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“Odyssey of Light” Webinar

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There is still time to sign up for this great yearly event. It is also the yearly fundraiser for the Maryland Photography Alliance. So go ahead and sign up and help support a great organization.

Costs is $35 and you get a $30 Gift card, so it is really just costing you $5 for a full day of great photography information

April 17, 2021 – 10:30 AM to 1:45 PM EST

I belong to a local camera club here in Maryland and it is one of the clubs that make up the Maryland Photography Alliance. Every year the MPA puts on a great conference as part of their yearly fundraiser activities.

This year they are going virtual with a Webinar and thus can handle a much larger audience. This has alway been a great event and I expect this year to be the same. Since it is open to the public and now can go world wide, please consider signing up.

Here are the details.

MPA’s Premier Educational Event of the Year! From the organization that brings you “Artist Spotlight”, MPA is incredibly pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for the 2021 “Odyssey of Light” Webinar.

Internationally known photographers Nevada Wier and David duChemin will inspire and motivate photographers of all levels. Both presentations will be recorded and made available only to ticket purchasers. Nevada will present “Creativity and Travel Photography”, and David will discuss how you can create more engaging images in his presentation “The Heart of the Photograph”.

Your price for the webinar is only $35, and through Nations Photo Lab, all ticket holders will receive a $30 Gift Card. This is an unbeatable value proposition! And if your photography club is a member of MPA, you will save money on the ticket price. Your club will communicate information to you on how to obtain the discount.

“Odyssey of Light” is MPA’s only fund raiser of the year and it supports all the great programs MPA does like “Artist Spotlight” and raising money for the Maryland Food Bank. We hope you will be able to attend this exciting webinar and help support MPA!

For more information and to order tickets: CLICK HERE

Have questions: mpa@mdphotoalliance.org

“Odyssey of Light” is being sponsored this year by Canon, Capital Photography Center, Fuji, Nations Photo Lab, Nikon, Pro Master, Photographic Society of America, Service Photo, Sony and Tamron.

Jesus in the Dome

Maryland Photography Alliance (MPA) Gallery Show

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I belong to my local camera club, the Carroll County Camera Club, which is part of the Maryland Photography Alliance (MPA), an organization of the made up of many of the local camera clubs in here in Maryland. It’s a great club and we participate in several photography contests during the year. Be sure to see if there is a local camera club in your area. They are a great place for getting together with other photographers that have the same passion as you.

The Maryland Photography Alliance (MPA) recently held it’s 3rd annual photography contest. Although I didn’t win the prize level in any of the 3 categories that I entered, I was invited to exhibit one of my entrees as one of the top images of the competition.

The image that I was invited to display in this gallery is titled

Jesus in the Dome

Jesus in the Dome
The Statue of Jesus in the Billings Building of Johns Hopkins Hospital

So be sure to visit the Activity Center at Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg from November 1 2019, through January 20, 2020, to see my work and the works of other members of MPA camera clubs. There wa some great images entered this year and I plan to go and check them all out.

This was taken with my Nikon D80, at ISO 200, 18mm focal length, 0.8 sec at F8.0. It is cropped a little as I had to lay my camera blindly on the floor and set it to take my 3 bracket exposures on a timer so everything wasn’t exactly lined up. It was edited in Aurora HDR 2018 and may have been touched up with Luminar.