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.

All kinds of camera equipment are embraced; including mirrorless, phone, dSLR, film, and drone.

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 October

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Events

This week at the Silver Spring Camera Club

October 15 — Photo Forum

This month at the Silver Spring Camera Club

October 1 — Speaker Night: Lawrence Jackson – Photojournalism: From Rural Virginia to the White House
October 8 — Competition Night: Nature Photography–Rollin Fraser, Judge
October 11 — Field Trip: Brookside Gardens
October 15 — Photo Forum
October 24 – Share Coffee and Photos, Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian

Winners of the September Competition

September’s competition topic was “Open” for projected and print images. Michael Brown was our judge.

Advanced Projected

First Place: Golden Oyster Mushrooms, David Terao
Second Place: Club Car, David Terao
Third Place: Keyslugs and Typebars, Beth Koller
Honorable Mention: Money Laundering, Beth Koller

David Terao ~ Golden Oyster Mushrooms

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While browsing through a local farmer’s market, I saw a tent selling wild mushrooms. After asking if I could take pictures of some mushrooms on display, the seller said he had some more in the back. When he opened a large black duffel bag, there was a large clump of golden oyster mushrooms laying inside. I shot the mushrooms handheld under the tent.

Intermediate Projected

First Place: Roaring Forks, Will Rabinovich
Second Place: Breaking Through, Will Rabinovich
Third Place: Getting Ready to Load, Marc Auerbach
Honorable Mention: Beijing Summer, Thomas Allen
Honorable Mention: Rock Kestral, Kent Morris

Will Rabinovich ~ Roaring Forks

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This image was taken in the Smokies at Roaring Forks. This is a small section of the stream that I liked because of the configuration of the rocks and the flow of the water over them. There wasn’t much color in the scene so I thought monochrome would work best, though I decided that afterwards in post processing. While there I took exposures at many different shutter speeds. I wanted to capture the feeling of motion without losing all the details in the water. Later, I looked through the images, all of which had the same composition, and picked the one in which I thought the shutter speed best matched the subject. The image was taken with a tripod-mounted Sony A7riv with a Tamron 50-400 lens at 70mm and f/11. The shutter speed was 2 seconds. I converted to monochrome in Lightroom and did some dodging and burning

Novice Projected

First Place: Moon Scape, Owen Epstein

Second Place: Nijo Castle Gate, Tom McLaughlin

Print Image Competition

Combined Print

First Place: Fed-Ex Building in Silver Spring, Thomas Allen
Second Place: Spuds and Peppers, Thomas Allen
Third Place: Waihee Trail, Charlie Farmer
Honorable Mention: Carnegie Museum Staircase, Sherm Edwards

Thomas Allen ~ Spuds and Peppers

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These luscious vegetables were set up on a table at the Farmers Market in Ellicott City, Maryland, taken during a recent SSCC field trip. I was struck by both color and texture. Apple 16 Pro, 15.6mm, f2.8, 1/600, ISO 50, focus-stacked using Reeflex pro camera app, version 3.5.