June 2000
President's
Message
Portrait of Tom Clark
Article: Seeing the Big Picture - Part 2
End-of-Year Club and Member News
End-of-Year Club & Member News
1990 - 2000 Print
Competition
Bill Talarowski
As your Print Chairman, I thought
a look back at the past year’s competition was in order. In my humble
opinion, I gauged it an unqualified success, due in part to the number
of really good prints submitted for judging. There were 1,025 monochrome
and color prints that vied for the honor of taking first place. Do you
realize that is almost as many prints as were entered in the WIEP! I do
not have the figures to back me up, but I bet we had more prints submitted
than there were slides, proving once again the highly competitive skill
levels within our group. I know of no other camera club where this is
taking place and it gives me a warm feeling all over when the old as well
as the young do battle.
To be sure, we had some of the same old faces at or near the top. Ray Firmani continues to hold the top spot in the Monochrome competitions as he has since the early sixties. Try as I might, that old buzzard is just too good. In color, though, a new pretender to the throne has forged to the front. Bob Coffey has defeated the long time reigning champion (yours truly) and now is the new king of the hill. The king is dead, long live the king (just wait till next year!)
The most gratifying statistic to me was the large number of new people competing. In the Class B Commercial group there were no less than 22 members competing for the coveted 1st place. This is truly an outstanding performance and it speaks well of what is possible as a member of our club. And not to be outdone, the Class A group is ready to pounce on any Salon group member who might slip a little (like me).
In speaking with one of the judges one evening who has judged at many other PSA club contests he said that he saw no other club with the enthusiasm and technical level the Delaware Camera Club has. You are all to be commended.
Members in the News
Heather Siple has received a slot at the Gestalt Gallery, an online gallery at http://www.gestaltgallery.com. So those of you who just can't get to Delaware, Pennsylvania, or Louisiana this year can still catch one of Heather’s pet projects. Show runs July 16-August 28th.
Beth Kingsley Hawkins - new exhibit entitled: La Lumiére de Provence, a photographic experience of southern France” will begin June 5 and continue through the month at the new Caffé Gelato at 90 East Main Street, in Newark, DE. Beth’s image of two nesting Great Blue Herons, entitled Love Story, just received the 3rd place prize in the Birds of the World Contest sponsored by the Ward Foundation. She also has received an acceptance in the 2002 Inner Reflections engagement calendar for her Little Blue butterfly image.
Peg Rafal has organized a print exhibition at the Wilmington Branch Library at 3400 North Market Street. The objective of the exhibit is to show the pleasures of reading for people of all ages, and is entitled “Reading is Fundamental”. DCC members, besides Peg, that have furnished prints are: Joe Bernofsky, Patsy and Gus Costis, Pat Dempsey, Ray Firmani, Lynn Maniscalco, Herb Sargeant, Heather Siple, Jeff Smith, Helen Sophrin and Jane Strobach. The show will hang July and August.
Larry Points and Andrea Jauck recently authored a children’s book Barrier Islands are for the Birds. DCC members Bill Drennen, Lynn Maniscalco, Peg Rafal and Herb and Marian Sargeant contributed their bird photographs for the publication. The soft-cover book, all in color, includes numerous photos and the text provides descriptions about the life of the coastal birds. It is for sale at beach bookstores in Delaware and Maryland for $8.
Congratulations to Erik Kissa, Lilian and Roland Fulde, Lynn Maniscalco, Herb Sargeant, and JoAnn Seyfert for their inclusion in the 1999 Who’s Who in Photography published by PSA. See page 10 for details. · DVCCC Spring Foto Fling: Lilian Fulde won a 1st in Color Slides, 1st in Creative Slides, and 2nd. place in Nature Slides; Roland Fulde won a 1st in the Nature Slide category; Lynn Maniscalco won 1st in Photojournalism Slides; and Valentina Donor won a 3rd place in Slide Sets.