Welcome to the Silver Spring Camera Club. Visitors and new members are invited to our public meetings, which take place the first three Thursdays of every month, September through May. We also welcome you to our field trips. Signups are through Meetup.

Meetings are either in-person, or virtual on Zoom.

The first meeting of the month is our speaker night, held virtually.

In person meetings will take place on the second Thursday of each month, and will generally be our competition. In person meetings are held at Christ the King Presbyterian Church (formerly called Northwood Presbyterian Church), 1200 University Boulevard West, Silver Spring, MD.

On the third Thursday of each month we hold a virtual meeting. This will generally be our Photo Forum which includes discussion, member presentations, and photo sharing.

The May

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Events

This week at the Silver Spring Camera Club

Thursday, May 7 at 7:30 PM on Zoom – Speaker Night
Thursday, May 7 at midnight-Entries due for the Monochrome Projected Digital Image Competition

This month at the Silver Spring Camera Club

May 7 – Speaker Night (7:30 p.m. on Zoom)
May 14 – Competition: Monochrome (7:30 p.m. at Christ the King Presbyterian Church)
May 21 – Photo Forum (7:30 p.m. on Zoom)
May 28 – Board Meeting
June 11 – End of Year Meeting (6:30 p.m. at Christ the King Presbyterian Church; see details here )

Winners of the April Competition

April’s competition topic was “Images from SSCC Field Trips” for projected and print images. Ron Peiffer was our judge.

Projected Image Competition

Advanced Projected

First Place: Backlit, Wendy Kates
Second Place: Heading Up, Wendy Kates
Third Place: View of Freedom, Maude Svensson
Honorable Mention: Boots Made for Rockin, Beth Koller

Maude Svensson ~ View of Freedom

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This image is from the Ellis Island Hospital, where we had a field trip in January 2025. I was particularly interested in this tour, since I, just like many others, have ancestors that immigrated to the US in the late 1800s/early 1900s. They had risked a lot in order to start a new life in America, and I could just imagine how some of them felt when being forced to stay at Ellis Island Hospital upon arrival. While they could see the Statue of Liberty from the doors and windows of the hospital, they were close to their dreams, but still far away and uncertain whether they could ever enter the country of their dreams.

Novice and Intermediate Projected

First Place: Pretty in Pink, Gerry Woods
Second Place: Kenilworth Second Life, Michele Destin-van Rijn
Third Place: Nobody Comes, Nobody Goes, Maurice Belanger
Honorable Mention: Kenilworth Lotus Bud with Dragonfly, Diane Sanders
Honorable Mention: Man’s Best Friend 3, Gerry Woods

Gerry Woods ~ Pretty in Pink

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I saw a woman in pink posing and noticed that her companion was about to take her photo with his phone. I also noticed that the sunlight was hitting her pink dress and that compelled me to take this photo. (Handheld Settings: ISO 160, Focal Length 24mm, Aperture 4/14, and Shutter Speed to 1/125.)

Print Image Competition

Combined Print

First Place: Green Sink and Toilet, Ilona Linnoila
Second Place: LaLa at Noon, Tom Allen
Third Place: Sly Eye of Glen Echo, Beth Koller

Ilona Linnoila ~ Green Sink and Toilet

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The picture was taken on a field trip to the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, WVa in the summer of 2023. Old cells had lots of prisoners’ art, which was often quite vulgar. They also contained patches of very bright colors that caught my eye. (Sony 7r IV with Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS lens. 0.4 sec, f/9.0, ISO 800.)