PDN Fashion Meets Art: Deadline 21 June 2010

Introducing "The Look", a new contest by PDN, where fashion meets art.

Awards & Exposure

One grand prize winner will receive a Milk Studios prize package worth $5,000. The package includes: one rental of Milk's Formula studio, equipment & lighting rental, and Milk digital capture services.

A winner will be selected in each category and will receive:
• A PDN PhotoServe portfolio ( $860 value)
• A digital camera
• A full page in the September 2010 issue of PDN as well as placement in The Look contest gallery hosted on PDNonline.com
Deadline: 6/21/10

Categories

Advertising
Editorial/Celebrity
Still Life/Accessories
Personal Work/Fine Art/Avante Garde
Runway/Street Scene
Beauty
Debut [Student/Emerging]

Enter the Contest

or go to www.pdnthelook.com

Do you use Facebook?

Consider adding a touch more privacy to Facebook. If you use Firefox as your bowser, Google "firefox prism" and install the add-on. (It only takes a few seconds.) Then, when you have Facebook open within Firefox, go to Tools > Convert Website to Application. This will create a standalone browser application for Facebook, and it won't see the rest of your online activity. To hear discussion of the issues, you can go to
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201005214

Call for Work: Deadline 1 July 2010

Calling all FULL TIME STUDENTS (grade school, high school, and college) who love photography to submit artwork for our first ALL student exhibition FRESH2010! This show will include some of the best work being created by the St. Louis Student Photographers. The finalists are selected by a blind jury and the top 50 pieces will be displayed at Studio Altius during the month of July 2010. A photo book will also be made showing off the finalists plus several other standout images. The entry fee is only $5 and you may enter as many times in as many categories as you wish, however, you must submit a new entry fee for every piece entered.

The Categories ARE:

• ABSTRACT (sometimes it is better if you don't know what it is.)
• ARCHITECTURE (man-made structures)
• DIGITAL ART (Artwork created digitally based on one or more images)
• LANDSCAPE (forests, mountain, plains, etc.)
• NATURE (plants, animals, insects, etc.)
• PORTRAIT (people images)
• STILL LIFE (it isn't moving...)
• TRAVEL (images that allow us to visit without going there

So make those submissions and do it quick! Entry form available at:
http://www.studioaltius.com/prophoto/FRESH2010EntryForm.pdf

Submission deadline is June 1st, 2010! Show us what makes your work FRESH!

National Wildlife Federation Contest: Deadline 6 July 2010

The National Wildlife Federation, Reston, Va., is accepting entries to its 40th annual contest. Cash prizes totaling more than $30,000 and other gifts will be awarded to winners in 7 categories in 3 separate divisions: Professional, Amateur, and Youth. Winners will be published on the website, and a selection will appear in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of National Wildlife. The deadline to enter is July 6, and winners will be announced in November. To enter, photographers must:

• Be at least 13 years of age.
• Possess a valid credit card.
• Have own photos in digital format.
• Be able to provide descriptions and stories behind the photos.
• Have an email and mailing address.

More information is available online.

Backyard Wildlife Contest: Deadline 30 June 2010

Tamron USA Inc., Commack, N.Y., announced the second in its series of four photo contests for 2010: Backyard Wildlife. This contest asks entrants to submit photographic portraits of their local wildlife, whether found in their own backyard, local parks, or other urban and rural neighborhood areas. The contest is looking for local wildlife indigenous to the photographer’s hometown; so photos from zoos, aquariums, and the like will not be considered.

The contest runs from April 1 to June 30. The Grand Prize Winner will receive his or her choice of 1 of 4 Tamron lenses. Users of any camera equipment may enter the Tamron photo contest.
The Backyard Wildlife photo contest entries will be evaluated and selected by a guest judge, Jackie Bailey Labovitz, a former art curator and current photographer from the Washington, D.C., area, whose recent mission is to help preserve and celebrate local wildlife through photography.

In addition to receiving the Tamron lens of choice, the winner’s picture will be showcased on the Tamron website. The winner and 20 photographers whose images are selected by the judge as Favorites will have their names and winning images published on the website and on the Tamron page on Facebook.

To enter, email low-res images to Tamron. The subject line must read “Backyard Wildlife Photo Contest.” The winner and finalists will be contacted for high-res images. Complete rules and an entry form can be found online.

Call for Work: Deadline 1 June 2010

FRESH 2010
Student Photography Show
Studio Altius
July 9-26, 2010

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS JUNE 1, 2010.
Studio Altius is inviting full-time student photographers to submit artwork for FRESH 2010, a photography show of some of the best work being created by St. Louis-area student photographers. The finalists are selected by a blind jury. The top 50 pieces will be displayed in the FRESH 2010 show at Studio Altius during the month of July. Additionally, a photo-book will be made showing off the finalists plus several other standout images. This book will be available to purchase during the run of the show. The entry fee for this show is only $5, you may enter as many times in as many categories as you wish, however, you must submit a new entry fee for every piece you enter.
Check it out: www.studioaltius.com/prophoto/contests

ASMP Marketing Seminar: Thursday, 3 June 2010

MARKETING SEMINAR WITH JENNIFER KILBERG FROM FLUIDVISION.
Is your portfolio the best it can be? Are you efficient in your marketing strategy?
Jennifer will share her best practices for marketing through a tough economy and getting noticed. Details are online.

Thursday, June 3
Doors 6pm, Event 6:30~9:00

Steve Adams Studio
3101 S. Hanley Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63143

Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 21 May 2010

Jill Hackney
Opening Reception May 21st, from 5-8 pm.

Duane Reed Gallery presents the latest work of painter Jill Hackney. The exhibition opens Friday, May 21st with a reception that evening from 5-8pm. The exhibition will run through June 19th. Gallery hours: Tues through Sat 10-5pm.

Jill Hackney paints light in limpid pools of reflection. Closely observing the color of light, both directly cast and reflected, she harmonizes positive and negative space through her painting technique. Connecting the object with its surrounding environment her gossamer web of brush strokes are identifiable as a series of vertical linear marks. Similar in optical effect to the pointillist technique of Georges Seurat each stroke builds up a carefully controlled blend of glittering complimentary and analogous hues. These pigments ultimately blend in the eye to create recognizable forms. The effect is often hallucinatory, reminiscent of Peter Doig’s “Blotter” and Monet’s “Water Lilies”. Hackney concentrates on the forms the light take glancing off the surface of ponds and streams observing their fleeting existence, she paints optical events that will never repeat themselves.

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The Last Kodachrome Project

Important -- if you are participating in this project, consider shooting a frame with your name prominently in it. Make it easy for us to figure out whose film is whose after it's processed.