Web Updates
DEC 10 | Monthly Board Meeting 7:00PM - 8:30PM Zoom Only | ||
DEC 5 | Christmas Potluck and Members Slideshows Our December 5, 2024 club meeting is a little different from our regular club meetings. We have a holiday pot luck dinner and members get to present their photography via a slide show. Important: This December we are also meeting in a different meeting room than normal because Eagan needed the Training room for some other purpose. The meeting details are provided below. We are also starting a little earlier for the pot luck dinner. Meeting Time and Location Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024 Time: 6pm-8:30pm Location: Eagan Municipal Center Eagan Municipal Eagan Room 3830 Pilot Knob Rd. Eagan, MN 55122 Enter the building on the upper level off Civic Center Dr. The upper entrance doors should unlock and the room should be open by 6pm so that we may begin setting up the pot luck dinner. The Eagan room is inside the upper entrance doors on the left. If for some reason you enter on the lower level you will need to continue straight past our usual room and either go up the stairs or find the elevator past the stairs. I am not even sure if the lower level building entrance doors will be unlocked. If they are not unlocked you may need to walk through the small park to the upper level entrance. See the annotated overhead photo of the parking and building below. | ||
NOV 21 | Topic: Digital - Action/Motion/Speed Submit images by 10/3 7PM - 9PM Zoom Only | ||
NOV 19 | Minneapolis Sculpture Garden After Dark, Plus Light Trails Most of the sculpture are light up at night. You can also get light trails from cars from the pedestrian bridge that goes over to Loring Park. 6:30pm - 8:30pm Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN 55403 | ||
NOV 16 | Forestville Ghost Town See the Photographers' Playground page for description. All day, Forestville / Mystery Cave State Park, 21071 County Road 188, Preston, MN 55965/div> | ||
NOV 12 | Monthly Board Meeting 7:00PM - 8:30PM Zoom Only | ||
NOV 7 | Christmas Potluck / Slideshows Presenters: Members We have a holiday pot luck dinner and members get to present their photography via a slide show. Important: This December we are also meeting in a different meeting room than normal because Eagan needed the Training room for some other purpose. The meeting details are provided below. We are also starting a little earlier for the pot luck dinner. Meeting Time and Location Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024 Time: 6pm-8:30pm Location: Eagan Municipal Center Eagan Municipal Eagan Room 3830 Pilot Knob Rd. Eagan, MN 55122 Enter the building on the upper level off Civic Center Dr. The upper entrance doors should unlock and the room should be open by 6pm so that we may begin setting up the pot luck dinner. The Eagan room is inside the upper entrance doors on the left. If for some reason you enter on the lower level you will need to continue straight past our usual room and either go up the stairs or find the elevator past the stairs. I am not even sure if the lower level building entrance doors will be unlocked. If they are not unlocked you may need to walk through the small park to the upper level entrance. See the annotated overhead photo of the parking and building below. Please remember to park in the upper lot and use the upper entrance doors as the lower doors will be locked. 7PM - 9PM Eagan City Hall Training Room, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan | ||
OCT 29 | Pumpkin Patch at Barten Pumpkin Patch in New Prague They encourage taking photos and there is no fee for parking or admission. They close at sunset, which is why we need to meet earlier. 3:00pm - 5:00pm Barten Pumpkin Patch, 5716 W 280th St, New Prague, MN 56071 | ||
OCT 24 | Topic: Print - Vintage Submit images by 10/3 7PM - 9PM Zoom Only | ||
OCT 6 | Photographer's Playground September Photographer's Playground - Architectural Photography in Hastings, MN A group of club photographers led by Don Tredinnick went to Hastings, MN to do some architectural photography. Some really nice weather shots! Eagan Events Gallery Eagan Events Gallery have been updated to include past months (July to August) and October. Check it out here. Thanks Rick for all those wonderful images! Please upload some of your favorites when you take images for Eagan so we can keep the gallery up-to-date. To do so, navigate to Exhibitions->Upload Images->Eagan Events | ||
OCT 3 | Program: Portraits by Tennessee Rick Elliot 7PM - 9PM Eagan City Hall Training Room, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan | ||
SEP 19 | Architectural Photography in Hastings, MN See the Photographers' Playground page for description. 6:30PM - 8:30PM. Meet at the parking lot by Levee Park, 101 Sibley St., Hastings, at 6:30 PM./div> | ||
SEP 18 | N4C Winning Images N4C winning images for September are now in the N4C Gallery. Latest N4C scores have been updated thru September, 2024. Look for them at the Resources => Exhibitions => N4C page. MVPC Salon "Denise and Family" by Al Kiecker won "Best in Show". Congratulations, Al! The winning images are now in the Salons Gallery. Updated Salon scores thru Sep, 2024 are in the Exhibitions-Salons page. Photographer's Playground Returns! Important Notice: Minnesota Sculpture Garden After Dark has been changed to Nov. 19 and Small Town Christmas has been changed to Dec. 17. Explore the fall schedule on the Photographer's Playground page. New this season is "Road Trippin', featuring photography road trips across Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Don't miss the Nov. 16 Forestville Ghost Town trip, listed in the Photographer's Playground Upcoming Events. MVPC Salon FAQ and Rules Update Updated salon FAQ and rules have been posted in Resources->Exhibitions->Salon The Salon Rules page has also been updated. PSA Interclub Competition PSA Club Competitions for MVPC and PSA Guidelines for Entering Division Interclub Rounds docs have been updated in Resources->Exhibitions->PSA Board Meeting 2024/06/18 Board Meeting minutes have been added to Resources->Club Documents->Board Meeting Minutes Eagan Events Gallery We’ve introduced a new "Eagan Events" gallery in our "Galleries" section. This gallery will showcase monthly photos captured by our members at Eagan's events. Additionally, we'll highlight member images featured in Eagan’s Discover magazine. Check it out here. When you capture images for Eagan, please upload some of your favorites. To do so, navigate to Exhibitions->Upload Images->Eagan Events Monthly Program Schedule We added the club's monthly program schedule to the meetings page. | ||
SEP 5 | Program: Adapting Vintage Lenses by Deanna Probst 7PM - 9PM Eagan City Hall Training Room, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan City Hall / Training Room | ||
JUN 18 | Monthly Board Meeting 7:00PM - 8:30PM Zoom Only | ||
JUN 16 | MVPC Salon "Wind in Her Hair" by Craig Peterson won "Best in Show". A very nice image! Congratulations, Craig! The winning images are now in the Salons Gallery. Updated Salon scores thru May, 2024 are in the Exhibitions-Salons page. MVPC Salon Year-End Awards Congratulations to all the year-end awards winners. The list of winning members and images are in the Awards page. The winning images are also in the Year-End Salons Gallery. MVPC Salon 2024-2025 Schedule The salon schedule for 2024-2025 is now posted. See the MVPC Salons page. Photographer's Playground - Ultra-Wide & Fisheye This is the last in the series of eight (8) mini-workshops that Don Tredinnick has been conducting throughout the year. Some MVPC members joined Don at the Minnesota Arboretum to practice their wide-angle photography. Check out some of the images they created here. Thanks Don for doing this mini-workshop series! Summer Break With all the club activities for the year 2023-2024 completed, web updates will slow down for the summer. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER, ALL! | ||
JUN 6 | Year-End Awards Year-end awards, cake and coffee provided. 7PM Eagan City Hall / Training Room | ||
APR 1 - AUG 30 | 85th Annual PSA Photo Festival in Tucson
September 18-21, 2024 Tucson, Arizona | ||
MAY 7 | Monthly Board Meeting 7:00PM - 8:30PM Zoom Only | ||
MAY 5 | N4C Image Submission Deadline Deadline for submitting images for: Digital Nature, Digital Pictorial, Digital Altered Reality, Digital Travel, Digital Black and White and Digital Journalism | ||
MAY 2 | Program: Annual Membrership Meeting Instructions will be emailed out to all members. If you are not a member of MVPC but would like to attend, please email your request for access to this meeting to [email protected] 7PM - 9PM Eagan City Hall Training Room, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan | ||
APR 28 | MVPC Salon Awards Bill Frische's 'Pool' image got 'Best in Show'. Congratulations, Bill! All images submitted in the April Salon got an award! Amazing! The winning images are now in the Salons Gallery. Updated Salon scores thru April, 2024 are in the Exhibitions-Salons page. Photographer's Playground April Photographer's Playground - Long Exposure / Motion A group of club photographers led by Don Tredinnick shot long exposures of Minnehaha Falls and creek. New Member Guide Update Bev updated the New Member Guide. Thanks, Bev! Get it at Resources => Club Documents => Membership | ||
APR 26-28 | N4C Spring Mini-Convention Registration deadline is April 10 Wesley Woods, Indianola, IA | ||
APR 5 | N4C Image Submission Deadline Deadline for submitting images for: Digital Nature, Digital Pictorial, Digital Altered Reality, Digital Travel, Digital Black and White and Digital Journalism | ||
APR 4 | Program: Add Impact to Your Flower Photography by Lisa Cuchara 7PM - 9PM Eagan City Hall Training Room, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan | ||
MAY 25 | Ultra-Wide & Fisheye See the Photographers' Playground page for description. Meet by Iris garden and the wildflower garden at 8:30AM - 8:30AM - 10:30AM Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska | ||
MAY 23 | Topic: Print - Weathered Submit images by 5/2 7PM - 9PM Zoom Only | ||
MAY 18 | PSA Gallery Update The winning images for the 2023-2024 PSA Round 3 are now in the PSA Gallery. Al Kiecker got an 'Award of Merit' for his 'Belfast Castle" image. Congrats, Al! Updated PSA scores thru Round 3 are in the Resources => Exhibitions => PSA page. N4C Winning Images N4C winning images for April are now in the N4C Gallery. Latest N4C scores have been updated thru April, 2024. Look for them at the Resources => Exhibitions => N4C page. | ||
APR 1 | PSA Round 3 Image Submission Deadline Deadline for submitting images for: Projected Image Color, Projected Image Monochrome, Photojournalism, Photo Travel and Nature | ||
MAR 23 | PSA Gallery Update The winning images for the 2023-2024 PSA Rounds 1 and 2 are now in the PSA Gallery. So far, David Perez has done a clean sweep of Rounds 1 and 2, including an Award of Merit (PSA's highest award) for his 'Barrel Racer'. Congrats, David! Updated PSA scores thru Round 2 are here . My Meeting The next My Meeting is scheduled for March 21 at the Farmington Library (508 Third St., Farmington). Ben Ackerman will be the guest presenter. I have had the privilege of seeing and discussing some of Ben's photographs. To say that Ben is a very different kind of photographer is an understatement. His images are almost always an interpretation of a 'feeling' and are very thought-provoking. Do not miss this one. Photographer's Playground Date changed and venue announced for the March Photographer's Playground - Video. See schedule below. February's Photographer's Playground - Refraction took the MVPC members indoor to photograph crystal balls. It seems that the crystal balls were not any good for showing the future, but was great at showing refractions of objects. N4C Winning Images N4C winning images for January and February are now in the N4C Gallery. Latest N4C scores have been updated thru February, 2024. Look for them at the N4C Resources page or click here. | ||
FEB 26 | Salon Winning Images and Scores Congratulations to Julie Ackerman for winning 'Best in Show' in the February salon with her '1800 Piano and Player'. Looks like ghosting photography is a good technique to learn. See the paragraph on 'My Meeting' below. Winning images for the February, 2024 salon are now in the MVPC Gallery. February, 2024 salon scores also available for download. My Meeting Julie Ackerman held a session on Ghost Photography at the Feb. 8 My Meeting. Later, meeting participants tried their hand at ghost photography. Check out some of the images that Bob Tourdot provided here. Unfortunately, images taken by other participants may have become ghosts. If you missed the meeting, avail yourself of the handout and the video of the tutorial. Board Meeting Minutes The minutes for the board meeting of 1/9/2024 and 1/23/2024 are now available in the Resources page. | ||
FEB 1 | January salon images are posted in the Salons Gallery. Congratulations to Bev Kiecker and Ken Cheung for their Best In Show images. January salon scores are also now available. Don T. led a "Winter Wonderland Photo Hike" over and around the Old Cedar Avenue Bridge in Bloomington. On their walk, they run across a penguin! YES, A PENGUIN! Check it out. "Urban Nights", the first of the Photographer's Playground series of 2024 led the MVPC members to the Minneapolis historic riverfront, photographing the iconic Grain Belt Beer sign, bridges and buildings. Check out all those Grain Belt Beer signs. Which one is the best? Arik Gorban's notes on last month's program "Travel Photography" is now available. Rick Graves has updated the "Entering Digital Images in N4C Monthly Contest" document. Board meeting minutes of 12/12/2023 is now available. | ||
JAN 3 2024 | 1. MyMeeting Page added 2. What's Up/What's News Updated with Febuary happenings3. Hone Your Skills updated4. Photographer's Playground 3 page added 5. David Perez's paper on AI in Photography added | ||
DEC 4 | 1. Updates to Eagan events for 12/13, 12/18, 1/12, 1/27 | ||
DEC 3 | 1. Nov. 2023 Salon results added 2. Photographer's Playground 1st Half, 2024 events added 3. Nov. 2023 N4C winning images added | ||
NOV 2023 | 1. Event page added for the Photographer's Playground 2 2. Board meeting minutes changed to pdf files from word files 3. Updated What's Up/What's Happening 4. Updated Eagan Events |
NOV 13 - New WEBSITE LAUNCHED
Welcome to the new MVPC website. We completely refreshed our website to give you a much better browsing experience and to better protect your images. Let us know what you think, what you like and what you don’t like, in the ‘Comments’ page.
Like most websites, you will not get instructions on how to navigate the site. If you find areas where you are having problems navigating, contact the [email protected]. Let us know what you’re having problems with, and we will fix it.
Some of the features of the new site are:
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Secure – The website is hosted in a secured environment and the website itself is locked down; copy and paste of images is not allowed.
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Mobile-friendly – You can now browse the site on your tablet or your phone. However, we have not tested the site on all tablets and phones. Let us know via the ‘Comments’ page if you run into problems.
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Informative – The Home Page contains a section called “What’s Happening / What’s News”. This section provides a quick glance of what’s happened and what’s happening in the club. Web updates will also be announced in this section. The Eagan Events are also featured in the Home page so people interested in photographing the Eagan events can find out what’s happening in Eagan.
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Showcases – Best in Shows for the whole year are featured on the Home page. There are galleries for all the Salons – MVPC, PSA, N4C, and TCACCC. Winning MVPC Salon images for the month are also featured in the Salon page.
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Events – We will feature events on their own pages, with write-ups and images from each event. The Photographer’s Playground is a monthly event led by Don Tredinnick. Check the ‘Photographer’s Playground” page regularly to see what Don has in store for us each month.
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Resources – We have reorganized our resources to make it easier to find documents or videos. They are organized by what we do as photographers – plan, shoot, post process, and compete. Additional resources like equipment, club documents and links to other websites are also included.
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Comments – We added a Comments page so we can have ongoing discussions on what we can do to improve the club and this website. Send us your suggestions!
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The following people made the new website possible:
- Julie Ackerman – User experience
- Phil Davies – Editor
- Karen Kelm – User experience
- Bev Kiecker – Content and user experience
- Joe Santos – Web design
