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• April 20 Outing: Brookside Gardens

  • When
    20 Apr 2024
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    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    1800 Glenallan Avenue Wheaton, MD 20902
  • Registered
    9 registrants

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  Please join us on April 20th, 8:00am, for a morning of beautiful flower photography at Brookside Gardens in Montgomery County 

  Meet Up: In front of the Visitors Center at the upper parking lot. (see the web site for directions and a facility map). Mike Washington or John Schuster will be there.

  Information: There is no charge for visitors and parking is free. There will be a variety of trees and flowers in bloom and the light should be good in the early morning and crowds should be at a minimum. Members will be happy to assist newer photographers. There are no restrictions on camera gear, as long as you don’t interfere with the other visitors. Tripods can be used outdoors (but not inside the conservatory buildings).

  Please sign up so we know who is coming. Family and guests are welcome.

  After the outing, upload your 5 best images to share (see instructions on CMPG web site).

  http://montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/brookside-gardens/
  

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• Apr 27 2024 Rebuilding Together Howard County: Volunteers Needed!

  • When
    27 Apr 2024
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    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Howard County, various locations
  • Registered
    3 registrants

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  We are looking for volunteer photographers for Rebuilding Together Howard County's Rebuilding day on Saturday, April 27th. 

  This is an organization we have partnered with for several years. We send our members to photograph volunteers as they repair or renovate low income homes in our community.

  Each volunteer would be assigned a few locations to photograph. You'd stop by and get "before" photos and possibly group shots of their workers. Then return later in the day to photograph what they accomplished.  The photos are used to document the work they do and to share with their donors to show how impactful their money is.

  Even if this is something you may have never done, we would still love to have you. We will have a Zoom mid-April for volunteers to get you ready for the exciting day!

  Thank you to all past photographers! We hope you'll join us again! 

  Please register to sign up.  The sooner you can commit, the better!!

  https://www.rebuildingtogetherhowardcounty.org/
  

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• May 01 2024 General Meeting: TBD

  • When
    01 May 2024
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Howard County Public Library, TBD Branch
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  Join us for our next General Meeting, Wednesday, May 1st, 7:00pm. 

  Stay tuned for details and location!

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• May 4 Outing: Kinetic Sculpture Race

  • When
    04 May 2024
  • Location
    TBD
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  Photos: Mike L Washington
  

  Come join us for an annual Baltimore tradition! The first Saturday of May (May 4th, time and meet up location to be determined).

  The American Visionary Arts Museum (AVAM) hosts the Kinetic Sculpture Race around the streets and parks of the inner harbor and Patterson Park, with various obstacle courses along the way. The event is rain or shine and lasts most of the day. It may require some good health and endurance for those who want to cover the entire event.

  The pre-race ceremony and start of the event at the AVAM offers a lot of fun and opportunities to photograph the vehicles and their brightly costumed crews and the race from several vantage points around the AVAM, including Federal Hill and Key Highway. For the hardy photographer, you may wish to hop in you car and find parking in the neighborhood of Canton, then hike over to Canton Waterfront Park to photo the contestants paddle their contraptions around the pier to prove their sea worthiness. You can then follow the parade up to Patterson Park to witness the obstacle corses of plowing their craft through a sand pit, then uphill through a groomed and mucky mud corse. After they hose themselves and their transportation off, they reassemble at the pagoda observatory to parade down E.Pratt Street to return, via downtown, to the AVAM for the finish (around 4:00pm) and party for the participants.

  This year's race route and start times have not yet been published. In past years the race, itself, starts around 10am, with pre-race activities and ceremony at 9:00 am. We will update, as information becomes available.

  Click here for the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race Website

  
  

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• June 05, 2024 General Meeting: David Hobby, Travel Photography

  • When
    05 Jun 2024
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Howard County Public Library, TBD Branch
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Join us for our next General Meeting, Wednesday, June 5th, 7:00pm. 

  We are excited to welcome David Hobby, for his presentation on travel photography: how to learn to see beyond camera techniques to embrace the more important interpersonal components of being a photographer. 

  BIO:

  David Hobby photographed more than 10,000 editorial assignments while working for two decades as a staff photojournalist in the Baltimore-Washington area. In 2007, he left The Baltimore Sun to found Strobist.com, which he published for 15 years.

  In 2013, he began teaching location-based travel photography workshops. He continues that to this day as cofounder and lead instructor for X-Peditions. Now based out of Hanoi, Vietnam, X-Peditions' workshops are designed to help people merge their human and photographic experiences while traveling with their camera. 

  

  Stay tuned for location, as rooms at the library become available!

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