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Jim Swallow Photography
6166 9th Ave North
Saint Petersburg, FL 33710
727-596-7822
Bay Area
Sunrise & Sunset times
Twi: 6:38am
Sunrise: 7:03am
Sunset: 5:34pm
Twi: 6:00pm
Moonrise: 2:45am
Moonset: 2:22pm
Photographic Art Society
Our Next Exhibit is titled
" Fruits and Vegetables "
We need your images as soon as possible. Submit your images to cheryl at
Cheryl@photographicartsociety.org
Framing Day will be announced once we get your images.
Please turn out and support our next show.
Photography Newsletter December 2010
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. (Ansel Adams)
This Months Theme is
"Your Best Image or Your Project For The Year".
Join us at 6:00 p.m.
It is time for our annual holiday dinner party
This is a pot luck dinner so we need everyone to bring some food for the dinner. Please send cheryl a list of the food you are going to bring. Cheryl's email address is
cheryl@photographicartsociety.org
Your images from your project of the year can be in the form a slide show or bring your images in one folder and make sure your name is on every file and they are numbered in sequence. Slide shows can be no longer that 5 minutes and your folder of images should be a minimum of 12
If you don't have a project for the year or a body of work that shows one central theme than you can only bring ONE image.
Send your images to me by Wednesday night or you may bring them to the meeting. Please bring only 2 images. Theme related or your best images from the past month are acceptable
I will start asking this month what your theme for next year will be so please start thinking of what you would like to do.
PLEASE RSVP WITH THE FOOD YOU ARE GOING TO BRING
Remember to size your files no larger than 1024x768 at 100ppi and they should have your name in the beginning example of your files could be (Jim_Swallow_shopping_carts_1_0409.jpg)
It helps tremendously by having all your images together at the end of the year by you using the same method each and every month. Thanks
December is our Holiday party and yearly Projects are shown at that time
PLEASE RSVP WITH THE FOOD YOU ARE GOING TO BRING
Membership Dues are Due the first Meeting in January for 2011
Photography Tips
How to use a zoom as a compositional aid
Cheryl and Jim are having their annual
Art Sale
From the 26th- 28th and the 3rd - 5th
If you are looking for unique gifts to give your friends this holiday season stop by our studio in Saint Pete.
Check out some of our products at
Gift Certificates are also available for Classes in
Polymer clay, Bead Design, Gourds, Photography, Photoshop and more
Photographic Art Society
Exhibiting Photographers networking event
at
The Summit Exec Building
Wednesday December 1st from 6 - 9
This is a networking event called "toys looking for kids" with lots of door prizes and complimentary photos with Santa.
There will be valet parking, free food and drink specials.
Attendees are asked to bring a new unwrapped toy or make a $10 cash contribution.
Photoshop Tips
Photos to Inspire
Photoshop & Photography Training
Give The Gift of Education this Holiday Season
Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom
and Digital photography.
private lesson in Photoshop, Lightroom and Digital Imaging Classes
please call Jim at 727-596-7822
Plug-in Software
OnOne Software
use code PHSY for 15%
OnOne web site
Topaz Software
Updates are available
Topaz has new updates coming this month you can get a special discount using code: Enhanced
on all the software
Check out the web site here
Membership Info
Membership is $40.00 a year. See link above for additional info
Bay Area Photographic Exhibits
Society Member Joe Martin is having a show at
The address is 432 75th ave. next to the Christmas shop at the corner of Blind Pass road.
We would like to invite all members to our reception at the restaurant on Monday, Dec. 6:00 — 8:00
Photographic Art Society Exhibit
Our current exhibit at the Summit Executive Building is
"Into The Woods"
See the images in our gallery here
POLK MUSEUM of ART
Eye See America: Through the Lens of Joshua Mann Pailet
October 2, 2010 - January 8, 2011
Eye See America: Through the Lens of Joshua Mann Pailet is a one-person exhibition of black and white photography by New Orleans artist and gallery owner, Joshua Mann Pailet. Pailet's work is inspired by great photographers of the 20th century such as Dorothea Lange, Lee Friedlander, and Elliott Erwitt. The exhibition will feature 69 images spanning the early 1970s through 2010, with subjects including music concerts, American city streets, and New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.
Florida Museum of Photographic Art
November 18, 2010 through January 29, 2011
Galleries A and B: Naked City: Photography from Vassar College's
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
*Featuring Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Weegee and more*
80s Photography from the Collection
August 7, 2010 - January 16, 2011
The decade of the 1980s was a pivotal period for the medium of photography if only for the plurality of styles and approaches it witnessed.
THE ARMACOST LIBRARY AT ECKERD COLLEGE
4200 54TH AVENUE SOUTH, ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33711
PUBLIC VIEWING HOURS:
MON-FRI, 10 AM TO 5 PM SAT-SUN, 12 PM TO 5 PM
Eckerd College is pleased to host this exhibition
of prints on loan from the Tampa Museum of Art.
For more information: Call 727.864.7979 or visit www.eckerd.edu
Photography Foundations unites two modernist photographers that defined and defied concepts of straightforward photography. These contemporaries imbued the field of documentary photography with expressive personal styles, thereby disrupting the compartmentalization of art and document.
Photography Foundations: The Art of Bernice Abbott and Aaron Siskind from the Tampa Museum of Art
August 20 - October 8, 2010
Digital Images for the group should be jpeg files 1024x768 at 100ppi files names should be initials, month,year, title example (jim_swallow_treeballet_0409.jpg). You may also bring prints that are matted image area should be at least 8x10
Beverly Easterling Dec. 1st
Irwin Glazer Dec. 5th
Jim Swallow Dec 6th
Dominique Jones Ann. 12/10
Roy Colbert December 13th
Marcia Biggs Dec 15th
Vern Johnson December 16th
Deborah Mast December 17th
Bob Anthony December 21st
Alex Spassoff Anniv. Dec. 22
Lisa Bradberry Dec. 31st
Our group is not affiliated with any other photography group in the bay area. We will help you promote your group on our site and in our e-mails if you wish. Please Contact Jim Swallow with your club information to be included
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The Society was designed to
Inspire, Challenge and Educate You in The Art of Photography.
Next Meeting is Thursday December 2ndat 6:00 p.m.
Bring your 4 best images