Maryland Photography Alliance January Member Club News

Baltimore Camera Club (www.baltimorecameraclub.org)

  • 1/2  Print Competition: – Open Theme – Judge: Les Picker
  • 1/9 Program: Working with Models for Portraits, Presenter: Tracey Brown

Baywater Camera Club (www.facebook.com/Marylandeasternshore1)

  • 1/8 Regular club meeting at 6PM; Dorchester Center for the Arts; open theme preparation for Feb members show at DCA.
  • 2/5 Regular club meeting at 6PM; Dorchester Center for the Arts.
  • 2/8 Dorchester Center for the Arts; second Saturday reception for BWCC members photo show.
  • 2/12 Regular club meeting at 6PM; Dorchester Center for the Arts; theme- visualizing song lyrics.


Bowie-Crofton Camera Club (www.B-CCC.org)

  • 1/6 Competition, Theme: Eyes, Judge: Mike Washington
  • 1/13 Photo Talk, Photo Books You Should Own
  • 1/18 Field Trip, Peabody Library and Camden Yards
  • 1/20 Program, Travel Photography, Speaker: Jerry Taylor
  • 1/27 How-To, Layering for Fine Art, Speaker: S. Spartana
  • 2/3 Competition, Theme: Travel, Judge: Jerry Taylor
  • 2/10 Photo Talk, Why Study Other Photographers?
  • 2/17 Program, Stuck Between Two Worlds, Speaker: Charles Bowers
  • 2/24 How-To, Hand Coloring Photos, Speaker: S. Abramowitz

Central MD Photography Guild (https://cmpg.photography)

  • 1/8    7pm:  Les Picker – Photographic Printing, Chapelgate Academy, Marriottsville, MD
  • 1/11  12pm: Fashion Photo Shoot Workshop.  More information on our website
  • 1/16  7pm: DSLR User’s group. Agenda is TBD


Creative Exposure Baltimore (www.CreativeExposureBaltimore.com)

  • 1/7    January is a contest month! The topic is “Celebration.”
  • 2/4    Show & Tell – Steve McDonald, and the assignment is “Two Versions.”

Harford County Photography Group (www.HarfordCountyPhotoGroup.org)

  • 1/8    Presentation – “images & Stories of the Urban Development” with Steve Rosenbach
  • 2/12  Presentation – “Food Photography” with David Blecman

Mountain Christian Church Camera Group (MC3)

Meets 2nd Monday of each month from 7-9 in room 26 of Walker Chapel

Challenges:

  • Jan – Festive
  • Feb – Macro

Programs:

  • Jan – Macro Program
  • Feb– B/W Program

NIH Camera Club (www.nihcameraclub.com/)

  • 1/11  Presentation by George Lea: Review of the functions of the light-sensing element, that which defines a digital camera, and how it responds to the image projected by the lens system. Held in the Art Room, 10:00-11:30 am. at the Five Star Premier Residence, Chevy Chase, MD
  • 1/14   Competition: Shadows / Silhouettes, Open to NIHCC members in good standing. 7:00 pm in the Community Room, Five Star Premier Residence
  • 1/21   Travelogue: Peter Dunner presenting “Eleven Days in the DPRK (North Korea)” 8:00-9:00 pm in the Community Room at the Five Star Premier Residence
  • 2/8    Presentation by George Lea:  Review of the digital photographic process so as to obtain maximum image quality from a digital camera. Held in the Art Room, 10:00-11:30am. at the Five Star Premier Residence
  • 2/11   Competition: Abstract, open to NIHCC members in good standing. 7:00 pm in the Community Room, Five Star Premier Residence
  • 2/18   Travelogue: Peter Dunner presenting “Cuba” 8:00-9:00 pm in the Community Room at the Five Star Premier Residence

North Bethesda Camera Club (www.nbccmd.org)

  • 1/8    Competition:  Black and White open – electronic
  • 1/15   Competition:  Black and White open – print
  • 1/21   Field Trip:  DC Churches NBCC members – 12-person limit
  • 1/29   Program:  3 Members Present
  • 2/5     Competition:   Human Relationships – Print and Electronic
  • 2/6     Reception: “Faces” Exhibit – 7PM, Gaithersburg Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Rd, Gaithersburg, MD
  • 2/12   Program:   Master Photographers Present

Photographers of the Washington/Baltimore Metro Area (www.meetup.com)

  • 1/25   Meetup to create pinhole lenses to be used with a DSLR.  The Nora School, 955 Sligo Avenue, Silver Spring, Md. 11am – 1pm.

Rossmoor Camera Club (http://www.rossmoorcameraclub.com)

  • 1/14    Meeting at 7:00 PM in Clubhouse 2 with a presentation by Kent Mason focusing on his recently published book photographing the beauty of the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia. Kent, a new resident here in Leisure World and member of the camera club, is a renowned landscape and nature photographer and conservationist who has been creating a photographic environmental study of extraordinary wild places for twenty years.

Silver Spring Camera Club (http://www.ssccphotography.org)

  • 1/12    Field trip. 

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Professional Photographers of America (PPA)

The Maryland PPA Board of Directors voted to include Maryland Photography Alliance Clubs as Affiliates, and the clubs are therefore entitled to the affiliate discount rate for most of the PPA programs!  Below are some opportunities for MPA Members: