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Houston Photochrome Club Volume MMXVII No. 11 November 2017
www.houstonphotochromeclub.org
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Deadline for digital submission…
All digital entries must be sent
to
Philip Tan
by November 4
Entries received after that will not be
eligible for November Competition
FYI… the deadline is always the
Saturday before the meeting
November Meeting
The competition and critique meeting will
be 7:00 PM November 9 at the Tracy Gee
Community Center, 3599 Westcenter Drive,
which is one block inside Beltway 8 be-
tween Westpark and Richmond.
Remember: There will be NO meeting on
the fourth Thursday in November and De-
cember.
Via Colori | Houston, Texas USA |
SAT, NOV 18, 2017, 10:00 AM – SUN, NOV 19, 2017, 5:00 PM CST Street painting festival at City Hall General Admission tickets are $7.00 which includes both days. A Photo Breakfast pass is $20.00 which gets you there early before the gates open in-cludes breakfast and a full hour to photo-graph before the crowds are allowed in. Check out all the details at: https://www.centerhearingandspeech.org/VC-tickets/
Cookies for November
Donnie Walton
New Categories Added
New categories for the next 12 months have been added to give you plenty of time to plan and shoot appropriate images. Remember that the images entered must have been shot within 12 months of the competition date. See page 6for the new list.
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Inter Club Competition
Houston Photochrome Club is a member of the Gulf States Camera Club Council. There are many of these councils across the United States. We enter monthly competitions in nature, color and monochrome, as an individual club in both GSCCC and PSA, but then each of the Councils’ pick the top images for the year, from each division and enter them into the PSA Inter-Council Competition. I am proud to say that Janet Chung’s “Swan Mom & Baby” was picked by GSCCC for the Nature competition and won 3rd place over-all. Janet’s image “Mutton Bustin” was picked for the Color Division competition and received an Honor-able Mention. Julie Cheng’s “Lovely Jelly Fish” was picked for the Mono competition and received an Honorable Men-tion. Way to go, Ladies. This is a really big honor, for Janet, Julie, GSCCC and Houston Photochrome Club.
Swan Mom and Baby by Janet Chung
Mutton Bustin’ by Janet Chung
Lovely Jelly Fish By Julie Cheng
Let us talk by Julie Cheng
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Our Oct. Images entered for GSCCC Mono-chrome competition were: Let Us Talk-Julie Cheng – 13 – 1st Place Sculpture on Allen Pkwy. – Jane Ashley – 10 1932 Plymouth Roadster – Carmen Sewell – 9 Daisy – James Gamble – 8 Our images entered for the GSCCC Color Projected competition were : Fireworks Shower – James Gamble – 12 – 1st HM Rooster Portrait – Janet Chung – 12 Thistles – Carmen Sewell – 11 Lake McDonald – Julie Cheng – 10 They were judged by the Plano Photo Club Congratulations to Julie & James Jane Ashley Inter-Club Competition Chairman
Christmas Party or NO?
Last year we planned a party outside of the meeting night and the interest was not there so it was cancelled. Now it’s time to plan for this year and the question is shall we have a party or not? The options are: 1)a party away from the Tracy gee at someone’s house or 2) a small celebra-tion at the Tracy Gee on the competition night. Please email me your opinion so that we can plan ahead. [email protected]. Thank you for your help. Carmen
2017 End of the Year Competition
Next month is the entry month for the year end competition . You may enter 3 images each for Assigned, Open and Monochrome. Entries must be se-lected from your list of eligible images from the monthly competitions. January though Decem-ber 2017 (Jane Ashley will send this list to each person who has submitted competition images). December images are eligible too. So start thinking which of your images you will be submitting. The actual date will be an-nounced in the December newsletter.
Officer Election
It is also time to select officers for the coming year. If you have a candidate you would like to nominate or if you would like to serve yourself, please, submit your suggestions to James Gam-ble at [email protected] The Officer slate is : President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer.
Fireworks Shower by James Gamble
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October 2017 Competition
Judges: Tim Bimler, Julie Cheng, Carmen Sewell
Assignment -Panorama Open
Ballerina Fairies Janet Chung 24 Botswana Baboon J. Joe Schmitt 24
Grand Canyon Janet Tan 22 Glass Ceiling Philip Tan 24
Canyon Lands Vista Stephanie Rudd 21 Bugling Scott Meyer 23
Curves Julie Cheng 21 Dawn on Jordan Pond Carmen Sewell 23
Sawyer Street Mural Jane Ashley 21 Hummingbird in Flight Julie Cheng 23
Downtown Houston Charles Edwards 20 Wildebeest Janet Chung 22
Oklahoma Vista Donnie Walton 20 Botswana Sunset F. Joe Schmitt 21
Rio Grande at Big Bend Carmen Sewell 20 Butterfly Philip Tan 21
Top of the World Vista Scott Meyer 20 Chicago Downtown Janet Tan 21
Desert View Philip Tan 18 Cooper's Hawk with Pigeon Jane Ashley 21
The Pond Tim Bimler 18 Flamingo Fly Off Janet Chung 21
11 entries Avg. 20.4 Green and Yellow Parrot Carmen Sewell 21
Just Waiting Stephanie Rudd 21
Monochrome The Boot Tim Bimler 21
Bar Harbor 2 Carmen Sewell 24 Waiting for Tourists Stephanie Rudd 21
Seattle Public Library Janet Tan 24 Alligator Julie Cheng 21
Stork Portrait Julie Cheng 23 It's a Dream Scott Meyer 20
Rising Above the Clouds Scott Meyer 21 Partial Rainbow Charles Edwards 20
Look Out! F. Joe Schmitt 20 Space Needle Reflection Janet Tan 20
Tenor Solo Charles Edwards 20 Oklahoma Hill Donnie Walton 19
Zebra in Black & White Jane Ashley 20 Newcastle Harbor Jane Ashley 19
German POW Grave Donnie Walton 19 Who You Lookin' At Donnie Walton 19
Lion At Rest Janet Chung 18 Bryce Charles Edwards 18
9 entries Avg. 21.0 Shiny Wing Tim Bimler 18
24 images Avg. 20.9
Total entries - 44
Avg. Score - 20.8
Photographers - 10
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ATTENTION:
All Competition Participants Images must be submitted according to club guidelines or your image may not be included in the monthly competition Please follow the sizing instructions carefully: A horizontal image cannot be longer than 1280 pixels along the horizontal side; A vertical image cannot be longer than 800 pixels along the vertical side. ( Vertical images cannot be sized 1280 pixels along the vertical side!) The size of the JPEG image is not to exceed 1MB.( See above for pixel size.)
NEW INFORMATION 4/1/2016
Rename the image according to the guidelines below. For example: An Assignment image by John Brown would appear as AS_Assignment_BrownJ.jpg (Use “M” for Monochrome and “O” for Open categories.) DO NOT use first names, nicknames or ini-tials only, for identification. Also, the size of the title is limited to 35 characters when naming images. It is important that the guidelines for naming files be followed when submitting images for the monthly competitions otherwise you run the risk of not being credited with your entries.
Images that are not easily identi-fied will be discarded.
Assignment Categories 2016-2017 The Assignment list is:
November 2017 Close-Up Nature
Zoom in on nature subjects to get
fine detail.
December. 2017 Silhouettes /Back lit Im-ages January 2018 Texture
February 2018 Holiday Still Life
March 2018 Three’s Company ( Rule of Thirds
and/or Rule of Odds with 3 main subjects)
April 2018 A Sacred Place
May 2018 Symmetry
June 2018 Music to my Eyes ( Musical
Instruments or Performer / Band)
July 2018 Patriotism
August 2018 Winged Creatures
September 2018 ABC’s (Images with an ob-
ject shaped like a letter of the alphabet )
October 2018 Beautiful Bokeh (mages with
a nice blurred background)
November 2018 What’s Cooking? (Images
of prepared meals)
December 2018 Autumn Colors
Remember that assignment images must
have been shot within 12 months, prior to
competition meeting for that assignment .
Because of this restriction, we will now choose the categories a year in advance of the category date ,for your convenience. NOTE: Images may not be submitted more than once regardless of the category. Color images may not be submitted as mono-chrome if they have been used in another category and vice versa.
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Houston Photochrome Club is a mem-ber of the Photographic Society of America and the Gulf States Camera Club Council