Club Competition This Wednesday, January 15th at 7:30pm
Our next competition of the season is this Wednesday, January 15, 2014.
Digital submissions for this competition are due by the end of the day Monday, January 13, 2014. You can submit your entries to DHFore@hotmail.com.
You can expect a confirmation of receipt of images from David by the end of the day Tuesday, January 14. If you do not see any confirmation email, please reach out to me immediately so we can fix the issue.
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 January is These Modern Times.
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:
Richard 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.
January 25 – March 2, 2014 the Solo Show, GODDESS OF THE HUNT: After Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Diana will be exhibited at the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Upstairs Gallery.
More of his work may be viewed on the website: rventre.com
Richard is a returning judge to our Club
Carmine Picarello
For 25 years, Carmine Picarello has worked with creative directors and photo editors to craft images for commercial advertising, editorial publications, corporate image libraries and web site content for clients in Fairfield County Connecticut and the world. His fine art photography can be found in private and corporate collections and the United Nations UNICEF art collection.
Carmine has been an Adjunct Professor at Housatonic Community College, teaching Photography and Photoshop for twelve years, an instructor at The Silvermine Art Guild and a member of the Arts Curriculum Development Team for the City of Norwalk public schools.
His company, Carmine Picarello Photography is an award-winning studio in Westport, CT, specializes in commercial photography tailored for use in a wide range of applications such as websites, catalogs, brochures and advertising.
You can see Carmine’s work by going to his website, www.picarellophoto.com
Carmine holds a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and was a MFA candidate at Yale’s School of Drama.
Carmine is a returning judge for our Club
Sharland Blanchard
Sharland Blanchard started as a commercial photographer in New York City over 15 years ago. She specializes in people/beauty and fashion, and uses professional hair and makeup and stylists in both studio and natural light to produce her shots. She also photographs dance, botanicals, land and seascapes. Her clients throughout the years include advertising and modeling agencies, magazines, retail businesses, corporations and individuals – from Coach Leather to Champion Sportswear, Women’s Wear Daily to the occasional celebrity portrait.
Sharland attributes her flexibility and range to first learning photography from Photojournalists Mark Cardwell and Stu Cahill at Boston University. She was dazzled and strongly influenced by the dramatic lighting learned on her first job as an assistant with Boston’s Clint Clemens. Later as Studio Manager for commercial photographer Nancy Brown’s New York City Studio, Sharland acted as a rep, cast and produced shoots for consumer ads, album covers and editorial jobs and learned the business, technical and production skills required to become a professional photographer.
After moving back home to Connecticut, Sharland left photography for a while to pursue a career in marketing. She has since started her own branding agency where she does a lot of photo editing and accepts product, portrait, beauty and fashion photography jobs for magazines, retailers, fashion, cosmetics and financial companies.
Sharland is a first time judge at our Club.
