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"faces" contest:  www.facesphotocontest.com

The Ultimate Music Photo contest:  www.billboardphotocontest.com 

Visit the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester to see their 14th Juried Exhibition (by Katherine Ware of Philly). "Edgy, memorable and stiumlating" says new BCC member Nancy Capaccio. Hours 11-5 Tu-Th, 11-4 Fri, and noon-4 Sat-Sun. www.GriffinMuseum.org
                           
  Essex Heritage & HUNT’S PHOTO LAUNCH PHOTO SAFARIS
Camera Enthusiasts Invited to Embark on Photo Adventures
May 14, 2008 (Melrose, MA) . . . Picture yourself surrounded by a stunning North Shore landscape with a state-of-the-art digital camera in hand. A great white egret soars. The sun sets over the Marblehead coastline. The past comes alive at the restored Saugus Iron Works. Now picture yourself capturing an award-winning image for this year’s Essex Heritage Photo Contest.
 
Sound far-fetched? Not if you have registered to participate in Essex Heritage’s Photo Safari program. Sponsored by four major camera and lens companies and co-hosted by Essex Heritage and New England’s largest photography retailer, Hunt’s Photo & Video of Melrose, MA, the Photo Safaris combine historic exploration with modern-day digital photography advances. Photographers at all levels will expand their skills and broaden their horizons with free use of high-quality photo equipment during visits to the incredibly beautiful Essex National Heritage Area locations.
 
The 2008 Photo Safaris are scheduled as follows:
Olympus         Saturday, June 14                   Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
Tamron           Friday, August 15                    Plum Island/Parker River Visitor Center
Saturday, August 16
Nikon               Saturday, September 6           Newburyport Maritime Museum/Newburyport
Canon             Saturday, September 20         Location TBA
 
Participants will receive free hands-on instruction from Hunt’s knowledgeable technical experts during each session. In addition, world-renowned photographers, Pulitzer Prize winner and National Geographic photographer Jay Dickman, and Roy Toft, a passionate nature conservationist whose work has been featur ed in National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Audubon Magazines, will share their expertise at the Olympus and Tamron events.
 
The Photo Safari results have generated eye-catching entries in the annual Essex Heritage photo contest. In its third year, the Essex Heritage Photo Safari program is designed to showcase the beauty and unique landscape of the Essex National Heritage Area. This program also highlights the mission of Essex Heritage. Working in partnership with the National Park Service, Essex Heritage encourages public/private partnerships and implements programs to enhance, preserve and promote the unique historic, cultural and natural resources of the Essex National Her itage Area.
 
Cost for the June 14, September 6, and September 20 Photo Safaris is $50 ($25 for Essex Heritage members). Register online at: www.essexheritage.org/photosafaris.shtml.
 
Cost for the 2-day event on August 15 & 16 is $179. Sign up online at www.regonline.com/checkin.asp?eventid=606734. All of the Photo Safaris include free use of equipment, free instruction and special gifts and discount coupons from Hunt’s.

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The Art of Nature Photography; It Ain’t Just Birds” Weekend How-To Seminar in Portland, Maine
October 11-12, 2008
 
Eastland Park Hotel, 157 High Street, Portland, ME
 
Sponsored by Canon USA, Hunt’s Photo, Delkin Devices, & Wimberley, Inc.
 
For details or to register, visit:
 
http://www.birdsasart.com/Portland%20Seminar.htm  

Per our request at Ron’s last presentation at the BCC, he writes:

From: Ron Rosenstock

PHOTO TOUR NEWS
 
I’m starting this newsletter from my hotel room in Casablanca. Morocco is the most colorful and exotic destination to which I travel. This year, the trip filled up six months in advance and as a result a number of potential participants we turned away. Due to high interest, I am planning to do two back-to-back tours to Morocco in 2009. The first one will start mid March. If you are wondering what the weather is like in March, today the temperature is about 75° and it is sunny. If you would like to attend one of next year’s trips, please contact Jacque at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
I’m really writing this letter to tell you that we have just added an additional trip to Ireland this year. The dates are August 23-September 2, 2008. Jacque and I are offering a special price for this trip to encourage anyone interested. The tour package will be $2595, a savings of $300. Please contact Jacque for details. Prices have to go up in 2009 because of the very low exchange rate with the euro.
 
Another incredible destination is Iceland! It has some of the most fantastic landscape I’ve ever seen. In 2009, I plan to do tours in both the spring and the fall. The fall trip will be slightly more adventurous. We are planning a special excursion up onto one of the glaciers. To do so requires specialized jeeps and drivers. As a result, the fall trip will be slightly more expensive than the spring tour. Both trips have excellent itineraries and offer photographers a variety of awe-inspiring landscapes.
 
There is still room in my October 2008 trip to Prague. The dates are from October 6-16. The trip is definitely going but has space for a few more people.
 
We have just put my Death Valley trip on the www.phototc.com website and folks are already beginning to sign up. It’s my only domestic trip for this year and it is scheduled from November 12-18, 2008. Death Valley is another landscape photographer’s delight. The Death Valley tour only takes 6 people so please let Jacque know soon if you would like to join me in this amazing destination.
 
EXHIBITIONS
 
June 6, 2008: I have an opening at the Vermont Center of Photography in Brattleboro. The show will feature work from my new book, Journeys. Please come by if you live in the area. 
 
June 19, 2008: I have an opening of my work from Iceland at the Panopticon Gallery in the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston. Iceland is truly the land of fire and ice!
 
Hope to see you sometime soon.
 
My very best,
 
Ron
 
 

Pictures of Change 

 Since the early 1960s, the visual vocabulary of social change has been dominated by images of massive, popular demonstration. More recently though, such public events have failed to capture the public imagination or produce visual icons similar to those of the March on Washington, the March on the Pentagon, the ERA rallies, or the AIDS quilt. Yet the hard work of social change continues all around us every day. Instead of mass protest, we now
have social networking websites, meeting rooms plastered with sticky notes, class rooms full of English language learners, organic farms in the heart of the city, music studios catering to positive hip-hop, laboratories dedicated to clean energy, social responsible businesses, and youth workers reaching out to the dropped out and disengaged. This project seeks to collect an array of images from Boston, MA, that represent these modern forms of social
change and challenge our understanding of what constitutes social change itself.
   
 To participate in this group, send an email to avitch “at” gmail.com. The project will remain open until September 2008, at which time a panel will review the collection and select a portfolio for an online and, funding permitting, a traveling exhibit.

Big Moose Photography Workshops
 
I am sending you this e-mail to inform you about my Moose Photography Weekend Workshops held in upstate Maine and ask that you please pass along this information to your camera club members at your next meeting:
 
Join professional wildlife photographer Mark Picard for an exciting and comprehensive three day weekend photography workshop in and around northern Maine’s Baxter State Park region. During peak viewing each weekend in June, and one weekend in October, we will travel to one of Maine’s most abundant moose habitats where you will learn to photograph these magnificent creatures. The workshops are offered each weekend in June starting at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, and runs through to Sunday at noon. The Fall October workshop will be held on the weekend of the 3rd - 5th . All skill levels are welcome! Please visit Mark’s website at www.markpicard.com for more information and available dates.
 
Also offered are digital slide presentations designed for camera clubs and civic organizations. Additional information regarding these programs can be found at: http://www.markpicard.com/slideprograms.php
 
Finally, if you would like to be placed on our postal mailing list for future activities, please reply to this e-mail with your club’s mailing address.
 
Best regards,
 
Mark Picard
 
www.markpicard.com
 
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