Competitions for

2024-25

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• Due Oct 1- Storms
• Due Nov 1- PSA Round 1
• Due Dec 1- Trails
• Due Jan 1- PSA Round 2
• Due Feb 1- Roads
• Due Mar 1- PSA Round 3
• Due April 1- Solitude

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Intra-Club competitions:

Each of the intra-club competitions will be judged in two categories: Contest images and Critique Only. Your choice. 

 A member can enter 1 or 2 images in each contest. In addition, you can enter 1 or 2 images in Critique Only by itself or in addition to the images to be judged. Images in Critique Only should fit the same topic.

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PSA PID Competitions:

The Photographic Society of America Projected Image Division inter-club competition, Open. Any subject, any processing or editing. 

There are two divisions: Color and Monochrome. You may enter the same photo in both divisions (i.e., one in color and a duplicate edited to monochrome), but they need to have the same title/file name.

In order to compete, you must have a permission form on file with the PSA. See message from Fran Nunn, Secretary.

This is a competition between PSA member clubs from around the US and the world. We will vote to choose 6 images to send as our club's entry. PSA will give each image a numerical score, and each club's total score is tabulated over the year to assign its relative place within its group. 

Member clubs are divided into 6 groups, A through F, according to their cumulative score over the year. Currently we are in Group A for Monochrome and Group B in Color. Our Monochrome images did very well last year and advanced the Club's standing where we currently remain.

Meeting was called to order at 6:05 pm by President Diane Erhart.  The meeting was attended by 11 members in person at the Billings Public Library and 4 members online via Zoom. 

Announcements:

• Sarah Ehlen, Glacier photographer, will judge the Trails contest.
• Results for the PSA Round 1 Color contest were announced. Sheila Ruble earned 10 pts (Garden Spider), Bob Ruble earned 10pts (Evening Thunderhead), Steve Hubbard earned 7 pts (Sampling the Pansies), Larry Bean earned 8 pts (Horseshoe Bend), Diane Erhart earned 9 pts (A Guiding Beacon) and Greg Sullivan earned 12 pts (Into the Woods).
• Voting results for images to be submitted to PSA Round 2 were announced. There are 6 images chosen for each category for each round. Top vote getters for Color are: Larry Bean, Patrick McDonald, Ross Magnuson, Sheila Ruble, Greg Sullivan and Bob Ruble.  For Monochrome, images selected by the Club are made by: Dennis Hirning, Patrick McDonald, Ross Magnuson, Diane Erhart, Jerry Jacobs and Greg Sullivan.
• It was suggested that we work on making better titles for our images.
• Larry Bean volunteered to work on finding judges for our contests. Please send him any suggestions.

Program:

• Images for the Christmas Lights Gallery and the December Gallery were enjoyed.
• Homework assignment for next time is to edit images from a Dropbox folder and submit your edited photos to the Gallery set up for this. Original images were done by Diane Erhart. Instructions are included with the Gallery.

• The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 pm. The next meeting is scheduled for February 4, 2025,  at the Billings Public Library.

Submitted by Fran Nunn Sec/Treas

This month's meeting was held via Zoom due to hazardous driving conditions and cold temperatures.  The meeting was called to order at 6:05 pm by President Diane Erhart. There were 20 attendees.

Announcements:

• There will be a Photo Safari held on February 22 at Woods Power Grip in Laurel.  There will be various stations set up and a model available for members to photograph.  Please tell Diane about any ideas for the stations as well as supplies that you can provide. The event will be from 2-4 pm with a social hour to follow at the Laurel Golf Course. Thanks to LeeAnn Woods for providing this facility.

Program:

• The images from the gallery 'What's Your Edit' were reviewed. There was a lively discussion about the images that were submitted by members and what worked and what didn't. There were 5 original images provided by Diane. The edits gallery had 41 images, all with such a different approach.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:45 pm. The next meeting is scheduled for March 4, 2025, at the Billings Public Library at 6 pm.

Submitted by Fran Nunn Sec/Treas