By spring I should have a whole stack of things lined up for camera club competitions, but somehow that never seems to happen. So, as usual, I spent the week before the salon entries were due (in mid-March) trying to figure out what I should enter. Prints: Open color Heading into Winter at Wind Cave Read More …
I showed up at the March salon hoping that some of my good fortune from February would continue. No such luck. Prints: Open monochrome In the Race to Win Last fall I printed black and white versions of several images from last summer’s bike race. This seemed like one of the better ones, so I Read More …
I was around for the February salon too, which was nice. Prints: Open color Blue Bug in San German, Puerto Rico I considered saving my highly stylized blue bug image for the upcoming Creative digital competition. However, the print turned out so well that it didn’t make sense to submit it as a digital image. Read More …
For once I was in town for the salon and I liked the digital topic, so I was hoping it would be a good night! Prints: Open monochrome I always struggle with monochrome. Most of it is an inability to “see” in black and white, but I also have some technical challenges getting the tones Read More …
Like the previous month, I was out of town for the December Saint Paul Camera Club salon. Prints: Open color Botanical reflections I love this image. Maybe I’m biased by the fact that I was able to capture it without a tripod by balancing my camera on a ledge in just the right spot and Read More …
The Saint Paul Camera Club’s annual awards were presented at the beginning of June. Like last year, I made sure to enter every competition. That helped me collect points (for which there are awards), but it also pushed me to try things even when I didn’t feel very inspired. I pretty much succeeded when it Read More …
I was back in town for the May competition, but now the pressure was on, as this was the last competition of the season and I was currently the top point earner of the year in both the color prints and digital categories. I needed to come up with winners to retain that standing! Prints: Read More …
Once again I was out of town for the salon. However, this time I found a friend to take notes, so I have some idea what the judges were thinking. Prints: Open monochrome As usual, finding and creating suitable monochrome images was a challenge Leaving the courtyard I took this shot in a castle in Read More …
As a new activity for the year, we had a “portfolio challenge.” The challenge was to get out and shoot every month of the year from January through December. We could shoot anything we wanted, but to have a complete portfolio we had to have one image from every month. While that might not sound Read More …
Every year the Twin City Area Council of Camera Clubs (TCACCC) holds a “Spring Break” meeting with speakers, classes, and a competition. Individual competitors are allowed to enter up to four images in each of five categories. Last year I only entered a couple of categories, but the competition is free for camera club members, Read More …
I was in town for the March Saint Paul Camera Club salon, so I could hear for myself what the judge had to say. In hindsight, maybe I should have gone on vacation somewhere instead! Prints: Open color Kamikaze 2 I hate to repeat myself, but I love shooting the state fair midway rides at Read More …
As I write this (in June), the Saint Paul Camera Club has already held the year-end awards banquet. That means I know how I did in this year’s club competition. However, you are going to have to wait until I’ve gone through the rest of the season before I give you the final results. Maybe Read More …
In February I joined the St. Paul Camera Club. It’s something I’ve thought about on and off over the years, but had never taken the time to look into. A photography event earlier in the winter made me realize that this was something I really needed to do . . . so I went to Read More …