Founded in 1933, The Harrisburg Camera Club welcomes all photographers from the newest beginner to the most experienced.
Our members have had photographs published in local and regional publications as well as regional and national magazines. Members have also taken top awards in local, regional and national photographic contests. All bring with them their knowledge of, and unique approach to, photography. Our members are always ready to share their knowledge.
Membership Benefits
• Fellowship and fun in learning to take better pictures.
• Constructive evaluations of every member’s prints and images by experienced photographers/artists.
• Recognition for quality and merit achievement in photography.
• Field Trips and Education
• Discount on purchases at local camera shops and picture framing shops
Come join us and see what all the buzz is about!
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54th ANNUAL
BERKS PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHIC CONFERENCE
JUNE 7, 8 & 9, 2013
AT ACADEMIC FORUM BUILDING, KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY, KUTZTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Featuring:
MICHAEL MOATS, Friday Featured Speaker
ADAM JONES Saturday Evening Featured Speaker sponsored by
In East Stroudsburg PARain or Shine on Saturday April 20TH Leaving from the Camp Hill Arby’s at 7:00 A.M.
The Harrisburg Camera Club will be travelling to International Boiler Works Abandoned…
Harrisburg Camera Club Photo Fieldtrip
SPECIAL - SMALL GROUP TEACHING
Saturday March 23rd
starting at
Negley Park in Lemoyne for Sunrise (6:30 A.M.)
then to
Fort Hunter Park at 8:15 A.M.
in the Giant Community Room at the Giant Grocery store at 3300 Trindle Rd. in Camp Hill
We are going to try a new and different approach to critiquing prints in this session.
On Tuesday night July 24th, the Harrisburg Camera Club will be holding a Summer print critique night. We will be doing something different this time. All participants that bring prints will lay them out on tables spread out in the room. Everyone, whether you bring a print or not, will be a part of the critiques. All those attending the meeting will be asked to critique the images anonymously with colored tags. Participants will be judging the prints by placing colored tags next to the prints. After the images are tagged we will discuss the merits of the prints. We will have detailed instructions printed out when you arrive. Come to the meeting and let’s try something different.
Here are the Print critique guidelines for this meeting only.
1. Only paid HCC members will get their prints critiqued. Non-members or HCC members that did not bring prints will be encouraged to participate in the critique process.
2. Only two (2) Monochromatic/B&W prints per person and two color prints per person. A member is allowed to bring a maximum of four prints.
3. These prints do not need to be mounted or matted. That will be at the discretion of the maker. Minimum size is 8 x10 maximum 16 x 20
4. Prints that are framed or framed and under glass will not be critiqued.
5. If you have any questions call Andrew Hoff at 975-0630 or 592-9304
PHOTO FIELDTRIP to LILYPONS GARDENS IN ADAMSTOWN MD (near Frederick MD)
Rain or Shine on SATURDAY JULY 28TH Leaving from the Camp Hill Arby’s at 6:00 A.M.
The Harrisburg Camera Club will be travelling to Lillypons Gardenson Saturday July 28th. We will be car pooling from our usual location at the Arby’s side of the Camp Hill Giant Grocery Store, at 6:00 AM in the morning. We expect to be at Lilypons Gardens at 7:15. The owners of the business are sending me the key to unlock the gate so we can get in before anybody else. We will have nointerference from customers. LilyponsGardens does not open for business until 10:00 on Saturdays.
So what makes this location different from other photo fieldtrips? For one the site has ponds of aquatic wildlife and plants. Expect to find frogs and turtles, lily pads, water lilies, lotus blossoms and some flowers. The grounds are also residences for birds, in particular herons and egrets. They have ponds of Koi fish, some of the fish are very large. The main sales house on the grounds is painted pink, so there are other possibilities there. The fact that we have free run of the place for over two hours is another plus. We expect to leave the gardens at noon to return to Camp Hill.
What you should bring: the usual, extra batteries, extra digital cards, comfortable shoes, a tripod, a macro lens for plants and flowers, a medium to long lens for amphibians and birds, a hat and money to pay your driver and possible eats. Other items to bring if you have them: bug spray, a reflector and/or a flash for filling in shadows and a scrim or diffuser to cut harsh light. You will also find that a polarizing filter will be must helpful to cut glare and darken the water. Water and other liquid refreshments are available after 10:00. There is no entrance fee or shooting fee and tripods are welcome. This event is rain or shine.
Members of the Harrisburg Camera Club to speak at the Art of the State Exhibition on Sunday July 15th at 1:00
Harrisburg Camera Club members Geoff Crego, Jim Crowley, Andrew Hoff, Don Uvick and Bob Willis have been asked to speak at the Pennsylvania State Museum in conjunction with the “Art of the State” (AoS) exhibition. All five had images selected for this years show. They will give a one hour presentation starting at 1:00 on Sunday July 15th talking about their prints and other accepted photographic images in the exhibition. All levels of photographers will find this to be an interesting hour. Beginning, amateur and advanced amateur photographers are encouraged to attend this educational presentation . The program will be hosted by the PA Historical Commission’s lead photographer Don Giles.
Members of the Harrisburg Camera Club, founded in 1933, have a rich tradition of recognition at AoS and their members have won awards for photography at the local, regional and national level. In the last 27 years at least one, if not more, members of the club has been accepted into 21 of the exhibitions. This year Jim Crowley’s image “Abandoned Gymnasium” was the second place image and also a purchase print award winner. Geoff Crego’s image “Sun Breaking Through” was awarded third place. With two abstract images in the exhibition Andrew Hoff has placed 15 images in the AoS show since 1987. Don Uvick’s photo “Follow The Leader” marks the eighth time he has been accepted to the AoS show as a member of the Harrisburg Camera Club. A first place winner in 1996 and 2004 photographer Bob Willis is a highly respected B & W photographer with excellent credentials at AoS having shown his photographs in 11 AoS exhibitions over the last 27 years.
Following the program at 2:00 is a presentation by the Susquehanna Art Museum. Amy Hammond, Exhibitions Manager and Wendy Sweigart, Director of Outreach Education at the Susquehanna Art Museum will demonstrate how the Museum’s building project in Midtown will serve as an hub for arts, education and culture in the Harrisburg community and beyond. Refreshments will follow.
The two lectures are free with your admission to the State Museum. Adult admission is $5 and children and seniors are $4.
Tuesday Night July 24th at 7:15in the Giant Community Room at the Giant Grocery store at 3300 Trindle Rd. in Camp HillWe are going to try a new and different approach to critiquing prints in this session.
On Tuesday night July 24th, the Harrisburg Camera Club will be holding a Summer print critique night. We will be doing something different this time. All participants that bring prints will lay them out on tables spread out in the room. Everyone, whether you bring a print or not, will be a part of the critiques. All those attending the meeting will be asked to critique the images anonymously with colored tags. Participants will be judging the prints by placing colored tags next to the prints. After the images are tagged we will discuss the merits of the prints. We will have detailed instructions printed out when you arrive. Come to the meeting and let’s try something different.
Here are the Print critique guidelines for this meeting only.
1. Only paid HCC members will get their prints critiqued. Non- members or HCC members that did not bring prints will be encouraged to participate in the critique process.
2. Only two (2) Monochromatic/B&W prints per person and two color prints per person. A member is allowed to bring a maximum of four prints.
3. These prints do not need to be mounted or matted. That will be at the discretion of the maker. Minimum size is 8 x10 maximum 16 x 20
4. Prints that are framed or framed and under glass will not be critiqued.
5. If you have any questions call Andrew Hoff at 975-0630 or 592-9304
July 15th, 6 AM until about noon. We will meet at the Olewine Nature Center adfjacent to the upper parking lot
Come join Phil Lloyd as he leads this nature photography walk. Get tips on beginning to see all the beauty that nature has to offer as we wander the trails of Wildwood Park and immerse ourselves in Wildwood time. Before we begin the walk, we’ll focus on some simple do’s and don’ts to help get the most from our time and treat nature with the respect she deserves. Wildwood park offers a great biodiversity that will challenge your skills and abilities. On any given day you may see Great Blue Herons, White Egrets, Little Green Herons, an occasional Black Crown, all manner of song birds including warblers, wax wings, and cardinals to name a few. Look for snails, slugs, dragon flies and daces. Turtles abound here too! There are many different types of plants and wildflowers at the park. Did I mention butterflies, moths and spiders. Bring the 4 essentials required for nature photography: Camera, tripod, patience and a sense of wonder for the natural world. Our goal: To enjoy the beauty of nature and to make the ordinary look extraordinary as we capture fleeting moments of time never to be repeated.
Images submitted for the themed competition must be taken after May 31, 2012. The themed competition will be the last Digital Image Competition for the 2012-2013 club year, and will be held in March 2013.
“Internationally known photographer Joe DiMaggio will be conducting
a hands-on photography workshop in Berks county on July 6th and
7th. The workshop will begin Fri evening and end early Sat
afternoon.
Potential photo subjects include fire fighters in training, youth
baseball and police K-9 training.
Joe DiMaggio’s broad range of work has been in publications such
as Time, Sports Illustrated, U. S. News and World Report including
A Time magazine picture of the year. Joe’s client includes list of
Fortune 500 corporations and prestigious advertising agencies.
The workshop will be approximately 10-12 participants at a price of
$275.
Details will be finalized over the next week.”
Equally at ease with pictures that move, DiMaggio has directed a
number of commercials and short films including a one-hour
documentary, which aired on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. His most
recent feature documentary film is titled In This Corner. His new
film for is a full-length documentary on Jazz called Early in the
Morning.
Harrisburg Camera Club MeetingMay 8th at 7:15: SHOW and SHAREImages Taken This Year onThis Seasons Camera Club Fieldtrips
We did it back in November and now the spring session. For those of you that did not show your work in November, please consider bringing it to this meeting.
Dinene Wolf will Kick-off the meeting with a special presentation of images that she took on a recent photography workshop in India.
The meeting is to show and share with the members of the club, photos you have taken on our fieldtrips. Members that have participated in the fieldtrips this season are invited to show their photos taken on the 2011-2012 season Camera Club fieldtrips. This season we went to J.W. Cooper High School in Shenandoah, in September, the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg and the Altoona Railroad Museum, Chimney Rock and Horseshoe Curve all in the Altoona Area; in October, the Grist Mill in the Mercersburg area and the Gettysburg Battlefield and the walking photography trip in Downtown Harrisburg. Since January wehave made tripgallery hopping in Washington D.C., to the Rawling Flower Conservatory in Baltimore and the Hanover Shoe Farms trip last month. Don’t forget to show your images from the various photo fieldtrips we took for the night photography assignment. We have had good attendance on these fieldtrips, so those of you that attended the photo events, please show the members your work. If you presented work in November, please bring new images.
If you want to show and share your best or most interesting images taken on these fieldtrips with the members of the camera club, please place your images on a flash drive or CD and bring it with you to the meeting. All images should be reduced to the following parameters: Maximum length on the longest side 1920 pixels as a baseline jpeg. Just like the camera club competition file size. Randal will load each members file into his computer and we expect the maker to present and speak about their work.
Each member will have about 5 minutes to present their images and if you want to, talk about them. This is based on the number of presenters and divided by the time available. Less presenters more time, more presenters less time. I will bring a timer to keep members from going over the time allotted. This is a great opportunity to show your work to the other members of the club without the restraints of competition. For those that are not showing, this is a good example of what happens on our fieldtrips.
Lanoconing Silk Mill, Cumberland MDSaturday June 23rd leaving Camp Hill at 6:00 AUpdated 05/03/12
Dinene Wolf gets credit for setting up this trip. She has procured a standing reservation with the owner of the mill to photograph in one of the premier abandoned factory locations in the United States. The Lanoconing Silk Mill in Cumberland, Maryland is were the photo opportunity is located. This site is the amalgamation of J.W. Cooper School, Eastern State Penitentiary, the mill the club photographed at in Mercersburg and Bethlehem Steel all rolled up in one. Tony Sweet, Arthur Ransome and Denise Ippolito have held photography workshops there recently. We need a minimum of 10 members and no more that 20 to get in. Access to the site will be ours exclusively from 9:00-1:00 (four hours). The cost is $75.00 for the four hours. The money goes towards restoration of the mill and the security system that protects the site. The workshop fee of $75.00 will be paid at the Silk Mill in cash only, no credit cards, money orders or checks. Currently Dinene has five members signed up.
This fieldtrip will be only for Harrisburg Camera Club members. The deadline for signing up is Monday May 28th, Memorial Day. After that any openings will be given to photographers that have worked with the club in the past i.e. our judges and presenters. If they don’t respond then it goes to other camera clubs. If you are looking for images from the mill just Google Lanoconing Silk Mill or drop in on Arthur Ransome’s, Tony Sweet’s or Denise Ippolito’s web pages to start; there are other site that have images too. You won’t be disappointed. This is a rain or shine event. Be aware that there is no air conditioning in the mill, but since we will be in early, it may not be that hot.
Lanoconing is located about 10 minutes southwest of Cumberland Maryland. The drive there according to Google maps is about 2hrs. and 40 min. After we photograph there we will have lunch in Cumberland and probably photography some of the historic buildings in Cumberland, MD, such as the Western Maryland Train Station, the C&O Canal House.
If you are interested, please sign-up for the trip by contacting Dinene Wolf at
Presentation by Wildlife Photographer Dennis Bingaman
Tuesday May 22nd 6:00 – 9:00 PM Park Inn, Mechanicsburg
The Harrisburg Camera Club’s Year-End Celebration and Awards banquet will be held at the Park Inn in Mechanicsburg on May 22nd, 2012. The banquet is open to camera club members, spouses, guests and friends of the Camera Club. The arrival time is 6:00 PM. Dinner service will start at 6:30 PM. The cost of the banquet is $24.00 for club members and $29.00 for guests and friends of the Camera Club.
Dinner Menu
Appetizer – Fresh Chilled Fruit Cup
Salad – Tossed Garden Salad
Entrée (choose one)
Tuscan Style Chicken – served in a wild mushroom and Marsala wine sauce
London Broil – sliced and served with a peppercorn reduction sauce
Vegetarian Lasagna – served with garlic toast
Dessert – Carrot Crème Cheesecake
All entrées include a fresh vegetable medley, Chef’s choice of rice, pasta, or potato, fresh rolls with creamy butter, freshly brewed coffee, assorted hot teas, iced tea, and water. Soft drinks and adult beverages will be available for purchase in the upstairs restaurant/bar and are not included in the cost of the dinner.
Following dinner will be a presentation by Dennis Bingaman, and the Awards presentations.
Please join us as we celebrate the end of another successful season of image making with food, camaraderie, entertainment, prizes and awards.
DON’T DELAY. The deadline for reservations is Thursday, May 17th. Checks should be made payable to the Harrisburg Camera Club. Please include a contact phone number I can reach you with payment. Please indicate your choice of entrée. It would be best if you would pay in advance by mailing the checks to:
Randal Lathrop, 80 Meade Drive, Carlisle, PA 17013
Checks (no cash) will be accepted at the banquet, but I will need to know by Thursday, May 17th if you are planning to attend!
Directions:
Park Inn is located off exit 3 (US-11/Carlisle Pike) on Hwy 581.
From Carlisle and points south, take Interstate 81-N to Hwy-581 E and proceed to exit 3. At the light, turn right and Park Inn is immediately on your right.
From Harrisburg and points north, take Interstate I-83/Hwy-581 W towards Mechanicsburg and proceed to exit 3. At the light, turn right and Park Inn is immediately on your right.
From Lancaster and points East, take I-83N to Hwy-581 W towards Carlisle and proceed to exit 3. At the light, turn right and Park Inn is immediately on your right.
Dress Code:
Business casual –no jeans, no sneakers and no shorts.
Any questions or reservations please e-mail Randal Lathrop at vicepresident@harrisburgcameraclub.org
July 15th, 6 AM until about noon. We will meet at the Olewine Nature Center adfjacent to the upper parking lot
