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We are planning many interesting meetings during our 2007-2008 season, including color, black & white and digital print presentations. Return to this calendar for further announcements. And please join us at our meetings!

Meetings take place on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM, September through August. Where: The D & R Greenway Land Trust, Johnson Education Center, One Preservation Place, Princeton, NJ Map and directions (click here)

*Date*	*Topic of the meeting*
May 14th, 2008
April 9th, 2008
March 5th, 2008
Feb. 13th, 2008	Guest speaekr: Roz Rosenblum On the faculty at Rutgers University and a member of the Professional Women Photographers of New York, Roz is a past president of South Shore Camera Club on Long Island. She has presented at The Photographic Society of America's Foto Fest, in NYC and NECCC at U Mass at Amherst. She has exhibited at such prestigious galleries as The Cork Gallery in Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. Roz will speak on "How Judges Judge".
Jan. 9th, 2008	Guest speaker: Kate Ware Kate is Curator of Photography at The Philadelphia Art Museum. She is well known to PPC members as the juror in photography shows at Phillips Mill, Perkins, Noyes Museum, etc. and as the curator and innovator for many photography expositions at The Philadelphia Art Museum. She will discuss : "The Life of Lee Miller", fashion model, fashion photographer, surreal photojournalist, and war photographer and how Miller applied what she had learned about Surrealism in Paris to a highly surreal situation.
Dec. 12th, 2007	Guest speaker: ROBERT MIELENHOUSEN PHOTOGRAPHS ON PAINTINGS Robert teaches Art and Art History at Southampton High School, Southampton, Long Island. He is an active photographer with many exhibitions; his work incorporating photo images into mixed media paintings through extension of elements of the photograph by paint. His latest photograph/paintings on street life, doorways and bicycles of lower Manhattan are presently on view at the O. K. Harris Gallery 383 West Broadway in SOHO.
Nov. 14th, 2007	Our guest speaker was JASON FRANCISCO. RECONSIDERING DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY. Jason teaches photography and critical studies at Rutgers and Stanford Universities. His just published book on documentary photography, Far From Zion (published by Stanford University Press 2007) suggests new approaches to documentary photography using photographs to circulate social meaning, (not merely to capture it), has been critically acclaimed.
Nov. 4th, 2007	We are pleased to announce a private tour at the Princeton University Art Museum for members of the Princeton Photography Club on Sunday November 4th at 1 PM. This tour will be given by our own Sally Davidson, a docent at the University Art Museum. We will meet in the Art Museum lobby just before 1 PM. There is an interactive map on the university site to help you find the building. There will be a $3 charge per person for this private tour. Public events will follow and you may want to plan to stay for the afternoon.
Oct.17, 2007 7.30pm Matting Workshop	A 3rd workshop will be held on Wednesday October 17th to allow more hands-on cutting and further discussion of different types of Logan mat cutters available. This workshop will have the handouts from the first work shop, so all novices are welcome to attend. We will start from a large 32" x 40" board and foam core. Bring an 8 x 10 or smaller photo which you will have an opportunity to mat and tape and place on a backboard for framing. There will be a nominal fee of $5.00 for materials. We expect a smaller group, so it will be held at Carl Geisler's home, at One Hunters Run, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Oct. 10th, 2007	Our speaker will be ANNE H. HOY. Ann is Professor of Fine Arts, New York University. Recent books include: Photography: History, Technique, Art, Future; and Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs (reviewed by the New York Times as, “One of the ten best photography books of the year". She has been Curator of several retrospectives at the International Center for Photography. The topic of her presentation will be IDENTITY IN DISGUISE: SHERMAN AND MAPPLETHORPE.
September 20 Meeting:
Sept 20th	"Summer Through Your Lens" - As a Princeton Photography Club tradition the September 20th meeting is reserved for a "Show" of our members Photographs. The theme this year is "Summer Through Your Lens". We are looking for photographs that show what summer means to you personally, what epitomizes summer and distinguishes if from the other seasons. Please bring a print of your photograph. Any size, though larger ones show better to the audience. Matting is not required.
August 18th - Summer workshop	A second workshop will be held on Saturday 8/18 to allow more hands-on cutting and further discussion of different types of Logan mat cutters available. This workshop will have the handouts from the first workshop so all novices are welcome to attend. We will start from a large 32" x 40" board and foam core. Bring a 8 x 10 or smaller photo which you will have an opportunity to mat and tape and place on a backboard for framing. There will be a nominal fee of $5.00 for materials. August 18th, Saturday 10:00 AM at The D & R Greenway Land Trust, Johnson Education Center, One Preservation Place, Princeton, NJ.
August 8th - Summer workshop	Is there some aspect of digital photography that mystifies you? If so we may be able to help you at this workshop. We would like to plan the workshop around your needs and will be willing to address any specific questions. Asking ahead may help us bring the answer to the workshop so e-mail me if there are any digital issues you would like us to specifically address. August 8th, 7:30 PM at the D & R Greenway Land Trust, Johnson Education Center, One Preservation Place, Princeton, NJ. If you plan to attend this workshop please RSVP carlgeisler@gmail.com.
Start of the Season 2007 - 2008 (September - August) "Eastern Bluebird," by George Vogel Information about the meetings of the Season 2006 - 2007
August 8th, 2007	Questions and Answers session about digital photography
July 11th, 2007	Workshop: Matting & Framing
June 20, 2007	Opening Reception: 1 to 4 pm. PPC MEMBERS PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, Montgomery Center for the Arts.
May 9, 2007	Organizational meeting: elections of officers. Many thanks to Ed Greenblat for 7 years of service as a President of the Club. New officers, elected in 2007 for the season of 2007-2008: Carl Geisler has been elected as a new President. Murray Fineman is Vice President. Lionel Goodman is Presentation Chairman. Maia Reim is exhibition Chair Person. Emily Reeves is Treasurer . Terence Lyons is our representative to NJ Federation of Camera Clubs. Olga Sergyeyeva is web site administrator.
April 11, 2007	Our speaker was Anne McCauley, the David H. McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art at Princeton University and the author of numerous articles and books on the history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photography.
March 14	Our speaker was Richard Wright, photographer and digital photography teacher. His digital photographs have won numerous awards and his photographs hang in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and at J&J corp. gallery. His talk’s title is PLASTIC" CAMERA: PHOTOGRAPHER AS SCULPTOR.
February 21, 2007 Date change: We were supposed to meet on February 14, but decided to postpone for one week because of Valentine's Day.	Review and discussion of members' work. Sally Davidson and Ken Kaplowitz have offered to host another critique - a very successful one! The attending members picked photographs for MCA PHOTO SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT POSTCARD. The winners are Igor Svibilsky, Maia Reim and Jeffrey Yuan. This is the postcard layout: The MCA - Montgomery Center for the Arts at the 1860 house - Photo Show takes place May 11, 2007 through June 24, 2007, with the reception held May 13th.
January 10, 2007	Jerry Hirniak, Head Art department, Princeton Day School. PHOTOGRAPHY, BETWEEN SCULPTURE, DRAWING, and PAINTING.
December 13, 2006	Diane Neumaier, Professor of Photography, Mason Gross School of The arts, Rutgers University. FROM DOCUMENTS to ABSTRACTION. A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY.
November 8, 2006, 2006	Robert Mahon talked about PORTRAITS: SOFT PORN TO FINE ART. Mr. Mahon has photographs in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum, NYC and the Princeton University Art Museum. He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.
October 11, 2006	Mr. Joel Smith, Curator of Photography at Princeton University Art Museum, talked about Contemporary Issues In Photography.
September 13, 2006	Organizational meeting. Discussion of planned events, future exhibits, field trips in the new season.
Start of the Season 2006 - 2007 (September - August) June, July, August - Summer Break Information about the meetings of the Season 2005 - 2006
May 10, 2006	Jean Birdsall has returned to our club for a Photoshop presentation.
April 19, 2006	Maddi Ring, a highly accomplished "travel photographer," covered the extent of her travels.
March 8, 2006	Discussion of different presentations of an image sent to the Club Members.
February 8, 2006	Our guest speaker was Frank Wojciechowski, an excellent staff photographer of the Princeton Packet. He makes an art of photojournalism.
January 11, 2006	Review and discussion of members' work. Sally Davidson and Ken Kaplowitz have offered to host another critique - a very successful one!
December 14, 2005	Our speaker for the December meeting was Phil McAuliffe. Staff photographer with the Princeton Packet newspaper group and freelance for Polaris Images in New York. Have been photographing pro for since 1988.
November 9, 2005	Our speaker was David Verdini. Many of us met David as a member of the club when he was an avid amateur and early on committed to digital. He made the bold step to turn pro, and has found a niche in food photography. He is a regular contributor to, “New Jersey Tables” among many other media.
October 18, 2005	Our speaker for October meeting was Ken Kaplowitz who presented a very interesting slide show about the history of photography. He is professor of photography at the College of NJ and a fine photographer and ink drawer as well.
September 14, 2005	Organizational meeting. Discussion of planned events, future exhibits, field trips in the new season. Many new faces, interesting work presented by old and new members of the Club.
Start of the Season 2005 - 2006 (September - May) "Dogwood Bellies" © Dotty Westgate Information about the meetings of the Season 2004 - 2005
May 11, 2005	Our speaker was Jay Goodkind, outstanding b&w landscape and nature photographer. He also treated us to some original prints of Ansel Adams and other famous photographers from his private collection.
April 13, 2005	Our speaker was Jean Sault Birdsall. She discussed the various Photoshop selection tools and uses for each, keyboard shortcuts and the options panel.
March 9, 2005	Discussion of members' work.
February 9, 2005	Review and discussion of members' work - second session.
January 12, 2005	Review and discussion of members' work.
December 8, 2004	Our December speakers were Bob and Jean Birdsall. They own Birdsall Nature Photography and offer professional photo tours that include digital processing and workflow. Jean is a Photoshop instructor and supplements Bob's professional photography instruction with the how-to of processing your images in the computer.
November 10, 2004	Paul Hart, computer guru, talked about digital photography and computers. He taught the basics of how a computer is structured and operated, about technologies that can vastly improve our computers performance. We learned about the art of backing up our system, etc.
October 13, 2004	Our guest presenter for this meeting was Patti Murray who spoke and showed slides on Madagascar. She is with an organization called Animals Animals, and leads tours to places all over the world. She showed us many amazing pictures of lemurs, insects and reptiles.
September 8, 2004	Organizational meeting. Discussion of planned events, future exhibits, field trips in the new season. Many new faces, interesting work presented by old and new members of the Club.
Start of the Season 2004 - 2005 (September - May) Spider Lily, by Phil Cruickshank Information about the meetings of the Season 2003 - 2004
May 12, 2004	Our speaker was Phil Moyland, a nature photographer with a naturalists skills. He is an expert on plants, flowers and birds which he uses to great advantage in finding the shots that make memorable images. Phil's images have been seen in calendars, magazines and Audubon Society publications. He uses large format and some 35mm as well. He presented a number of his images, both prints and projections, to the club that demonstrate the beauty of our local area.
April 14, 2004	Our meeting's discussion was led by Andy Schmitt who encouraged us into a free-reigning discussion on, "what is photography, what is it coming to in the digital age?"
March 10, 2004	David Verdini gave us a follow-up on his earlier, excellent introduction to digital photography which stressed camera/scanning basics. This time it was about fundamental "Photoshop" procedures, which lead to making a print.
February 11, 2004	Photo critique session. It is interesting how may elements be important in addition to the image itself, for example, size, matting, framing.
January 14, 2004	Our speaker was Cie Stroud, a staff photographer for the (Trenton) Times. She provided us with examples of her work and told us what it is like to be a newspaper photographer.
December 10, 2003	At this meeting we had the digital symposium. David Verdini showed some projected images from India as well as headed the digital discussion/instruction via computer demonstration.
November 12, 2003	Our speaker for this meeting was Sherry Rubel, a local portrait photographer. She discussed the artistic and technical aspects of her art form.
October 8, 2003	Our speaker was Larry Popp from Indigo Custom Publishing, where he is Director of Photography. He spoke about sports photography.
September 10, 2003	Organizational Meeting.
Start of the Season 2003 - 2004 (September - May)
Information about the meetings of the Season 2002 - 2003
*Date*	*Topic of the meeting*
May 14, 2003	Indigo Custom Publishing, a national publishing firm headquartered in Macon Georgia, with regional offices in Indiana, New Jersey, Alabama, and Ohio, is proud to announce that Princeton: Pride of the Nation will make its debut in March of 2004. It will be a tabletop book on Princeton. Larry Popp, Director of Photography of Indigo Publishing showed us examples of past projects and asked for portfolios to be presented at a later date. Our next speaker was Bahman (Ben) Kalantari, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers. He amazed us with his new art form, polynomiography.
April 9, 2003	Our speakers were Jay Goodkind and Heinz Gartlgruber, two outstanding landscape and nature photographers. They treated us to an introspective of their photograph journeys and vision.
March 12, 2003	Our speaker was Andy Schmitt. Andy is a very creative fine art photographer and Head of Photography for Peters Valley Photography. He showed and discussed his program this year for Peters Valley Photography and his work using cameras that range from pin hole to 11x14.
February 12, 2003	The speaker at the Club meeting was Ron Eckard from Taylor. He talked about new and wonderful in the world of digital photography.
January 8, 2003	Gallery Talks by club members, discussing the works shown at 1860 House (Montgomery Center for the Arts).
December 11, 2002	Last session was hosted by Mr. Kenneth Kaplowitz, an Associate Professor of Art at The College of New Jersey. He spoke about his photographic work and showed slides from a variety of styles in black and white and color including multiple exposures, photo collage, plant studies, abstraction, portraiture, still life and his latest series on tree shadows.
November 13, 2002	This session was hosted at Princeton Day School by Mrs. Eileen Homuth-Lemonick who has been teaching photography there for more that 20 years. She is a highly respected photographic artist as well as a teacher. She was not shy about making constructive comments and suggestions for us to consider of the work we bring to her for critique. The meeting was very vivid and interesting.
October 9, 2002	A panel discussion on digital imaging was led by Steven Richman, Pat Coleman and David Verdini. It included different aspects like capturing the image, scanning, printing, improving the image in Photoshop etc.
September 11th, 2002	The first meeting of the new season 2002-2003. Many new faces, interesting work presented by old and new members of the Club, discussion of planned events and shows for the new season.