Seven Hills Camera Club
For
Photography In Central Massachusetts
Last Updated: May 7, 2008
Worcester
Photography Center Photographic Society Of America New England Camera Club Council |
Nice Work, Nan! Congratulations to Nan Ginns for her
image, Wonderland, which
took Third Place in the Black
and White Category in
Worcester Magazine's recent photo contest.Click the image to view a larger version. Some of you may recall that Nan won an Honorable Mention in last year's contest for her Flying High 2. Multiscreen ChallengeWell, the next challenge will be to get all of us there on time. Look for directions here; they'll be posted as soon as we get them. Normally, you can walk in to the Multiscreen at about 7:00 PM, but if you are setting up or participating as a scorekeeper, then you need to be there sooner. Perhaps 6:30 is best. With the traffic flow around Providence, RI a question, some of the club members are planning on carpooling early. Call around if you aren't sure, but a safe bet is that some will be leaving the church parking lot in Worcester at about 5:00 PM. Others will be at the Park-and-Ride in Millbury near the entrance to the Mass Pike.The Multiscreen will be May 9th. It's usually a lot of fun and there should be lots of terrific images to be seen. It's being held at the regular PSRI meeting spot: 255 Atlantic Ave. Warwick, RI Click here to see a map on their site. NECCC Report CardResults are in for the year. Congratulations to Michelle, Carol, and Joe for winning ribbons throughout the year in these competitions. Read Carol's complete report below.Dagmar's Exhibiting!
Our own Dagmar Dankova has her images in an exhibit at the Wellesley
College Botanical Gardens. The exhibit is called, Glass House. Click
here to read more about it. |
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About Our Image Exchanges With Worcestershire Camera
Club
Monthly Exchange
If you read the piece at the top of this web page, you know we've started a new monthly photo exchange to better share information about our locales. Thumbnails in the feature column (right side) will get you to the pages. The two clubs will have slightly different presentations of the images, but each site will show both. It's a nice way to learn a bit more about one another.Anytime, All-the-time, Photo Exchange
We also are starting a more ad hoc image sharing/critiquing site using wiki technology. Wiki is probably best known because of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia-like site whose information is generated by hundreds, if not thousands, of people. The idea is to make a site freely updateable (is that a real word?) by anyone with the hope that, the massess will collectively keep the information honest and accurate. In our case, we are using Wetpaint.com to host us. It's free and it looks like it may be fun. The first two images are up and we're looking for folks to give it a shot. You don't have to be a registered Wetpaint user to view the site, but you do if you want to upload or make comments.Give it a try. Here's the link: http://worcester-shire.wetpaint.com/
There's even a discussion forum. The website page is busy because it's advertising based, but you should be able to find what you need.
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Three Concurrent Exhibitions
March 20 to June 15, 2008A Trio of Exhibits Explore the Human Condition
More information is available here. Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography is presenting images by Lili Almong, Linda Butler, and Stella Johnson.
This sounds like an excellent idea for
someone who's interested in organizing a field trip!!!
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NECCC Report
NECCC Circuits and Competitions
Results are in for the third and final competitions of the club year. Congratulations to Michelle Fontaine for winning an Honorable Mention ribbon in the Pictorial Electronic Competition for her image "Jellyfish". Though our club finished in the lower half of over 30 competing clubs, we did well considering this competition is still not divided into AA, A and B divisions, and we compete with the very best clubs.In the Color Print Competition, the club also finished in the lower half of 30 competing clubs, but again this is still a good showing considering this competition is also not divided into divisions.
In the final Color Slide Competition, Joe Zwirblia won an Honorable Mention ribbon for his image "Works of (Street) Art" and Carol Morocco won a Second Place ribbon for her image "Path to Door, Tuscany". Also, strong scores for Fran Audette and Jim Parella help the club to a First Place win in this competition and a Second Place overall final standing in Class B of the Color Slide Competition. JoAnn Audette, Carol Morocco and Seth Ribe each have slides eligible for the Color Slide of the Year Competition to take place this summer. For more information and to see some of the winning images, go to http://neccc.org/New_Outline_4.htm
Congratulations to our award winners! Thank you to all our members who were willing to contribute their images throughout the year to keep our club not only active, but very competitive. A special thanks to Don Roberts who does the selecting and mailing of images for the Color Print Competitions. Your help is greatly appreciated!
Don't forget the NECCC Conference on July 11-13, 2008 at UMass Amherst. Congratulations to Mary Colburn who won the courtesy enrollment for our club. I look forward to seeing Mary and several other club members there for a weekend of fun and learning!
Multiscreen
New Subjects For Multi-Screen 2007-2008
Images must be made after May 1, 2007.| Broken | Celebration | City Lights | Cracked |
| Crowd | Downtown | Failure | Glowing |
| Graffiti | Hat(s) | Lace | Orange |
| Peaceful | Pets & Their People | Relaxing | Rustic New England |
| Scary | Skimpy | Square(s) | Stormy |
| Teeth | The End | Wall(s) | Wildlife |
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* Things You Might Want To Know * * * |
These are some emails and tidbits we've received recently...
Note: You can look up other such items in our This Just In section. Not everything we receive appears on our top level page. It's a good idea to check this just in every once in a while.
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