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Upcoming Events

BOOK SUGGESTIONS

FROM DEE MURPHY: I wanted to give you titles on two books I highly recom

mend toward being a professional photographer. One is a yearly issue of Photographer's Market, published by the Reader's Digest Books (aslo available at library reference section). One issue could be good for years and will give you many sources for your photos. I want to add, ALWAYS make a contact first. Do not send your work anywhere until you have assurance the publisher is interested and follow their guidelines carefully.

The second book I recommend is for selling an image to a client. PRICING PHOTOGRAPHY, The Complete Guide to Assignment & Stock Prices. This is by Michal Heron and David MacTavish.

Club Calendar

PHOTO SITE SUGGESTIONS

If you have any field trip ideas, please contact Cindy. We are always looking for local, regional and national outing opportunities. None too small and none too big!

Tuesday night September 4, 2012, at their regularly scheduled monthly meeting,
the LeConte Photographic Society celebrated the end of their fourth year.
Awards for the Best of the Best for club year 2011-12 were awarded to members who
achieved the best of their competition group.
Considered the very best of each division were Susie Nugent of the Beginners,
Lin Trentham of the Advanced and Roger Trentham in the Star Division.
Once more the judges selected from these three top images and chose the image of Susie Nugent, Beginner, as the very Best of the Best. Susie was awarded an engraved trophy for this honor and all first place winners were awarded Blue Ribbon Rosettes. Also awarded was the top image for this year’s Assignment Division, deemed the Creative Award and this was given to Dee Murphy for her image Swans and Cygnets.
Dee Murphy was given a special award for her contribution to the LeConte Photographic Society. Dee stepped down as President and organizer for the last four years and turned over the club presidency to Cindy Mitchell.

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April 2013 Monthly Competition Winners

BEGINNERS Division
ADVANCED Division
STAR Division
ASSIGNMENT

Beginners Division

1st Place - "Pretty Butterfly" McMahon, Ann

2nd Place - "Apple Blossom" Mitchell, Cindy

3rd Place - "Bluebird on watch" Mitchell, Cindy

Advanced Division

1st Place - "Mountain Lighting" Cliett, Ginny

2nd Place - "Gypsum Pedestal" Cliett, Ginny

3rd Place - "Ford" White, Kathy

Star Division

1st Place - "Tar and Rosin" Elliott, Rick

2nd Place - "Peyto Lake" Murphy, Dee

3rd Place - "Hoodoos in the Moonlight" Whaley, Jerry

April Assignment - Sunrise Or Sunset

1st Place - "Morning Has Broken" Murphy, Dee

2nd Place - "Sunrise in Bryce Canyon Whaley, Jerry

3rd Place - "Stormy Weather" Trentham, Roger

ASSIGNMENTS

Each month we include an "assignment" in the competition that is in addition to the usual categories (Beginner, Advanced, Star). The assignment category combines all experience levels into one competition with one first, second and third place prize awarded for the assignment. You must be a member of LCPS to compete. Guests are always welcome to enjoy the entries and critiques. Assignments are great exercises for creativity!

ENTER YOUR PHOTOS

Great critique opportunity to grow as an artist

LeConte Photographic Society

2012-13 Assignment

October: Portraiture - An artistic representation of a person (pet, etc.) in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and/or the mood of the person

November: People on the Street - A type of documentary photo that features subjects in candid situations within public places as in streets, parks, beaches, etc. Permission is always a courtesy

December: Food - Our lives revolve around it! Some food we love, some we hate. Let’s have fun shooting it

January: Creative Manipulation - Any way the maker chooses to create an image beyond reality

February: Night Photography - Usually done between dusk and dawn. May be a choice between using artificial light (light painting) or a long exposure, exposing the scenes for seconds, minutes or even hours

March: Self-Portrait - A photo of yourself that was created by you without the assistance of another person to capture the image

April: Landscapes - The length of the photo is greater than the height and captures outdoor scenes

May: Sunrise or Sunset - Includes the rising or setting sun or it's reflections on other objects

June. Macro Photography - Extreme close up photography, usually of very small subjects. A macro photograph is one in which the size of the subject on the image sensor is life size or greater

July: Wildflowers of the Smokies - Let’s try this again! Wildflowers of the Smokies, this MUST be flowers that are NATIVE to our Smoky Mountains. Absolutely NO pink dogwoods, no roses, no tulips, no garden flowers. Indigenous to our Great Smoky Mountains

August: Water Photographs - Water patterns, water drops, dew drops, oceans, our beautiful smoky mountain waterfalls. Get creative to win this assignment.

SEE IT. SHOOT IT. SHARE IT.

NEW PROGRAMS...A Note From Our President, Dee Murphy

As you all may be aware, we have a good many competition entries and finishing in time to leave our meeting room on time during the first Tuesday of each month is difficult. Hoping NOT to take anything away from our meetings, I have scheduled learning programs at the King Library in Sevierville. The library is just down the street on Gary Wade Blvd. past the Civic Center complex. Beautiful big new building on the left further down, our meeting room is the Burchfield Room, first as you enter from the parking lot at the back of the building. The meetings at the library are free to us and that's an important consideration.

March 16^th
The LeConte Photographic Society will host Sharon and Brad Cottrell on Saturday, March 16^th at 10:00 a.m. at the King Library in Sevierville. They will do a photo presentation on their travel to the American Southwest and Northwest.

Sharon and Brad Cottrell have been photographers for many years. Their scenic photos of the Appalachian region have been popular items in art galleries in Gatlinburg and Townsend, and they have won many photography contests. Sharon started photography about ten years ago and since then she has won over 50 photo contests including ten winning photos for the Knox Heritage Art and Architecture Tour. Most recently she won the 2012 Insight Vacations International Photo Contest with her photo of Santorini which has been published in the Insight Vacations 2013 Tour Catalog and in the AAA Going Places Magazine. Sharon has twice judged the Camera Club of Oak Ridge yearly salon and the LeConte Photographic Society monthly competition. She enjoys landscape, travel, and architecture photography. Brad started photography over 40 years ago. He has earned the Certificate in Photography from Pellissippi State Community College and has won many Dogwood Arts Festival photo contests. His interest is primarily in landscape and wildlife photography. Brad has also judged the LeConte Photographic Society monthly competition.

I have information that a Tennessee Camera Club Council is now a reality. Please check out their new web page http://3ct.org. We will definitely be a member and participant. I’m working with someone from council, right now, to do judging for other PSA clubs. Soon, I hope we can have such judging events amongst our Tennessee Council clubs. Were you aware (I was not) that the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont is a PSA member. That adds so much to our potential for interclub activities, competitions, etc.

I have had the privilege of being President of this club for the last three years. I’ve enjoyed the constant growth of the club and growth of member’s photography skills. Friends and I have created this club and enjoyed every moment of it.

Thanks much for your participation this past year, may we all look forward to the coming club year as a bigger and better LeConte Photographic Society.

Dee

COMPETITION CATEGORIES (Participation open to member's only)

Members compete each month in either the Beginners Division, Advanced Division or Star Division (considered as professionals and the most experienced members of our club). These categories allow competitions in both the Beginners and the Advanced Divisions to be more properly matched.

SENDING YOUR FILES: Please be aware that file size is not an issue any longer as we are using Lightroom for the projection software.

PLEASE label the files correctly as follows:
Division_Last Name_ First_ImageTitle_.jpeg

AWARDS

Ribbons are awarded to winners of each division in first, second and third place.

CRITIQUES

Critiques are offered by the judges to suggest improvement of one's images or confirmation of the qualities of the image. Member's may request a critique AFTER the judges scores are tabulated or after the meeting. If you would like a critique or have a question after the meeting, please email photographer@lecontephotographic.com

CONGRATULATIONS!

Club member, Karen Jones who won numerous awards at the recent salon of the Camera Club of Oak Ridge.

Congratulations to Gretchen Kaplan,

The annual Southern Appalachian Nature Photographers annual Contest and Salon was held in Knoxville on February 23, 2013. There were nearly 300 nature print images submitted and almost 400 digital images in the contest. Gretchen won in a few categories and also received BEST OF SHOW COLOR PRINT in the Wildlife category with 1st place.

OTHER MEETINGS

NEW!!!

Sevier County Digital Lunch Bunch meets on the Third Tuesday of each month at 1:00pm but the location varies. E-mails are sent out ahead of time advising the location of the lunch. If anyone is interested in joining us, please notify Rick. Please join us for lunch and casual conversation centered around photography and LeConte Photographic Society. Everyone is welcome! You may bring something for "show & tell", a camera question and your camera To contact him, call 865-456-8557

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The second Wednesday of each month, Mr. Larry Perry heads up a group of local photographers who meet for a lunch. This meeting is properly called "The Digital Lunch Bunch". Anyone with an interest in photography, or not, is welcome to join us.

Meeting location is being reconsidered - if interested, you may get on Mr. Perry's "Larry's Notes" and be fully informed of all photographic events in our area. Just send an e-mail and we'll take care of that .

Field trip to the Eagle Foundation took place on September 15, 2012. We had a wonderful time photographing all of the owls, falcons, eagles and other birds they care for. Thank you to Barbara and staff for taking time with us and making it a great morning.

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