May was the final salon for the year. Print Competition: Color Going into the salon I had the most points in the color print category, so I really wanted to do well to retain that position. But I also wanted some realistic feedback on a shot I had taken the summer before and wasn’t sure Read More …
April brought another competition for the Saint Paul Camera Club. Print Competition: Monochrome I had a horrible time choosing prints for this month’s monochrome competition. Well, that’s not exactly true. I had no trouble choosing prints; it was the printing that gave me problems. Both of the prints I wanted to use looked best with Read More …
After my pathetic showing in the February salon a week earlier (the February salon was delayed by a snowstorm), I wasn’t really looking forward to the March salon. Print Competition: Color I was really pleased with both of my color print entries, but nervous about them since one of the images I thought was a Read More …
The February salon was scheduled for the same day as a snowstorm, so it was delayed several weeks. That was more than ok – it turned out to be a salon that I would have been happy to have skipped all together! Print Competition: Monochrome I was really excited about this month’s monochrome print competition Read More …
After having a break from competition in December, the Saint Paul Camera Club held its next salon in January. Digital competition: Animals With “animals” as the theme for the month’s competition, I went back to my 2005 safari in Botswana. The judge liked my cheetah family, but didn’t think I had sharpened it enough, so Read More …
You may recall October’s salon was pretty brutal. Not one to give up, I put as much of my limited time as I could into preparing submissions for November. And then I left for a month in Vietnam and Laos. Because I missed the salon itself (you don’t have to be physically present for your Read More …
Somehow the new year has rolled around without my actually publishing anything here. Time to change that. First up: October’s Saint Paul Camera Club salon. This year started off with a change. Last year, each monthly salon had both an open print (rotating between mono and color) and a themed digital component. with members allowed Read More …
Fall is here and that brings the start-up of camera club again. The season really started in late August, with a photography scavenger hunt. Unlike most scavenger hunts (where participants are out looking for specific objects), we were hunting for elements of good composition. To enter the photo competition, we needed to “find” images that Read More …
I’m still participating in the Saint Paul Camera Club. As in April, I was traveling when prints were due for May, so I didn’t have any printed submissions. However, I did submit three images for the month’s Night Photography digital competition. Initially I was really excited about Night Photography as a theme, but as I Read More …