BPS member Jeff Schaeffer shares “Travel Photography – Capturing the Experience!” Jeff enjoys traveling to new places and enjoys capturing the experience to share with others. He is enthusiastic about traveling to foreign places but also enjoys traveling in the USA and exploring places near to home. In 2023, he and his wife decided to do a ‘day...
Join us for a fun filled & educational day at the Bryn Athyn Cathedral & Glencairn Mansion/Museum in Bryn Athyn, PA. All BPS members & their guests are invited to this event. In fact, the more the merrier. However, registration is required & you must email me at Vince.Pellegrini@berksphotographic.com, as well. The Bryn Athyn Cathedral is an active...
Paul Sanders will present live from the UK his talk entitled “The Soul of the Creator” via a hybrid zoom meeting. This presentation will explore the relationship a photographer must have with their subject & why we so often fail to pay our fullest attention to our muse. Every genre of photography is a collaboration...
BPS member Dutch Bagley presents “Architectural Haiku” Dutch has loved capturing images of a city's architecture wherever he visits, especially in New York City. For this presentation, Dutch will demonstrate his initial approach for selecting a capture, the tools used to create an image and will show how he creates light flows, enhances contrasts and tonal ranges, incorporates...
New York City - BPS members are invited to go to NYC via Klein Bus (or via their own transportation) and photograph with Dutch Bagley as a follow-up to his Monday, June 3rd presentation. This is an amazing opportunity to photograph the city with someone who knows all the places to go! We will have eye popping...
Group outing to Philadelphia- the Parkway and the Philadelphia Navy Yard. A day trip with Dutch Bagley to the French Champs-Élysées inspired architecture along the Ben Franklin Parkway which includes the Phila. Art Museum, Phila. Library, Rodin Museum, Barnes Foundation, Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, and many more extraordinary buildings. Even a chance to do a...
- June 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM: Bob Krist will present via a hybrid Zoom session “Authentic Travel Photography in the Age of Instagram”. The following thoughts are from Bob: “There’s no doubt about it, social media like Instagram & Facebook has allowed photographers to reach much wider audiences. It’s no longer necessary to pass the gatekeepers of...
June 22, 2024 (Saturday): Post processing workshop with Dutch Bagley, 9am-noon at the Goggleworks.
The second BPS competition and critique for this year will be held on June 24, 2024. Submission deadline is Sunday night, June 9, 2024 at 12 MN. This deadline is close. Submit now. This will be a recorded, hybrid meeting using Zoom for those who decide not to join us at the GoggleWorks. Every member is encouraged...
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATE FOR THIS TRIP -- JUNE 27th -- On June 27th, the club will be taking a day trip to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville, NJ. This is the second largest Hindu temple in the world and it’s less than two hours from Reading! The first Mandir opened in 2014...