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Interclub competitions connect us with photographers beyond our own club. Selected images represent Darkroomers and are judged alongside work from other camera clubs in the region through the Southern California Association of Camera Clubs (SCACC).
For submission instructions, please visit the Darkroomers Member Handbook.
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 August will be Andrew Hertel.
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 Andrew
Andrew Hertel is a black and white nature photographer based in San Diego, California.
His work is shaped by time spent in wild places. Deserts, mountains, coastlines, and remote backcountry often explored on foot, by bicycle, or by motorcycle. For Andrew, photography is not just about reaching a location. It is about being immersed in the landscape, slowing down, and responding to what it feels like to be there.
Largely self-taught, Andrew creates quiet fine art images rooted in contrast, simplicity, and mood. His photographs are less about documenting a place and more about translating the emotional weight of the experience. A snow-covered tree. The curve of a sand dune. Fog moving through a forest. Without color, form and feeling come forward.
Andrew grew up in the Midwest, but the open spaces of the West Coast changed the course of his life and his creative work. His ongoing body of work, Images from Nature, reflects how he sees and experiences the wild places that continue to shape him.
Alongside his fine art photography, Andrew leads immersive photography workshops in extraordinary landscapes, helping photographers slow down, connect with their surroundings, and develop their own creative vision.