Penn Camera Exhibit & Reception for McLean Photo Club

Penn Camera at Tysons Corner is exhibiting twenty-plus photos in October-November by McLean Photo Club members. In honor of the occasion, Penn is hosting a reception, open to the public, on Friday October 26 at 7:00 p.m. Join us!

The MPC members whose pictures are featured are Bruce Copping, Bill Corbett, Minnie Gallman, Tom Mangan, Ursy Potter, Bill Prosser and Paul Weiner.

Thanks to Andrew Shippin and his colleagues at Penn for putting out the welcome mat for the McLean Photo Club.  Please join us on Friday October 26, if you can, or stop by anytime to take a look.

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The McLean Photo Club is in its fourth decade -- and we welcome new members. 

MPC's next meeting will be Wednesday November 14 at 7:30 pm in the McLean Community Center.  

The November meeting will be a quarterly competition, for any type of photograph, with no limitations on subject matter or photographic technique or equipment.  Members must pay their annual dues of $25 in order to compete; new members who pay at the meeting may compete as well.  Guests are welcome at this and every meeting without payment of dues.

We compete in three broad categories.  Two are for printed images, which are judged in separate color and monochrome categories.  Within the color and monochrome categories prize ribbons are awarded separately for advanced and novice photographers.  The third and final category is digital images, in which color and monochrome images compete together.  Again, there are separate prize ribbons in the digital competition for advanced and novice photographers. 

All the rules for the competition and for submitting prints or digital images are online at http://www.mcleanphoto.org/competition.html.

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The club has finished gathering photos from members for entry in an annual nature photography competition that is organized by McLean and five other clubs.  The Nature Visions Photo Expo takes place November 9, 10 & 11 at the Hylton Center for the Performing Arts in Manassas.  The pictures in the recent McLean Patch gallery are by McLean photographers who earned a place in the exhibit at the Nature Visions Expo last year.  About three hundred of the one thousand photos entered from six partnering Northern Virginia clubs were selected for the Expo's exhibit.

On Friday November 9, Seth Resnick, named one of the decade's  thirty most influential photographers by PDN magazine, will offer a full day workshop at the Hylton Center on "Seeing Color: Creating Dynamic Killer Images."   On Saturday and Sunday November 10-11 Expo visitors can see the gallery of 300 juried images and visit with over thirty local and national vendors of photography equipment, supplies, software, education and travel.  Seven more photography lectures and ten workshops are available on those days at an additional cost.

Canon Explorer of Light Darrel Gulin will give a free 2 hour presentation on backyard photography on Sunday at 4:30 pm.   Prior to Sunday afternoon, a daily admission for Saturday November 10 or Sunday morning is $10.  Full details and prices are at naturevisions.org.