Loudoun Photo Club

Loudoun Photo Club is co-sponsoring with Claude Moore Park the 1st Annual Claude Moore Park Photography Expo! Held in conjunction with the CMP Arts & Crafts Fair on September 15th.

Deadline for entries is September 1st. More info…

Official competition. See competition rules for more information.

Theme is “Open”, which means any subject that meets our PG-13 rules and our regular competition rules. 🙂

Judged by Mr. Ian Plant, who gave a wonderful talk to us in March. Many thanks for coming back to judge for us!

May speaker meeting.

Lisa Duncan, former president of LPC and just-turned full-time professional photographer, will speak to us about how she started a photography business on a shoestring budget. Marketing, how she did it, websites, and more will be discussed.

NOTE: WE WILL ALSO HAVE ELECTIONS AT THIS MEETING – PLEASE ATTEND

Official, judged competition. Judge: Joshua Taylor, http://www.archiphotoworkshops.com/
Mr. Taylor has judged for us before, a few years ago, and did a superb job.

Theme is “Nature”:
Images that illustrate the natural features of land, sea, or sky, or that reveal certain natural phenomena such as cloud formations, precipitation, frost, fire, or which depict wildlife. The hand of man may be present as long as it enhances the theme of nature rather than detract. Examples include a small boat in a large lake, a fence in a distance, a path, etc.

*Please note that “detracting” hand of man in an image will be left to the judge’s discretion.

Ian Plant, author of

, will talk with us about photographing areas found in his book. He is a very engaging speaker with excellent tips on beautiful places to photograph in our “backyard” of the mid-atlantic.

His website: http://www.ipphotography.com

Check out the April 2008 issue of Outdoor Photographer for more on Ian Plant.

Come on, come all! Members, bring your latest works to show off or works-in-progress for feedback, and enjoy chatting about photography and more with your fellow LPC members.

We are delighted to announce that Joseph Rossbach will talk with us about Digital Darkroom Techniques! View more info about Mr. Rossbach at www.josephrossbach.com .

Location: Cascades Library
Time: 6:30p – social + setup, 7p meeting starts
Dinner: 5:30p at Famous Dave’s with the speaker

Judged official competition (February).

Theme is “Macro”.

Judge TBD.

NEW DATE – TUESDAY, FEB 5th

Shelley Miller will be talking about High Dynamic Range photos. Last year she gave us a very inspiring talk on using polarized light for indoor photos, which people are still talking about! We expect this talk to be just as excellent and look forward to learning more about this intriguing process.

Come one, come all! Members, show off your latest works, bring works-in-progress for feedback, and just have fun chatting with your fellow photo club members.

UPDATE: We’ll have pizza as usual. Also – BRING YOUR CAMERA AND TRIPOD. We’ll have a macro setup to practice for our Feb official competition.

UPDATED!

Our speaker will be Roy Sewall, published photographer and author of a lovely book of images of the Potomac. He’ll speak to us about how to produce a photography book for publication and about his book experience. Although he’ll have copies of his book for sale, this will primarily be a talk about producing a book and getting published.

Links:
Gallery – http://www.photocentric.net/galleryroy.htm
Book – http://www.photocentric.net/gallery130.htm

Holiday Party – Happy Winter Holidays!

This is a member night, portfolio share, and potluck to join each other in the season’s festivities.

Bill Conway will discuss Panorama Photography, including examples and how-to for various photo editing software.

View Bill Conway’s Photos on his website

This is the ONLY November meeting. Happy Thanksgiving!

Official competition, including ribbons and points! See our competition rules for more information.

Theme is “People”. Judge is Ellis Rosenburg.

NOTE: DATE CHANGE! We were unable to get the Cascades Library on Thursday, so we are meeting at the Cascades Library on MONDAY night. Same time – 6:30 for social+setup, start at 7.

Speaker meeting, Charles Neenan on “Morphing the Mundane into Something Less.” From Mr. Neenan, “I discuss how to take plain images and enhance them; I demonstrate the metamorphosis from average to exciting. The talk is designed to be interactive – and I will announce that prior to the start.”

Website: www.picturemanstudios.com

NVACC Judging profile: http://www.nvacc.org/Neenan.html

Bio:
Charles Neenan is a digital imaging artist and photographer living in northern Virginia. Like any artist that uses oil, pencil, acrylic, and other more “traditional” art media to tell stories, his easel is a computer screen and his brushes and canvas are cameras and lenses. His finished photographic-digital compositions are exhibited on fine art paper, canvas, and specialty photo papers.
Well traveled throughout the U.S. and countries on four continents, his art and photography have been influenced by a mixture of cultures, spreading from Malaysia to Miami, and from Manhattan to Madrid. An active member of the League of Reston Artists, Reston Photographic Society and Vienna Photographic Society (VPS), Charles Neenan is also a past Board member of VPS. In May 2007 he formed the Creative Photographers’ Society for both artists and photographers residing in northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C. Metro area.
In June 2007 his work Transcendence was juried into the Fairfax Arts Council Exhibition at the GRACE Gallery, Reston Town Center, Virginia. Neenan was one of only 23 regional and international artists chosen, out of a field of hundreds. He has won Regional and local awards for his digital imagery, including an Equal Merit Award for the 2004 USGS National Gallery photography exhibition in Reston, Virginia for Evolution 002, judged by Chuck Veatch. In the spring of 2005 he was featured on the Photographers of Northern Virginia television program. In January 2006 he successfully participated in the DC Art Expo, in Washington, D.C., and for the month of October 2006 had a one-man show at the Reston Community Center at Hunter Woods, where 30+ works of traditional photography and digital imagery were displayed. His landscape of Meadowlark Gardens is the cover shot for the 2007 Herndon Town Planner calendar. Many of his works are hanging in private residences and commercial offices in the Region.
Neenan conducts individually tailored digital photography and PhotoShop classes in northern Virginia for the serious amateur photographer and hobbyist alike. Since January 2007, he has presented talks on his thoughts on digital imaging to the Fairfax Art League, Reston Photographic Society, Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS), and the McLean Photography Club.
Neenan has been accepted to exhibit his latest work work, Time Warp 3792 CE, at the Arts Club of Washington for the month of September 2007 in conjunction with other artists from around the US. In early 2006, Neenan was published in Thinking About Art: The One Word Project, compiled by J. T. Kirkland. In addition to his commentary on Tradition, the book featured his image Nuclear San Francisco.
Two of his most avant garde works, Jazz World 2007 and New Worlds, were recently juried into the Art Reston Exhibition at the JoAnne Rose Gallery at Lake Anne and were on display through the end of June 2007. Neenan currently has two nature photo images on display at the United States Geological Survey National Gallery in Reston, Virginia.
View Charles Neenan’s website containing samples of traditional and way-beyond-traditional photography at: www.PicturemanStudios.com.

Join us for “Macro Night”! We’ll start with an informative talk about where to photograph butterflies in Loudoun County by Nicole Hamilton, President of the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. Then Elliot of Ace Photo will demo and discuss macro equipment. It will be a great night, packed full of info to get you started macro photo’ing right away.

NEW LOCATION: ACE PHOTO!!! (Upstairs Training Room)

• MAP of 44699 Cape Ct., Ashburn VA
• Directions: From Wegmans in Ashburn , go west on Waxpool. At the 2nd light, turn RIGHT onto Loudoun County Parkway (by the NOVA Medical building). The third left will be Cape Court. Turn LEFT onto Cape Court, then immediately RIGHT into the parking lot for a strip mall of white buildings. You’ll see Ace Photo about mid-way down.

Welcome everyone to our first meeting of the 2007-2008 season! We’ll start the year with our Member Night, traditionally “What I Did on My Summer Vacation”. Members and soon-to-be members, bring photos to share, get feedback on, or to just plain show off! We’ll have a great night of “pizza + pictures”. We’ll also finalize officers and do some housekeeping to get ready for the new year.