Club Competition This Wednesday, December 3rd
Our next competition of the season is this Wednesday, December 3, 2014.
Digital submissions for this competition are due by the end of the day Monday, December 1, 2014. You can submit your entries to DHFore@hotmail.com.
For digital image submission guidelines please reference our website’s Rules and Guidelines page, under sections V – DIGITAL IMAGES and VI – DIGITAL FILE SPECIFICATIONS.
The assigned subject for December is Broken.
Print submissions are accepted until 7:15 pm the evening of the competition. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30pm.
Our judges for this evening will be:
Dick Ventre
Dick, a resident of Norwalk, completed his 45-year career as a Scenic Artist in 2012. He was a Master Scenic Artist on more than 50 movies including the Emmy Award winning Death of a Salesman, and the Academy Award winning Sleepy Hollow. He completed that career painting for the Metropolitan Opera.
His work in photography is in the medium of photomontage. He works exclusively in dramatic narrative by depicting the painted female nude set within a landscape environment. Each work is rendered from multiple images that are digitally woven together.
Earlier this year he exhibited his Solo Show, GODDESS OF THE HUNT: After Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Diana at the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Upstairs Gallery. He recently returned from his second visit to Sweden to complete the photographic work begun in 2013. Traveling from the Stockholm Archipelago to the woodlands of central Sweden, this second photographic survey, as well as working with the staff at Zornmuseet in the town of Mora to research the work of Sweden’s premiere painter, Anders Zorn, will form the base for his next series: interpreting Zorn’s painted nudes in nature.
More of his work may be viewed on the website: rventre.com
Dick is a returning judge for our Club.
Phil Nelson
Phil Nelson has a background in graphic design, film production and computer technology. Nelson worked at Apple Inc for ten years and helped drive the desktop publishing revolution in the late eighties. After Apple, Phil spent seven years with Adobe Systems managing major corporate clients in the advertising, publishing, and entertainment industries. Phil is also a specialist in color management. As a Color Expert for X-Rite, he has consulted with numerous clients like Canon, Bowes and HP, and he has delivered hundreds of seminars on color management across North America and Europe. In 2007 he authored The Photographers Guide to Color Management for Amherst Publishing.
Phil specializes in landscape and architectural photography. He creates beautiful photographic landscape studies that are equally suited for fine art display and commercial use. His images are expansive, but his attention to
detail creates a quiet mood that draws the viewer in. His work has appeared in numerous publications and advertisements and his prints hang on the walls of many businesses and private collectors in Fairfield County. His large format prints can be viewed and are for sale in the cafe at Good Food, Good Things in Darien, and much of his portfolio is online at philnelsonimaging.com.
Phil is a returning judge for our Club
Catherine Stahl
Catherine has been making photographs for over forty years and has made the transition from film and darkroom to digital. She is largely self-taught, although in the early days she took workshops to learn capture, developing and printing skills. Her landscape, flower and close-up images are frequently shown in local art shows. Catherine is a realtor based in Greenwich.
Catherine is a first time judge at our Club
