March 27, 2023: BPS Member Photo Competition Night with Nanci Ori as judge for a hybrid Zoom meeting. The theme of this event will be announced in the near future. Nancy Ori is extremely qualified to judge & critique our competition. She obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts from Elmira College & an MS degree in Visual...
June 19, 2023: Nic Stover will present “The Power to Create” via a hybrid Zoom session. You will remember Nic as our judge from the June 27, 2022 BPS Competition. Join professional landscape photographer Nic Stover for this BPS session about an area of photography that is hard to quantify & takes some time to discover but is...
November 6, 2023 at 7 PM: “Gear Night” Special guest, Steve Miller, an expert equipment specialist at Dan's Camera City in Allentown, will be our guest speaker for "Gear Night". Steve will share : 1) How to best use newer technology and gear and the advantages/solutions that particular piece of gear provides from different brands . 2) A comparison to...
November 20, 2023: Tony Bramley of Essex England will do a hybrid Zoom presentation titled “Composition: The Principles & Elements of Art in Photography”. You are sure to remember the wonderful experience we had with Tony as the judge for the October 24, 2022 BPS competition. Tony actually teaches a 2 day Advanced Composition workshop in England. This session...
Dewitt will share his career in photography from its beginnings to the present day. He spent 20 years with National Geographic, 10 years in advertising & writing columns for Outdoor Photographer Magazine, & another 20 years lecturing on creativity & vision. During all of this time, he created a heck of a lot of images. What has...
Berks County Veterans Administration representatives Kaylin Brice and Amy Cook will introduce ”The Seeing Lens” program, a 10-week therapeutic photography group program. During the presentation we will see how this program combines learning photographic techniques with group counseling for veterans. Some of the participants' experiences, successes, and samples of their amazing photos taken during the course will be shared. "The...
Here is what we will experience from this talk in Guy’s own words: “Photography is a medium eminently capable of both objective representation & subjective expression. This dichotomy, although long resolved in other media, is still a subject of contention among photographers & critics. If we accept photography as a medium for expressive art, the...
Betsy will explore the world of motion photography through her unique perspective. A combination of traditional techniques of controlling shutter speed with some non-traditional concepts using camera motion and light-painting, Betsy's images will inform and inspire us to try new ideas. Using your camera to capture motion in ways beyond what we see with our...
Arthur Meyerson is recognized as one of America’s finest color photographers & is a highly sought after speaker & workshop instructor. He has traveled throughout the world, visiting all seven continents photographing for advertising, corporate & editorial clients. Arthur is a three-time winner of Adweek’s Southwest Photographer of the Year award, as well as being...
Jonathan will give highly skilled reviews of all the images as well as demonstrate selected image processing suggestions. Details will follow. Jonathan has been the Regional Organizer for the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) for five years & is the Judges’ Secretary for the East Anglian Federation (EAF) of Photographic Societies in Great Britain. He is...