By Ellen Bedrosian
A few weeks ago, I received a message on TCC’s Facebook page from David Tachauer from London, England. He told me he was a photographer and a member of a camera club. He comes to Englewood, NJ twice a year to visit his son, and asked if he could come to one of our meetings. I wrote back to him and told him he was welcome to visit anytime.
David Tachauer by Leslie Young
By Ellen Bedrosian
While showing images of waterfalls in Iceland during his landscape photography program a few weeks ago, Nick Palmieri said something that stuck with me. While comparing two different views of the same scene, his favorite was the unconventional interpretation. “I have this one hanging in my office, but it didn’t score well in competition,” he said. One of the more traditional views did score well, however. To see Nick’s images, visit his Waterfalls of Iceland gallery.
He also said that he wouldn’t enter in competition some images that he has the most emotional connection to because he knows they wouldn’t score well. It did get me thinking about the purpose of competitions. Is it to win, or is it to display our artistic visions? Sometimes serendipity strikes the Rodda Center on a Tuesday evening. Artisitic vision lines up with the judge’s determination of what constitutes an excellent image, and voila! Our image scores a 9, like this image of mine from Eastern State Penitentiary.
