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December 2017 Vol. 34, No. 12

In This IssueMessage from the President Page 3

Members’ Scores Page 4-5 Useful Web Links Page 6 Upcoming Events Page 6 Members’ Images Page 7-21 Board Meeting Minutes Page 22

Lori Jones — Gone Fishin’

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InFocus, the Newsletter of the Puget Sound Camera ClubThe Puget Sound Camera Club (PSCC) welcomes new members of any level of expertise in digitaland film photography. The Club meets the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at MaplewoodPresbyterian Church in Edmonds, Washington.Activities include education, review of work, and exhibition opportunities.The Club was organized in 1984 and is a member of the Photographic Society of America and theNorthwest Council of Camera Clubs.

Officers PhonePresident Lauren Heerschap 206-719-3752Vice-President Margery Robison 425-501-7585Secretary Mary Tevis 206-533-8301Treasurer Yvonne Shimek 425-745-2335Digital Director Dave Patzwald 425-485-3176Print Director Al Koskie 206-697-1806Member-at-Large Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

Committees Chairperson PhoneArchives Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

Audit Mary Pease 425-478-7015

Digital Dave Patzwald 425-485-3176

Education Margery Robison 425-501-7585

Equipment Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

InFocus Editor Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

Membership Lynne Greenup 425-771-5703

NWCCC Delegate Bill Royce 425-821-3190

Prints Al Koskie 206-697-1806

PSA Representative Renata Kleinert 425-355-7758

PSA Nature Competition Renata Kleinert 425-355-7758

PSA Pictorial Competition Renata Kleinert 425-355-7758

Refreshments Emily Patzwald 425-485-3176

Webmaster Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

Puget Sound Camera Club (PSCC): www.pugetsoundcamera.com

Northwest Council of Camera Clubs (NWCCC): www.nwcameraclubs.org

Photographic Society of America (PSA): www.psa-photo.org

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Message from the President

Dear Members,

Our club is really active and it results in amazing photos! Thank you for your flexibility last Monday, November 27, wewere able to combine both Digital and Print nights due to a storm that canceled electrical power for many and DigitalNight. We might have set a club record in reviewing over 80 images.

Field Trips: Our field trip to the Seattle Great Wheel resulted in some very wet photographers with great shots. Thenext trip is the challenge of the beautiful Garden D’Lights on Monday, December 4. Meet Bob Joiner at the BellevueBotanical Gardens at 6 PM Raincoats for cameras (plastic sleeves, tripod umbrellas, etc) and tripods with glow in thedark tape on them are recommended. This is a free admission night, with $5 parking fee.

Christmas Party Potluck and White Elephant Gift Exchange: We are having our annual celebration! Please bring adish; especially appetizers! The board voted this year to match the donations at the party up to $250 for a gift to theDinner for the Homeless Program at Maplewood Church. So come ready to put something in the hat!

Our White Elephant Gift Exchange has no limit this year on the value of the gift so you can do whatever you like. 5;30Set Up; 6 PM Appetizers ; 6:30 Dinner; 7:30 White Elephant Exchange. We will also have a brief slide show presenta-tion honoring our long time member George Ferrara, who passed away a few days after last year’s party.

Education Night: Since there is a 5th Monday in January, Tim Boyer, Bird Photographer will speak at our EducationNight from 7 PM – 9 PM A $5 donation will be requested.

May all your photos be merry and just right,

Happy Holidays,Lauren Heerschap

Lauren Heerschap — Nenana River Fireweed

Welcome New Members!

● Greg Bartell

● Fotini Georgiadou

● Leo Sielsch

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November 2017 Digital Images Competition Assignment: “Sense of Place”Judges: Margery Robison, Renata Kleinert,Jack Broom Commentator: Bill Royce MP– most popular

Category Title Maker TotalAssignment Near Leavenworth Jack Broom 23 First Place

Captivated by Huge Ferry Mary Pease 22Cat Woman Danika Pease 22Green River Overlook, Canyonlands NP Henry Heerschap 22 MPNepalese Artist Joe Bozick 22Fishing for Squid Lynne Greenup 21Hood Canal Barn Greg Bartell 21Indian Henry's Hunting Ground Lori Jones 21The Great Wall Edith Wang 21Long Beach Church Phil Kollen 20Monarch Wood Oven Lauren Heerschap 20On the River in Madagascar Mary Tevis 20All Alone Fotini Georgiadou 19Great Place to Visit Gena Reebs 19Waiting for Dinner Attila Laszlo 18

Altered Reality Creative Carousel Horse Mary Pease 22 First Place (tied)Rescued Joe Bozick 22 First Place (tied)Impressionist Autumn Aspens Gena Reebs 21Cat Girl Danika Pease 20Electric Ice Renata Kleinert 20Heron Lori Jones 20 MPAutumn Abstract Lynne Greenup 19Portal of the Wood Men Henry Heerschap 19Fountain Abstract Phil Kollen 16

Creatures Gone Fishin’ Lori Jones 24 First PlaceEgyptian Goose Joe Bozick 23Hitching a Ride Edith Wang 22 MPHybrid Lemur Mary Tevis 21Laying Around Fotini Georgiadou 21Play Time Bill Ray 21Big Bull Elk Andy Royce 21

Open Deception Pass Falls Renata Kleinert 24 First PlaceAutumn Dew Drops on Web Margery Robison 23Trees of Many Colors Gena Reebs 23 MPOlympic Panorama Bill Ray 23Autumn Colors Mary Pease 22Autumn Fire Lauren Heerschap 22Family Portrait Jeanine Langerud 22Tolt River Bridge Lynne Greenup 22Alki Point and Clouds Bill Royce 21Autumn Drizzle Henry Heerschap 21

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Category Title Maker TotalAssignment Color Me and My Shadow Mary Pease 21 First Place

Peek-a-Boo Moon Phil Kollen 20Open Color Iris Phil Kollen 24

Great Wheel Henry Heerschap 24Antique Blow Torch Lauren Heerschap 24After the Storm Bill Royce 24Japanese Maple on Fire Lauren Heerschap 24Crocosmia Pods Jack Broom 24Nenana River Fireweed Lauren Heerschap 23Brown Leaf Jack Broom 23 MPCTLC - Monroe Tractor Show Bill Ray 22Posing Goat Greg Bartell 22Moody Day at Hurricane Ridge Mary Pease 21Mrs Mallard on Vacation Jeanine Langerud 21Archondoula Fotini Georgiadou 21Old Style Anchor Al Koskie 21Orange Dash Greg Bartell 21Clematis Jeanine Langerud 20Side View Mirror Greg Bartell 19

Open Monochrome Snoqualmie Falls & Clouds Bill Royce 24 MPMLyon Creek Bill Ray 23Strangers in a Strange Land Henry Heerschap 22Stormy Day Edmonds Beach Mary Pease 21Icelandic Church Henry Heerschap 21

November 2017 Print Competition Assignment: “Shadows or Overcast Weather”Judges: Margery Robison, Renata Kleinert,Jack Broom

MPC– most popular color, MPM - most popular monochrome

Category Title Maker TotalOpen Clematis Jeanine Langerud 21

Garage Sale Bill Royce 21Greek Graffiti Emily Patzwald 21Oia Wedding Photo Shoot Dave Patzwald 21When It Rains Jack Broom 21Stropharia Ambiguar Andy Royce 21Baobab Tree Mary Tevis 20Dance of the Rivets Margery Robison 20Orvieto Cathedral Dave Patzwald 20Herbert Danika Pease 20Icicle Creek Greg Bartell 20In the Danger Zone Emily Patzwald 20Fall Colors Attila Laszlo 20Shedding Bark Phil Kollen 20Floating Fotini Georgiadou 19

Unjudged Index Bridge Greg Bartell

Digital Images Competition (continued)

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No Regular Meetings in December(see you at the Holiday Party, December 11)

January AssignmentsDigital Night – Happy Holidays ● Print – Altered Reality

For the full list of assignments, go to http://pugetsoundcamera.com/assignments

Coming Events

Monday, December 4 - December Field Trip - Garden d’Lights at the Bellevue Botanical GardenMeet at the main entrance at 6:00 PM.Join Bob Joiner and the Puget Sound Camera Club for a beautiful evening of photographing the holiday lights at theBellevue Botanical Garden. We will be photographing a dazzling display of over half a million lights creating a blos-soming winter wonderland. More information can be found at https://gardendlights.orgThis is a free admission night, but there is a $5 charge for the main garden parking (cash only). There is additional freeparking at nearby Wilburton Hill Park at the intersection of 124th and Main St. and it is an easy walk down 124th St tothe Garden. No parking is allowed across Main St. More info at our Meetup Page athttps://www.meetup.com/Puget-Sound-Camera-Club-Meetup/events/244491851/

Monday, December 11 - PSCC Holiday Party Potluck and White Elephant Gift ExchangeOur annual holiday party. Lots of fun and fellowship with fellow photographers as well as their significant others.Please let us know what sort of dish you can bring (appetizer, main, side, salad or dessert). Also bring an inexpensiveor surplus wrapped gift for our White Elephant Gift Exchange.

We will be showing a short slideshow tribute to our late member and friend George Ferrara.

We will also be taking a collection to benefit Maplewood Presbyterian Church's homeless feeding program. It's a wayof saying thanks for their generosity toward Puget Sound Camera Club.

5:30 Setup6:00 Hors Oeuvres6:30 Dinner7:30 White Elephant Gift Exchange

Monday, January 29 - Education Night: Tim Boyer on Mastering Bird Photography7-9 PM Maplewood Presbyterian ChurchTim is one of the premier bird photographers in the Pacific Northwest and will be presenting on the subject at ourJanuary Fifth Monday Education Night. More details to come.

Useful Web Links

Christmas Light Photography - useful tips when photographing the great light displays that pop us this time of year.http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/christmas-light-photography/

Speaking of seasonal photography how about 7 Tips for Taking Photos in Bad Weather:https://www.diyphotography.net/7-tips-taking-photos-bad-weather/

And specifically for the Pacific Northwest: Tips for Better Forest Photographyhttps://digital-photography-school.com/tips-better-forest-photography/

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Mary PeaseStormy Day Edmonds Beach

Henry HeerschapStrangers in a Strange Land

Bill RoyceSnoqualmie Falls and Clouds

"Those who dream by day arecognizant of many thingswhich escape those whodream only by night."

– Edgar Allen Poe

"The hard part is not HOW tomake the picture, but WHATpicture to make".

- Unknown

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Gena Reebs — California Quail

Mary Pease — Autumn Colors

Lauren Heerschap — Autumn Fire

“Mysteries lie all around us, evenin the most familiar things, waitingonly to be perceived.”

– Wynn Bullock

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Dave Patzwald — Oia Wedding Shoot

Greg Bartell — Index Bridge

Bill Royce — Clearing Storm

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"In my day to day life, I’m a bundle ofuncertainties, hopes, anxieties, anger,joy, tension, and relaxation, just likemost humans. I do however often havea strong philosophical bent, and a drivethat borders on obsession with myphotography. I do feel that often Ilearn and get new ideas or conceptsfrom my photographs. They teach meand open up new possibilities."

— Wayne Levin

“When people ask whatequipment I use, I tell themmy eyes.”

– Ansel Adams

Greg BartellHood Canal Barn

Henry HeerschapGreen River Overlook, Canyonlands NP

Joe BozickRescued

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Jack Broom — Near Leavenworth

Jack Broom — Crocosmia Pods

Mary Tevis — Hybrid Lemur Margery Robison — Autumn Dew Drops on Web

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Mary PeaseMe and My Shadow

Joe BozickEgyptian Goose

Edith WangHitching a Ride

“A photographers work is givenshape and style by his personalvision. It is not simply technique,but the way he looks at life andthe world around him.”

– Pete Turner

"We make assumptions about what we willsee, what we will experience. And when youadd the desire not to carry a bunch of gear, orget wet, or just the desire to stay in and reada book, and it’s easy to miss these things –small moments of “what if”, small chances atsomething great. You never know if you nevergo, say my Aussie friends. Take the chance.Peer around the corner. Break the surface.Don’t let these moments pass you by, becausehow we live our moments is how we live ourlives. And there are probably fewer of themthan we think."

- David duChemin

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Mary Pease — Creative Carousel Horse

Lori Jones — Indian Henry’s Hunting Ground

Jack Broom — When it RainsHenry Heerschap — Great Wheel

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Bill RoyceGarage Sale

Bill RayOlympic Panorama

Edith WangThe Great Wall

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Gena ReebsTrees of Many Colors

Lynne GreenupTolt River Bridge

Renata KleinertDeception Pass Falls

“It’s the photographer,not the camera, that isthe instrument.”

– Eve Arnold

“A few words aboutthe question ofwhether photographyis art or not: I neverunderstood the ques-tion.”

– Ernst Haas

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Jack Broom — Brown Leaf

Bill Ray — Lyon Creek

Bill Royce — Alki Point and Clouds

“it’s always been myphilosophy to try tomake art out of the ev-eryday and ordinary…itnever occurred to me toleave home to makeart.”

– Sally Mann

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Andy RoyceBig Bull Elk

Bill RayPlay Time

Jeanine LangerudFamily Portrait

“It’s marvelous, marvelous!Nothing will ever be as muchfun. I’m going to photographeverything, everything!”

– Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“Parks and gardens are thequintessential intimate land-scapes. People use them allthe time, leaving their energyand memories behind. It’swhat’s left behind that I like tophotograph.”

– Michael Kenna

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Andy RoyceStropharia Ambiguar

Henry HeerschapAutumn Drizzle

Jeanine LangerudClematis

“It is come to the point that the world of land-scape photography seems to exist in a place ofperpetual sunrises and sunsets, the goldenlight, the perfect light, the waiting for the light,as though the ordinary experience of living see-ing an experience in the planet does not in andof itself constitute a remarkable experience.”

– Stephen Johnson

“Twentieth-century art has allowedme to see things in a cryptic way. Ilove the butterfly’s wings, whichdisappear when folded and whenopen leave this brilliant, intensepronouncement of nature, ‘Here Iam.’”

– Emmet Gowin

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Fotini GeorgiadouLaying Around

Mary PeaseCaptivated by Huge Ferry

Lynne GreenupFishing for Squid

“(1) The more thoroughly a pho-tographer explores his subjectwith the camera (i.e., the morepictures he makes), the more hesees and the better his chance ofgetting good results.

(2) Even slight changes in subjectapproach can make significantdifferences in the effect of thepicture.”

– Andreas Feininger

“I don’t analyze what I’mdoing. I’ve read convincinginterpretations of my work,and sometimes I’ve noticedsomething that I wasn’taware of, but I think, at thispoint, people read into mywork out of habit. Or I’mjust very, very smart.”

– Cindy Sherman

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Emily PatzwaldGreek Graffiti

Danika PeaseCat Woman

Joe BozickNepalese Artist

“It is light that reveals, light that obscures,light that communicates. It is light I “listen”to. The light late in the day has a distinctquality, as it fades toward the darkness ofevening. After sunset there is a gentle leavingof the light, the air begins to still, and a quietdescends. I see magic in the quiet light ofdusk. I feel quite, yet intense energy in thenatural elements of our habitat. A sense ofmagic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is atime for contemplation, for listening – a timefor making photographs.”

– John Sexton

“Photography teaches us to see, and wecan see whatever we wish. When I take aphotograph, I make a wish. I was alwayslooking for beauty.”

– George Tice

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Mary PeaseMoody Day at Hurricane Ridge

Bill RayTLC at Tractor Show

Henry HeerschapIceland Church

Lauren Heerschap — Antique Blow Torch“The truth is that one is more frequently blessedwith ideas while working.”

– Jerry Uelsmann

“To me, pictures are like blintzes – ya gottaget ‘em while they’re hot.”

– Weegee

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Minutes of the PSCC Board Meeting on November 20, 2017The meeting was called to order at 7:01 pm. Present were Lauren Heerschap, Henry Heerschap, Mary Tevis, Al Koskie, DavePatzwald. and Margery Robison. A motion was made to approve the minutes taken on September 18, 2017; the motion was sec-onded and passed. There was no Board of Directors meeting in October. There will also be no Board of Directors meeting in De-cember.

VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT: The field trip on Saturday, October 14, 2017, to the Museum of Flight in Seattle was a success.Thanks to Bob Joiner for arranging a table where we could all meet for lunch. The field trip to the wheel in downtown Seattle onNovember 19 was also a success. Al Koskie reports 9 people showed up from MeetUp in the pouring rain. Details for the Decem-ber field trip to the Bellevue Botanical Gardens for the Christmas lights will be emailed to the members. A discussion was heldregarding other trips and the need for suggestions for 2018. It was decided to host a trip to the Museum of History and Industryin January. We need a trip leader for it. The trip to Roy for the rodeo in June will be announced when details are firmed up. Wewelcome any suggestions for field trips.

The next education night is in January and our speaker will be Tim Boyer, who is a bird photographer. The April education nightwill have Brad Husick on tabletop photography. It was decided to put these in MeetUp as they are well attended and help defraythe cost of the speaker.

TREASURER'S REPORT: Yvonne Shimek reports that as of October 31, 2017, there is a balance of $2446.61 in the club checkingaccount. A motion was made to accept the treasurer's report, seconded and passed.

NEW BUSINESS: It was decided to hold a brief slideshow to commemorate George Ferrara's life and photography at the Christ-mas Banquet in December. Henry Heerschap volunteered to put some of George's images together in the slideshow. It was de-cided to show it after the dinner and before the gift exchange. We also are going to put the Christmas Banquet on MeetUp asthe attendance last year was very sparse. The banquet hours are as follows: December 11, 5:30 decorations and setup; 6:00 ap-petizers; 6:30 dinner; 7:30 gift exchange. It is a potluck, so the members are asked to sign up to bring a dish. We are planning tomatch any donations with funds from the club for the church for their Friday night dinners for the needy (up to $250), so dig inyour pockets!

This print night will also be combined with the digital night as last digital night had to be cancelled due to the storm. The digitalimages will be shown as usual. The prints will be laid out on tables at the back, judged, and voted on for most popular. The trav-eling print salon will be on separate tables and are also to be voted on.

Lauren Heerschap, the Chair of the Northwest Council of Camera Clubs, wishes to thank all members who helped at the Novem-ber 11, 2017 conference.

Thanks to Henry Heerschap who subbed for digital director Dave Patzwald in October as Dave Patzwald was out of town.

Henry Heerschap had business cards made for the club. We would encourage the members to take a few cards and pass themout to potential members for the club.

We recently received an email from someone who had decided not to renew their membership with PSCC. He had several con-cerns, including the way we handle judging and commentary during Digital Night. He felt the commentary had an undue influ-ence on the judging and would have liked to have seen us hold off on the commentary until the judges had completed theirscoring. This is how we used to do it. We had changed it in the interest of moving things along more quickly. In January we willstart experimenting with putting the slide up, giving judges 20 seconds to score, then Dave will say "finished" or something likethat so the commentator knows to start speaking. The commentator will have to keep it short. The score and photographer'sname will then be announced as usual. Dave and perhaps others are going to look at how other clubs do this. We also agreedthat taking scores and commentary too seriously is problematic as it is so subjective and the judges and commentators varyfrom month to month. The goal for the individual submitting a photo is to learn from the comments. Another thought was tohave some sort of junior and senior divisions related to photographic experience.We also praised Lauren's thoughtful and kind response to the letter.

We also discussed the 20 minute education periods at the end of print night and came up with several suggestions. We will belooking for more members willing to make presentations.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Tevis, Secretary