- Competition Night - HUMOROUS – Judge is RON PEIFFERNorthwood Presbyterian Church, Silver Spring, MD
Competition Night - HUMOROUS – Judge is RON PEIFFER
This is as IN PERSON EVENT!!Our December topic is Humorous:
Humor, like beauty, is in the eye (or funny bone) of the beholder. Any image submitted that the photographer thinks is humorous is acceptable. It will be up to the judge to weigh the technical and artistic aspects of the image along with its humor.
Ron Peiffer is a Maryland photographer based in Severna Park. He retired from the Maryland State Department of Education as a Deputy State Superintendent in 2011 and has been involved in several Maryland photography organizations since then. He is the Vice President for Contests for Arundel Camera Club, the Vice President of the Creative Photography Society of Baltimore, and Member-at-Large for the Maryland Photography Alliance.
His work has appeared in Maryland Photography Alliance gallery shows over the past several years, and he has received the Frederick R. Kelly Photographer of the Year award 4 of the last 5 years from the Arundel Camera Club. Ron achieved a Master’s Certificate in Black and White Photography with the Arundel club in 2020. He is an MPA-certified certified as a judge and serves on several MPA committees, including the contest, judging, and finance committees.
He currently uses a digital mirrorless camera but shot film for many years before moving to digital. Favorite subjects include travel photography, nature, youth sports, and family. While he is active on social media with digital images, he most loves black and white print.
Over the past decade or so he has traveled often to southeast Utah and northern New Mexico to document ancient puebloan sites as well as desert landscape. However, a lot of additional travel has been up and down the East Coast, where cities, small towns, and landscapes provide an array of color, form, and history. “While my subjects vary, I want images to produce emotion, to evoke a memory, or to associate an image with something in the viewer’s life.”
Ron’s work can be viewed at his website, www.ronpeiffer.com.This is an IN PERSON EVENT!!
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The rules for competition and how to submit images can be found on the Silver Spring Camera Club website. (http://www.ssccphotography.org/official-competition-rules-and-awards/)
Competition topic definitions can be found on the Silver Spring Camera Club website.
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About the Silver Spring Camera Club:
We meet the first three Thursdays of every month, September – May, and one day on a weekend for a field trip to an interesting photogenic location in the area.
More information about the Silver Spring Camera Club can be found on our website (http://www.ssccphotography.org/) regarding speakers, competitions, field trips, our monthly "A Closer Focus" forums, and a link to our award winning newsletter the "Cable Release".
Visitors to the Club are always welcome to attend meetings, and we hope to see you soon!
Membership is a very reasonable $50 for individual members, $80 for family and only $35 for students. Please see the link to our membership application, below, for available discounts.
https://www.ssccphotography.org/online-membership-form/Why become a member of the Silver Spring Camera Club?
We are a diverse group of photographers who love field trips, competitions, opportunities to see the world captured by other people's viewpoints, and sharing our knowledge, experience and love of photography.Membership in the club gives you the opportunity to enter your photos in our monthly competitions, to receive our award-winning monthly newsletter the Cable Release, join our field trips without paying the $10 non-member fee, and more!
Visit us on the web: http://www.ssccphotography.org/
- Photo Forum – Sharing Photography ideas, images, questions, and inspirationsLink visible for attendees
"Photo Forum" is our monthly opportunity to share ideas, images, questions, and inspirations on a wide variety of photographic topics.
This is an ONLINE EVENT!!
We will meet using Zoom. A link will be sent to all that RSVP yes.What’s on your mind, photographically? Opinions, Observations, Questions, Exhibits, Reviews, etc.
## Presentations:
- “Inside the Stone” – Kent Mason
- “Circumstantial Awareness by Mobile Photography” – Ilona Linnoila
- We are soliciting presenters. Contact Dennis ( [email protected] ) if you’d like to present something!
Image Critiques:
Send up to 2 images you would like to share and get feedback on.
You have a choice of receiving image critiques, editing suggestions, or just sharing. Indicate which you would like in your email.This month’s theme will be Open
Send up to 2 jpg images. Your jpg images can be up to 1 MB size each. Include your name in the filename. (please use our digital Competition specs for size: ssccphotography.org/competitions/digital-entry-specifications/ ) .
Send your images to Dennis Freeman before 5:00 p.m., WEDNESDAY, Dec 18. (dennisfreeman4510 at msn.com).We are looking for volunteers to present for this and future months. Contact Dennis ( dennisfreeman4510 at msn.com ) with your idea.
This is expected to be a great evening of sharing and learning. What topics would you like to explore? Topics can be wide ranging, such as photo book reviews, an aspect of your own photography that you’d like to share, reviews or discussion of shows, photo gear, software, etc.
Please join us for a fun and educational evening!This is an ONLINE EVENT!! We will meet using Zoom. A link will be sent to all that RSVP yes.
About the Silver Spring Camera Club
We meet the first three Thursdays of every month, September – May, and one day each month on a weekend for a field trip to an interesting photogenic location in the area.
More information about the Silver Spring Camera Club can be found on our website (http://www.ssccphotography.org/) regarding speakers, competition, education, open forum topics and even where we're going to meet on our field trip.
Don’t forget to read our PSA award winning newsletter the Cable Release for even more detailed information about all our activities and other items of photographic interest.
We hope to see you at a meeting soon.
Visitors to the Club are always welcome to attend meetings.
Membership is a very reasonable $50 for individual members, $80 for family and only $35 for students. Please see the link to our membership application, below, for available discounts.
Why become a member of the Silver Spring Camera Club? We are a diverse group of photographers who love field trips, competitions, opportunities to see the world captured by other people's viewpoints, and sharing our knowledge, experience and love of photography.
Membership in the club gives you the opportunity to enter your photos in our monthly competitions, to receive our award-winning monthly newsletter the Cable Release, join our field trips without paying the $10 non-member fee, and more!
Here's a link to our printable Membership Application. https://www.ssccphotography.org/online-membership-form/
Visit us on the web: http://www.ssccphotography.org/
