Snow Day. . send us your photos!

Photo ©Lisa Robinson
Wed, January 26, 2011
• Classes may be canceled but that is no reason to take a day off! We would like to see your best snow day photos. Send them to bcccphoto@gmail.com. Limit one photo per student. We will post them to the blog for everyone to see - please include your name so that we can give you credit for your work! Photos must be received by midnight tonight.

• In other news: due to the weather closing, the install time for the photo club show has been change to Tuesday, Feb 1 at 5:30. The opening reception will still take place on Wednesday, Feb 2 from noon-2pm.

Photo Club Exhibition

Hi All,

Congratulations to those of you who had work selected for the photo club exhibition. Here are some important dates you should know:

Wednesday, January 26

• ALL WORK DUE BY NOON. Please return your mounted or matted print to the photo office by noon so we will have it in time!

• noon-2pm - INSTALLATION! We will arrange and hang the show in the Rollins Center gallery between noon and 2 on Wed, Jan 26th. If you would like to help out, please meet at noon in Hicks 118 (the darkroom classroom).

Wednesday, February 2

OPENING RECEPTION: noon-2pm at the gallery. Please come - bring your friends and family. We are looking for photo club members to help set up and clean up and for volunteers to bring some snacks.

Any questions? Email Kimberly Witham - withamk@bucks.edu

Welcome Back - open lab hours for Spring 2011

Open lab hours for Spring - beginning Monday, Jan 24

B&W Darkroom
Mondays: 9am-10pm
Tuesdays: 5:30-10pm
Wednesdays: noon-10pm
Thursdays: 5-6pm
Fridays: 10am-6pm
Saturdays: 1-6pm

Hicks 120 Digital Lab
Mondays: 9am-1pm, 5-10pm
Tuesdays: 8:30am-1:30pm
Wednesdays: noon-10pm
Thursdays: 5:30-10pm
Fridays: 10am-6pm
Saturdays: 1-6pm

Lighting Studio
Mondays: 9am-12:30pm, 5-10pm
Tuesdays: 5:30-10pm
Wednesdays: 8am-12:30pm, 5-10pm
Thursdays: 5:30-10pm
Fridays: 10am-6pm
Saturdays: 1-6pm

Vivian Maier

In 2007, John Maloof purchased a box of negatives at an auction in Chicago. He didn't find what he was hoping for - he found something better. The box contained thousands of negatives shot by previously unknown street photographer Vivian Maier. Ms Maier had been a nanny in Chicago. On her days off, she wandered about with her Rolleiflex camera taking photos. The results are stunning - with hints of Diane Arbus and Harry Callahan. Ms Maier died in 2009 shortly before her archive was "discovered." The New York times Lens blog has a feature on Maier's work here. Additional images are posted on the Chicago Magazine site here.

I have posted some images here to get you started. Enjoy!

Dec 30, 2010: The day that Kodachrome really died.

Today in Parsons, Kansas the last rolls of Kodachrome ever to be processed will run through the processor at Dwayne's photo. The store is selling T-shirts which sum it up pretty well:

"Kodachrome:"

"Paul sang about it" (a reference to the Paul Simon song "Kodachrome")

"A state park was named after it "(in Utah, in case you wondered)

"National Geographic shot their most famous photos on it" (Steve McCurry's portrait of an Afghan girl, among others)

"and we developed the last role"

The New York Times has the full story here.

The New York Times Lens blog features a slideshow of Kodachrome images today. Including photos from the last roll of Kodachrome ever produced - shot by Steve McCurry.

Photo Club Juried Exhbition, deadline extended.

The photo club will be hosting a juried exhibition in the Rollins Center Gallery at the beginning of next semester. Photographs for the exhibition will be chosen next week. We have extended the deadline for submissions to Friday, December 10. Work will be chosen on Monday, Dec 13.

You may submit up to 5 entries.

•B&W prints can be submitted in the box in the darkroom area. Please label the back of each print with your name, email and phone number as well as the title of the photo.

•Digital images should be submitted via email. Send jpg images no larger than 1 mb in size. Please include your name, phone number and the title of the piece.

Work for the exhibition will be selected at the photo club meeting on Monday, Dec 13.

Final open labs for the Fall semester

Final open lab dates for the fall semester - please note: digital lab closes before the darkroom.

Hicks 120 Digital Lab:

last open lab - Sat, Dec 11

last day to print - Thurs, Dec 9 (no exceptions!!)

B&W darkroom:

Fri, Dec. 17

Lighting Studio:

Wed, Dec 8