murray Street in Berkeley, 94710.

Take I-80 East over the Bay Bridge, towards Berkeley.

Exit right after Emeryville at exit 10 to merge onto CA 13 S/Ashby Avenue.

Turn right on 7^th Street at the first signal.

Immediately turn left onto Murry Street.

Urban Ore is on your right. There ‘s a big sign on the building.

Sometime between 11:00 and 11:30 lets go to the Berkeley Bowl Café at 920 Heinz Avenue, just a few blocks away for coffee and/or other goodies. There is a parking lot on the left side of Heinz Street for Berkeley Bowl customers. If its decided to go somewhere else, we will let everyone know before hand.

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