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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 may drop off their print entries in preparation for the 2024 Year-End Competition which will be held on January 11, 2025.
Entry Categories
- Abstracts
- Architecture & Cityscapes
- Animals and Insects
- Landscapes and Waterscapes
- People
- Still Life
- Other
Members may submit up to 10 images each. Entries must be submitted online at submissions.darkroomers.com no later than 11:59 PM, December 21, 2023.
Celebrate a year of stunning photography with us at our Year-End Competition, a highly anticipated event that showcases the best work from our talented members. This event is open to the public, and refreshments will be provided.
Schedule of Events:
- 9:00 AM – Setup and Cleaning Crew: Help us prepare for the event while enjoying complimentary donuts. Don’t forget to bring your favorite coffee!
- 11:30 AM – Lunch Reception: Join us for a casual lunch.
- 12:00 PM – Competition Begins: Experience the excitement as we unveil and celebrate this year’s top photographic works.
We look forward to seeing you there for an inspiring and fun-filled day!
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 January will be Don Bartletti.
Members bring prints for critique on the third Wednesday of each month. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery.
Visitors are welcome, however, submitting images for critique is 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 Don
From the crowded streets of California to the continent-spanning routes of human migration, Don uses the camera to preserve story-telling moments that often pass in the blink of an eye. All of us who appreciate the medium know that there is no better evidence of a fleeting moment than the still photograph. Some can make us smile; some make us weep. Over his 52-year career on the road as a newspaper photojournalist, he occasionally found himself focusing on things that made him wonder, “How can such things be?”.


