This month’s competitions are:

• Video 5-minute edited (please bring submissions on miniDV, disc or thumb drive; do not upload to laups.org)
• September Shootout (postponed from last month - 2 entries max)
• November Minicomp: “The Tuxedo.”  Entries must be black & white only, 3 entries max.

There are two competitions happening at the October meeting:

• Minicomp: “Dead of Night” (open/novice/video)
• September Shootout (stills/video)

If your image placed in the intraclub, please send Anastasia an email to post it in the LAUPS gallery (address spelled out to avoid spam: alaity47 [at] earthlink [dot] net)

OPEN: Wide Angle

• 1st Place: Kelly Bracken (tiger shark)
• 2nd Place: Scott Webb (lionfish)
• 3rd Place: Jim Lyle (Cozumel wreck)

OPEN: Macro

• 1st Place: Jim Lyle (mantis shrimp) & Bill van Antwerp (squid)
• 2nd Place: Margaret Webb (fish) and Bill van Antwerp (Lembeh crab)
• 3rd Place: Jeff Laity (squid at night)

OPEN: Black & White

• 1st Place: Margaret Webb (feather duster worm)
• 2nd Place: Jim Lyle (Lembeh shrimp)
• 3rd Place: Jim Lyle (ray and diver)

COMBINED: Marine Related / Scenic

• 1st Place: Tony Frank (puffin)
• 2nd Place: Jeff Laity (iguana)
• 3rd Place: Tony Frank (penguins)

COMBINED: Cold Water

• 1st Place: Jim Lyle (simnia snail)
• 2nd Place: Scott Webb (fish face)
• 3rd Place: Jim Lyle (topsnails) & Margaret Webb (cabezon)

NOVICE: Wide Angle

• 1st Place: John Nolan (turtle)
• 2nd Place: Jamie Nixon (Indonesia)
• 3rd Place: Nikki Pieper (whale shark)

NOVICE: Macro

• 1st Place: Nikki Pieper (mandarinfish)
• 2nd Place: Jamie Nixon (arrow crab)
• 3rd Place: John Nolan (shrimp)

NOVICE: Black & White

• 1st Place: Scott Gietler (wreck)
• 2nd Place: John Nolan (crocodile fish)
• 3rd Place: Nikki Pieper (Galapagos)

There will ONLY be prints in September, no digital entries.  Points from the May (Digital) and September (Print) Intraclub competitions will be added together.

The September print categories are:

• Macro
• Wide Angle
• Cold Water
• Marine Related / Scenic
• Black and White

Entry Gudelines:

• A maximum number of 3 images per category may be entered.
• The same image or any portion thereof may not be entered in more then one category.
• All prints need to be mounted for showing on easels.  The unmounted size will be no smaller than 8”X10” nor larger than 16”X29” and the mounted and matted size no larger than 20”X24”. Framed or glass covered prints will NOT be judged.  (Easels will be provided at the meeting)

We’ve got a great speaker this month, Mark Comon from Paul’s Photo in Torrance. Mark teaches a lot of classes there, and I’ve found his advanced class to be really inspiring.

His talk will be on  the “Fun of Digital Photography” and he’ll bring some prints and products.

The comp theme is “Three Musketeers”, Anastasia has the upload form going for it.

Here’s more on Mark:

Mark Comon eats, sleeps and breathes photography. A photographic professional since the age of 15, Mark is currently Vice President of Paul’s Photo, Torrance, CA. As a photographic counselor, photo instructor and photographic artist Mark has the knowledge and experience to solve any photographic problem.

Since 1988, Mark Comon has taught more than two hundred students per month in his popular classes at Paul’s Photo. As a dynamic lecturer, Comon has entertained and educated audiences from first-time snap-shooters and hobbyists to industry professionals. He delivers concise information, plain-language explanations, and inspirational images. In addition to teaching his inspirational programs popular in and out of the photo industry as motivational programs. Mark’s Basic Photography class is now running on cable TV in Southern California.

Mark has taken student groups on photographic tours through Europe, Africa and the American Southwest. Mark’s popular Photo Adventures to California’s natural wonders (Death Valley, Monterey, Eastern Sierra and Yosemite) are always sold out! He is the originator of the Los Angeles Zoo Photo Day, now in its 19th year. His images have been featured in many publications, including Outdoor Photographer, PC Photo and Photographic magazine.

As a photographic artist Mark’s images have been featured in many local and regional photographic and artistic exhibitions. His beautiful landscape, insightful travel and stirring documentary images capture the light, drama and full range of the human experience. Twelve landscape images were recently selected for permanent display at the Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley.

July Minicomp Winners

We’ve also posted the winners from June’s 3-minute Video Edited Competition:

June 3-Minute Video Edited

Our speaker will be Speaker: Rob Sheppard, www.robsheppardphoto.com, speaking on Adobe Lightroom.

Rob Sheppard has had a long-time and nationally recognized commitment to helping photographers connect with digital imaging technology. He was one of the small group of people who started PCPhoto magazine nearly eight years ago to bring the digital world to photographers on their terms. He is the editor of PCPhoto as well as Outdoor Photographer magazines (second only to Popular Photography in circulation), group editorial director of all Werner Publication photo magazines (PCPhoto, Outdoor Photographer and Digital Photo Pro) and is the author/photographer of over a dozen photo books, including Adobe® Camera Raw for Digital Photographers Only, the PCPhoto Digital SLR Handbook and the Epson Complete Guide to Digital Printing.

He also writes a column in Outdoor Photographer called Digital Horizons and teaches around the country, including workshops for the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Santa Fe Photography and Digital Workshops, Digital Landscape Workshop Series and the Great American Photography Workshop group.

As a photographer, Rob worked for many years in Minnesota (before moving to Los Angeles), including doing work for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Norwest Banks (now Wells Fargo), Pillsbury, 3M, General Mills, Lutheran Brotherhood, Ciba-Geigy, Anderson Windows, and others. His photography has been published in many magazines, ranging from National Geographic to The Farmer to, of course, Outdoor Photographer and PCPhoto.

The Club Mini-Comp theme will be “Titanic” - Anastasia sent out a link to the upload form, contact Anastasia or Roger if you need it.

Time to nail down your spot on the July 20^th one-day shootout photo competition boat dive. We will again be using the Sundiver out of Alamitos Bay landing. Planned dive sites include an oil rig and Ship Rock plus a third spot. The fee is $125 which includes food and air. Contact Cory for more information.

This is a trip to the Channel Islands on the Vision out of Santa Barbara. In addition to the diving, Annie will be giving lectures and available to help with your images and editing. She will also have some of the latest toys from Light and Motion, Sea & Sea, and Gates to name a few. The trip dates are Sept. 2-6 for the Southern Islands and/or Sept 7-10 for the Northern Islands. Go to www.diveintoyourimagination.com and look under the travel section for a full write-up.

Comment- I recently met Annie on a trip to Indonesia where she was one of the photo/video professionals. Her enthusiasm and knowledge of the ocean is inspiring, and her attention to trip participants is like none I’ve seen before. Be sure to give this trip some consideration. No passport required, and she promises not to weigh your carry-on luggage when you board the boat.

Jamie Nixon, LAUPS member