There have been a couple big announcements made in regards to this years NECCC Conference. The first you’ve likely assumed, and even despite things in regards to COVID going in the right direction the conference will be postponed until 2022. Here is a note from conference coordinator Susan Mosser that explains their decision to postpone.
With the pressures of the continued COVID-19 pandemic, NECCC has decided to postpone our 75th Anniversary Conference to 2022. This is obviously not a decision we made easily or one that we wanted to make. Certainly, if you asked us last July, we would never have anticipated having to postpone the 2021 conference. We have been hopeful that it would be safe to hold our 900-person event, but here we are despite the light at the end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollouts, having to postpone again. When we started looking at state and local restrictions, social distancing, allowable room capacities, how to safely feed everyone for three days, along with travel restrictions for both our attendees and speakers, and other safety questions, it just became apparent that there were too many variables to work out. As we had planning and publishing deadlines looming, we made the difficult decision to postpone to 2022.
Despite what a bummer it is to have the conference postponed yet again we do have something pretty neat to look forward to this summer. As a thanks to everyone’s understanding and continued support the conference committee worked with some of the scheduled speakers and put together a one day online event. Here is more on this event from Susan.
To thank everyone for being a part of the NECCC family, we will be holding a one-day online event on Saturday, July 17th featuring speakers Richard Bernabe, Andre Gallant, ANEC and Freeman Patterson. Along with our speakers, Hunt’s Photo & Video will be joining us; there will be an event projected image competition and $1000 in door prizes.
All individual members of any of the New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) camera clubs are invited to participate in a fun and free Pandemic Inspired Photo Showcase! This event is designed so everyone can participate from their own homes. There are five categories and only one photo may be entered in each. You can enter photos in as many categories as you like, from just one to all five, however, you can’t enter the same photo in more than one category. All photos must have been taken in 2021.
This is your chance to get creative! A category’s “meaning” is open to your interpretation! Let’s have some fun with this!
Everyone who participates and enters at least one photo will then be eligible to select their top favorite in each category. The one catch is you can’t choose your own entry.
Even though this showcase is focused on individual participants, the NECCC camera club with the greatest percentage of members participating will be recognized. Encourage your fellow members to submit their photos too!
Categories
Pandemic Partners
In the Safety Zone
Mealtime
Games
My Life in Black and White
Timeline
January 1 to April 21 – Take Photos(Warm up your camera and take photos wherever the pandemic leads you.)
April 5 to April 21 – Submit Photos(Upload your photos to 1 or more categories before 10 pm on April 21.)
April 22 to April 30 – Choose Your Favorites (Everyone who submits photos may now choose their favorite in every category.)
May 4 – Announce Fan Favorites (The winning favorite photos will be announced at the monthly NECCC Keeping Clubs Active meeting.)
May 5 – Showcase (All Fan Favorites and all submitted photos will be viewable on photo.NECCC.org.)
Rules
You must be a member of a NECCC camera club.
Photos must be taken in 2021.
Enter 1 to 5 photos across 5 categories. Only 1 photo in a category.
No duplicate, or near duplicate, photos submitted in other categories.
All photographs must be taken and edited exclusively by you.
For composites, you must have taken all components.
A category’s “meaning” is open to your interpretation.
Every category allows color or monochrome photos.
Titles will be displayed.
No watermarks allowed.
Copyright of the photo remains with you.
NECCC has the right to use the photo on their websites and literature.
NECCC has the right to disqualify and remove any photo as it sees fit.
You cannot choose your own photo for the category favorite.
Photos must be in the JPEG format with an sRGB color profile.
Photos will be automatically scaled down to fit in a 1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels high screen while preserving aspect ratio.
