Group Member's Websites

GLSmyth.com ----------- George L. Smyth












FinalPhotograph.com --- Carole Hollander









TheFlyingCamera.com --- Scott Davis




CarbonMade.com -------- Barry S. Schmetter

DBStovall.com --------- D.B. Stovall

SterlingImages.com ---- Rip Smith

JoannaKnox.com -------- Joanna Knox

fotoweekdc

In conjunction with fotoweekdc VisArts is hosting a large number of lectures, workshops, and classes.
http://www.visartscenter.org/fotoweek.html.

FOTOWEEK DC 2009 will run from November 7-14.
For more information, go to www.fotoweekdc.org.
VisArts workshop and speaker schedule coming soon.
If you have any questions, please contact John Hoover
at 301-315-8200 ext 110 or Photography@visartscenter.org

Bill Jay 1940 - 2009

Bill Jay: 1940-2009

May 13, 2009

Sad news today that photo historian, publisher, author and photographer BILL JAY passed away in his sleep on Sunday in his recently adopted hometown of Samara on the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica. I received the news from colleagues at Arizona State University and have yet to learn more from Bill’s family. Follow link for more:

http://marketingphotos.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/bill-jay-1940-2009/

Demonstrations at May Meeting

In addition to regular group business, the May 14, 2009 meeting will have the following demonstrations:

- Scheimpflug / Plane of Focus
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Scheimpflug / Plane of Focus on YouTube

For Newbies or Oldies who never learned this precisely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4m70xr9mE

Palladium Demonstration

Palladium demonstration at the April 2, 2009 meeting by Scott Davis.

Weekly Shoots

We would like to schedule a shoot a week at various type of locales and time of day now that the weather is getting warmer. Please send in your suggestions and I'll put it on the calendar. Let's start off with keeping them within a 50 mile radius of the beltway.

Urban Decay

These links provided by Joshua Dunn.

Braddock Pennsylvania (this is the towns homepage) is the steel town that has been slowly dying since the 70's.

The coal fire underneath the town that I mentioned is Centralia PA. There are many websites that cover this town, here are a few:

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm
http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/centralia.htm this site has a message board
http://www.pahighways.com/features/centralia.html scroll halfway down this page and watch the you tube video
http://www.thetownthatwas.com/ A documentary about Centralia.

Times Beach was a town that poisoned itself with Dioxin trying to reduce the dust on their dirt roads. The town had to be abandoned, and after years of cleanup by the EPA and hundreds of millions of dollars its now a state park.

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-TimesBeach.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/times/index.htm

April 16th Juror Talks

VisArts juried photography exhibit "How You See It" in the Kaplan Gallery on the 3rd floor. Juror, Frank Goodyear Curator of Photography for Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, will give a talk 6:30 pm.

Meeting March 5, 2009

The Large Format and Alternative Processes meeting will be held during the opening reception of VisArts juried photography exhibit "How You See It" in the Kaplan Gallery on the 3rd floor.

The opening reception will be held from 6:30 - 8:00.

Half of Group - January 2009

Dave Stovall Exhibit at Delaplaine, Frederick, Maryland

Dave Stovall has a solo show at the Delaplaine, 40 S. Carroll St in Frederick during January and February. Runs until 1 March. 16 images, all shot with large format 4x5 transparency. http://www.delaplaine.org/Exhibits.aspx

January Meeting Highlights

Studio Shoot at VisArts with model. Plans for group shoot at Franciscan Monastery later in March/April.