The F /Stop. Cover Photo Credit: Fury, by Jamie Slater

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1 The F /Stop Cover Photo Credit: Fury, by Jamie Slater Founded: June 2010 website: No. 34 April 2018

2 The F /Stop Two Rivers Photography Club - Newsletter Founded: June 2010 website: No. 34 April 2018 A Message from Barry Biddle, TRPC President Spring is coming and we have several spring events planned. First is the annual seminar on April 7th and 8th. If you haven t signed up hurry and do so, or plan on doing a walk-in at 8:30 a.m. on the 7th. Also on May 19th the club is sponsoring a bus trip to Longwood Gardens, a great place to visit in spring. For details on these events check out the club website. What is coming next besides spring? Well it is time to prepare your images for the End-of-Year competitions. Gather up all of your images that placed first, second, third or honors and submit them for the EOY competition. Also take a look at the criteria for the Burgess Award and the Buran Millett Award and consider submitting for these competitions as well. Entries for all EOY competitions will be due by April 13th. Remember all entries, print and projected must be submitted on the club portal. The physical prints must be turned in at the April 13th club meeting. Winning print images from the 4/13 competitions should be left that night, but remember to enter them on the portal. You will have until the middle of the following week to make the portal entries for both print and projected images that were winners on the 13th. All of the entries will be displayed at the End-of Year Dinner. Speaking of the dinner, don t forget to mark your calendars for the dinner which will be on Friday May 11th at Atrio Banquets and Catering, 409 Hooper Rd., Endwell. It is always a fun evening and a time to review many of the wonderful images from the past year and to hand out some awards to club members for their achievements. As our regular meetings come to a close for the year in April don t forget to stay abreast of club happenings via the web page or Facebook. Any additional club outings or trips will be posted there as well as announcements as plans get firmed up. TwoRiversPhotographyClub/ PAGE 1

3 Image Printing Providers Here are a few of the businesses and their web sites that you can use to get prints made: Shutterfly MPIX Bay Photo Miller s WhiteWall Denver Digital Imaging (for slides and negatives Beyond The Print com/ (Dave Williams, 216 Main St., Vestal; ) The F/Stop The F/Stop is the official newsletter for the Two Rivers Photography Club of Binghamton, NY. It is published three times a year (Sept/Dec/Apr) and can be read online at the club s web site at: Articles, photos and announcements are welcome and can be submitted to the editor prior to the publication dates as follows: September 1, 2018 December 1, 2018 April 1, 2019 First Meeting of What Did You DO Last Summer? You will have a chance to share two of your images with the club at our first meeting on September 21, Did you find a unique place close to home to photograph over the summer? Did you travel to some exotic location? Did you master a new technique? Perhaps you would like to share the information with fellow club members. Submit two of your images on the clubs digital portal by Thursday September 20, 2018 and come to the meeting and give a brief talk about your adventure. All submissions are subject to the f/stop editor, TRPC Officers and Board of Directors approval. Editor: Don Costello ShDCos@aol.com Production: Jody Adams Adams.jody75@gmail.com Several boards members contributed information, edits, photos and flyers. This is also a night to pay your club dues for the coming year. PAGE 2

4 upcoming events MARK YOUR CALENDARS 2017 End Of Year, Burgess, & Buran/Millett Awards If your image placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or received an Honors you are eligible to enter the EOY competitions. ALL the EOY Competitions are now open for submissions on the TRPC portal as well as the CLOSED BOARD competition for 4/13/18. SPECIAL NOTE: Bring your EOY, Burgess, & Buran/Millett PRINTS to the meeting on April 13, 2017 Any winners from the competition on 4/13/18 can be submitted for EOY that night and you will have until 4/18/18 to submit the digital copies to the appropriate portal competition. Please read the instructions and rules in the TRPC HANDBOOK for submitting to EOY, Burgess and Buran/Millett Awards, and make sure you are submitting to the correct competition when using the portal. Please go to the club web site and click on the TRPC Handbook for a complete explanation of these awards and how to enter. EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO START SUBMITTING THEIR PREVIOUS WINNERS NOW TO THE EOY COMPETITIONS TO AVOID PROBLEMS AS THE DEADLINE APPROACHES. (You can review your winning images for the past year by selecting the FILE tab on the portal) From TRPC Board Member Pete Kofira, Jr End Of Year Awards Dinner May 11th 2018 Atrio Banquets & Catering 409 Hooper Rd. Endwell, NY $18 for Members, $25 for non-members More info will be provided by and the website PAGE 3

5 Successful Winter Classes! as well as his personal work. Chuck gave hints about angle, framing, readiness, and emotional impact. Following his comments about photojournalism were descriptions of his work with the Red Cross in the Houston and Puerto Rico disasters. On January 20th, at the Vestal library, the club sponsored the first of four presentations that constituted our winter classes. The kick-off event on the 20th was a well-attended and interesting talk by nature writer and photographer Rick Marsi who described and projected images of our region s wetlands and the native flora and fauna. Afterwards he answered questions and sold copies of his illustrated book, Log Cabin Year: 48 Reflections from Our Seasons Past. Next, on February 3rd, was photojournalist and Red Cross volunteer Chuck Haupt. He described his trade as capturing a story-telling moment, using examples from past greats like Dorothea Lange, Eugene Smith, Gordon Parks, etc., The February 17th session featured the annual Hi-Jinx challenge, with a variety of set-ups for close-up photography. Displays included a light-painting exercise in a darkened meeting room, colored pencils arranged artistically, flowers, a light box with translucent objects, toys, Christmas tree lights, and CDs arranged to reflect lights. The 20 participants attending all agreed it was a fun time, and a few of the images captured showed up in competitions, including the smartphone contest at the Co-op Gallery. Concluding the classes on March 3rd were several presentations by club members on challenging one s self to take more and better photographs and also on various gadgets and tools that can be useful. Continued on Next Page... PAGE 4

6 Cont... Successful Winter Classes! As a side note, these Winter Classes attracted 15 different non-members, predominantly in the first two lectures. All of the sessions had good participation, ranging from 18 to 30 attendees. High Participation in Johnston Competition Cindy Ruggieri started off the session with a slide show of photos she took on every single day in November. It demonstrated one approach for pushing one s boundaries while illustrating the challenges of finding interesting subjects on rainy days. Following Cindy was Kathy Whisman s talk about a variety of books that inspire photographers to strengthen their skills, have fun, become great, break out their rut, and to set up self-challenges. These improvement ideas include taking a picture every 20 minutes, doing the same every 20 steps in a nice environment, capturing 30 images every minute in a 30 minute time span, varying one s angle, lens, and lighting on a single scene, etc. The class concluded with several club members showing gadgets and tools that can aid any serious photographer. Our club once again co-sponsored the annual Bob Johnston Memorial Photography Show and Competition in January, with 15 members submitting 39 prints, 7 of which won awards. Judge Chuck Haupt spoke at the awards ceremony at the Cooperative Gallery 213, praising the high quality of the 100+ entries, and he gave one of his two Judge s Choice awards in black and white images to Sandra Kirker for her Adirondack Mist print. Adirondack Mist, by Sandra Kirker Honorable Mention awards went to Fr. Jim Dutko for Conscientious Canines, Geoff Gould for Dyrholaey Promontory, Sandra Kirker (again) for Painted Tulip, Deb Rockefeller for Morning Stroll, Carol Saggese for Poppies, and Mary Lou Shapinas for Cumberland Sleeps. Congratulations to all. PAGE 5

7 Closed Board Topics for Projected April 13, 2018 The Inside of Something 2 entries allowed A Good Winter Outing at the Zoo Get That Itch, by Deb Rockefeller Once again, in January, a group of club members participated in the annual Winter at the Zoo photo competition at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse. And once again, one of our club members won the Grand Prize award for the best-inshow image. Last year it was Susan Thorne for her shot of a pensive fox, and this year it is Deb Rockefeller for her striking shot of a markhor, also known as a screw-horn goat. She used the title Get that Itch. In addition, Jamie Slater won the Best Action Picture award with her in-your-face shot of a lion, entitled Fury. The zoo s contest takes place for the entire month of January and features free Fury, by Jamie Slater admission to anyone carrying a regular camera. More than 850 images were submitted this year. Predictably, for this wild winter we had been having, the initial day chosen to travel to Syracuse got changed due to snow, but the group made it there by month s end, with good results and lots of picture-taking. Upcoming Field TRip to Longwood Gardens Longwood Gardens is an American botanical garden that consists of over 1,077 acres of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. It is one of the premier horticultural display gardens in the United States. (Per Wikipedia) Below is the information for the trip scheduled for May 19th, Please join us & invite your friends. Open to Everyone! PAGE 6

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9 Two Rivers Photography Club 2017/2018 President Barry Biddle Vice-president Bill Baburchak Secretary Kathi Hunt Treasurer Kathy Whisman Board Members: Pete Kofira May Lou Shapinas Bernie Lewis Sue Thorne Rick Northrup Jean Stout Patsy Nash-Jones Don Costello Cindy Ruggieri Committees: There are various committees that help the club function. They are listed in the TRPC Handbook that is on the club web site: These committees are always looking for people to help. Please see any TRPC Board member if you would like to volunteer to assist at any level you can. TRPC Club Meetings The First Congregational Church 30 Main St, Binghamton, NY Fellowship Hall NW Corner of Front and Main Streets 2nd & 4th Friday 7:00 pm Full Schedule of meetings is on Club Web Site: submission Rules The text below is from the TRPC Handbook. New members please be aware of items #3 & 5. These rules are to encourage people to keep their skills current and not use old images just because they are convenient. It s possible that the Handbook has not been read thoroughly by all members and this note should make everyone aware of the rules. COMPETITION: The club has print and projected image competitions. You are encouraged to compete in both competition categories. However, you may choose to compete in either with just a print(s) or projected image(s). Entry Qualifications: 1. Entries must originate as photographs (image/captures of objects by a light sensitivity) made by the entrant. 2. Each image must have been taken by the person entering it. 3. Images must have been shot by the entrant within the last 5 years. 4. Nudity is not permitted. 5. Presenters of images of questionable origin may be requested to produce metadata as proof of ownership. 6. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as their own. PAGE 8