The Berrien Springs Camera Club will open its new season on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. in the Berrien Springs Community Library at US-31 and Union. The club's season runs from September through June each year, with programs alternating between an informative presentation about some aspect of photography, and a competition open to members.

          

           Programs this year will involve several presentations by members of the club.

Mark your calendars with these dates:

January 4th, 2012 - Program night - 7:00 pm Berrien Springs Library
February 1st, 2012 - Competition Night - 7:00 pm Berrien Springs Library
March 7th, 2012 - Program night - 7:00 pm Berrien Springs Library
April 4th, 2012 - Competition Night - 7:00 pm Berrien Springs Library
May 2nd, 2012 - Year End Competition Night - 7:00 pm Berrien Springs Library
June 6th, 2012 - Potluck and Year End Slide-show - 6:30 pm Berrien Springs Library

Field Trips to be announced!

            In competition months members can submit up to 10 digitally projected images and up to 10 prints (mounted, at least 5" x 7") for judging. (This is the second year that slides will not be accepted.) Awards are given for the top projected images and prints. Submission guidelines can be found on the club’s Web site: http://photoclub.berrienspringsmi.us/. Acceptable topics always include Nature (nothing domesticated or showing evidence of mankind), Portraits and Open (anything), plus two special topics each month:

      

            The May meeting is for final judging of the year's acceptances, when 3 judges will select the top 10 projected images and prints of the year, and the June end-of-season meeting will include a potluck meal and a show from the year's acceptances.

Competitions

Remember we added "Portraits" as a category last year. So we will have the following at competition nights:
Open
Nature
Portraits
2 - Topics listed above

Refreshments will be provided

 

Photography Club Digital Submission Guidelines

1.         Pictures by noon on Friday before contest.

2.         Pictures should be a maximum of 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels tall.

3.         File name should be first initial, last name, _ title all one word (gdavidson_wishfulthinking.jpg)

3.         Pictures should be submitted as jpegs.

4.         Pictures should be to emailed to digital "AT" photoclub.berrienspringsmi.us  put the category in the subject line. (you should know what to replace "AT" with.)