“Sharing Your Vision”

(February 23, 2011, from 6:15 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Venue: TBD)

The photocomposition workshop has been rescheduled to the above date. Two major subject areas will be covered:

• increasing your visual photographic potential and sensitivity — a discussion on training ourselves to be alert to the usual and familiar things yet seeing them anew by keying-in to our own emotional response and allowing it to be translated in our pictures; and
• composition techniques to render the image that expresses this emotional response. Common composition techniques will be discussed, but the intent is not to provide you with a cookbook of composition recipes but to provide the necessary tools and ingredients for you to develop and express your own photographic style.

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Due to circumstances outside of our control the meeting has been moved to Thursday and there will be a different presenter than previously announced.

Thursday, February 17, 2011
Refreshments: 5:45 p.m.
Presentation at approx. 6:30 p.m.
Location: IMF Auditorium HQ1 RD-710
700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20431

PRESENTATION by Joshua Taylor, Jr.

Competition Theme: OPEN (all competitions) + Special Theme for “new members” only: Flowers/Plant and Fruits

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Electronic Image Competition - Theme: PEOPLE (Mandatory) (Group A – 50 Entries)
1st place - Carmen Machicado “cargador”
2nd place - Alex Hoffmaister “Sunday Morning”
3rd place - Alex Ergo “Have a smoke”
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