The Cable Release

February 2009

Volume 56, No. 7

A Publication of the New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs

Organized for the mutual advancement and enjoyment of

photography .

NJFCC PICTORIAL TRAVELNJFCC PICTORIAL TRAVELNJFCC PICTORIAL TRAVEL January 12, 2009January 12, 2009January 12, 2009 MEDAL WINNERMEDAL WINNERMEDAL WINNER

Morning in Death Valley Ben Venezio

Page 2

Results from Pictorial Travel Results from Pictorial Travel Results from Pictorial Travel --- JANUARY 12, 2009 Competition JANUARY 12, 2009 Competition JANUARY 12, 2009 Competition

JUDGES: Phil Echo Judy Helderman Roman Kurywczak

TITLE MAKER CLUB NAME AWARD Morning in Death Valley Ben Venezio Cranford / Millburn Camera Club MEDAL Taller Than the Moon Connie Fox Ridgewood Camera Club MA Half-Dome and Reflection Alan Kaplan Morris Photocolor Club MA West Virginia Mill #2 Ben Venezio Cranford / Millburn Camera Club MA Camel on the Dunes Ralph Baron South Jersey Camera Club MA Sunset at Mitten Butte Ron Denk Cranford / Millburn Camera Club MA Antarctic Morning Dom Leone Rockland Photo Club MA Peggy's Cove Don Myles Hillcrest Camera Club MA Tenaya Lake Karen Racz Morris Photocolor Club MA Hudson River Sailboat and NYC Skyline Susan Lee Schwartz Rockland Photo Club MA Fire Michael Augustyniak Cranford / Millburn Camera Club HM Jolly Old Fellow Michael Augustyniak Cranford / Millburn Camera Club HM Bicycles Paris Evening Todd Boressoff Essex Photo Club HM Zabriskie Landscape Ron Denk Cranford / Millburn Camera Club HM Lancaster Transit System David DesRochers Cranford / Millburn Camera Club HM Castillo De San Cristobal Vicki DeVico Monmouth Camera Club HM Windmill on a Canal Charlotte Farlow Morris Photocolor Club HM Washing Clothes Peter Gordy Rockland Photo Club HM Delhi Streets Paul Lenz Monmouth Camera Club HM Canyon de Chelly Dom Leone Rockland Photo Club HM Angles Jay Matusow Rockland Photo Club HM Airing Out The Sheets In Strasbourg Helen McAndrew Monmouth Camera Club HM Banteay Srei Cambodia Ira Nemeroff Livingston Camera Club HM Yellow in Utah Garden Patti Pilkington HUB Camera Club HM Delicate Arch #1 Mike Rozzo Monmouth Camera Club HM A View of The Washington Monument Bill Tice Monmouth Camera Club HM The Field of Miracles Piza Italy Bill Tice Monmouth Camera Club HM Deadhorse Point Andrew Vaccaro Ridgewood Camera Club HM Roman Twilight Mira Agron Livingston Camera Club HM Sea of Galle Sun Rise Jordan Basem Livingston Camera Club HM Mother and Daughter Evelyn Chaio Monmouth Camera Club HM Dutch Country Charlotte Farlow Morris Photocolor Club HM The City's Art Deco Gem Rich Gheno Ridgewood Camera Club HM Fishing From Our Home Art Lee Livingston Camera Club HM Trafalgar Square Street Artist John Matis Morris Photocolor Club HM Big Ben Peter O'Malley Ridgewood Camera Club HM Wyoming Barn Bob Peltz Ridgewood Camera Club HM A View of Mt Rushmore Bob Pilkington HUB Camera Club HM Utah Mine Dump #1 Mike Rozzo Monmouth Camera Club HM Lake Ontario Meets the Salmon River Susan Lee Schwartz Rockland Photo Club HM Chichen Itza Ruin Sonya Szostak Ridgewood Camera Club HM Memorial within Memorial Sonya Szostak Ridgewood Camera Club HM

Page 3

Results from Pictorial Travel Results from Pictorial Travel Results from Pictorial Travel --- JANUARY 12, 2009 Competition JANUARY 12, 2009 Competition JANUARY 12, 2009 Competition [Contimued]

Statistics Compiled by Diane V. Dugan Pictorial Chair

Number of Clubs Participating: 10 Number of Qualifying Images: 196 Number of Slides: 0 Number of Digital Images: 200 Percentage of Slides: 0 Percentage of Digital Images: 100 Number of Awarded Slides: 0 Number of Awarded Digital Images: 42 Percentage of Awarded Slides: Percentage of Awarded Digital Images: 0.21

Score: Number: Percentage:

27 0 0.0% 26 0 0.0% 25 4 2.0% 24 6 3.1% 23 18 9.2% 22 46 23.5% 21 46 23.5% 20 32 16.3% 19 18 9.2% 18 18 9.2% 17 8 4.1% 16 0 0.0% 15 0 0.0% >15 0 0.0%

196 100.0%

CLUB TOTAL

ENTRIES TOTAL

AWARDS TOTAL SCORE AVERAGE

Camera Naturalists 0 0 0 #DIV/0! Cranford/Millburn CC 25 7 524 20.96 Essex CC 13 1 268 20.62 Gateway CC 0 0 0 #DIV/0! GSSSCC 0 0 0 #DIV/0! Hillcrest CC 24 1 482 20.08 HUB CC 22 2 445 20.23 Livingston CC 19 4 392 20.63 Mapleshade 0 0 0 #DIV/0! Monmouth CC 33 8 682 20.67 Morris Photo Color 12 5 259 21.58 Plainfield CC 0 0 0 #DIV/0! Princeton CC 0 0 0 #DIV/0! Ridgewood CC 19 7 418 22.00 Rockland CC 19 6 397 20.89 South Jersey CC 10 1 211 21.10 South Jersey PS 0 0 0 #DIV/0! Teaneck CC 0 0 0 #DIV/0! Tri-County CC 0 0 0 #DIV/0! Vineland CC 0 0 0 #DIV/0! 196 42 4078 20.81

Page 4

Page 5

WHAT’S HAPPENIN’ AT njfcc Member Clubs In

March 2009? Club Location Date Topic Judge or Speaker

Camera Naturalist Somerset Co. Env Ed. Center

3/12 Competition: Silhouettes Dan Kincaid

3/26 Program: TBD

Central NJ Ray Dwier Centre Groveville

3/5 Competition Klaus-Dieter Schleim

Cranbury “Digital” Cranbury Methodist Church

3/11 Program: Mounting, Matting and Formating

3/25 Competition: Doors and Windows

Cranford/Millburn Cranford Community Center

3/9 The Making of The Hudson River, A Great American Treasure

Greg Miller

Bauer Comm. Center Milburn

3/25 Competitions: Shadows and Silhouettes Dave Mills

Essex Caldwell United Methodist Church

3/5 Presentation: Using Your Flash Both On and Off Your Camera

Howard Knauer

3/19 Competition Peter Lekos

E.C. Nature Essex Co. Env. Center Roseland

TBA TBA

Gateway Staten Island 3/4 Competition Dave DesRoches

3/18 Program: Developing a Photographic Eye Alan Leckner

3/25 Annual Business Meeting

Greenbriar @ Whittingham G@W Towne Centre Monroe Township

3/4 Photoshop Tools [Lasso and Clone Tool Presentation: RAW

Ed Cohen John Sandstedt

3/18 Competition; Open and Theme [Machines] Joe Tanski

Hillcrest Phillipsburg Pilgrim Presby. Church

3/9 Competition Del Morgan - Prints Wally Koch - Slides

3/23 Model Competition Outside Judge

HUB Mountain Lakes Library

3/23 Competition - Still Life Vinnie Kempf

Livingston Sr./Comm. Center Livingston

TBA TBA

TBA TBA

Mapleshade/Moorestown Mapleshade Municipal Building

3/3 DVCCC Travel Circuit Images Competition: Holiday Shots

Marvin Harper

Monmouth Colt’s Neck Reformed Church

3/12 Photoshop: Basic and Beyond Al Gass

3/26 Competition: Open Gail Tanski

Morris AT&T Building Florham Park

3/4 Ridgewood International

3/18 Competition Jerry Fornarotto

Ocean County Lakewood High School

3/2 Presentation: Adventures with Photography

3/9 Presentation: Bad Weather Photogrpahy

3/16 Presentation: Come Fly With Me

3/23 Presentation: Art of Creativity

3/90 Competition

Page 6

WHAT’S HAPPENIN’ AT njfcc Member Clubs In

March 2009? [continued]

Club Location Date Topic Judge or Speaker

Palisades Palisades Medical Center

TBA TBA

Photographers of Sussex County

Sussex Co. Fairgrounds

3/16 Assignment: TBD

Photographic Soc. of So. Jersey

ACUA Bldg. Egg Harbor

TBA TBA

Photographic Soc. of Vineland

Christ Church Newfield

3/5 Contest:Open-Open Photoshop Tutorial

Plainfield Fleetwood Museum North Plainfield

3/4 Members’ Night: Foolish Photography

3/19 Competition: Pictorial

Princeton Photography Club The 1860’s House Skillman

TBA TBA

Pocono Photo Club East Stroudsburg, PA 3/17 Monthly Meeting

Raritan Photographic Society

Library East Brunswick

3/12 Competition: Edgy

EB High School 3/26 HDR plus Additional Photoshop Features Skip Williams

Ridgewood Women’s Club Wyckoff

3/4 Exec. Committee

3/11 Competition: Pictorial #4 Chuck Moore

3/18 Competition: Print #3 Klaus-Dieter Schleim

3/25 Program #6: The emerald Isle Peter and Della O’Malley

Rockland Clarkstown Comm. Center, NYC

3/5 Competition: Reflections, Architecture and Structures

3/12 Workshop: Mounting and Matting of Prints for Framing

3/19 Presentation: Using the Club’s Blog

3/26 Presentation: Sizing and Image Martin Joffe

Somerset County Bound Brook Memorial Library

3/10 Competition: Freeze and Motion

3/24 Presentation: Shoot the Best Possible Image Brien Szabo

South Brunswick South Brunswick Public Library

TBA TBA

South Jersey Medford Leas Community Center

3/21 Presentation: Camera RAW Tools

Staten Island S.I. Inst. for Arts & Sciences

3/5 Spring Business Meeting

3/19 Competition: Prints and Digital

Teaneck Roda Rec Center Teaneck

3/3 Studio Night

3/10 Presentation: Country and Wildlife of East Africa

3/17 Competition: Pictorial Joe Thomas

3/24 Photo Challenge: Assigned Subjects

Tri - County Nutley High School

3/31 Exec. Committee

Page 7

WHAT’S HAPPENIN’ AT njfcc Member Clubs In

March 2009? [continued]

Tri - County Nutley High School 3/3 Ridgewood International

3/10 Competitions: Pictorial #5, Creative #5

Competition: Nature #5 Critique: Pictorial

Vailsburg Springfield TBA TBA

Club Location Date Topic Judge or Speaker

Page 8