Live Action Model Shoot....5/10/10

Join David Derex for a great day of learning!

Updates for May...Slate...

THE KING RETURNS TO NYC!!! AND IT'S NOT ELVIS!!

30 years ago he was here and now the exhibition returns to a different venue!

King Tut NYC:
Return of The King

The Blockbuster Exhibition That Captivated the World, King Tut, Returns to NYC After 30 Years

After more than 30 years, the record-breaking exhibition,King Tut, returns to NYC for its final stop before these ancient treasures return to Egypt forever. Revel in the splendor as you view a dazzling array of possessions unearthed from the Boy King's tomb. Over 1.4 million visited King Tut's treasures when they last appeared in New York City in the 1970's, the most successful exhibition ever assembled. See it before it's history. Apr. 23, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition.

Visit KingTutNYC.com, the Discovery Times Square Exposition Box Office located at 226 W. 44th St. (between 7th & 8th Avenues), or call 888-9-TUTNYC (888-988-8692) and use code: TUTMANIA to save $5 when purchasing tickets.

April 23, 2010 - January 2, 2011

Mark Weber/Marathon Event a Great Learning Experience..

Attendees at yesterday's all-day seminar found Mark Weber's marketing overview a great learning experience. There was useful information for longtime photographers as well as those new to the industry. Mark said he liked our NJ enthusiasm and would like to return for another seminar.

Statewide Tomorrow with Mark Weber 4/26/10

Statewide Educational Program with Mark Weber

April 26, 2010

9:00am - 5:00pm

Forsgate Country Club 375 Forsgate Drive Monroe Township, NJ

$35.00 Members $75.00 Guests

Andy Warhol Fan?? Dorsky Museum...

Andy Warhol: Public and Private in 151 Photographs Elements of the public and private lives of Andy Warhol and members of his circle are on display in 151 Warhol photographs recently donated to the museum by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Through September 26, 2010 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz Phone: 845-257-3844 Hours: Wednesday - Sunday: 11 am - 5 pm Admission: Suggested Donation $5 For more information and directions to the museum please visit www.newpaltz.edu/museum/

May Meeting.. Two Great Hours of Great Wedding Photography..

MAY 19-2010 Come meet, learn and be inspired by Anthony Vazquez

http://anthonyvazquez.com/weddings.php

http://anthonyvazquez.com/blog

Celebrity photographer and one of the industry’s most sought after up and coming photographers. Anthony Vazquez will show you how he creates hybrid fashion style images for his discerning clients.

This will be a fun, action-packed seminar. Anthony's contagious, high energy, no nonsense approach to wedding photography is a must see. Let Anthony take you on a first class tour around the world from South America to Italy while he demonstrates how he creates his edgy and unique images.

Anthony focuses on his relationship with his clients especially the bride because, after all, "its all about the bride”, says Anthony. from running in the streets of downtown NYC to swimming in the Mediterranean, Anthony says its all in a days work. Its all about making the bride feel like she is a rock star. This is her once in a lifetime dream day and we have to be there to capture the emotion and add an energy.

Bergen County Art Event-4/11/10 2-4 PM

WORKS ON CANVAS"

Upper Saddle River Library, 245 Lake St., Upper Saddle River

The "Works on Canvas" exhibit will be accompanied by handcrafted photo art tiles and fine art photography on innovative surfaces by Sueann S. Hack at the Upper Saddle River Library, 245 Lake St., Upper Saddle River. A wine and cheese opening reception for the April exhibit will be held 2-4 p.m. April 11.

Charles Addams Artwork at NYC Museum...

How lucky we are to live so close to so much art! The classic cartoon artwork of New Jersey born Charles Addams will be on display at the Museum of the City of New York this spring to coincide with the Broadway Show (Natan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth also New Jerseyans!!)

Mar 4 through Jun 8

Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams's quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings of the cityscape. The works in the exhibition include watercolors, preliminary pencil sketches, completed cartoons, and examples of published work from the cover of the New Yorker. The subjects are gleefully varied, ranging from charming to creepy; they include depictions of life on New York's subways and buses, in offices, department stores, museums, parks, streets, and homes. A special section will look at the evolution of the creepy assemblage of characters who were dubbed "the Addams Family" as they developed as mainstays of Addams's cartoons, moving through the streets of his New York and adding to the sense of mischief and deviancy that characterized the world as he saw it.

Charles Addams' New York
Where: The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York. When: Through June 8. Tuesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. How much: $10, $6 for students and seniors. For more information, visit mcny.org.

April is Poetry Month.. Steiglitz featured in this poem...

poets.org

Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye
by Gerald Stern


Every city in America is approached
through a work of art, usually a bridge
but sometimes a road that curves underneath
or drops down from the sky. Pittsburgh has a tunnel—

you don't know it—that takes you through the rivers
and under the burning hills. I went there to cry
in the woods or carry my heavy bicycle
through fire and flood. Some have little parks—

San Francisco has a park. Albuquerque
is beautiful from a distance; it is purple
at five in the evening. New York is Egyptian,
especially from the little rise on the hill

at 14-C; it has twelve entrances
like the body of Jesus, and Easton, where I lived,
has two small floating bridges in front of it
that brought me in and out. I said good-bye

to them both when I was 57. I'm reading
Joseph Wood Krutch again—the second time.
I love how he lived in the desert. I'm looking at the skull
of Georgia O'Keeffe. I'm kissing Stieglitz good-bye.

He was a city, Stieglitz was truly a city
in every sense of the word; he wore a library
across his chest; he had a church on his knees.
I'm kissing him good-bye; he was, for me,

the last true city; after him there were
only overpasses and shopping centers,
little enclaves here and there, a skyscraper
with nothing near it, maybe a meaningless turf

where whores couldn't even walk, where nobody sits,
where nobody either lies or runs; either that
or some pure desert: a lizard under a boojum,
a flower sucking the water out of a rock.

What is the life of sadness worth, the bookstores
lost, the drugstores buried, a man with a stick
turning the bricks up, numbering the shards,
dream twenty-one, dream twenty-two. I left

with a glass of tears, a little artistic vial.
I put it in my leather pockets next
to my flask of Scotch, my golden knife and my keys,
my joyful poems and my T-shirts. Stieglitz is there

beside his famous number; there is smoke
and fire above his head; some bowlegged painter
is whispering in his ear; some lady-in-waiting
is taking down his words. I'm kissing Stieglitz

goodbye, my arms are wrapped around him, his photos
are making me cry; we're walking down Fifth Avenue;
we're looking for a pencil; there is a girl
standing against the wall—I'm shaking now

when I think of her; there are two buildings, one
is in blackness, there is a dying poplar;
there is a light on the meadow; there is a man
on a sagging porch. I would have believed in everything.

LAST DAY TO REGISTER...Celebrate the Achievements of Your Colleagues!

Convention 2011!! Not too soon to save the date!

SAVE THE DATE!

Plan ahead for Conference 2011 !

March 26-29, 2011
at the beautiful...Hilton Woodcliff Lake

200 Tice Blvd
Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677-9998
Room Rate only $119.00

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Surrounded by 21 beautifully landscaped acres in the heart of Bergen County, New Jersey, the Hilton Woodcliff Lake hotel, in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, is the premier choice for both business and pleasure or the perfect wedding.... more

Surrounded by 21 beautifully landscaped acres in the heart of Bergen County, New Jersey, the Hilton Woodcliff Lake hotel, in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, is the premier choice for both business and pleasure or the perfect wedding. Our recent, multi-million dollar redesign gives this full service hotel a brand new look!

Hilton Woodcliff Lake, NJ hotel has the ambiance, attentive service and deluxe amenities to make guests feel at home. Conveniently located just off the Garden State Parkway, the Hilton Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey is just 35 minutes from New York City, making it a great alternative to Manhattan hotels.