MPA-member clubs are still finding innovative ways to feed your photography fire. Included below are “virtual” events.
Please check the appropriate web sites for current information about any club events.
Arundel Camera Club (www.ArundelCameraClub.org)
The Arundel Camera Club is continuing our year in a virtual space. Our Facebook page is set to “public” to allow new friends to participate in streams and programs. Join us, we are easily found on Facebook by searching “Arundel Camera Club.”
5/27 Wednesday May 27, 7pm EST - Facebook Live Stream: End of Year Banquet. Because our banquet had to be postponed, we're working to capture the spirit of our end of year gathering in a virtual space. In this stream our end of year contest results will be announced as well as some special other surprises. Join us!
6/3 Wednesday June 3rd, 7PM EST - Members Only: Business Meeting
6/10 Wednesday June 10, 7PM EST - Facebook Live Stream: Post Processing Demonstrations. Members of the Arundel Camera Club will demonstrate their method of post processing the same small group of images. This will be a great opportunity to see how advanced Photoshop users plan and execute processing of the same images as well as how each user's style comes through in the final image.
Baltimore Camera Club (www.baltimorecameraclub.org)
6/18 Speaker: Tony Sweet. Tony is a Nikon Legend Behind the Lens. After successful careers as a jazz musician/ educator, and professional magician, Tony settled on photography as his chosen means for personal expression. Over the last 30 years, Tony has become an in-demand speaker throughout the United States and Canada on Photography and creativity. Tony has authored five books on the art of photography: Fine Art Nature Photography; Fine Art Flower Photography; Fine Art Nature Photography: Water, Ice, Fog; Fine Art Digital Photography; and HDR Photography. The first book in his Fine Art Nature Photography eBook series, Creative Techniques and the Art of Self Expression, was just released.
Tony Sweet Photography website: https://tonysweet.com
Bowie-Crofton Camera Club (www.B-CCC.org)
The church has closed for all outside activities. We will notify you about future meetings when information is available.
Carroll County Camera Club (www.carrollcountycameraclub.org
6/15 & 7/20 Like other clubs, CCCC is shut down. We will try to have an online meeting once a month. Our June and July online meetings are on 6/15 and 7/20. Here is the link to the Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89146958041?pwd=Zys4eVV4SS9za1ovRHgwcm9TanNidz09
Central Maryland Photographers Guild (https://www.cmpg.photography)
6/3 General Mtg: Janet Jeffers: "Frame of Mind - Creativity, Perception, and Mental Focus"
6/18 June User Group: (Tentative) What have you been working on? A Show & Tell format of images from members
7/1 General Mtg: TBD
Also Club members created a spreadsheet with links about photography learning. Google Spreadsheet: "CMPG Ideas to Keep You Learning." Check periodically for new information. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ITT676n2i5p7zkYU9FCgt_Q4x6-l2XnvjjKCK7FcLuE/edit?usp=sharing
Creative Exposure Baltimore (www.CreativeExposureBaltimore.com)
Due to the current virus situation, CEB is not meeting. Check the website for updates.
Gaithersburg Camera Club (GCC) (http://www.gaithersburgcameraclub.org)
The Gaithersburg Camera Club "in-person" meetings have been suspended indefinitely. Check the website for our virtual meetings.
6/8 The Gaithersburg Camera Club is holding an online (Zoom meeting) highlighting members' favorite images. This meeting, on June 8, is in lieu of the end-of-the-year event, which we will reschedule for a later date. Plans for virtual meetings have been started for the fall of 2020.
Goddard Photography Club (https://gewa.gsfc.nasa.gov/clubs/photo/)
GPC is now conducting online meetings. Guests from other clubs are welcome to attend. Contact Scott.Hull@nasa.gov for an invitation to the Teams meeting.
5/27 Noon, online. Monthly Snap and Share discussion; topic is Reflections; club members upload up to five images to our Flickr page for discussion.
6/10 Noon, online. Monthly meeting; topic is our first-ever critique session by a trained judge; club members upload up to two images to our Flickr page for critique; topic is Nature.
6/24 Noon, online. Monthly Snap and Share discussion; topic is Vintage; club members upload up to five images to our Flickr page for discussion.
Harford County Photography Group (HCPG)
www.HarfordCountyPhotoGroup.org or https://www.meetup.com/Harford-County-Photography-Club/
6/10 Zoom Presentation – “Composition: Beyond the Rule of Thirds” – Lynn Garwood – Register through Meetup.
7/8 Zoom Presentation – “Travel Photography” – David Blecman – Register through Meetup.
Howard County Photographers (https://www.meetup.com/Howard-County-Photographers/)
The Howard County Photographers meetup group has cancelled all meetings until further notice.
Montgomery County Camera Club of Maryland (http://mococameraclub.com)
The Montgomery County Camera Club monthly meetings are cancelled until further notice.
NIH Camera Club (https://www.nihcameraclub.com/)
NIHCC activities are up in the air until further notice.
North Bethesda Camera Club (https://www.nbccmd.org)
Note: NBCC will not meet at Faith United Methodist Church for the rest of our program year but check the web site for information about virtual programs.
Photographers of the Washington/Baltimore Metro Area
(https://www.meetup.com/photographers-of-the-Washington-Baltimore-Metro-Area/)
08/01 High Wheel Bike Race, Frederick, Md. 2:00 p.m.
09/26 Tattoo Arts Convention, Baltimore, Md. 11:00 a.m.
Rossmoor Camera Club (http://rossmoorcameraclub.com)
Due to the current situation, which is barring meetings, Leisure World, a senior community, has cancelled all programs including our camera-club meetings, competitions, and educational programs.
Silver Spring Camera Club (http://www.ssccphotography.org)
Check the web site for information about virtual programs.
The following events are information only; they are not presented by MPA clubs, and the content in the text belongs solely to author and not MPA.
Please check the appropriate web sites for current information about events.
UPDATE FROM Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions
Dear Photographer,
We hope you are taking care of yourself, your family and friends. With that priority in mind, the board of directors has decided that the first Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions event, formerly Nature Visions Photo Expo, is postponed until the Fall of 2021. We are hopeful that our keynote and many other speakers slated for 2020 can be with us next year. Our slated keynoters for 2020: Rick Sammon, Josh Cripps, Kristi Odom and Julieanne Kost.
In the Fall of 2020, we eagerly invite you to follow us on Facebook and Instagram as we announce the results of MAPV competitions, especially the new subcategories for Photo Arts: Architecture, Abstract, Documentary & Street, Still Life, Sports & Action and Other.
The change of our name reflects our goal to provide education on all photography genres, not just nature photography. We aim to use the extra time before the first Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions event to better achieve that goal.
Thank you for your interest in Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions. We are hopeful that normal life and pursuits like photography will be fully restored in the future.
Sincerely,
Punit Sinha & Sidney Stone, President & Vice President
2020 PSA Photo Festival
The 82nd Annual PSA Photo Festival has been CANCELED
April 23, 2020 - It is with thoughtful reluctance and much sadness that the PSA Executive Committee has made a decision to cancel the planned Photo Festival in Colorado Springs in September. This was a very difficult decision to make, knowing that the 2020 Photo Festival is highly valued and anticipated; but paramount to the decision was putting the health, safety, and peace of mind of our membership first. In the absence of a vaccine, our gathering, especially with many members in the high-risk category, would simply be accepting too much risk for all of us. Check the website for details and updates: https://psa-photo.org