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Spring 2012

Volume 5

Issue 2

IN THIS SPRING ISSUE

PSA What’s New in PSA./PSA Logo 2

PSA Newsletter Contest 3

PSA Web Site Contest 3

PSA Club Service Award 4

PSA-member Club Forums. 4

PSA Club Rep of the Year Award 5

PSA 74th Annual Conference. 6-7

PSA Youth Showcase 8

PSA Council Challenge. 8

PSA Club Education 9-10

June 1 CPID Creative Interclub

June 15 CPID Individual Portrait Competition*

June 17 PJ D Quarterly Competition*

* Must be a PSA-member to participate

Link to the Interclub Comparison Chart

Upcoming Division Competitions

Conference Reminder

Join PSA for this year’s 74th Annual Conference in

San Francisco, CA. It will be held at the San

Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront Hotel in

Burlingame, California. Information about the

conference is available on the PSA website, http://

www.psa-photo.org/conference/

Click on the link to see videos, read general

conference information, and find details about the

tours, classes, meals and programs.

The online registration for the conference began April 1, and the first deadline for the Con-

ference Registration is June 30th. The best time to

register is prior to June 30th (midnight central

time) to get the early bird pricing. All

registrations that are mailed to PSA Headquarters

must be postmarked by August 1, 2012. Online

registration will continue until August 10th. After

August 10th, everyone else will need to register at

the conference.

The PSA website has information about the hotel registration and

has links to the Marriott’s reservation website. Registration infor-

mation is available in the April issue of the PSA Journal. The con-

ference hotel is located minutes from the San Francisco Internation-

al airport (SFO) on the San Francisco Bay. So make sure the desti-

nation airport is SFO. The hotel offers free shuttles to and from the

SFO airport. The hotel parking is complimentary for conference

hotel guests. Please go to page 7 and 8 for more information.

PSA 74th

ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Entry Deadline: June 1 There still is time for clubs and Councils to

enter the PSA Web Site Contest, PSA

Newsletter Contest, and PSA Council’s

Challenge. Please see page 3 and 9 for

more information.

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PSA New Information:

PSA will have an On-line survey which will be available on

June 1. The survey will be due July 31st.

To encourage membership, the PSA member and the PSA-

member club that refer the most new members to PSA in a cal-

endar year will each receive a year end certificate award.

PSA has a new Travel Definition: A Photo Travel image must

express the feeling of a time and place, and portray a land, it's

distinctive features or culture in its natural state.

There are no geographical limitations. Close-up pictures of

people or objects must include distinguishable environment.

Techniques that add to, relocate, replace or remove any element

of the original image, except by cropping are not permitted. All

adjustments must appear natural. Conversion to monochrome is

allowed.

PSA has a newly appointed Membership Vice President, Don-

ald Brown. He is an award-winning nature and wildlife

photographer from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a member

of the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers’ Association (CNPA),

where he served as President for five years. During this time,

CNPA grew from 500 to 1500 members. Donald has used every

opportunity to increase his club’s membership. When taking

club field trips, he suggests always carrying the club’s bro-

chure, and handing them out to all interested potential mem-

WHAT’S NEW ?

USE OF THE PSA LOGOS BY PSA MEMBERS

By Pat Gordy

PSA members (individuals, clubs, and Councils) in good standing are

encouraged to display the PSA logo as a way to identify their

membership in PSA. The logo consists of its art design and the words

Photographic Society of America® (as shown here).

The logo must be used in its entirety and the colors cannot be altered.

The word "Member" or "Member since XXXX" should be displayed

directly below the PSA logo. Individuals, clubs, and Councils in good

standing are "members" and the term "affiliated with" should not be

used. The logo may appear on current members business cards,

literature, electronic correspondence, and web sites.

Use of the PSA logo or PSA's name or acronym by non-members or

members that have allowed their membership to lapse due to

non-payment is forbidden.

As a PSA Club Representative, be sure the PSA logo is on your club’s

website and newsletter. This logo and one with a black back-ground

may be downloaded once you have signed in on the PSA website:

www.psa-photo.org. Go to My PSA/Member References. The PSA Conference logo may also be downloaded there.

Chapters, Clubs, & Councils Vice President: Nan Carder, PPSA cccVP@psa.org Clubs Services Committee Chair: Margaret Sprott dick_margaret@verizon.net Club and Council PSA Journal News Editor: Hazel Meredith hmeredithpsa@aol.com Club, Council, & Chapter Newsletter Contest Director: Joan Field, APSA jfzgf@att.net Club, Council, Chapter Website Con-test Directors: Jean Roberts jeanaroberts2002@yahoo.com Dick Sprott sprottrichard@gmail.com Photo Editors Forum Moderators: Margaret Sprott dick_margaret@verizon.net Joan Field, APSA jfzgf@att.net Sparkle Forum Moderator: Hazel Meredith hmeredithpsa@aol.com Councils Services Committee Chair: Hazel Meredith hmeredithpsa@aol.com Council’s Challenge Director: Roz Kleffman mermaid51@Verizon.net Youth Showcase of Photography Director: Kathy Braun, APSA , PPSA pkzbraun@aol.com Editor, The Projector: Nan Carder , PPSA cccVP@psa-photo.org Position Available

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2012 PSA CLUB, COUNCIL, & CHAPTER NEWSLETTER CONTEST

By Jean Roberts, Web Site Contest Director

2012 PSA Website and Newsletter Contest Information!

Spring is here and June is not far off. June 1st is the deadline for entries in the PSA

Web Site & PSA Newsletter Contests! These contests can be fun, interesting,

challenging, educational, and a way to feature the talents of your club and it’s

members. Whether your club or council has entered in the past, or is considering

entering for the first time, give one or both contests a try this year! This is an oppor-

tunity for club webmasters and Newsletter Editors to spotlight their talents and in-

volve their club in PSA.

The Website Contest has two new Directors who have carefully considered the

comments from previous years and worked hard to try to make this year’s contest

user friendly for entrants and judges. Details for the Newsletter Contest can be found at http://www.psa-

photo.org/clubs-and-councils/psa-member-clubs/newsletter-contest/, and information for the Web Site Contest

can be found at http://www.psa-photo.org/clubs-and-councils/psa-member-clubs/web-site-contest/.

We hope your club or Council will seriously consider entering this year! If there are any questions,

please contact:

Website Contest Directors:

Dick Sprott

sprottrichard@gmail.com

Jean Roberts

jeanaroberts2002@yahoo.com

Newsletter Contest Director:

Joan Field, APSA

jfzgf@att.net

Jean Roberts

Web Site Contest Director

PSA WINNERS

WEB SITE CONTEST 2011

Photochrome Camera Club Loveland Photographic Society

Deadline: June 1

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PSA CLUB SERVICE AWARD FOR CLUBS

Club Service Awards are presented in recognition of photography service efforts

made by PSA-member clubs in communities world wide. The award recognizes club

participation in photographic projects of a civic nature such as town or area

publicity, welfare and charity fund-raising, historical documentation, animal adop-

tion, nature conservancy, community promotion, free holiday or event portraits,

and education in the art and craft of photography.

PSA Service Awards: Past Club Service Award Recipients

2011 Cleveland Photographic Society (CPS) Cleveland, Ohio Lancaster Photography Association (LPA) Lancaster, California

2010 Cleveland Photographic Society (CPS) Cleveland, Ohio Image Makers Camera Club Oconomowoc, Wisconsin Photographic Society of Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tennessee

2009 Ridgewood Camera Club Wyckoff, NJ

Submitting a Proposal:

Any PSA member may propose a PSA-member club for a PSA Service Award. The proposal also needs to be

endorsed by two additional PSA members. Club members, who are PSA members, may propose or endorse

their own club. PSA Board Members may propose or endorse members or member clubs (but not their own

club) for Service Awards.

The PSA Service Award Proposal information may be found at this link. http://psa-photo.org/recognition/

recognition-of-service/service-awards/

PSA-MEMBER CLUB/COUNCIL FORUMS

Margaret Sprott, Clubs Service Committee Chairman, has been very active in leading

discussions on the PSA Discussion Forums: Camera Club Sparkle and PSA PhotoEdi-

tor’s Group. These are designed for clubs/Councils to share information and solve

present concerns. There are 144 members in the Sparkle Forum and 248 members in

the PhotoEditor’s Forum.

Some of the topics are the following:

Competition Software

Newsletter versus Virtual Newsletter

Frequency of Publishing Newsletters

Judging Club Competitions

Camera Club Liability Insurance

Compensation for Judges

Come join the groups, and be a part of the discussion.

Roberrt Griffith, FPSA, MPSA

Service Awards Committee Chair

Deadline: August 1 (to be eligible for presentation at the

PSA Annual Conference)

Margaret Sprott

Clubs Services

Commitee Chair

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PSA CLUB REPRESENTATIVE OF THE YEAR

The Club Representative of the Year award recognizes those Club Representatives whose leadership keeps

their PSA-member club involved with PSA activities and who refer many individual members to PSA. The

award was established in 2010. Two awards are presented at the Opening Meeting of the PSA Annual

Conference, based on the size of the club.

Previous Club Representative of the Year (Large Club) Recipients: 2010 Susan Bailey, Carolinas Nature Photographers Association

2011 Nan Carder, PPSA, Lancaster Photography Association

Previous Club Representatives of the Year (Small Club) Recipients: 2010 Nellie Bretherick, Dallas Camera Club

2011 Marie Altenburg, Pocono Photo Club

Overview: Each PSA-member club and Council will have one person identified as the PSA Rep when the club

applies for membership. This contact person will be listed in the PSA Membership data base and the Club Rep

name can be changed at any time. Here is the link to the Club Representative Update Form: http://www.psa-

photo.org/my_psa/club-rep-update-form. Each PSA-member club will also provide a mailing address, an email

contact, a phone number, and a club web site URL.

The PSA Club/Council Representative Responsibilities:

Receive the club’s copy of the PSA Journal each month and transfer that copy to the next club meet-

ing to share it with potential members.

Receive the club’s annual PSA membership invoice and transfer the invoice to the club Treasurer for

on-time payment. The Club Rep will receive any PSA Membership Renewal Reminder Emails.

Review the contents of the PSA Club Services web site regularly for new information to share with

club/Council members.

Receive and review the PSA quarterly club newsletter, the Projector, and send it via email to the club

officers/board.

Speak at each club/Council meeting regarding the latest PSA service or activity that individual PSA

members can enjoy and encourage PSA membership for all club members. Identify PSA-recognized

Exhibitions with upcoming closing dates and encourage participation by all club members.

Help any club member who wishes to become a PSA member. Offer to help complete their online

membership application or mail their check and application to Headquarters.

Participate in the PSA Camera Club Sparkle online forum and encourage other clubs officers to also

participate.

Encourage the club’s webmaster and newsletter editor to join the PSA PhotoEditor's Group.

Encourage the club to participate in PSA Interclub Competitions. Become the Interclub Coordinator for

the club and submit club’s entry or identify another club member to be the Interclub Coordinator.

Encourage the club/Councils to enter the annual PSA Web Site Contest and Newsletter Contest.

Encourage Councils to enter the PSA Council’s Challenge.

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Help Promote the Conference on PSA Club/Council Websites

Help PSA advertise this year’s conference. The logo for this year’s event is available

on the PSA website under the Conference area http://www.psa-photo.org/

conference/2012-psa-conference/. Add the Conference logo to all club, chapter or

Council websites. Create a link to the PSA website and the PSA conference registra-

tion pages for convenience to club members. If members need printed advertising

material for this year’s conference, contact Janet Bigalke, APSA, at confer-

enceVP@psa-photo.org. Clubs can help by distributing information about the confer-

ence to their members at the local and regional levels.

VOLUNTEERS: If anyone is interested in helping with the conference, contact

Janet Bigalke, APSA, by email or sign up through the new Volunteer Opportunities area on the PSA website.

SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCE EVENTS:

The conference is broken into several segments – Tours, Classes, International Exhibitions, Special Exhibits,

Programs, Workshops, Meetings, Awards, Vendor Tables, Lunch with Friends, and the Banquet.

The first three days, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, are days for members to enjoy 14 planned tours in and

around the city via land or water. Members may want to travel north to the Muir Woods and Point Reyes, south

to Monterey, or enjoy the day photographing wildlife by boat in the Farallon Islands. Members may also travel

to the wine country, participate in the night photography shoots or just visit with friends.

CLASSES:

On the first three days, there will be classes in Creative Photoshop Elements®, Advanced Photoshop®, Pho-

toshop Lightroom®, Nik® Software HDR, or Judging Beyond the Rules. More details are on the PSA website.

Beginning on Tuesday evening, the PSA Projected Image Exhibitions will begin. After the projected division

exhibitions, the Grand Opening of the Print Gallery and the PSA Photo Print Exhibitions will open for the first

viewing. The first group of projected exhibitions will begin at 7:00pm, and the second group will begin at

8:30pm. The grand opening of the Print Gallery and the print exhibitions will be after the projected internation-

als at approximately 9:30pm.

On Wednesday afternoon, the PSA Annual Business Meeting will be conducted, and the Society Recognition

Awards and Service Awards will be presented. On Wednesday morning, the Club, Councils, and Chapters

awards will be presented in a special meeting. After the afternoon meetings, there will be a ribbon cutting

ceremony and grand opening of Master Kan Hing-fook’s famous print images in a Special Exhibition room.

On Wednesday through Saturday, the days will be filled with programs, workshops, and featured speakers. On

Wednesday through Friday, programs will be 8:30am until noon, 1:40pm – 5:00pm and again 8:00pm –

9:30pm. On Saturday, programming will be 8:30am – 5:00pm. On Saturday evening, the conference con-

cludes with the Honors Banquet and Progress Medal Award dinner.

PSA 74th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY Janet Bigalke, APSA, PSA Conference Vice President

Janet Bigalke, APSA Conference VP

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Throughout the week there will be various hands-on photography work-

shops. Included will be model workshops, macro workshops, the Color of

Light rear projection workshop, a Photo Travel Division workshop on

How To Create Effective Travel Shows, and the Digital Camera Workshop

– How to Make Better Photographs.

Each day beginning on Tuesday afternoon, meetings will be conducted

prior to morning programming, over the lunch hour, and again after pro-

gramming at approximately 5:30pm. Make sure to check the meeting

schedules on the website so activity meetings are not missed. Division

meetings will be conducted on Wednesday through Saturday during

breakfast and lunch.

Vendor tables will be on display on Thursday and Friday from 8:00am – 1:30pm. Visit the vendor’s tables for

the newest versions of software or newest models of cameras, lenses, tripods, camera bags, printers, photo

paper, etc. Please support the vendors and sponsors.

Saturday’s Lunch with Friends will feature a program reviewing the activities of the week. Tom Icklan, will

be collecting the images from the conference participants, so make sure to send him images from the week and

attend the lunch. The images need to be sized a maximum horizontal 1024 pixels and maximum vertical

dimension of 768 pixels. The maximum file size is 350KB after compression to JPG.

No more than three images per person and the deadline is 5:00pm on Thursday, September 20. Email images

to Tom Icklan, ticklan@aol.com.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Day Speaker/Sponsor Title

Wednesday A 3D division focused program Everything You Always Wanted to Know

About 3D (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Thursday Stephen Johnson/Canon® Explorer of Light

Friday Afternoon Julieanne Kost,/Adobe® Systems, Inc. Harnessing the Power of Lightroom®,

Photoshop®

Julianne Kost,/Adobe® Systems, Inc. Tricks for Turning the Ordinary Into the

Extraordinary.

Friday Evening Colleen Miniuk-Sperry (CMS Photography) Pre-Visualization: Picturing the Unique

Hunt’s Photo & Video Possibilities

Saturday Afternoon Robert Hughes/Tamron® Visions Through Photography.

We look forward to seeing everyone at this year’s San Francisco 74th PSA Annual Conference and conference

meeting.

PSA 74th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY Janet Bigalke, APSA, PSA Conference Vice President

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The 2012 Photographic Society of America’s Youth Photography Showcase judging

was held on Friday, May 11th, in Wisconsin. The PSA Youth Photography Showcase

is an annual competition for all high school age students. Entries are accepted only

through Chapters, PSA-member clubs, and Councils. There were 403 prints and 270

digital images entered this year from all over the world.

Serving as judges were Sandra Matson, Jeff Klug, and Signe Emmerich. The full day

of judging was coordinated by Gerry Emmerich, Jr., FPSA, GMPSA, and under the

supervision of Kathleen Z. Braun, APSA, PPSA, PSA Youth Showcase Director.

Phyllis Bankier organized the digital section entries, and Kathy Braun, APSA, PPSA, organized the print

section entries.

Awards and Honorable Mentions were chosen in each section in each of the five categories (Architecture,

People and/or Animals, Scapes, Photojournalism, and Photographer’s Choice /Creative). Additional images

which included 113 prints and 70 digital images, were also chosen for exhibition at the PSA Annual Conference

in San Francisco.

This was the first year that PSA-member club, Council, and chapter sponsors were able to send digital entries.

It was also the first time international entries were welcome.

PSA YOUTH PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWCASE 2012 By Kathy Braun, APSA, PPSA

Kathy Braun, APSA, PPSA,

Youth Photography

Showcase Director

PSA Council Challenge 2012

By Hazel Meredith, PSA Council Services Director

PSA Journal Camera Club & Council News Column Editor

The Council Services Director position was formed just over a year ago. One of the

projects on Hazel’s list is to have more contact with the Council PSA reps and

officers. Hazel would be interested in hearing from PSA Council members about

what their concerns and needs are, and how can PSA serve Councils better? What

kinds of competitions or programming would PSA Council’s be interested in? There

is a good base group of councils that are involved in PSA and enter the Council

Challenge competition. Hazel is working towards making this group even bigger and

better! Please e-mail Hazel Meredith, at hmeredithpsa@aol.com.

In addition, please remind club newsletter

editors to add Hazel to their e-mail or

mailing list for newsletters (e-mail Hazel at the email address

above if needed). Reading what clubs around the country are

doing gives Hazel inspiration for her monthly columns.

Also, don’t forget to have PSA-member clubs or council reps join

the Camera Club Sparkle Yahoo group. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ccsparkle. At the top of the

page is a link to click to sign up (or sign in if you already have a Yahoo account). Then just follow the links

to register for the group. Once the rep or member is authorized a member can post (that’s to keep out the

spammers), council reps can begin to share questions, ideas and solutions with fellow clubs and councils.

PSA Council’s Challenge Entries

Deadline: June 1

Hazel Meredith

PSA Council Services

Director

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“Education Works for All” Jean Roberts, PSA Club Rep & Bev Kiecker, MVPC President

The Beargrease Race

Minnesota Valley Photography Club

minnesotavalleyphotoclub.org

MVPC was founded in 1984 and presently has over 100 members representing photography

backgrounds at all levels of experience. The Club focuses on continuing education and the

appreciation of the science, technique, and art of photography to enable its members to expand

their photographic skills with an emphasis on being inclusive to the wide variety of back-

grounds within the membership.

One means to achieve this goal that has been successful is a formula that includes a monthly

focus night emphasizing a specific topic. That information is then applied to a club activity for

members to utilize the skills learned. Then the photos are entered in a Salon Topic Competition

correlating to the task. Skilled judges in the topic area critique entries at the General monthly

meeting. The members with the highest scores usually enter these into regional competitions

which includes North Central Camera Club & Twin Cities Area Council of Camera Clubs.

John Beargrease, between 1879 & 1899, was pivotal in the development of the entire North Shore.

This yearly race, commemorating his accomplishments, is held in the cold, snowy conditions of

winter. It is a photographer’s delight in Minnesota!

Photographing The Dogs! When, what, & where to photograph dogsleds in northern

Minnesota is presented at a general meeting by experi-

enced club members. The trail map to success is in place!

Now, we need snow to complete the club activity!

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Club Formula: Topic - Wildflowers

(Flowers as they are found in the wild – no hand of man)

As a General Meeting Enhancement Speaker, John Gregor of Coldsnap Photography dis-

cussed best practices in Presenting Your Prints whether for competition, exhibition, or just

personal use that he compiled after jurying a member topic competition. Follow-up education:

perfect!

“Approaching the art of photography as personalized instruction, while emphasizing specific topics of

interest to the novice and experienced photographer alike, has seen a rapid rise in club membership.

Our members say this works!”

quote from MVPC President Bev Kiecker

ACTIVITY

General Meeting Guest Speaker & Topic, was naturalist wildlife photographer and writer

Stan Tekiela, who is the originator of the popular state-specific field guides such as Birds of

(state name) Field Guide, Wildflowers of (state name), and Trees of (state name).

Discussion with John Pennoyer during

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