Open 2 and City Landscape Galleries are in the Members Only 2018-2019 Gallery. Congratulations to the winners.
New Galleries Posted
Member Print Exhibition at Foster Gallery
Peoria Camera Club and the Foster Gallery at First United Methodist Church will host a Photographic Print Exhibition that will be on display January and February, 2019. The exhibition, titled “Inspiring Sights & Images Around Us” is an opportunity for club members to display (and possibly sell) some of your inspiring photographs, and promote our club.
The large gallery will feature color images, while the small gallery will have the theme black & white on gold. To participate, email your intention to participate to Jeanette Kosier by Dec 4th.
Print Specifications & Preparation
- Each PCC member may display up to 2 prints. If not enough, or too many prints are turned in, the committee may ask for more entries or return entries at the discretion of the Exhibition Committee.
- The theme is “Inspiring Sights & Images Around Us”
- Prints must be mounted, matted and framed
- Minimum overall frame size is 11 x 14 inches
- Maximum overall frame size is 26 x 26 inches
- B&W images must have a black narrow bordered frame
- Panoramas are acceptable; length must be between 14 & 26 inches.
- Metal prints and Canvas wraps are permitted (framed or unframed). The overall size must fall within 11 x 14 and 26 x 26 inches.
- All prints must be “ready to hang” with hanging wire.
If you have a print that you want to exhibit which does not meet these specifications, contact Jeanette. - Attach a completed form (on website) to the back side of each print. If you desire to sell a print, enter the selling price in space provided; otherwise enter NFS (Not For Sale).
- Wrap your prints in heavy paper or bubble wrap to protect them during transportation. Label your wrappings so they can be used to return your items in good condition.
Key Dates & Event Information
- Entry Deadline – Dec. 4, 2018 — email Jeanette by the 4th if you plan to participate.
- Titles Due – Jan 3, 2019 — send title(s) of your work to Jeanette by January 3rd and indicate if Color or B&W.
- Turn-in – Jan 8 — Prints may be turned it at any PCC meeting on or before the deadline. If you need to drop them off before, please leave at church office and contact Jeanette so they can be secured. Photos will NOT be accepted after Jan 8th.
- Hang Prints – Jan 9
- Exhibitor’s Reception – There will be a Saturday reception for exhibitors, family and friends, to be announced.
- Print Pick-Up – TBA.
Exhibition Committee & Contacts
- Jeanette Kosier — JMkosier@comcast.net or 309-685-1624.
- Rich Seeman — RLS1940@hotmail.com or 309-361-8902.
Christmas Banquet
REMINDER…
Please join us for the Annual Peoria Camera Club Christmas Banquet and an evening of socializing, friendship, and sharing.
Tuesday, December 18
6:00 – 9:00 pm
First United Methodist Church
Baked & fried chicken, ham, drinks, and dinner service will be provided. Please bring a dish to share.
Club member Pete Anderton will present a Travelog photography program from his travels in the Northwest: “Alaska to Yellowstone”.
If you haven’t signed up yet, please email Jeanette Kosier to be added to the list to ensure there’s plenty of food and table settings.
Open 1 and Nature 1
Hello members,
I have posted the Results of Open 1 and Nature 1. Congrats to the winning photographers. The excel spreadsheets are posted also. We are still working hard on the new website design so please be patient. I can build a house but this web stuff is challenging. Thanks for your patience.
Tom
Birding & Blogging Along the Texas Gulf Coast
Brian Doerfler, an avid birder and wildlife photographer from Brimfield, IL, will present a program on “Birding & Blogging along the Texas Gulf Coast” this Tuesday evening at Peoria Camera Club, 7-9p.
When not exploring the remote corners of Jubilee State Park, Brian and his wife enjoy traveling about the country in search of new sights and wildlife. Brian is also a long time blogger running multiple sites on wildlife encounters and social behaviors.
During this program, Brian will share his photography and birding observations from their multiple trips to the Texas Gulf Coast region. Brian will also include advice on blogging, insights on his digital image workflow and how those images are then featured on his blogs.
Whether you’re a birder, lover of wildlife, or you prefer to shoot other subject matter, Brian will enlighten you on how you can get more out of your photography by sharing photos and stories from your travels through blogging.
Check out Brian’s wildlife photography in their gallery at EddieSoft.smugmug.com and related blog at WildlifeIntrigued.com.
CICCA Fall Salon Entries
The entry deadline for the CICCA Fall Salon is this coming Tuesday, Oct 16th. Prints must be turned in at the meeting. Digital should be sent to me as soon as possible. Please check out www.ciccaclubs.com for the proper protocol. Info is in the Documents section of the Fall Salon. Sorry for the short notice.
Tom Ruhland
CICCA Rep
ENTERING CICCA COMPETITIONS
Understanding CICCA and Entering Competitions
What is CICCA?
CICCA is the Central Illinois Camera Clubs Association, an umbrella organization that comprises 12 camera clubs located throughout central Illinois. Each club has representation through a member on the Board. The purpose of CICCA is to share knowledge among the clubs, and sponsor competition salons where member clubs (fall) and individuals (spring) can compete with their digital images and prints for ribbons, medallions, and bragging rights.
What are the Competition Salons?
- FALL SALON
The fall salon is for “member clubs” to compete against each other to see which club has the most distinguished photographers for a particular year.
Members submit images and the CICCA rep selects which images to enter for the club competition. All images entered are not guaranteed to be shown, however, we try to ensure at least one image for every member is selected. - SPRING SALON
This is your chance to compete against “individual members” of other clubs and see how your images stack up. All images each individual enters will be shown.
Members who receive an “acceptance” or “honors” in the individual competition receives a ribbon, and “best of show” for each category receives a medallion coin.
What Kinds of Images can I Enter?
DIGITAL DIVISION
Categories:
• Nature
– Nature photography embraces the entire physical and natural world and thus encompasses nature in all its forms.
• Photo-Realistic
– The emphasis for this category is on aesthetics and creating a fine image with great impact while maintaining a natural quality.
• Altered Reality
– The emphasis for this category is on creativity and creating a fine image without any restrictions on manipulating the original image or images.
Number of Digital Entries:
• No individual member, regardless of the number of clubs of which he or she is a member, may submit more than eight (8) total digital images.
• Each member club may submit a maximum of fifty (50) images combined between the three categories.
Digital Image Size:
• Digital images should be sized to 1400 x 1050 pixels.
PRINT DIVISION
Categories:
• Monochrome Prints
– Small & Large. A monochrome print is one color or different shades of one color; a single-tone print; or black and white print.
• Color Prints
– Small & Large. A color print is made either by a regular color photography process, including inkjet printing, or hand coloring or tinting.
Sizes:
• Small prints
(all categories) may be any size up to 8×12 inches in either dimension, mounted on an 11×14 inch mount board.
• Large prints
(all categories) may be any size larger than 8×12, but no larger than 16×20, mounted on 16×20 mount board.
Number of Entries:
• No individual member, regardless of the number of clubs of which he or she is a member may submit more than eight (8) prints to the CICCA Fall Salon
• Each member club may submit up to 50 prints in the monochrome category and 50 prints in the color category, any combination of small and large.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I enter the Same Images I’ve entered before?
• Members cannot use the same basic image in multiple categories, such as entering a color version in the digital category, then a monochrome version in print.
• No entry previously “accepted” in any CICCA Fall Salon, may be entered in subsequent Fall Salons. It may be entered in a Spring Salon providing it has “not” been accepted in a previous Spring Salon.
How does the Judging work?
Each category is judged by three judges and each image is given a score. The “top third of the scored” images are classified as “accepted”. The “top third of the accepted” are “honors”. From the honors, the judges select the Best of Show
When do we View the Results and Winning Images?
After each salon, each club receives a disk of all the accepted, honors and medallion winners that will shown at one of our club meetings, followed by awards and recognitions. You can find out sooner by attending the all-day judging session.
TO ENTER
Go to CICCA website for entry forms to submit your entries.
Prints Due, in-person by Tuesday, Oct 23
Turn-in with completed forms to Tom Ruhland
Digital Images Due, Friday, Oct 26, by midnight
Complete forms on the CICCA website and email images and forms to Tom Ruhland (tomr@peoriacameraclub.com).
CICCA Website
http://ciccaclubs.com/
Questions?
Contact Tom Ruhland, Peoria Camera Club CICCA Representative
YOU ARE INVITED
CICCA Fall Salon Judging Event
The Champaign County Camera Club is pleased to invite the CICCA Clubs and their members to the 2018 Fall Club Salon to be held at the Urbana Free Library at 210 W. Green Street, Urbana (just West of Lincoln Square Mall on the corner of Green Street and Race) on Saturday, November 10, 2018. Library doors (South side) open at 9AM.
Who are the CICCA MEMBER CLUBS?
Peoria Camera Club
Peoria, IL
Champaign Camera Club
Urbana, IL
Kodaroamers Camera Club
Bloomington, IL
Quad Cities Photography Club
Moline, IL
Springfield 35 Camera Club
Springfield, IL
Streator Pictorialists
Streator, IL
Decatur Camera Club
Decatur, IL
Galesburg Camera Club
Galesburg, IL
Photography Unlimited
Princeton, IL
Shutterbug Camera Club
Burlington, IA
Morris Photocolor Club
Morris, IL
HEARTLAND PORTRAITS PROJECT
The Heartland Festival Orchestra is looking for images that capture the heart of the Heartland. The “Heartland Portraits” Project is an opportunity for the Peoria Camera Club and all photographers in the community to contribute images of the “prairie” that will be playing during a special concert to honor the beauty and life of our region.
As part of the tenth anniversary celebration, photographic representations of the prairieland and life in Illinois will be displayed in a digital dance on screens above the orchestra, choreographed to select movements of “Symphony to the Prairie Farm” by Steve Heitzeg.
Your work can be a part of creating a unique piece of live performance art. Be it a downtown Peoria panorama, a Starved Rock scene, or a Champaign snapshot. There’s no better time than right now, the beginning of the fall season, to get out and photograph the prairies of Central Illinois. Optionally, you may select images from your portfolio that meet the above criteria.
Deadline for submission of images is December 2nd, 2018 at midnight. Photographers retain sole ownership and unrestricted use of all photographs submitted.
For more information and link to submit photos, click on this link Heartland Portraits Project
CLUB COMPETITIONS — DUE DATES
PCC Members, This listing should better clarify the Competitions and when Images are due.
Number of Competitions for each Category:
Open = 3
Nature = 3
Print = 3
Creative = 2
Photojournalism = 2
Theme = 2
City Landscape = 1
Smartphone = 1
President’s Special = 1
CICCA = 2
DUE DATES for TURN-IN
AUGUST 2018
8/21 — NATURE-1, OPEN-1
SEPTEMBER
9/4 — PHOTOJOURNALISM-1
9/18 — OPEN-2
9/25 — CREATIVE-1
OCTOBER
10/2 — CITY LANDSCAPE
10/23 — CICCA Print
10/26 — CICCA Digital
NOVEMBER
11/20 — PRINT-1
11/27 — THEME-1 (Botany)
DECEMBER
12/4 — NATURE-2
JANUARY 2019
1/8 — OPEN-3
1/22 — PRINT-2
1/29 — CREATIVE-2
FEBRUARY
2/5 — SMARTPHONE, THEME-2 (Still Life)
2/19 — PHOTOJOURNALISM-2, NATURE-3
MARCH
3/19 — PRINT-3
APRIL
4/2 — PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL (Capturing New with Old)
MAY
5/7 – END OF YEAR
COMPETITION HANDLERS
OPEN — Tom Ruhland
NATURE — Scott Dunham
CREATIVE — Julie Dodge
PHOTOJOURNALISM — Paul Bierma
CITY LANDSCAPE — Andrea Monninger
SMARTPHONE — Ray Keithley
THEME 1 — Paul Bierma
THEME 2 — Julie Dodge
PRINT — Alan Rogers
PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL — ?
(Since the website is public, please refer to the Member Directory for email addresses)
See the competition rules document on the for further details
All About the Night Sky
OK, maybe not “all” there is to know about the night sky, but certainly enough to satisfy a craving to learn what’s involved in photographing the night sky and the beautiful celestial objects that live there. On Tuesday, October 2nd, guest speaker, Craig Stocks will discuss astro-landscapes, featuring the Milky Way, as well as approaches to more detailed astrophotography. Post processing will also be addressed since it’s such a critical element to create a successful night sky photo.
Guests are welcome to attend.
