Welcome To The Stonebridge Photography Club
Website
Website
The Stonebridge Photography Club is based out of the Stonebridge Community located in Monroe Township, New Jersey.
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BECAUSE OF HEALTH CONCERNS DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS OUTBREAK, ALL CLUBHOUSE MEETINGS WILL BE CONSIDERED POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PLEASE LOOK FOR NOTICES IN THE FUTURE.
BE SMART....STAY SAFE.
BE SMART....STAY SAFE.
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SITE MAP: (Important pages on the Club Website)
<Club Info - News, Procedures, Forms> - Mission Statement, Club Officers
<Club News> - Items, events or information that is important to club members.
<Club Procedures, Forms, Links> - Club Procedure documents, Club Forms, Links to PhotoContestPro and NJFCC
<Current Schedule> - Upcoming schedule of club events.
<Club Workshops Info> - Documents, slides, videos that were part of past club workshops.
<Photography - Helpful Info> - Page where club members can share photgraphy articles, videos, links to websites. A good place to learn
<Club Video Sessions> - Links to club workshop, competition, or how-to videos.
<Club Competitions Home> - Home page for Competition Info
<Competitions - Awarded Photos> - Allows you to see awarded photos for competitions over approximately two years.
<Competitions - Reports> - Reports showing the results/scores for Club Competitions
<Competitions - Reports (2017 - 2019)> - Competition Reports for the years 2017 thru 2019.
<Competitions - Reports (2014 - 2016)> - Competition Reports for the years 2014 thru 2016.
<Gallery - Awarded Photos by Photographer> - Allows you to see awarded photos by photograher over approximately two years <2020 - Club Best of Year Photos> - Displays all the 2020 Best of Year Competition awarded photos.
<2019 Club Best of Year Photos> - Displays all the 2019 Best of Year Competition awarded photos.
<Member Help> - Page where club members can ask for help with photos or techniques from other club members.
<How They Did It> - Dedicated to showing techniques used by club members when creating photos.
TEMPORARY PAGES:
<"In Memory of Rob Mindas"> - A display of photos by Rob Mindas, a club member that recently passed away from the corona virus.
<"Verbal and Visual Art"> - Photos and Sonnets by club member Sandy Flickstein and her husband Dan.
<"Ordinary to Extraordinary"> - Photos by club member Dan Sudberg showing beautiful photos of ordinary subjects.
<Club Info - News, Procedures, Forms> - Mission Statement, Club Officers
<Club News> - Items, events or information that is important to club members.
<Club Procedures, Forms, Links> - Club Procedure documents, Club Forms, Links to PhotoContestPro and NJFCC
<Current Schedule> - Upcoming schedule of club events.
<Club Workshops Info> - Documents, slides, videos that were part of past club workshops.
<Photography - Helpful Info> - Page where club members can share photgraphy articles, videos, links to websites. A good place to learn
<Club Video Sessions> - Links to club workshop, competition, or how-to videos.
<Club Competitions Home> - Home page for Competition Info
<Competitions - Awarded Photos> - Allows you to see awarded photos for competitions over approximately two years.
<Competitions - Reports> - Reports showing the results/scores for Club Competitions
<Competitions - Reports (2017 - 2019)> - Competition Reports for the years 2017 thru 2019.
<Competitions - Reports (2014 - 2016)> - Competition Reports for the years 2014 thru 2016.
<Gallery - Awarded Photos by Photographer> - Allows you to see awarded photos by photograher over approximately two years <2020 - Club Best of Year Photos> - Displays all the 2020 Best of Year Competition awarded photos.
<2019 Club Best of Year Photos> - Displays all the 2019 Best of Year Competition awarded photos.
<Member Help> - Page where club members can ask for help with photos or techniques from other club members.
<How They Did It> - Dedicated to showing techniques used by club members when creating photos.
TEMPORARY PAGES:
<"In Memory of Rob Mindas"> - A display of photos by Rob Mindas, a club member that recently passed away from the corona virus.
<"Verbal and Visual Art"> - Photos and Sonnets by club member Sandy Flickstein and her husband Dan.
<"Ordinary to Extraordinary"> - Photos by club member Dan Sudberg showing beautiful photos of ordinary subjects.
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Current Happenings: (new items posted in red)
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+ 2020 Best-of-Year Competition ->
<CLICK HERE> to go to the club's "2020 Club's Best of Year Photos" to see the year's awarded photos.
<CLICK HERE> to go to the "Competitions Reports" page to see a full report of how each submitted photo did in the competition.
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+ 2020 Best-of-Year Competition ->
<CLICK HERE> to go to the club's "2020 Club's Best of Year Photos" to see the year's awarded photos.
<CLICK HERE> to go to the "Competitions Reports" page to see a full report of how each submitted photo did in the competition.
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+ Sept 30th Competition - "House of Worship/Symbols" -> Results:
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Class 2: Open - Slideshow of Awarded Photos
Class 2: Open - Slideshow of Awarded Photos
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Class 1: Open - Slideshow of Awarded Photos
Class 1: Open - Slideshow of Awarded Photos
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Class 2: Theme "House of Worship/Symbols" - Slideshow of Awarded Photos
Class 2: Theme "House of Worship/Symbols" - Slideshow of Awarded Photos
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Class 1: Theme "House of Worship/Symbols" - Slideshow of Awarded Photos
Class 1: Theme "House of Worship/Symbols" - Slideshow of Awarded Photos
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+ Club Dues For 2022
If you plan on being a Photo Club member for 2022, please try to pay your membership dues as soon as you can. This will help the Club Board plan for the upcoming year. If you are new to the club, the 2022 dues will also cover the remainder of the 2021 season.
Please make out a check to the "Stonebridge Photography Club" for $35. Note "2022 dues" on the check.
You can get your checks to Allan Adelson, club Treasurer, at 9 Ravenslake Rd, Monroe Twp, NJ 08831.
Hope to see you again in the new year!
+ Club Officers
The club would like to announce that as of January 1, 2021, Flo Emin will take over the duties of club President and Bobbi Greenfield will take over the duties of club Vice-President. We should all wish them luck and offer our support in helping them meet the needs of the club.
Thanks are given for the great job done over the last two years by club President Rich Grossberg and club Vice-President Dan Sudberg. Rich, who has ably served the club as an officer a number of times in the last ten years, will remain on the Board as the most recent Past-President. Thanks Rich and Dan for all your time and effort for the club. Great job.
(You can see a list of the members of the club Executive Board and other club officers on the "Club Info - News, Procedures, Forms" page.)
+ Club Photos on display at Atlantic Physical Therapy offices
Take a look at the Club News page for details.
+ Sept 30th Competition - "House of Worship/Symbols" - Results
On Sept 30th the club held a competition session. This was held as a ZOOM session. Club members could submit up to six photos across a Theme category and an Open category. There is a competition requirement that at least one photo must be submitted in the Theme category. The Theme category for the session was "House of Worship/Symbols". The competition uses the following level setup - Class 2 (Experienced) and Class 1 (Intermediate and Beginner).
Fourteen club members submitted 73 photos across the Class 2 and Class 1 competition levels. The judge for the session was Alan Bogard.
Alan gave out a total of 13 scores of "9" and 18 scores of "8" from the 73 photos submitted.
Congratulations to all the award winners. You can see the awarded photos in the slideshow presentations above.
You can see a video of this entire competition session on the "Club Video Sessions" page.
You can also see the awarded photos under the "Competitions - Awarded Photos" page. You can see the scoring in the competition by opening the competition report for this session on the "Competitions - Reports" page. Just click the download file option for the competition report and you can see how you did.
+ Oct 12th Workshop - "Minimalism" ZOOM Session
The Tuesday Oct 12th workshop session will be led by Sandy Flickstein. In the session she will discuss the concept of "minimalism" in composing your photo images.
Notes from Sandy:
“The goal of minimalist art, or photography, is to convey a concept – or an idea – provoke an emotional response, or provide a unique visual experience. Compositional elements must be kept to a minimum, and the ones that are left should be essential for conveying the overall idea, or symbolism, of the photo.”
For a good guide to the concept of minimalist photography, read this article -->> https://contrastly.com/minimalist-photography
Sandy hopes to cover the following with example images:
1.Work with negative space
2. Incorporate spatial isolation
3. Add one color
4. Seek out strict repetition
5. Square off your lines
6. simple geometric shapes
+ Oct 28th Activity - Show & Tell "Minimalism" ZOOM Session
The Thursday Oct 28th session will be an activity session. Sandy Flickstein will lead a session showing member's work from the earlier workshop.
+ Nov 9th "Best of Year" Competition ZOOM Session
The Tuesday Nov 9th meeting will be our annual Best of Year competition session. It will be conducted as a ZOOM session. In the session photos from the past year's competitions that received a score of "9" or "8" will be eligible to be recognized with a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or Honorable Mention award. Photos will be judged within each Class.
Typically a judge will go through all the eligible photos within a Class and will declare them either "in" or "out" without comment. This will continue with succeeding pass-throughs until the hundreds of eligible photos are whittled down to a manageable number. At this point the judge will go through the remaining images with comments and eventually pick a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and HM photos.
The judge for the session will be Richard Lewis. You can see Richard Lewis's website by <CLICKING HERE>. You can see information about a book by Richard ("Photographing the New Jersey Pine Barrens") by <CLICKING HERE>.
(You can see the "2020 Club Best of Year Photos" by <CLICKING HERE>. You can see the "2019 Club Best of Year Photos" by <CLICKING HERE>.)
+ Nov 16th - Inter-Community Competition ZOOM Session
On Tuesday Nov 16th the club wil participate in the annual Inter-Community Competition against the photo clubs from five other area communities. This year's competition will be a ZOOM session beginning at 7:00 pm.
Each member of our club may enter up to two photos into the competition in either an Advanced or Beginner category. There are no themes. There are individual awards within each category and an overall award for the club achieving the best average score. Let's put on a good showing for the club! Find two of your best photos and submit through the PhotoContestPro website by the deadline of Oct 19th.
Look for details on the "Club News" page <CLICK HERE>.
Competition categories have been set up on the PhotoContestPro website. The deadline for submitting photos will be midnight of Tuesday (10/19).
+ Dec 14th Competition - Theme - "Any Holiday" ZOOM Session
The Tuesday Dec 14th meeting will be a competition session. It will be conducted as a ZOOM session. The Theme category for the session is "Any Holiday". Club members may submit up to six photos in their competition class (2 or 1) across a Theme category and an Open category. There is a requirement that at least one photo must be entered in the Theme category.
The judge for the session will be Marie Altenberg.
Notes for the Theme:
Think of a holiday that you and your family and friends celebrate or have seen celebrations of. Some obvious examples would be Christmas and 4th of July.
Please show pictures that convey something about that holiday to the viewer. Again, to be obvious, you might want to show something about a Christmas tree or a flag or fireworks for the 4th of July.
We hope you will have some creative and original ideas to translate into beautiful and exciting photos. The challenge is to leave the obvious behind!
Look for a notice when the competition categories have been set up on the PhotoContestPro website. The deadline for submitting photos that you want to be reviewed will be midnight of the Friday (12/10) before the session.
If you plan on being a Photo Club member for 2022, please try to pay your membership dues as soon as you can. This will help the Club Board plan for the upcoming year. If you are new to the club, the 2022 dues will also cover the remainder of the 2021 season.
Please make out a check to the "Stonebridge Photography Club" for $35. Note "2022 dues" on the check.
You can get your checks to Allan Adelson, club Treasurer, at 9 Ravenslake Rd, Monroe Twp, NJ 08831.
Hope to see you again in the new year!
+ Club Officers
The club would like to announce that as of January 1, 2021, Flo Emin will take over the duties of club President and Bobbi Greenfield will take over the duties of club Vice-President. We should all wish them luck and offer our support in helping them meet the needs of the club.
Thanks are given for the great job done over the last two years by club President Rich Grossberg and club Vice-President Dan Sudberg. Rich, who has ably served the club as an officer a number of times in the last ten years, will remain on the Board as the most recent Past-President. Thanks Rich and Dan for all your time and effort for the club. Great job.
(You can see a list of the members of the club Executive Board and other club officers on the "Club Info - News, Procedures, Forms" page.)
+ Club Photos on display at Atlantic Physical Therapy offices
Take a look at the Club News page for details.
+ Sept 30th Competition - "House of Worship/Symbols" - Results
On Sept 30th the club held a competition session. This was held as a ZOOM session. Club members could submit up to six photos across a Theme category and an Open category. There is a competition requirement that at least one photo must be submitted in the Theme category. The Theme category for the session was "House of Worship/Symbols". The competition uses the following level setup - Class 2 (Experienced) and Class 1 (Intermediate and Beginner).
Fourteen club members submitted 73 photos across the Class 2 and Class 1 competition levels. The judge for the session was Alan Bogard.
Alan gave out a total of 13 scores of "9" and 18 scores of "8" from the 73 photos submitted.
Congratulations to all the award winners. You can see the awarded photos in the slideshow presentations above.
You can see a video of this entire competition session on the "Club Video Sessions" page.
You can also see the awarded photos under the "Competitions - Awarded Photos" page. You can see the scoring in the competition by opening the competition report for this session on the "Competitions - Reports" page. Just click the download file option for the competition report and you can see how you did.
+ Oct 12th Workshop - "Minimalism" ZOOM Session
The Tuesday Oct 12th workshop session will be led by Sandy Flickstein. In the session she will discuss the concept of "minimalism" in composing your photo images.
Notes from Sandy:
“The goal of minimalist art, or photography, is to convey a concept – or an idea – provoke an emotional response, or provide a unique visual experience. Compositional elements must be kept to a minimum, and the ones that are left should be essential for conveying the overall idea, or symbolism, of the photo.”
For a good guide to the concept of minimalist photography, read this article -->> https://contrastly.com/minimalist-photography
Sandy hopes to cover the following with example images:
1.Work with negative space
2. Incorporate spatial isolation
3. Add one color
4. Seek out strict repetition
5. Square off your lines
6. simple geometric shapes
+ Oct 28th Activity - Show & Tell "Minimalism" ZOOM Session
The Thursday Oct 28th session will be an activity session. Sandy Flickstein will lead a session showing member's work from the earlier workshop.
+ Nov 9th "Best of Year" Competition ZOOM Session
The Tuesday Nov 9th meeting will be our annual Best of Year competition session. It will be conducted as a ZOOM session. In the session photos from the past year's competitions that received a score of "9" or "8" will be eligible to be recognized with a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or Honorable Mention award. Photos will be judged within each Class.
Typically a judge will go through all the eligible photos within a Class and will declare them either "in" or "out" without comment. This will continue with succeeding pass-throughs until the hundreds of eligible photos are whittled down to a manageable number. At this point the judge will go through the remaining images with comments and eventually pick a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and HM photos.
The judge for the session will be Richard Lewis. You can see Richard Lewis's website by <CLICKING HERE>. You can see information about a book by Richard ("Photographing the New Jersey Pine Barrens") by <CLICKING HERE>.
(You can see the "2020 Club Best of Year Photos" by <CLICKING HERE>. You can see the "2019 Club Best of Year Photos" by <CLICKING HERE>.)
+ Nov 16th - Inter-Community Competition ZOOM Session
On Tuesday Nov 16th the club wil participate in the annual Inter-Community Competition against the photo clubs from five other area communities. This year's competition will be a ZOOM session beginning at 7:00 pm.
Each member of our club may enter up to two photos into the competition in either an Advanced or Beginner category. There are no themes. There are individual awards within each category and an overall award for the club achieving the best average score. Let's put on a good showing for the club! Find two of your best photos and submit through the PhotoContestPro website by the deadline of Oct 19th.
Look for details on the "Club News" page <CLICK HERE>.
Competition categories have been set up on the PhotoContestPro website. The deadline for submitting photos will be midnight of Tuesday (10/19).
+ Dec 14th Competition - Theme - "Any Holiday" ZOOM Session
The Tuesday Dec 14th meeting will be a competition session. It will be conducted as a ZOOM session. The Theme category for the session is "Any Holiday". Club members may submit up to six photos in their competition class (2 or 1) across a Theme category and an Open category. There is a requirement that at least one photo must be entered in the Theme category.
The judge for the session will be Marie Altenberg.
Notes for the Theme:
Think of a holiday that you and your family and friends celebrate or have seen celebrations of. Some obvious examples would be Christmas and 4th of July.
Please show pictures that convey something about that holiday to the viewer. Again, to be obvious, you might want to show something about a Christmas tree or a flag or fireworks for the 4th of July.
We hope you will have some creative and original ideas to translate into beautiful and exciting photos. The challenge is to leave the obvious behind!
Look for a notice when the competition categories have been set up on the PhotoContestPro website. The deadline for submitting photos that you want to be reviewed will be midnight of the Friday (12/10) before the session.
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Competition Info:
We encourage all club members to participate in club competitions as often as possible. Their main goal is to help you improve as a photograher in a fun environment.
The best way to improve as a photographer is by showing your work and receiving feedback. And a great way to do this is through the competitions set up by the club. Listen to the comments made by the judge about your photos, and the photos of other club members. Use the comments to improve your work and see how you do in the next competition. Remember, it is all anonymous (unless your photo receives an award).
+ Note on Competition Submission Rules
Since we have gone back to running both Theme and Open categories during the same competition session, we are re-establishing an old rule. In short, when Theme and Open categories are established in the same competition session, you must submit at least one photo in a Theme category or all your submissions will be disqualified. Check the procedures on the Procedures, Forms, Links page.
(The reason for the rule is to get club members to think about the assigned themes, experiment with new techniques, and get out there and take new photos.)
+ Review of Our Competition Re-Submission Rules
Since a number of photos have recently been DQ'd in competitions, it seemed like a good idea to review our re-submission rules (you can see the full competition procedures on the Procedures,Forms,Links page:
- Any photo that has been DQ'd may be re-submitted without any restrictions.
- Any photo receiving a score of "7" or lower may be re-submitted in any future category, once.
- Any photo that has been scored in a competition may be re-submitted in any future competition category, once, if it has been substantially re-worked.
- Any Color photo that has been scored in a competition may be re-submitted as a Monochrome (B&W) photo in any future competition, once, and vice versa.
+ Note on Competition Awards Criteria
The club rules in regards to awarding photos at club competitions:
- A 1st place award will be given in every competition category.
- A 2nd and 3rd place will be awarded only if there are any photos left that received a score of “9” or “8”. (If the category has less than 10 photos, then only a 2nd place will be awarded. If the category has less than 7 photos, then only a 1st place will be awarded.)
- All remaining photos that received a score of “9” will receive an Honorable Mention award.
Check the procedures on the Procedures, Forms, Links page.
Competition Info:
We encourage all club members to participate in club competitions as often as possible. Their main goal is to help you improve as a photograher in a fun environment.
The best way to improve as a photographer is by showing your work and receiving feedback. And a great way to do this is through the competitions set up by the club. Listen to the comments made by the judge about your photos, and the photos of other club members. Use the comments to improve your work and see how you do in the next competition. Remember, it is all anonymous (unless your photo receives an award).
+ Note on Competition Submission Rules
Since we have gone back to running both Theme and Open categories during the same competition session, we are re-establishing an old rule. In short, when Theme and Open categories are established in the same competition session, you must submit at least one photo in a Theme category or all your submissions will be disqualified. Check the procedures on the Procedures, Forms, Links page.
(The reason for the rule is to get club members to think about the assigned themes, experiment with new techniques, and get out there and take new photos.)
+ Review of Our Competition Re-Submission Rules
Since a number of photos have recently been DQ'd in competitions, it seemed like a good idea to review our re-submission rules (you can see the full competition procedures on the Procedures,Forms,Links page:
- Any photo that has been DQ'd may be re-submitted without any restrictions.
- Any photo receiving a score of "7" or lower may be re-submitted in any future category, once.
- Any photo that has been scored in a competition may be re-submitted in any future competition category, once, if it has been substantially re-worked.
- Any Color photo that has been scored in a competition may be re-submitted as a Monochrome (B&W) photo in any future competition, once, and vice versa.
+ Note on Competition Awards Criteria
The club rules in regards to awarding photos at club competitions:
- A 1st place award will be given in every competition category.
- A 2nd and 3rd place will be awarded only if there are any photos left that received a score of “9” or “8”. (If the category has less than 10 photos, then only a 2nd place will be awarded. If the category has less than 7 photos, then only a 1st place will be awarded.)
- All remaining photos that received a score of “9” will receive an Honorable Mention award.
Check the procedures on the Procedures, Forms, Links page.
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CLUB FACEBOOK PAGE:
Club member Harvey Josephson has set up a Facebook page just for the Stonebridge Photo Club.
The page was set up to allow club members to share photos from workshops and photo trips.
To join the Facebook page, just search for "Stonebridge Photo Club" in Facebook and click the join button. You must obviously have a Facebook account to join. In the event that the search doesn't show the "Stonebridge Photo Club", you can find it using the link below:
www.facebook.com/groups/143599217901578/
If you want to upload your photos and are not on Facebook, you will have to ask someone who is a Facebook member to upload your photos for you.
Once you join the group you can invite other members of the photo group with whom you are already Facebook friends by using the Invite button that should be displayed.
The page can also be used to ask questions and for help with any photography questions you may have.
CLUB FACEBOOK PAGE:
Club member Harvey Josephson has set up a Facebook page just for the Stonebridge Photo Club.
The page was set up to allow club members to share photos from workshops and photo trips.
To join the Facebook page, just search for "Stonebridge Photo Club" in Facebook and click the join button. You must obviously have a Facebook account to join. In the event that the search doesn't show the "Stonebridge Photo Club", you can find it using the link below:
www.facebook.com/groups/143599217901578/
If you want to upload your photos and are not on Facebook, you will have to ask someone who is a Facebook member to upload your photos for you.
Once you join the group you can invite other members of the photo group with whom you are already Facebook friends by using the Invite button that should be displayed.
The page can also be used to ask questions and for help with any photography questions you may have.
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“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” - Ted Grant
Some people say that black & white photos have more character, more substance than color photos. Whether you accept that or not, it is an area of photography that should be explored by all serious photographers. In future competitions, it is hoped that you consider entering one or more photos in the Monochrome (B&W) categories. If you need help in working in black & white, ask one of the club officers for assistance.
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Note From The President
Remember, if you have a picture in a competition and the judge suggests some changes to make it better, other Club members are available to help you make those changes. Some of the more experienced members of the Club will be available to assist any member with Photoshop and adjustments to any of your pictures either before or after a competition. Please ask one of the club officers for more information.
Remember, if you have a picture in a competition and the judge suggests some changes to make it better, other Club members are available to help you make those changes. Some of the more experienced members of the Club will be available to assist any member with Photoshop and adjustments to any of your pictures either before or after a competition. Please ask one of the club officers for more information.
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“You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.”
– William Eggelston
– William Eggelston
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special thanks to Jack Moscowitz and Gene Kassan for the initial setup of this website
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