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Photographic Art Society is a
Florida non profit corporation
Autoway Ford
on US 19 (34th St.) and
24th Ave N.
Please Park on 24th Entrance is on side of building, Look for sign
Contact Jim Swallow for additional details.
Bay Area
Sunrise & Sunset times
Twi A: 5:59am
Twi: 6:54am
Sunrise: 7:18am
Sunset: 7:49pm
Twi: 8:13pm
Twi A: 9:09pm
Moonrise: 3:15am
Moonset: 2:35pm
Day length: 12h 32m
Monthly Themes for 2013
Click on the theme to see the months images
January 3rd: Camera Phone Photos
February 7th: Water and Light
March 7th: Urban Decay
April 4th: Using a Model
May 2nd: Backyard Art
June 13th: Boating
July 11th: Vanishing Florida
August 1st: Patriotism
September 5th: Critters
October3rd: Create a Postcard
November 7th: Textures
December 5th:
Best 2013 & Project Presentations
Quarterly Education Nights
Coming in 2013
May 30th
Ernie Graetz on Lightning Photography
August 22nd: Time Lapse
with Kari Sheppard
November 14th:TBA
We are still looking for a few more. If your are interested in teaching a class call Jim
Photography Newsletter April 2013
April Meeting is the 4th
This Months Theme is
"Using A Model"
Person or object
Join us at 6:30 p.m.
Send your image to me by Wednesday night or you may bring them to the meeting.
Please bring only 2 images.
Size is 10x14 at 100 ppi
Society Field Trip
Lowery Park Zoo Field Trip
April 13th — Lowery Park Zoo
Contact Jim if you are planning on attending
the Field trip.
Surf Board Art Competition
Assembly Day
April 11th Thursday Mod Pod day 6166 9th Avenue North St. Pete (11 am - 8:00 pm) come when you can we will start adding our photos on the surf board. call to let Cheryl know you can come have fun. No experience necessary. 727-596-782
Photography Day Tampa Bay
Thank You All
Thank you all for coming to Photography Day this year. The event was a success thanks to the awesome speakers,sponsors and helpers.
Thanks to our Speakers:
Scott Krebs, Joseph Gamble, Carmen Schettino,
Lee Burgess, Chuck Vosburgh, Pepito Valdes and
Joyce Tenneson
Our Sponsors:
Lakeshore Camera Exchange, The Camera Cure
Reedy Photo, The Packinghouse Gallery
The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
Door Prizes Provided By:
Larson Enterprises, FPP, Reedy Photo,
Lakeshore Camera, The Camera Cure,
Nik, OnOne, Topaz Software Companies
Our Helpers:
Sandy Thomas, Prudy Olson, Sandra Rivett,
Gloria Matyszyk, Sonia M. Smith, Dotty Bellefleur, Sherry Williamson, Charmaine Martinez, Jane Egbert,
Cheryl Anne Day, Dick Caldwell, Glenn Nielson,
Dave Reed, Alex Spassoff,
Chris Sheppard,
Bobby Staggs,
Bill Ward, Philip Bellefleur,
Manny Bonewitz,
Joe Martin, Jim Pennington,
Roy Colbert
and Glen Desthers
Photos Needed
Please Post your images to our Facebook page. If you have any photographs of the Models please send them to
[email protected]
Larson Enterprises has given us a discount code for participants of the event code tampa201315
Field Trips for 2013
January 19th — Brooksville Raid
February 9th — State Fair
February 23rd —
After Frame Day
Civil War Reenactors at
Fort DeSoto Park
March 16th — Renaissance Festival
March 30th — Photography Day
April 13th — Lowery Park Zoo
May 11th —
June 15th— Bok Tower
July 13th — Florida Aquarium
October — World Wide Photo Walk
ICOT Show Themes
February Show" Angles"
See the Highlights
June Show
" Musical Instruments"
Frame Day June 22nd
Hang Show June 24th
October 2013 Show
" TBD"
Frame Day October 5th
Hang Show October 7th
Photographic Inspirations
Pictures of the Day
For the Birders in the Group
Bird of Paradise Project
National Geographic Program on The Birds of Paradise
at the Straz Center
April 23rd 7 p.m.
Photoshop Tips and Ideas
OnOne Perfect Inspiration Series
Creating Lighting Gobo's in Photoshop
Photoshop CS6 Super-guide ( 70+ pages)
Adobe Elements Plug with 120 features
OnOne Perfect Effects 4 plug in for free
Looking for a project to do this year?
just do a Google search for creative photo projects and you will get thousands of ideas.
Member Gloria Matyszyk was in the paper in March and is part of a coffee table IPad book called ArtBook Tampa Bay
Give the Gift of Education
this year.
Gift certificates are available for Jim's classes. Classes in Basic photography, Lightroom, Photoshop, Adobe Elements, Asset Management and
Getting organized digitally.
Educational Opportunities
Photo Day Tampa Bay Instructor leading a few workshops
If you want to learn and travel join Carmen on one of his trips. There is still room for a couple of people for April 16-20 trip, to photograph
Callaway Gardens and Jekyll Island in Georgia.
For the summer trip we are going to Glacier National Park, Montana in July. I make all the plans, all you have to do is come and shoot. In the evening we get together and I will critique the images of that day. Great Deal.
Anyone interested call Carmen for more information at 941-356-9229 or Carmen's email address
Photography Trip To Germany and Photokina
Lakeshore Camera with Tom Bailey will be hosting a trip to Germany in 2014. Email Tom if you are interested.
Membership Info
Membership is $40.00 a year. See link above for additional info. $45.00 using Paypal
You can join and pay using PayPal
Photography Tips
Adorama TV updated regularly
The Photographers Guide to Copyright
Photo Techniques Newsletter
Visualizing on Monochrome
Better Flower Photographs
7 Tips for Photographing at the Zoo
Tips for Sharper Images
92 Landscape Tips and Techniques
Photographic Art Society
Exhibit
"Angles"
February 25th Through June 24th
The show is at the Summit Executive Building at 58th And Ulmerton in Clearwater. See the Current Exhibit page for details
Our featured Artist for the show is
Dick Miller
Bay Area Photographic Exhibits
Herb Snitzer A Life in Photography
The Elliott Gallery at Eckerd College
"A Life in Photography"
March 18 - April 5
Cobb Gallery
Closing Reception Friday April 5, 6 - 8pm
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10:30 - 4:30
Florida Museum of Photographic Art
Check out the FMoPA's website for a full list of seminars and workshops available at the museum.
Collecting Photographic Art Lecture
by William K. Zewadski, Esq.
& Robert "Pancho" Sanchez
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 7pm
Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, April 4, 2013 – Sunday, June 16, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4, 2013 6:00pm - 8:00pm
A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
Piecing together Vivian Maier’s life can easily evoke Churchill’s famous quote about the vast land of Tsars and commissars that lay to the east. She was a person who fit the stereotypical European sensibilities of an independent liberated woman, accent and all, yet born in New York City. Someone who was intensely guarded and private, Vivian could be counted on to feistily preach her own very liberal worldview to anyone who cared to listen, or didn’t. Decidedly unmaterialistic, Maier would come to amass a group of storage lockers stuffed to the brim with found items, art books, newspaper clippings, home films, as well as political tchotchkes and knick-knacks. The story of this nanny who has now wowed the world with her photography, and who incidentally recorded some of the most interesting marvels and peculiarities of Urban America in the second half of the twentieth century, is seemingly beyond belief.
Museum of Fine Arts
Photographing the City February 9, 2013 through May 26, 2013
This exhibition explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century photographers responded to cities and towns, presented and preserved their history, and influenced their perception by the public. Among the artists represented are Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Aaron Siskind, Weegee, and Garry Winogrand, as well as many unknown photographers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Ringling Museum of Art
HERB RITTS: L.A. Style
February 23, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Herb Ritts (American, 1952–2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for his distinctive photographs of fashion models, nudes, and celebrities. From the late 1970s until his untimely death from AIDS in 2002, Ritts's ability to create photographs that successfully bridged the gap between art and commerce was not only a testament to the power of his imagination and technical skill but also marked the synergy between art, popular culture, and business that followed in the wake of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This exhibition features a selection of Ritts's vintage prints and magazine covers.
Digital Images for the group should be jpeg files 1400x1000 at 100ppi files names should be initials, month,year, title example (jim_swallow_treeballet_0411.jpg). You may also bring prints that are matted image area should be at least 8x10
Philip Bellefleur April 1st
James Seaton April 2nd
Tom Carnahan April 11th
Deborah Mast Anniv, April 16th
Amanda Fleming April 18th
Jill and Ernie Graetz Anniv 4/18
Roger Crawford April 22nd
A List of other Photo Contests
If you know of any please forward to the newsletter
Google Map of Camera Clubs in Florida
We are part of the Florida Camera Club Council. You may visit their web site Here
Our group is not affiliated with any other photography group in the bay area. We will help you promote your group on our site and in our e-mails if you wish. Please Contact Jim Swallow with your club information to be included
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Lake Shore Camera Exchange
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Web Site
Photo Classes at Lakeshore Camera Exchange
The Camera Cure
A Saint Petersburg repair facility for camera repairs, sensor Cleaning and more check them out here
Reedy Photo Lab
Society Member Clyde Nabe has started a blog on his site
You can find it here
Jim Swallow at [email protected]
The Society was designed to
Inspire, Challenge and Educate You in The Art of Photography.
Next Meeting is Thursday May2nd 4th 6:15p.m.
Bring only your best images for the new year