Nominations are being accepted for the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT)’s annual ‘Keep Montgomery County Clean and Green’ Amateur Photography Competition!

We are looking forward to an exciting collection of photographs that depict Montgomery County at its finest. New and experienced photographers are welcomed! Photos of Montgomery County locations and/or residents are judged on effective composition, originality, interest, relevance of the subject matter, and technique. Photo submissions are due by July 1.

We are asking you for help in getting the word out to your subscribers/members by including this blurb in your next email, newsletter, blog and/or Facebook posting!

For more information on the contest and to download the application visit: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dir/KMCB/Photo.html

Photographs by Jordan Snyder, NIHCC.

Sailing adventures on the Bay; combining pleasure and photography with a purpose.

More details:

Event details

www.focalview.co.uk

focalist.net

Pictures of America

To all the members of your camera club

Hello

We are looking to invite the members of your camera club to send us a landscape photograph each of their choice that shows the best of your region. We are compiling a photographic inspiration collection called Pictures of America which will be available free from our website. In return, we are inviting camera clubs in the UK to do the same. We want to present the countries from the local points of view. We have all seen the generic poster pictures but these provide little personal inspiration. The collections will be connections between individual photographers showing the best of their worlds as seen through their own lens.

Focal View

We exist to provide inspiration and a wider audience for amateur photographers. We all take photographs but have little opportunity to show and share the ideas with  others beyond their local club, friends and family. We provide that opportunity. Photographers can showcase their work through bespoke portfolios, enter our free international competition which is judged anonymously by our Open Panel as well as professional judges who always provide constructive feedback and even develop their photography skills through our Perspectives on Photography library.

Most of our work is completely free and where we do charge for portfolios and our Perspectives, we only cover the running costs. We feel that creative photography should reach everybody.  Pictures of America and Pictures of Great Britain will be a good opportunity to see and share the individual views of the world.

Please simply ask your members to send their images – 7 x 4 at 300 dpi or thereabouts with their name and club in the file title to editor@focalview.co.uk

Each entrant  can have the Perspectives title of their choice as a thank you for helping to create what we feel will become a great photographic collection of individual views of their world. Just ask members to tell us which Perspectives number and we will send them the link.

Thank you for your time and we look forward to meeting your members and sharing their work with other photographers around the world.

Best wishes

Adrian and Brian

Focal View and Focalist

Here are some direct links you will find useful:

http://www.focalview.co.uk/portfolios.html

http://www.focalview.co.uk/perspectives/

http://www.focalview.co.uk/competition/exhibition.html

http://focalist.net/blog/

Montgomery Parks are looking for a freelance photographer to help with the development of their new website.  Attached is a project brief that outlines the scope of the project.

Project Brief_PhotographyMontParksJun2016

For further details please contact: Susan Stafford

9500 Brunett Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20901
Office: 301.495.2517 Mobile: 301.518.9950 Fax 301.495.9340

Marketing & Public Affairs Manager | Public Affairs & Community Partnerships Division
Montgomery Parks | The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

www.MontgomeryParks.org

The June NIHCC/SSCC meet-up will be in mid-June to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in DC. Water lilies and lotuses should be in bloom.

https://www.nps.gov/keaq/index.htm

The date will decided later and will depend on the state of the gardens and the weather. Look for an update around June 10th.

Jim

Images by Jim Turner.

Congratulations to Jim Turner whose photo of rising star tennis player, Franklin Tiafoe, was published in the Washington Post today!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/recruiting-insider/wp/2016/05/06/franklin-tiafoe-comes-into-his-own-as-demathas-top-tennis-player/