Grounds for Sculpture...Shootout this winter??

When was the last time you visited Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ? It's a fabulous place to visit and refresh the artistic/creative soul. I spent 6 hours walking there yesterday and just couldn't leave. Many new sculptures since my last visit, abundant foliage and surprises every place you look.

Any chapter have a shootout there in the past? Would be a great winter activity with the beautiful water features, pervasive color and monumental sculptures.

Photos by Nancy Katz© 2010

Clay Blackmore..Photo Fusion...

If you missed this workshop in Newark today, no problem.. within a short distance you can catch the event in Philly, Boston or Baltimore.

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Nancy Katz Exhibits Photos from Cuba....

CUBA PHOTOS ON DISPLAY..9/26/10 @ The General Store, Teaneck, NJ

Says North Jersey PPANJ Board Member Nancy Katz, "3 Artists, 3 Works, 3 Weeks is the title of the show I'm in beginning tomorrow. In 2006, I visited Cuba for the second time and using a small digital camera, I captured the dignity of a young mother--deaf from birth-who was a Deaf Olympics broad jumper with her baby; 3 young boys on their way home from school who peppered me w/ questions re NYC's crime and noise, and a theater director creating a mask for a children's company that travels the world. What people--what a privilege!"

Please come to the opening tomorrow 4-6 PM if you are free or stop in the store when you are in Teaneck over the next 3 weeks.

When Broadway Meets a Wedding...

For all you wedding photographers and everyone who loves Life!!

Lin Manuel wrote and starred in the musical "In the Heights." Here's his wedding surprise for his wife:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZ4ZTTfKO8

Read the bit underneath the video- it says that they rehearsed for a month!

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PPANJ North Region Shootout September 12, 2010

Come One , Come All!!

Date Change

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

ANNUAL SHOOTOUT & FAMILY PORTRAIT CONTEST

Ringwood Manor

1304 Sloatsburg Road, Ringwood, NJ 07456

Phone: (973) 962-2240 Hours of park: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

http://www.ringwoodmanor.com/index.html

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/ringwood.html

Please join us from 10am to 4pm.

10am – 12pm Meet at Picnic and Playground Area for Shootout

12pm – 1pm Lunch*/Family Picnic

1pm – 4pm Continued Shootout/Skylands Botanical Gardens

*Lunch- Please bring your lunch.

Water, soft drinks and snacks will be provided. There will be no facilities on site for purchase of lunch.

This year’s competition is to take pictures of each other’s family. Details to follow.

While in the area you may also want to check out Skylands Botanical Gardens- Only a few minutes from Ringwood Manor. http://www.njbg.org/skylandsmanor.shtml#guide

Driving Directions to Ringwood Manor, New Jersey

From Manhattan

Take the George Washington Bridge to Route 4 to Route 208 to Route 287 South to Skyline Drive. When Skyline Drive ends, take a right on Greenwood Lake Turnpike (Route 511). Take the second right onto Sloatsburg Road. Ringwood Manor is about four miles up on the left.

From Upstate New York

Take 87 to exit 15A. From 15A take Route 17 North. Exit at the sign for Ringwood and West Milford.

That is Route 72, also called Sloatsburg Road. Ringwood Manor is about

seven miles down on the right (a sharp right).

From Southern and Central New Jersey

Take 287 North to the Wanaque exit. Take Ringwood Avenue (Route 511) north.

Eventually it will become Greenwood Lake Turnpike. Take the second right after

Skyline Drive onto Sloatsburg Road. Ringwood Manor

is about four miles up on the left.

When you pull in follow driveway to main house and stay to the far right. Follow ONE WAY road into park

To Parking area just past park area on the right.

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Paperless Post Joins Magnum Photos in Promotion

What a great marketing idea!! I use Paperless Post for invitations, thank yous, congrats, get wells and more for clients and family and friends. It's very neat. Now the company is joining with Magnum Photo to use iconic images with their paperless products. Of course, I still make holiday cards with my own photos to promote my work.

How cool is that!! Check it out!

..." Magnum Photos, the world's most prestigious photographic agency, was formed in 1947 by four photographers - Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour. Magnum represents the greatest collective of documentary photographers, whose photo library reflects all aspects of life throughout the world with an unparalleled sense of vision, imagination and brilliance. Today, Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, museums across the world - and now, Paperless Post." from the PP web site