MANHATTAN FOCUS Manhattan Miniature Camera Club Vol. 49, No. 8 mmcc-nyc.org May 2010 MMCC MEETINGS: 6:30 PM SHARP!* Monday, May 3 (1st Monday) Themed and Monthly Competition Judge: Roz Rosenblum Monday, May 17 (3rd Monday) Program: Best of Year 2009-2010 Judges: Pat Ritter / Suzan Goldstein / Isaac Szlechter Monday, June 7 (1st Monday) End-of-Year Party: Silly Photos * Competition entries must be in by 6:15 pm; put your ID number on prints and slides. Send your digital projected entries to CompEntries1@yahoo.com. Competition No 8: May 3 Welcome back to Roz Rosenblum. Roz taught darkroom photography and a photo course entitled: THE ART OF SEEING at Rutgers University. She is a member of the Professional Women Photographers of New York, past President of the South Shore CC in Long Island and presented shows at PSA & NECCC. She recently had a showing of 40 images in a retrospective entitled Visual Motifs...Art Way Gallery. She received the following awards at Amherst: Best of Show in Nature Slides Best Landscape in B&W Prints 3 Gold Medals in B&W, Color & Nature Slides 6 Judge s Choice Ribbons in B&W & Color Prints She has exhibited in the Nassau County Mus. of Art, the Hubbard Mus. in New Mexico, Pfizer, the Durst Organiztion, the Mercantile Exchange, the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the Cork Gallery in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the Manhattan Boro President s Gallery and the 125 Gallery in Trenton. Best of the year 2009-2010 May 17 Welcome to this year s judges: Pat Ritter, Suzan Goldstein and Isaac Szlechter. Pat Ritter Pat is the president of the NY Telephone Camera Club, graduated with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She s had many photography shows particularly those of rock groups. She s had several of her photographs on album and cd covers. Suzan Goldstein Suzan has over 20 years in Great Neck Camera Club; 10 years prior in Long Island Camera Club, won Leonard Victor Color Slide B in 1985; won 2 Slide of the Year at Long Island Camera Club, B Slide of the Year A in Great Neck 3 years, 1st in Salon. PFLI: Delegate for Great Neck since 1990; co-chair of Light Box Committee for slides For the last year choosing slides for PFLI and PSA Interclub Competition and the PSA Creative Competition. Past Co-Chair of PSA Interclub Completion. Elected Artist Federation International De L.Art Photographic, 1997. 3 Stars from PSA, Color Slides; 2 Stars in Nature Slides; 1 Star in Photo Travel. MCC: Associate
Isaac Szlechter Isaac has been a professional photographer for many years. He rounded up his photographic education at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, where he took many courses and attended many lectures, including Nikon classes. His published work includes magazines, periodicals and illustrations of articles, such as Popular Mechanics, Popular Sciences and many others. He was a member of the Trump Village Camera Club, where he won many awards and prizes. He has judged on all NYC boroughs, including Manhattan Miniature Camera Club several times. Subsequently when he moved to Manhattan, He become a member of Park West Camera Club, where he also won many prizes and awards. I ve loved photography all my life, he says. and it has been an important part of my life. Recommendation for MMCC members by June Steffensen Hagen ICP s current shows are worth a few hours but they close May 9, 2010, so you ll have to scurry over there (43rd and 6th Ave.) as Jim and I did a few days ago. We were puzzled at first by the work of Miroslav Tichy, but after about ½ of the video which included many comments by citizens of his own town in Czechoslovakia which provided a fuller sense of the man, we began to see a strange beauty, even a touching humanity in the work of this very strange man. If you do nothing else, spend time Manhattan Miniature Camera Club Officers President: Betsy Currier Vice President: Richard Pinto Secretary: Julia La Fontaine Treasurer: Maria Buncick Board of Directors Janet Bachant Bob Burns Cate Franklyn Maria Howard Julia La Fontaine Carol Ivanick Richard Pinto June Steffenson-Hagen The Manhattan Miniature Camera Club of New York, Inc., founded in 1933, generally meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month at Community Church of New York, 28 East 35th Street, at 6:30 pm. Guests welcome! Some of members belong to the Photographic Society of America. For information about joining PSA, go to www.psa-photo.org. with the two display cases of his mainly homemade, sometimes cobbled-together equipment. B&H it is not; but photographic equipment it is! And what a model of recycling! Downstairs, the two shows on Paris, which include a number of classic images, and the one of Alan Stone s Senses of Place also intrigue.
MMCC Cumulative Scores Competition No. 8 April 2010 Judge Pete Kolonia Manhattan Miniature Camera Club SLIDES Cumulative Comp # 8 Cumulative Group AA Geraldine J. 118.0 8.5/9.0 HM/A-1st 14 8.43 Bob B. 101.0 8.0/7.5 HM 12 8.42 Joe H. 100.0 12 8.33 Julia L. 100.0 8.0/9.0 HM/A 12 8.33 Morton G. 129.0 9.0/7.5 A-2nd 16 8.06 Group A David C. 106.5 9.0/8.5 A/HM-3rd 12 8.88 George P. 119.5 8.5/7.5 HM 15 7.97 Rita Z. 126.0 8.5/7.0 HM 16 7.88 Ronald H. 108.5 14 7.75 Regina P. 121.0 7.0/8.0 HM 16 7.56 Lou C. 33.0 4 8.25 Toby L. 15.0 2 7.50 Woody S. 50.5 7 7.21 DIGITAL IMAGES Cumulative Comp # 8 Cumulative Cathryn F. 131.0 7.5/7.5 16 8.19 Joe H. 114.5 7.5/7.0 14 8.18 Geraldine J. 114.5 7.5/8.0 HM 14 8.18 Maria H. 98.0 9.0/8.0 A/HM-1st 12 8.17 Beverly K. 130.0 8.0/7.5 HM 16 8.13 Carol I. 113.0 7.5/8.0 HM 14 8.07 Morton G. 127.5 7.0/7.5 16 7.97 June H. 110.0 7.5/7.0 14 7.86 Maria B. 121.0 6.5/8.0 HM 16 7.56 Betsy C. 97.5 7.0/8.0 HM 13 7.50 Evaristo M. 85.5 8.0/8.5 2HM 10 8.55 Robyn E. 17.0 2 8.50 Mike R. 33.5 4 8.38 Sam P. 66.5 8 8.31 Daiser M. 40.5 5 8.10 Sharon C. 48.5 7.5/7.5 6 8.08 Anton A. 48.5 6 8.08 Janet B. 64.0 8.5/7.5 HM 8 8.00 Lori H. 87.5 7.0/8.5 HM 11 7.95 Richard P. 78.5 7.5/7.5 10 7.85 Lou C. 62.5 8 7.81 Karl S. 46.5 6 7.75 Rima S. 14.5 2 7.25 Woody S. 7.0 1 7.00 Sandra F. 7.0 1 7.00 PRINTS Cumulative Comp # 8 Cumulative Group AA Bob B. 102.0 8.0/7.5 HM 12 8.50 Joe H 99.0 12 8.25 Julia L. 98.5 8.0/7.5 HM 12 8.21 Morton G. 113.5 7.0/8.0 HM 14 8.11 June H. 129.5 8.5/8.0 2HM 16 8.09 Carol I. 109.5 8.0/7.5 HM 14 7.82 Geraldine J. 88.5 11 8.05 Group A Woody S. 109.5 9.0/8.0 A/HM-1st 14 7.82 Jack T. 17.0 2 8.50 Evaristo M. 17.0 2 8.50 Karl S. 33.0 4 8.25 Lou C. 81.5 10 8.15 Robyn E. 16.0 2 8.00 Rima S. 32.0 4 8.00 Betsy C. 48.0 8.5/8.5 2HM 6 8.00 Sandra F. 31.0 7.5/8.0 HM 4 7.75 ELEANOR KATZ THEME COMPETITION Zoo (11-2-09) and Weather (3-1-10) Cumulative Theme Comp #2 Cumulative David C. 17.5 9.0/8.5 A/HM 2S 8.75 Julia L. 17.5 2S 8.75 Julia L. 17.5 2P 8.75 June H. 17.5 8.5/9.0 HM/A 2D 8.75 Carol I. 17.5 8.5/9.0 HM/A 2D 8.75 Richard P. 17.0 2D 8.50 Betsy C. 34.0 7.0/9.0 A 4D 8.50 Geraldine J. 34.0 8.0/8.5 2HM 4D 8.50 Sharon C. 17.0 9.0/8.0 A/HM 2D 8.50 Maria H. 25.0 7.5 3D 8.33 Bob B. 16.5 2S 8.25 Woody S. 33.0 7.5/8.5 HM 4P 8.25 Joe H. 16.5 7.5/9.0 A 2D 8.25 Evaristo M. 16.5 8.0/8.5 2HM 2D 8.25 Morton G. 33.0 7.0/8.5 HM 4D 8.25 Mike R. 16.5 2D 8.25 Geraldine J. 16.0 8.5/7.5 HM 2S 8.00 Morton G. 31.0 6.0/8.0 HM 4P 7.75 Cathryn F. 15.5 7.5/8.0 HM 2D 7.75 Janet B. 15.5 9.0/6.5 A 2D 7.75 Lori H. 31.0 7.5/7.0 4D 7.75 Regina P. 30.0 7.5/7.0 4S 7.50 Morton G. 22.0 6.0 3S 7.33 Rita Z. 14.0 7.5/6.5 2S 7.00 Maria B. 28.0 7.5/8.0 HM 4D 7.00 LEGEND: A = Award (9 points) HM = Honorable Mention (8, 8.5 points) Best = Best of Month (within each Category, chosen by Judge from all images scoring 9, regardless of Group) Average: Simple avg. computed over all entries submitted by maker within each category **Makers with fewer than 12 entries by season s end are ineligible to compete in year-end rankings of their Group
SLIDES Slides Best of the Month Geraldine Jones Slides 2nd Place Morton Gluck Slide 3nd Place Photo is Not Available David Cho
PRINTS Prints Best of the Month Woody Slomanson
Digital images Digital 1st Place Maria Howard