FREE - Get to Know the Olympus Educators

FREE - Get to Know the Olympus Educators

Location: https://www.bigmarker.com/wildside-nature-tours/FREE-Get-to-Know-the-Olympus-Educators
When: Saturday, May 2, 2020 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Description: This webinar is a chance for you to meet and get to know the 19 Official Olympus Educators in the United States. Each photographer has their own specialties, style, and unique approach to photography. If you already shoot Olympus, have been thinking of switching to Olympus, or would like to learn more about how to use Olympus camera equipment to create stunning images, then this is your chance to meet all nineteen educators. We will be asking a series of questions and then we will take some questions from the audience as well.
Come learn who can help you on your photographic journey with the Olympus OM-D system!

 View and attend webinar at 

https://www.bigmarker.com/wildside-nature-tours/FREE-Get-to-Know-the-Olympus-Educators

We are using Olympus gear completely now. www.tinyurl.com/lisatomO

FYI, ANYONE can attend our workshops (mobile device, film camera, dSLR, mirrorless, etc.)

Olympus- New Cameras & Lenses are Here! Shop Now
http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-8462989-11968384 

Title: FREE - Get to Know the Olympus Educators

Title: FREE - Get to Know the Olympus Educators

Location: https://www.bigmarker.com/wildside-nature-tours/FREE-Get-to-Know-the-Olympus-Educators

When: Saturday, May 2, 2020 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Description: This webinar is a chance for you to meet and get to know the 19 Official Olympus Educators in the United States. Each photographer has their own specialties, style, and unique approach to photography. If you already shoot Olympus, have been thinking of switching to Olympus, or would like to learn more about how to use Olympus camera equipment to create stunning images, then this is your chance to meet all nineteen educators. We will be asking a series of questions and then we will take some questions from the audience as well.

Come learn who can help you on your photographic journey with the Olympus OM-D system!

 View and attend webinar at https://www.bigmarker.com/wildside-nature-tours/FREE-Get-to-Know-the-Olympus-Educators

We are using Olympus gear completely now. www.tinyurl.com/lisatomO

FYI, ANYONE can attend our workshops (mobile device, film camera, dSLR, mirrorless, etc.)

Olympus- New Cameras & Lenses are Here! Shop Now
http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-8462989-11968384 

NECCC Spring 2020 Electronic Interclub Competition

The Spring 2020 NECCC projected image competitions were hosted by the Greater Lynn
Photographic Association. Rick Cloran served as the competition coordinator. The competition
was originally scheduled to be judged at GLPA on Monday March 30. As we all know all too well,
just about every plan anyone has had for March, April and likely beyond has been thrown out the
window as a result of the COVID-19 chaos.

After consulting with Bill Barnett and Cindy Gosselin, it was agreed that Bill would generate the
image files and related Excel scoresheets and Rick would ask the judges to download the file from
a shared Dropbox, score the images and return their completed sheet to Rick who would in turn
combine the scores on the master sheets and return those to Bill and Cindy.

Once last-minute hiccup came when one judge was uncomfortable in handling the files that way.
After Rick was unable to quickly locate an alternate, Bill agreed to allow Cindy to serve as a judge
since she had not been involved in processing the entries. With that settled, Rick sent the files and
score sheets out to Cindy Gosselin, Mike DiStefano, and Don Toothaker. These three very worthy
individuals did yeoman like work in getting all of the images judged and the sheets back to Rick in
time for Rick to have the completed master files back by the originally scheduled competition
date.

We did have two images in Class B Nature that were scored low because they did not meet the
requirements of the PSA nature definition that governs the Nature competitions. One was of a
domestic animal. The other had a visible human structure in the background. Club Reps are
reminded to familiarize themselves with the restrictions in the PSA Nature Definition before
selecting entries for the Nature section of the NECCC interclub competitions.

Many thanks go out to Bill, Cindy, Mike and Don for their work and assistance in making it
possible to at least carry out this one small aspect of our “normal” lives in a time that is anything
but normal.

Rick Cloran

Bill and Cindy would also like to extend many, many thanks to Rick Cloran and the Greater Lynn
Photographic Association for hosting this “virtual” competition, the last of the 2019-20 season.
Forty one clubs participated in the Pictorial section (23 from Class A and 18 from Class B) and thirty nine clubs participated in the Nature section (17 from Class A and 22 from Class B).

The report and gallery images are on the NECCC website, interclub comp page:  http://www.neccc.org/p/interclub-print-comp.html

NECCC Announcement-=- 75th photography conference

NECCC Announcement

With the uncertainty in the USA and the New England area due to COVID19, NECCC has decided, like the Olympics, to postpone our 75^th Anniversary Conference to 2021. We will have all the same speakers, activities and events that we have announced for 2020 - the 75th conference just will take place one year later. 

The program registration fee will also be unchanged from 2020 and will remain at the low cost of $205 for early registration. Our Conference Chairs will remain the same, Lisa and Tom Cuchara who have agreed to stay on for one more year.

We thank you all for your past, present and future support of the conference and the NECCC Council itself and hope you will all join us July 16-18^th in 2021. 

Just a FYI, hotels sold out very quickly in the UMass Amherst area, so you might want to book your hotel NOW or SOON for July 2021!

If you have registered for the 2020 conference you will receive an email from Susan Mosser regarding keeping your registration and workshop choices for 2021 -- and about full refunds if you choose. It will come from s.jmosser@comcast.net

Susan Mosser, HonPSA, HonNEC Conference Coordinator

Lisa, HonNEC & Tom, MNEC Cuchara-Conference Co-Chairs

Antoinette Gombeda, HonNEC –NECCC President