Sept 4

Welcome Back Night

(In-person only)

We have an ‘In-Person Only’ with our signature Welcome Back Night Potluck dinner and Award Ceremony from 2024-2025 Year-End competitions! It starts at 7 pm so we can eat food together and socialize before the Award ceremony..Please bring a main dish, side dish, or dessert. Beverages will be provided. 

Presentation of the best images for 2023-2024 will take place. Join in on congratulating those who win trophies and those who win medals.   

Tom Gisriel, our illustrious Vice President of Competitions, will be the MC for the night, to guide you through the festivities. I’ll also be presenting two Bafford Buttons this year (what is a Bafford Button, you say?…You’ll have to come and find out)

Don’t experience FOMO—come on Thursday and get to know your other BCC members a bit better. …AND you never know if one of your images will be placed in the Year-End Comp!

Sept 11

Digital Competition-1

Theme: General

 Judges: Jim Kuhlman and E. Farrell Maddox

For more information about Jim, please visit his website.

Sept 18

Program 3

(in-person only)

This discussion will explore the correlation of the Moving Image (AKA: Film, Video, Animation) and its invention alongside the development of still photography. Topics ranging from the Phenakistoscope and Zoetrope to Actuality and Silent films, as well as modern cinema, are all included. Ranging from the psychology of Persistence of Vision to the crafting and development of the ‘language’ of the Moving Image will be covered.

Examples of the early masters of the Moving Image, from Edison to the Lumière Brothers, to the early comedic masters of Sennett, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, are included. A discussion of the Avant-Garde movement from the 1920s German Expressionists to Post-War America is also included. These were the giants on whose shoulders the language of the Moving Image was developed.  

A part of this discussion includes the fundamental aspects of what a ‘story’ is. What are the seven stories to be told, and how to start crafting that story told with images is a central theme.

Sept 25

Print Competition-1

Theme : TBD

His first projects were with the non-profit national agricultural youth organization, 4-H. These projects allowed him to expand his family’s generational root in agriculture and apply them to a  new discipline. Edwin's utilization of the camera as a means to communicate with the world led him through a rich and varied photography career.From sports to fine art, and even combat photography, Edwin has worked in 40 countries and all 50 states. He has become a storyteller with his imagery, keeping the themes and relationships he’s picked up along the way to be the photographer, the photojournalist, and the artist he is today. 

Oct 9

Digital Competition-2

(Zoom only)

Theme: TBD

Cynthia Keith is a native Washingtonian. Her love of photography started in a journalism class at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland and over the years has led her to scenic locations from Alaska to Maine in search of landscape images. Her specialty is garden landscape photography, a marriage of her vision for the grand landscape and intimate flower portraits.

Cynthia has been a member of the North Bethesda Camera Club since 1992 where she has exhibited, participated in numerous presentations and served on multiple committees. She is a Certified Judge by the Maryland Photography Alliance and a frequent judge at camera clubs in the greater Washington area and beyond.

Outside of photography, she has a BA in Music and an MBA from the University of Maryland and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Cynthia has worked for several financial firms in the Washington, DC area during her career as an investment manager.

 October 17-19, 2025

BCC 

Fall Trip

Dear BCC members

I have completed the details for our fall trip and wanted to advise all of our members asap!

Dates:  October 17 to 19, 2025
Location:  Davis, West Virginia
Accommodations:  Blackwater Falls State Park Lodge

Room rate:  149.00 per night plus taxes and fees.  All rooms have two beds.  The Lodge does have a full service restaurant.

For our fall trip we are going back to our roots!  The first trip that I had planned some 20 years ago was a trip to Davis!

Davis is a cute little town and is surrounded by some of the most beautiful areas and attractions.  Blackwater Falls, Dolly Sods, Bear Rocks Preserve , Canaan Valley National Wildlife Preserve.  In Davis there are good restaurants, artisan shops and galleries and other stores that sell arts and different crafts.

Booking: We will not have a booking link to use when reserving a room for this trip.  To reserve a room please call 304-259-5216 and identify yourself as a Baltimore Camera Club member.  The Lodge requires a one night deposit at time of booking.  You will pay for the other night when checking in.  The Lodge allows cancellation until 48 hours prior to arrival to obtain a full refund.

The link to obtain more information about the Lodge itself is https://www.wvstateparks.com

The Lodge is approximately 3 1/2 hours from Baltimore to the Lodge.  If the fall foliage is peaking which normally happens in mid-October the drives in and around Davis are spectacular!

Please block off October 17 to 19 in your calendar so we get together for a weekend of photography and comradery!

Lewis Katz
Field Trip Coordinator
olympus21209@yahoo.com

Oct 23

Nov 6

Digital Competition-3

(Zoom only)

General Theme

 Judge: Joel Hoffman

Joel Hoffman has been photographing people for many purposes and in all walks of life for the past 25 years.  He loves the interaction between his clients and his camera and always strives to create an environment where the person in front of the camera is comfortable and is having fun.  Whether a wedding, bar or bat mitzvah, senior portrait, model portfolio, headshot or corporate event, Joel’s goal is to allow his client to relax sit back and leave the driving to him.

His mission is to capture the true essence of the person being photographed and to capture that defining moment to create great memories that will last a lifetime.  

For more information visit the website.

Nov 20

Judge: Ronald Peiffer.

Ron Peiffer is a Maryland photographer based in Severna Park. He is the Vice President for Contests for Arundel Camera Club and Member-at-Large for the Maryland Photography Alliance.

His work has appeared in Maryland Photography Alliance gallery shows over the past several years, and he has received the Frederick R. Kelly Photographer of the Year award from Arundel Camera Club.  Ron currently holds Master’s Certificates in Black and White and Color Prints with the Arundel Club and also holds a Platinum certificate for digital images.  He has been certified as a judge with the Maryland Photography Alliance since and has served as a judge for numerous club competitions in the Baltimore-Washington area and in other organizations in the region.

Dec 4

Digital Competition 4

Theme: TBD

 Judge: Jennifer Bishop

Jennifer has more than 35 years of experience shooting for publications, hospitals, schools, design firms, nonprofits, foundations, businesses, and individuals all over the world. She especially loves shooting portraits, both on location or in her Baltimore City studio. She also writes and photographs for projects that advocate for better lives for people with disabilities. For more information visit her Website and her wikipedia page.