This fabulous image by Robert Legg, Manchester Camera Club , won the Judge's Choice (Judge- Chris Murray) in the NECCC 2019 Digital Competition . Bob says " Summer Lightning 2018 was taken from my home in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The thunderstorms often pass up by to the northeast but display lightning at a relatively safe distance of about 10 miles. We sit in the kitchen with large windows and sliding doors watching the storms. I use the WeatherBug mobile app for iPhone that has a lightning detector with distances and number. There was no lighting or storm clouds overhead and the storm was moving away from us. I was using my Nikon D750 with my 28-300 lens (at 116mm) and I used the cable release to take 8 second exposures one after the other. ISO800 and f8. Based on my file numbers I shot at least 25 images and only kept 4 with only 1 useable. Some nights I shoot over 100 and get nothing. I did do some cropping on the image, but the clouds were especially nice with my side of the storm basically without clouds, allowing for an inside view ."

Here is the list of the NH Camera Clubs (with the links to their web sites) that belong to the New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) of PSA:

 

In addition to the July conference in Amherst MA, NECCC holds monthly inter-club electronic and print competitions: including pictorial and nature photography in their digital image competitions, and color and black & white images in their print competitions. 

This extensive three-day photography conference is.. held each July at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, MA. [In addition to providing] … services to New England member camera clubs, … the Council awards [scholarships] each year to students so they may further their studies in the field of imaging….”: This is the link to the NECCC website .  NECCC hosts a terrific blog , f ull of useful tips and notice about upcoming events but you need to sign up to get it!

In addition to a full program including lectures, workshops and adventures, at the NECC Conference, there is always a major photo competition. Two of our NH PSA member photographers garnered special recognition with their images in this year's (2019 )NECCC conference:

The winner of Best Botany in the digital competition at this year’s NECCC Conference was Dick Hudnall with his beautiful “Blue Poppy Bud ” image. Dick is the President of of the Manchester Camera Club. We all look forward to hearing from him about where he found this poppy, what camera and what settings he used to get such a remarkable crisply focussed image with such lovely soft light.

This image of "Bee on a Thistle " was taken by Bob Legg, of the Manchester Camera Club. Although he no longer is in NH full time, Bob was for many years the President of the Manchester Camera Club.

Here is what he says about this image. " Bee on Bull Thistle was taken in my back yard. It was taken with my Nikon D750 using my 105mm Macro at f40, 1/60 sec, Nikon SB700 Flash."

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Phyllis Meinke won a blue and the Best in Show at the 2019 Boston Flower and Garden Show in a new category this year – black and white photography - with her image “Between Two Pine s” . The quality of the images in this class was very competitive, as it was a juried show. Phyllis' stunning image was everyone's favorite.