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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 April 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
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) as well as an Adobe Community Expert and has taught digital creativity internationally. He is an Instructor at Goldenwest College and Santa Monica College and Coast College and Studio Arts of Los Angeles. He worked as a Pro-Artist for WACOM Technologies and he is the president Of 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 including 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 29 years internationally. He has been exhibiting digital fine art around the world at galleries such as the Durban Art Museum in South Africa, the Citizens Gallery in Yokohama, Japan, and the CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.
Once again, we are photographing potholes around Hospitals Reef in La Jolla.
Don’t forget to bring Wide Angle lenses, tripod, cable release, and filters to get silky smooth water at sunset.
Arrive around 6 Sunset at 7pm; Parking is a challenge
Dinner afterward at Mandarin House in Bird Rock
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 May will be Jennifer Wolf.
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 Jennifer
Jennifer Wolf comes from a science background with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in marine biology and ecology. After a couple decades working with sea urchin fisheries and wetland restoration, she now spends more time engaging with the photography community.
She has spent the past 6 years as the program coordinator for the North County Photographic Society. In 2014, after many years of entering the International Exhibition of Photography at the San Diego Fair, she decided to move to the other side of the table and become a judge. She has continued to enjoy judging since then and has been a guest judge at other local clubs as well.
In 2021 and 2022 she applied for and was accepted as an official photographer for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. In addition to photographing balloons, she holds a commercial balloon pilot license.
Her balloon photography can be seen at https://wolfharttimages.com
Jenny and Sandy Zelasko host bi-monthly photo critiques on their YouTube channel @chickstalkingpics