PCLFC’s Photograph of the Year Competition This Coming Wednesday

Our next meeting is this coming Wednesday, May 1st  and it is our Photo of the Year competition.  We will be starting the competition at 7:00 pm, with images due between 6:30 and 6:45 pm.  Note this is 30 minutes earlier than usual.

For this competition you may only submit images that you have entered into competition at PCLFC during this season.  If you don’t remember what you submitted, please look at 2012-2013 Competition Results on the website at www.pclfc.com.

We have three judges who have not previously seen your work.  Scores will be different.  I encourage you to submit your favorite images, regardless of how they scored during the season. Images that scored well, may not do as well this time, and the opposite is true, too.  We have seen images that received mediocre scores during the season win the Photo of the Year (and deservedly so).

For this competition you may submit

• 2 Digital images (this can be from Digital Open or from Assigned Subjects.  Note that Assigned Subject submissions are entered as “open” subjects for Photo of the Year.)
• 2 Color Prints
• 2 Black & White Prints

David the slide preparer has the archive of all digital images submitted this season.  All you need to do is send him a note to let him know which 2 images you would like to use.  Note the month and the title.  Please let David know your selections by the end of the day, Monday, April 29.

For Color and B&W prints, you must submit the images exactly as they were submitted during the season.

If you have any questions, please contact Sandy Gennrich at sgennrich@gmail.com or the digital image preparer David at DHFore@hotmail.com.

Good luck to everyone in the Photograph of the Year Competition.

We are pleased to announce our judges for Wednesday’s photograph of the year competition  — they are all seasoned judges for PCLFC:

Lee Paine

Lee is a professional photographer, writer, and singer. “Her column “Focus on Photos,” which ran in the Greenwich Time for 20 years, now appears in the weekly paper, the Greenwich Citizen.  She was the author of the wonderful article about our club that appeared in that paper a few years ago.

Lee teaches photography privately and has taught photography for Greenwich Continuing Education and the YWCA. She has lectured on photography for many organizations, including the Whitney Museum, the Bruce Museum, the Greenwich Arts Council, the Greenwich Library, the Stamford Art Association, and the ***Stamford Camera Club*** (now PCLFC), among others.
She has served as a juror or judge for the Silvermine Guild of Artists, the Greenwich Art Society, the Greenwich Arts Council, the Art Society of Old Greenwich, the Stamford Art Association, the National Association of Pen Women, the Darien Art Association, the Waveny Art Barn, and the Stamford Library, among others.  Most recently, she has been exhibiting her photographs in themed series printed on metal and introduced new work on canvas in a multi-media format in a show in April at the UCONN gallery with other Greenwich art members of the National League of American Pen Women.  www.leepainefinephotograhy.com.

Roger Lourie

Roger Lourie has been collector of photography for over thirty years and many of his prints have been loaned to museums for special exhibitions.  For many years he has been involved with the Time Inc. photo archives.  He is also a consultant to Phillips &  Company auctioneers regarding their photographs and is also a special consultant to the Museum of Paris for their 19th century black and white photography.

Dick Roberts

Dick says his background is “pretty simple”, as follows:

“In my twenties I was a film animator in Paris…I met Cartier-Bresson who saw my photo work and encouraged me to continue in that direction.  Back in the states I was a live action filmmaker.  Worked on lots of documentaries. Shot a lot of stills.  Recently started painting (water colors) and experimenting with digital cameras.  Most recent expo was at Arcadia Coffee Co. in Old Greenwich with large (30X40) photos taken from the front of a speeding train called “Fast Tracks”.