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We are Cary Photographic Artists and we strive to learn, teach and share our passion for creating Photographic Art.
CPA Meeting Dates
Wednesday, February 12th - 7:00 - In Person
Herb Young Community Center
Creating photographic PdDFs - Henry Rinne and Joe Lipka
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Wednesday, February 26th - 7:00 - Zoom
The Mystic Traveler & The Lifted Veil - Phyllis Arbesam Berger
From the President:
The CPA Board of Directors met on Monday, 27 January. One of the primary points of discussion concerned making a financial contribution to arts organizations in the area affected by the recent flooding from Hurricane Helene. The BoD voted to send a check of $500 to the Watauga Arts Council in Boone and a check of $500 to the River Arts District in Asheville. These funds will be drawn from the Julia Daniels account. The Board also wants to solicit contributions from individual members. If you want to make a donation to one of these organizations through CPA, please go to the CPA website and click on “Pay Dues.” Then click on “Donate to CPA - Tax Deductible” and follow the instructions. Although there is no way to specify how your donation is to be used, we will assume all donations made between now and April 1, 2025, will go to these organizations. Artists in these areas of our state were hit very hard back in September, and we hope our contributions will assist them in getting back on track.
Henry Rinne, President
HEADS UP!!!
The 5th Annual Juried Digital Photographic Exhibit is coming soon. Start thinking about this exhibit and getting some superb images ready to submit. Don’t let time creep up on you. You don’t have to be a member of CPA to submit.
EXHIBIT INFORMATION:
• Entries and payment will be through CaFE only and will open on March 1 and close on April 15th.
• The exhibit will open online on May 10.
• There will be two categories for judging— COLOR and MONOCHROME.
• We will display 50 images selected by the jurors in an Exhibitors’ Gallery on the Cary Photographic Artists website
• An on-line Zoom awards ceremony with comments by the jurors will be held on May 8.
• Judging will be done by Jamie Konarski Davidson and Matt Payne.
Wednesday, February 12th
In-Person - 7:00-9:00
Creating photographic PdDFs - Henry Rinne and Joe Lipka
Herb Young Community Center
Wednesday, September 11
Lewis Katz
Fundamentals of Digital Printing
As photographers, we treasure the print hanging in a gallery or on the wall of our home as the final phase of our artistic output. However, other means of disseminating our art exist, including websites, YouTube videos, and PDFs. Joe Lipka and Henry Rinne have been creating PDFs of their work for many years and will discuss the why and how of putting together engaging presentations in the form of PDFs. Topics will include reasons for creating PDFs, deciding what audience you are targeting, how you can publish and distribute a PDF, different approaches to constructing a PDF, and more. Both Joe and Henry will walk you through their own creations, focusing on their decision-making process in developing a story-telling approach to PDFs. There are lots of questions and just as many answers. Here’s what you ask yourself:
• Who is the audience?
• How many people are in the audience?
• How do you plan to distribute the document
• Why do you want to do this?
• What is your story, idea, objective?
Wednesday, February 26th
– The Mystic Traveler & The Lifted Veil
Phyllis Arbesam Berger
Zoom only - 7:00
"My images are a subjective representation of what I experience in the field. I am profoundly influenced by the pictorial tradition of photography and in my work I seek to emphasize the painterly in that genre." For many years I saw the world through a cloudy veil. Colors were muted and lines soft. As a photographer, I concentrated on making images in black and white, using an infrared camera where the natural spectrum of light does not hit the sensor. And then a miracle: cataract surgery and the world is in blazing color and intensity as well as dreamy subtlety. Sunrise is now different than sunset. I can see purple! And so my journey began in the guise of a "mystic traveler" seeing and experiencing the world again in a quest to face my destiny.