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Usually the front page is reserved for recent big wins by club members, but I haven’t heard of any contest wins these past two months. So it’s time for another installment of the “Eric Really Likes These” awards. Both of these photos won awards in our

spring Projected Image competition and I thought they were deserving of another look and a spot on the front page of the newsletter.

©Brenda Sanner

“In Her Hands” - 1st Place - People

“Fiddle” - 4th Tie - Stills/Objects/Abstracts

©Loretta Storm

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Your 2016 Officers

President: Brandon HirtVP of Competitions: Sally BeckerVP of Programs: Marge SeymourVP of Outings: Bob AirhartTreasurer: Margie NavarroSecSecretary: Loretta Storm

Assistant Treasurer/Secretary: Nancy SmithNewsletter Editor: Eric Gaston

Upcoming Meetings

Sept 6th (Tuesday): Lightroom with Brandon HirtSept 19th: An Artist’s Perspective on Photography

Oct 3rd: TBDOct 17th: Members Judge the Competition Photos

This year’s Nature Visions conference is November 18-20 inManassas, VA. The featured speakers are Bob Krist, Tom Till, and

Julieanne Kost. And there are several other very goodphotographers who will be giving seminars on things like macro,

drone, and flash photoghraphy.

SSeveral of our members have attended this conference in the past. I’ve heard nothing but good things about the it.

For more information, go to Naturevisions.org

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1 ) How long have you been into photography? I have been interested in photography since the early eighties. My kids were coming along and I wanted torecord their childhood and preserve those precious memories..

2) What was your first camera?My first camera was the Olympus OM10. I had it for about a year and was just becoming familiar with it whenit was stolen at Sea World near the Shamu exhibit. 3) What camera(s) do you shoot with now?I now shoot with the Canon t4i and I have an assortment of lenses.

4) What is your favorite subject to photograph?I love to shoot landscape, but lately I’m really enjoying shooting people and enjoyed shooting my 50th high school reunion.

5) If you were given the opportunity to photograph any place on the planet, where would you head to first?I would really like to do a photographic tour of all of our national parks. That’s on my bucket list.

6) If 6) If you could go back in time and photograph any historical figure, who would you choose? I don’t know how I did this but I seem to have made a devil graphic, so maybe he is the historical figure I should havephotographed, but let’s go with Abraham Lincoln, I would have liked to follow him around for a year or so.

7) If you could spend a week being taught by any pro photographer, who would you choose? I think I would like to have spent time with Ansel Adams. I would love to have toured the west with him and learned thesecrets of his composition and how he rendered his final prints.

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Members’ Photos on Display

Four of our members had photos juried into the SouthernAlleghenies Museum of Art 2016 Biennial Exhibition.

Dave Hammaker, Brandon Hirt, Matt Stich and Eric Gaston will each have photos on display at the SAMA Museum in Loretto

from October through January.

How to Contact Us:

Club Website: ABCPS.clubWe’re on Facebook: “ABC Photo Society”

President: Brandon Hirt - brandonhirtphoto@hotmail.comOutings Director: Bob Airhart - bluethunder6@atlanticbb.netNewsletter Editor: Eric Gaston - egaston@gmail.com

Club Outings in the Near FutureOctober 13th Elk Wagon Ride

Bob AirhaBob Airhart has chartered the horse drawn wagon ride to view and photograph the elk heard. This wagon ride starts and ends at the Elk County Visitors Center. The cost is 240 dollars for the wagon and will be divided equally by the number of riders. As of this writing, I believe that 12 people are signed up. We want to capattendance at 15-17 so that attendance at 15-17 so that we have some room to wriggle around and photograph. The wagon gets pretty close to the elk, so it is not necessary to have a super-duper long zoom lens. Members who

want to attend this event should email Bob atbluethunder6@atlanticbb.net if you have not already done so.

Possible Indian Caverns Photo Tour

Indian CIndian Caverns will be closing to the public in the near future. Bob has been in contact with the people in charge there to try to get us in for an evening of photography before it is totally closed off. More information will be given out as it becomes available.

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1. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams

2. “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

3. “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

4. “4. “Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. – Elliott Erwitt

5. “Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham

6. “You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

7. “If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. – Garry Winogrand

8. “I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good. – Anonymous

9. “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams

10. “It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. – Timothy Allen

10 Photography Quotes that You Should Know

(From Digital-Photography-Scool.com)

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Margie Navarro took this gorgeous photo at Pine Cradle Campground.

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Member Photo Spotlight