Visitors are always welcome at our meetings. We meet semi-monthly on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at 2441
San Jose Ave. in Alameda, CA (with the exception of December and the second Tuesday in July). Competition nights are
on 2nd Tuesdays. Program nights are on the 4th Tuesdays.
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Upcoming Field Trips
Plan to join one of our upcoming Field Trips being arranged by Program Co-chairs David Weintraub and Michael Kawano.
Here's the list with links to flyers more details:
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 An added field trip on Saturday, April 21, 2012, will be to photograph wildflowers at Sunol Regional Wilderness. Download flyer here.
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San Francisco Cherry Blossom Festival Parade - Sunday, April 22, 2012. Link to Flyer.
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Columbia-Jamestown Gold Rush Overnight Field Trip - June 2 and 3, 2012. Link to Flyer.
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Waterfalls of Marin
Enjoy the March Waterfalls of Marin Field Trip with this video:
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Images © Benjamin Krantz
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Bay Area Theatre Photographer
to Speak at April Program Night
Interested in how to take a great head shot?
April’s Program Night, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, will feature Benjamin Krantz, one of the Bay Area’s most sought after headshot and theatre photographers. He will talk about photography of actors – headshots and live theatre – covering shooting, equipment and post production.
Krantz lives and shoots out of a loft in Oakland’s Jack London Warehouse district. He started out printing in a photo lab after high school. In 2000, he started managing stores for Ritz Camera in Los Angeles and was an aspiring cinematographer. There he was doing improv comedy at night and met a lot of struggling actors who needed headshots. He was a guy with a camera and that’s all how it started.
In 2007, Krantz partnered in a studio in Pleasant Hill, and then opened ben krantz STUDIO in 2008.
Don’t miss this fun program night!
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Insect Photography Was a
Night of Fascinating Insights
Our March Program Night featured an evening of fascinating insect photographs from around the world by our speaker, Becky Jaffe. It’s harder than you might think, even though insects make up 75 percent of all animal life on earth.
Jaffe studies critters in depth, as well as learns their various names in indigenous languages before she sets out for remote corners of the earth, where she often lives in primitive conditions to find exotic insect life to study and photograph.
For the less adventurous – in the ‘you can try this at home category’ – Jaffe recommended two East Bay locations to find insects for photographic exploration.
One good location, she said, is the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. Though closed for removal of winter plant covers, it reopens April 13. Find details at: http://www.ruthbancroftgarden.org.
Another good spot, Jaffe noted, is the University of California Botanical Garden. Find details at: http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu.
Visitors are always welcome on Program Night, the 4th Tuesdays each month, except July and December.
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Becky Jaffe
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March Competition
Results & Slide Shows
Winning images numbered 31 in our March competition night on March 13 in Pictorial, Journalism and Travel, Travel and Creative categories. To see all of the winners, click on each of the links below to view a slide show of the winning photographs in each of the categories.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Each month, the winning images go on to be judged in Northern California Council of Camera Clubs (N4C) inter-club competition of winners from 12 regional camera clubs. N4C monthly winners are then eligible for the 2012 Annual Competition, results of which will be announced in early 2013.
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In our March competition, among the winners was this series of pig race by Terry Toomey, which won First Place in Masters Journalism Projected as well as Best in Show for Journalism.
 Tom Debley's view of Los Angeles City Hall from the Disney Concert Hall was First Place in Advanced Pictorial Projected and Best in Show for Pictorial.
Kevin Levesque’s “Another Grey Morning on the Bund” won First Place and Best in Show for Advanced Travel Projected.
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PICTORIAL IMAGES JOURNALISM IMAGES TRAVEL IMAGES
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More Information About the Alameda Photographic Society:
What we do
We meet twice a month on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:30pm at 2441 San Jose Avenue, Alameda, Calif., in the meeting hall of the First Christian Church at the corner of San Jose Avenue and Park Avenue. (Click here for a map).
Second Tuesdays are competition meeting, where digital images are critiqued by an outside judge. Winning images in competitions are then entered into a regional competition where they are judged against the work of other clubs who are part of the Northern California Council of Camera Clubs. Competitions are in five categories: Pictorial, Creative, Journalism, Nature, and Travel.
Examples of L-R: Pictorial, Creative, Journalism, Nature, Travel © by the image makers
Fourth Tuesdays are program meetings, with an invited guest speaker to talk about a particular area of photography, or an exhibition night. We also hold regular field trips and seminars related to the art of photography. Details of upcoming programs and field trips can be found in the calendar.
Field Trips: Golden Gate Bridge; Elkhorn Slough; Lake Merritt. Club booth at the Park Street Spring Festival
Visitors are always welcome at all meetings.
Mission
The purpose of the Alameda Photographic Society is: to promote the art and science of photography in its various forms through the association of its members for study and entertainment; to encourage photographic contests and exhibitions; and to stimulate greater interest and advancement in the knowledge and practice of photography.
History
Alameda Photographic Society was founded in 1940. We are celebrating our 72nd anniversary this year. You can read more about the history of our club here.
Membership
You can find out more information on joining our club here.
Peachpit User Group Partner Program
We are participating in the Peachpit User Group Partner Program, which provides club members discounts on Peachpit books. Please contact info@alamedaphoto.org for the discount code. If you would like a copy of a Peachpit title to review for 90 days, provided you agree to write a review of the book, please contact info@alamedaphoto.org with the Title and ISBN of the book. Peachpit are also providing books for our club library. You can borrow a book at one meeting and return it at the next.
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