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Our third quarter theme for 2021 is SHADOWS
Members can submit up to two (2) monochrome and two (2) color photographs, no later than 8pm (PT) on the competition date. Submission instructions will be sent to members via email.
All submissions will be posted online within 3 days after entries close for members to vote. Winners will be announced at the second meeting of the following month.
Scoring
Members shall earn one (1) point for each print entered into the competition. Additional points shall be awarded to each division winning image as follows:
Three (3) points for each First Place winning image.
Two (2) points for each Second Place winning image.
One (1) point for each Third Place winning image.
Awards
At the end of each year, the member(s) with the highest number of points in the Monochrome division shall be awarded the Harris Wallace Perpetual Trophy. The member(s) with the highest number of points in the Color division shall be awarded the Pitt Warner Perpetual Trophy.
Join us for our First Wednesday Monthly Meeting. First Wednesday Meetings are lectures, talks, discussions, or presentations.
This meeting will be held in person at the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park (next to Spanish Village).
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
The digital darkroom provides many opportunities not available with wet processing, different print mediums have proliferated. An individual paper type from different manufacturers can vary. This workshop, presented by Jean Eichenlaub, will explore several of the various available papers and how each type influences the appearance of an image.
Darkroomers members may submit up to 2 image files to be printed on four different types of 8.5” x 11” paper (smooth, textured, metallic, and rice). A $10 suggested donation to defray material costs will be requested for printing. Submission instructions have been sent to members via email and Slack.
About Jean
Photography has always been an interest; however, between the cost of film and its development, and constant moving as a military dependent, I did not have the wherewithal to progress. Eventually, I sold my equipment and pursued other hobbies. Meanwhile, a career as a research oceanographer and instructor kept me busy. The advent of digital photography rekindled my interest. A call from my mother reporting an introduction to a digital photography course she had just taken got me started.
My research interests involved water and sediment interactions, and the small organisms living in sediment. Those interests carry over to my photography. Small (macro) subjects intrigue me and water is always important. With retirement, photography became a serious activity.
In addition to following my research interests, photography subjects have expanded to include many terrestrial animals.
Over the years, my images have received numerous awards: Cabrillo National Monument membership cards featured my photo one year, and a landscape photo won the Mission Trails Regional Park competition. Various photographs received Honorable Mentions at the San Diego Fair during past years. In 2017 a macro smoke photograph won first in class at the fair and an image of water spilling from a wine glass won Best Picture of the Year at the Professional Photographers of San Diego Chapter.
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
Join us for our Monthly Critique Night!
Our judge for October will be Stephen Burns.
On the third Wednesday of each month, members bring in prints for critique. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery.
Image critiques are available for members only. If you’d like more information about joining Darkroomers, please check out our membership page and email us if you have any questions.
About Stephen Burns
Stephen Burns (www.chromeallusion.com) is a digital artist and author of books on being creative with your digital tools. He is an Adobe AEL (Adobe Educational Leader) and Adobe Freelancer and has taught digital creativity internationally. He is an Instructor at Santa Monica College and Goldenwest College. He is also the president Of the Photoshop Users Group (www.sdphotoshopusers.com) which is currently the largest Adobe Photoshop Users group in the country. You can view the Facebook section at https://www.facebook.com/groups/photoshopusersgroup.
He is a guest writer for a number of magazines to include the feature article and front cover of Photoshop User Magazine (http://www.chromeallusion.com/articles_index.htm). In addition, Stephen is the author of the following books (http://www.chromeallusion.com/books.htm):
- “3D Photoshop For Creative Professionals”
- “Photoshop CS5 Trickery & FX”
- “The Art Of Poser & Photoshop”
- “Advanced Photoshop CS4 Trickery & FX”
- “Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX”
- “Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX”
- “Photoshop CS Trickery & FX”
He has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 28 years ago and in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His artistic influences include the great Abstractionists & the Surrealists including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini, to name a few.
Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 20 years internationally. He has been exhibiting digital fine art around the world at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens Gallery in Yokahama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.
He teaches Digital Manipulation Workshops online and privately. He is an instructor on http://training.xtrain.com/faculty/show/Stephen+Burns , Photoshop Café (http://www.chromeallusion.com/dvd_index.html), Layers Magazine (http://www.chromeallusion.com/tutorials_3d_layersmag.html).
Join us for our First Wednesday Monthly Meeting. First Wednesday Meetings are lectures, talks, discussions, or presentations.
This meeting will be held in person at the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park (next to Spanish Village).
Darkroomers members will be sent Zoom log-in info via email. If you’d like to attend as a guest, please contact us so we can add you to the guest list.
From Hobby to Passion: My Journey of Photography
Michelle Pennings will be sharing her humble beginning back in high school and where her love of photography has taken her today – a crazy and fun journey!
About Michelle:
Michelle is an International Award-Winning Fine Art Photographer located in San Diego, CA. She is the Director of West Coast School of Photography and has served as secretary of Professional Photographers of California. Michelle has earned her CPP (Certified Professional Photographer) and is currently working to earn her Masters in Photography from PPA. Michelle specializes in themed portrait sessions for children. When she isn’t busy creating new sets and painting backdrops she can be found photographing underwater.
Michelle’s recent distinctions:
- 2020 PPA Bronze Medalist Photographer of the Year
- 2020 PPC High School Photographer of the Year
- 2020 PPSDC Pet Photographer of the Year
- 2019 Western District 2nd Place Senior Portrait
- 2018 PPSDC Photographer of the Year
- Associate of WPPI
- Associate of The Portrait Masters
https://www.facebook.com/designsbychellephotography/
IG @designsbychellephotography
IG @familyphotosandiego
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
Join us for our Monthly Critique Night!
Our judge for November will be Lin Craft.
On the third Wednesday of each month, members bring in prints for critique. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery.
Image critiques are available for members only. If you’d like more information about joining Darkroomers, please check out our membership page and email us if you have any questions.
About Lin Craft
Lin Craft is an award-winning photographer whose long love affair with nature, travel, and photography has led to adventures all over the globe.
Lin grew up in Oregon, received her B.S. in Zoology from Oregon State University and a Master’s degree in Marine Science from the University of Puerto Rico. After teaching for several years at the College of the Virgin Islands she moved to California to pursue a Doctoral degree in Marine Biology at USC in Los Angeles. While a grad student, she had the remarkable opportunity to do research in Antarctica that involved diving under the ice. She worked in the marine environmental consulting field until retiring in 2010. As a diving marine biologist, she made more than 4500 SCUBA dives and was a NAUI SCUBA Instructor. For many years her photography was focused on the underwater world, but has since expanded to include all nature subjects, landscape, and travel photography.
Lin has judged for the San Diego County Fair and judges frequently for camera clubs and PSA-recognized International Exhibitions. She has presented more than 160 slide and digital programs for schools, camera clubs, photo conferences and community organizations. She has had several gallery shows, and her images have been published in books, calendars, and brochures.
Lin has been President of the Fallbrook Camera Club most years since 1987 and is a past-President of SCACC (the Southern California Association of Camera Clubs) where she was honored as a Fellow. Lin has been a very active member of PSA (the Photographic Society of America) for over 30 years. She has held numerous positions in PSA including as Chairman of the Nature Division and has received numerous service awards and honors.
Join us for our First Wednesday Monthly Meeting. First Wednesday Meetings are lectures, talks, discussions, or presentations.
This meeting will be held in person at the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park (next to Spanish Village).
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
Jodie will be sharing examples of her photography on the computer and in print. She will discuss the thought processes she uses while making photographs, as well as the ongoing, more prolonged processes and stages that happen during development (post-processing).
She will be sharing stories about several of her portfolios and what went into putting them together, and how they connect with each other and will discuss the advantages and disadvantages she has experienced in developing a series – what is gained and what may be lost in that process.
About Jodie Hulden
Jodie Hulden is a fine art, contemplative photographer whose photography focuses on the poetry of intimate spaces, both wild and man-made. Her work has been strongly influenced by Taoism, Chan and Zen Buddhism, ancient Chinese landscape paintings, classical Chinese poetry and Japanese Haiku.
She has a degree in art from San Diego State University focusing on textiles and fiber arts. She discovered her passion for black and white photography in the 1970’s, influenced by Ansel Adams, Minor White and Walker Evans. She has mentored with George DeWolfe, and studied with Carlan Tapp, Michael Frye, Brett Erickson and Susan Burnstine.
In 2017 she completed a month-long artist-in-residency at Zion National Park. She was an award winner in 2018 at the Center Choice Awards in Santa Fe, NM. In 2019 she was selected as one of the 200 Critical Mass Finalists for her Seeing Silence portfolio. Also, in 2019 she published a book with Andy Burgess of Dark Spring Press of her interior Bodie images titled Left Behind.
She has exhibited her work nationally at the Center for Photography Arts in Carmel, CA, the Center of Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont, the Yosemite Renaissance Exhibitions and the Photographer’s Eye Gallery in Escondido, CA. She has been featured in On Landscape Magazine, FotoRelevance, and Black and White Magazine (UK). Jodie lives in San Diego. Her work can be found on her website: www.jodiehulden.com.