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May 2017 Vol. 34, No. 5

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In This IssuePresident’s Letter Page 3

February Scores Page 4-5 Upcoming Events Page 5 Useful Web Links Page 5 PSA PID Results Page 6 Members’ Images Page 7-15 Board Meeting Minutes Page 16

Lynne Greenup — California Quail

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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 indigital and film photography. The Club meets the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month atMaplewood Presbyterian 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 andthe Northwest Council of Camera Clubs.

Officers PhonePresident Lauren Heerschap 206-719-3752Vice-President Gena Reebs 206-963-3649Secretary Mary Tevis 206-533-8301Treasurer Yvonne Shimek 425-745-2335Digital Director Dave Patzwald 425-485-3176Print Director Al Koskie 206-604-6433Member-at-Large Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

Committees Chairperson PhoneArchives Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

Audit Rosemarie Ferrara 206-365-0397

Digital Dave Patzwald 425-485-3176

Education Gena Reebs 206-963-3649

Equipment Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

InFocus Editor Henry Heerschap 206-719-1782

Membership Beverly & Harry Shelton 425-776-2442

NWCCC Delegate Bill Royce 425-821-3190

Prints Al Koskie 206-604-6433

PSA Representative Renata Kleinert 425-355-7758

PSA Nature Competition Renata Kleinert 425-355-7758

PSA Pictorial Competition Renata Kleinert 425-355-7758

Refreshments (Vacant)

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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President's Message

Hi PSCC Members,A Note of Appreciation to the Board Members: I would like to thank the hard-working Board of PSCC fortheir diligence in making our club the best in the Pacific Northwest. They arrive early to meetings, help set up,plan field trips, education nights, manage finances, take responsibility for Print and Digital nights, take notesat Board Meetings, find judges, and look for ways to improve the services and experiences of our club. Theymeet once a month to plan. Many thanks to Gena Reebs, V.P.; Yvonne Shimek, Treasurer; Mary Tevis, Secre-tary; Al Koskie, Print Director; Dave Patzwald, Digital Director; and Henry Heerschap, Board Member at Large(Webmaster and Newsletter). Please encourage our board members and thank them for their service!

Board meetings occur on the 2nd Monday of each month. Mary Tevis has graciously offered to host the meet-ings at her home. If you would like to attend, please give her a call. Her number is listed on our website.Meetings are open to anyone who would like to come.

Print Night: The Board has been trying to encourage attendance at Print Night. We have added a 30 minuteeducational time, provided pre-cut foam board, researched quality of prints from Costco (pretty good andcheap) and reinstated numerical judging scores. There will be a poll coming soon to your email about PrintNight; please respond so that we can decide how to improve attendance.

Congratulations to Puyallup Spring Fair Winners: Lynne Greenup for Best of Scenic and Jack Broom for Bestof Floral!

Upcoming Year End PSCC Competitions: The year end Potluck Banquet will be on June 12, 2017.Have you planned for the Year End Competitions in PSCC? Show your best work and get recognition for it! Youcan get details on this on our website at: http://www.pugetsoundcamera.com/pscc-year-end-awards

Digital Deadline: May 15Print Deadline: May 22 (Print Night)

Here are details from the PSCC website:Digital images and prints that were entered during the previous May through April are eligible to be entered inthe Year End competition. Each member is allowed to submit up to three images in each medium:A total of three (3) entries are allowed for digital images. They may be entered in any of the three categories(Assignment, Open and Altered Reality).

A total of three (3) entries are allowed for prints. They can be either color or monochrome. They may be en-tered in any of the three categories (Assignment, Open and Altered Reality). In addition, two (2) entries areallowed for the Ray Thorsteinson Photojournalism Award. (Photojournalism).

Lauren Heerschap

PSCC PresidentWecome New Member!

Daniel Hohl

May Assignments

Digital – Spring Flowers Print – Macro

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

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Category Title Maker TotalAssignment Around Neighborhood Danika Pease 22 1st Place

My Neighborhood Renata Kleinert 21 MPLong City Block Edith Wang 21Found at Edmonds Low Tide Mary Pease 20Alcohol AND Exercise Bruce Harper 20At the Corner of Royal and St. Peter Galina Rudas 19520 Railing Andy Royce 18

April 2017 Digital Images Competition Assignment: “My Neighborhood”Judges: Phil Kollen, Margery Robson, Mary Wang Commentator: Bill Royce MP– most popular

Open Brúarfoss Henry Heerschap 24 1st Place (tied), MPClearing Storm at Sunset Bill Ray 24 1st Place (tied)Eagle Mesa and Setting Hen Bill Royce 24 1st Place (tied)Milky Way Arch Bill Ray 24 1st Place (tied)Sunrise Over Namibian Desert Joe Bozick 24 1st Place (tied)Sunset Fir Island Danika Pease 24 1st Place (tied)Black Sand Beach, Vik, Iceland Lauren Heerschap 23Diamonds of the Beach Henry Heerschap 23Reflection Edith Wang 23The Bite Lauren Heerschap 23Uluru Sunrise Melissa Hardtke 23Lady's Mantle Jack Broom 22Racoon Spy Joe Bozick 22Ruler of the Roost Andy Royce 22Snow Geese Renata Kleinert 22Snow Melt Waterfalls, Iceland Lauren Heerschap 22Bandon Beach Stairway Jeanine Langerud 21Grazing Under Camel Butte Bill Royce 21Solo Galina Rudas 21Lake Crescent Reflection Paul Harding 20Barnacle Stumps Bruce Harper 19Dahlia Trio Mary Pease 19Family Outing Paul Harding 19

Altered Surprise Peacock Mary Pease 23 1st Place (tied)Reality The Wave Renata Kleinert 23 1st Place (tied)

The Arrangement Jeanine Langerud 22At the Beach, Gearhart Oregon Jack Broom 22 MPPond Lilly on Fire Andy Royce 22Spring Galina Rudas 21Bobcat Fishing Danika Pease 20Mast Hysteria Melissa Hardtke 20Punchy Pistal Bruce Harper 19

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Assignment Color Ice and Waves Henry Heerschap 24 1st PlaceWinter in Wyoming Mary Tevis 22

Altered Reality Yellowstone Coyote Mary Tevis 21 1st PlaceOpen Color Black Sand Beach, Vestrahorn Lauren Heerschap 24 1st Place (tied)

California Quail Lynne Greenup 24 1st Place (tied), MPCGrazing in the Midst of Ancient Stones Henry Heerschap 23Ice Swan Lauren Heerschap 21Dante's View at Death Valley Mary Tevis 21Food Quest Al Koskie 19

Open Monochrome Tulip Shadows Henry Heerschap 24 1st Place, MPMHallgrimskirkja Ceiling Lauren Heerschap 23

April 2017 Print Competition Assignment: “Motion”Judges: Lynne Greenup, Margery Robson, Henry Heerschap

MPC– most popular color, MPM - most popular monochrome

Upcoming Events

George Lepp – No Limits, Extreme Capture Techniques in Nature Photography May 10 7-9pmBremerton High School Performing Arts Center $5.00, purchase at http://leppphoto.bpt.meA Canon Explorer of Light, George Lepp, is one of North America’s best-known contemporary outdoor and na-ture photographers and a leader in the field of digital imaging. In this program, he shares the capture tech-niques and technology he’s developing and using right now, in the wild and in the studio, including achievingunlimited depth of field in both high-magnification and landscape photography; conveying action throughtime and space; and capturing intimate wildlife studies using extreme telephoto lens techniques.

May Field Trip - Rhodies, Blue Poppies and Bonsai, Oh My! Tue May 23 10:00 AMRhododendron Species Foundation & Botanical GardenGena Reebs will be leading our May PSCC field trip to the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden and the Pa-cific Bonsai Museum (formerly the Weyerhaeuser Bonsai Collection) in Federal Way. More details on ourMeetup page at https://www.meetup.com/Puget-Sound-Camera-Club-Meetup/events/239485260/

Useful Web LinksIf you enjoy looking at old photography magazines, particularly from other cultures, the entire collection ofSoviet Photography is now online. The text is all in Russian, but the photos are interesting, particularly giventhe varying degrees of state censorship over the years.https://archive.org/details/sovetskoe_foto

One of the fundamental concepts in photography is the Exposure Triangle: ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed.Here’s a pretty good explanation of the three and why they are so important.https://www.phototraces.com/photography-basics/exposure-triangle/

The May Print Assignment is Macro. A very useful technique in creating macro images, is focus stacking,where you take multiple photos focusing on deeper and deeper parts of the subject and then combining theimages in software. Both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements can do this.Here are a couple of videos explaining how:PSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgoUF1DA_T4PS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYA7wb2Vkz8

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PSA PID 2016-2017, Round 3 Group DThe PSCC is a member club of the Photographic Society of America. One of the benefits of belonging the PSA isthe ability to participate in interclub competitions. Several times a year, Renata Kleinert, our PSA representa-tive, sends in a selection of our top-ranked member images to compete in the Projected Image Division.Round three of the 2016-2017 series is complete and we have the results. HM - Honorable Mention

Title Member Points

Present ReflectingPast

Gena Reebs 8

Getty Terrace Bill Royce 10

World FinancialCenter

Lynne Greenup 11

Dahlia Crown Jack Broom 11

Iceberg Antarctica Marc Weinberg 11

Dahlia Renata Kleinert 12HM

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Renata Kleinert — My Neighborhood

Henry Heerschap — Brúarfoss

Bill Ray — Milky Way Arch

“Many photographersare consumed with theidea of making beautifulcontact sheets. I am farmore interested in mak-ing the best final print Ican.”

– John Sexton

“All the technique in theworld doesn’t compensatefor the inability to notice.”

– Elliott Erwitt

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Joe BozickSunrise over Namibian Desert

Bill RoyceEagle Mesa and Setting Hen

Melissa HardtkeUluru Sunrise

“Method is much, technique ismuch, but inspiration is evenmore.”

– Benjamin Cardozo

“I think photographs should beprovocative and not tell youwhat you already know. It takesno great powers or magic toreproduce somebody’s face in aphotograph. The magic is inseeing people in new ways.”

– Duane Michals

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Lauren Heerschap — Hallgrimskirkja CeilingHenry Heerschap — Tulip Shadows

Jack Broom — At the Beach, Gearhart, Oregon

“I’d rather get back tomaking art than talkabout it.”

– Jock Sturges

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Bill RayClearing Storm at Sunset

Lauren HeerschapBlack Sand Beach, Vestrahorn

Danika PeaseSunset Fir Island

“Because it is such a young media, theway we photograph, our own practicesas well as those of our predecessors,have really made the history of photog-raphy. What we expect photography tobe, has been largely determined by thephotographs that we’ve seen and howwe have understood the photographsthat preceded ours.”

– Stephen Johnson

“Traditionally, art was notmeant to be a worship ofthe ego of the artist, it wasmeant to be an expressionof God’s grace, of divinethings.”

– Christopher Burkett

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Edith Wang — Long City BlockJack Broom — Lady’s Mantle

Edith Wang — Reflection Lauren Heerschap — Black Sand Beach, Vik, Iceland

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Danika Pease — Around Neighborhood

Andy Royce — Pond Lilly on Fire

Henry HeerschapGrazing in the Midst of Ancient Stones

“The biggest transformationcomes through what happenswith the light.”

– Olivia Parker

“We photographers are privi-leged to have a communicationtool like the camera. It’s greatcommunication. I have to usethat privilege for good not justfor my career or artistic or per-sonal business.”

– Kenro Izu

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Renata Kleinert — The Wave

Jeanine Langerud — The Arrangement

Mary Pease — Surprise Peacock

“The scale is one of the things that makes animage more honest.”

– Adam Fuss

“What is revealedto me lies beyondany ideas I had forthe pictures.”

– Sean Kernan

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Lauren Heerschap — The Bite

Henry Heerschap — Ice and Waves

Mary Tevis — Yellowstone Coyote

“Since the background is as important asthe subject, you mustn’t let it default bychance. You must control not only verticaland horizontal, you must be aware of thedepth of field (or lack of it) that you want inthe background.”

– Jay Maisel

“Beauty is unbearable. Itdrives us to despair, offeringus for a minute the glimpse ofan eternity that we should liketo stretch out over the wholeof time.”

— Albert Camus

“Color is the place where ourbrain and the universe meet.”

– Paul Klee

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Joe Bozick — Racoon Spy

Henry Heerschap — Diamonds of the Beach

Mary Tevis — Winter in Wyoming

“Photography records the gamut of feelingswritten on the human face, the beauty of theearth and skies that man has inherited, and thewealth and confusion man has created. It is amajor force in explaining man to man.”

– Edward Steichen

Looking at other people’s photographs:“I like to see through the eyes of others,to see what I have not. I’m a very curiousperson and this gives me a glimpse into aworld in ways I’ve not considered it.”

– David duChemin

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Minutes of the PSCC Board Meeting on April 17, 2017

The meeting was held at the home of Mary Tevis, 9709 239th Street SW, Edmonds, and was called to order at7:05 pm. Present were Lauren Heerschap, Henry Heerschap, Mary Tevis, Al Koskie, Gena Reebs, YvonneShimek, and Bill Royce.

A motion was made to approve the minutes taken on Februrary 16, 2017; the motion was seconded andpassed.

PRESIDENT'S REPORT: Lauren Heerschap's President's Report was published in the March newsletter.

VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT: There was a field trip scheduled on April 20, 2017, and there are more plannedfield trips for May and June. These will be emailed to all members.

TREASURER'S REPORT: Yvonne Shimek's report was read. As of April 17, 2017, there is a balance of $3800 inthe checking account. A motion was made to accept the financial report as submitted; it was seconded andpassed.

OLD BUSINESS: An extensive discussion was held concerning judging at print night. A motion was made to re-instate judging on print night; it was seconded and passed.

There is much concern about the low attendance on print night, and there was discussion about how to bringin more attendees. Henry Heerschap offered to send out a survey about the low attendance, and the Boardwas invited to send in questions to ask the members. These should be turned in by April 30, 2017.The poll will go out after the May digital night.Bill Royce brought comparison prints done by Costco. An 8X12 glossy print costs $1.79, which are very goodfor competitive prints. He also suggested, as did others, that people will probably attend if education is pre-sented. A 30 minute educational talk will be presented by Bill Royce at the May 22, 2017 print night.Henry Heerschap will bring mat boards already cut to the next print night on April 23, 2017 so that people willnot have to mount their prints and may use the mats provided.

Dave Patzwald was not present so the new projector was tabled until the next Board of Directors' meeting.It was suggested that if each member attending print night bring one or two friends so that the membershipattending would increase.

The George Ferrara memorial will be postponed to September as Rosemarie Ferrara will be in Germany andwill return at that time.

NEW BUSINESS: Education night usually held on the Monday following Memorial Day is canceled as almost allthe Board will be out of town.Replacing components of the juging system is needed, but will be tabled until the next meeting.NWCCC and PSCC is responsible for class instruction and registration.We will continue to meet at the home of Mary Tevis as we can no longer meet in the basement of the church.The meeting was adjourned at 8:02 p.m.

Respectfully submitted, Mary Tevis, Secretary