Where:  Steinhardt Gardens, 433 Croton Lake Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549
When:  Sunday, May 3, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
There is a small fee to enter the gardens, which goes toward the Garden Conservancy. 

Some of you went to the Steinhardt Gardens in the Fall last year.  Well, it’s time to view the gardens in it’s Spring glory…..

The Steinhardt Property with it’s hillside of 300 different cultivars of Japanese Maples, winding pine needle covered paths, a variety of plants and flowers beneath the trees, moss covered bridge over babbling water, rocks and stepping stones, with it’s acre aviary of ducks, walks around a pond, tall grasses, and Alpine Garden near the Cutting Garden filled with a variety of tulips, it’s rare, exotic animals, lemurs, camels, peacocks, it’s all Yellow Garden, all this and more on a 50 +acre property will be open to the public on Sunday, May 3rd from 10 am  to 4 pm as a fund raiser for the Garden Conservancy.  The entrance fee is minimal.

The property is renowned for it’s natural beauty and design.  Jerome Rocherolle, an artist, who never imposes on nature in deciding where to place the trees and plants that Mr. and Mrs. Steinhardt collect, with the help of his wife, Carole and their sister Caroline Rocherolle, has been creating a unique, natural garden over the past 20 years.

Come, walk at your leisure and enjoy God’s beautiful creation.

For directions, Google 433 Croton Lake Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549

The property is on the left, right after Croton Lake road becomes a dirt road.  Take a good look at the beautiful gates of wrought iron made in France at the entrance and at the exit of the property. 

Even if you have been there before, there is always something new to see.

Hope you can join your fellow members on this day.

P.S.  There are really very few places to sit, being a private property.  No picnics.  Also, I wouldn’t recommend a tripod, there are hundreds of people walking the trails the entire duration of the grounds being open.

To whet your appetite, here are some photographs from our field trip in November 2008.

On Wednesday, April 15, PCLFC will hold it’s Photo Essay Contest and Competition Make-up Session.

PHOTO ESSAY CONTEST

Members are invited to submit an essay in print or slide form for a chance to win a prize.  The winners will be selected by the Club Members’ votes on that evening.  Here are the particulars:

For both contests, all participants compete together in one level (Class A and Salon together) with joint entries being allowed.

The Slide Photo Essay is limited to 10 minutes in length per entry.  Sound may include your own commentary, taped music, or sound effects.  Both traditional and digital slide shows are permitted for entry, and compete together.

If you are creating a digital slide show, you must provide a means to play the slide show.  The Club will provide a digital projector and can provide a laptop with PowerPoint 2002 as a slide show application.  Other applications must be brought in by the submitter.

Given sufficient time, David Henkel has offered to put your images together in a PowerPoint slide show.  Please contact him if you want to schedule him to do the work.  He can be reached by phone at 203-509-4667 or by email at DHFore(at sign)hotmail.com.

In the Print Photo Essay contest the prints may be Black & White, Color, or a combination of the two.  Images may be any size and mounted on a display board of any shape or size, not to exceed the equivalent of four 16 x 20 boards (overall dimensions not to exceed 32" x 40").  All entries must be titled and signed and may include written commentary.  They are to stand on their own with no oral comments by the maker.

The members who are present that evening will cast a vote for their favorite print essay and slide essay.  The essay receiving the most votes will win a prize.  In the event of a tie in either category, we will have a second voting by the members to determine a winner.

For any questions or comments, please contact David Henkel, information shown in paragraph 6 above.

MAKE-UP SESSION

Also scheduled for this evening is the Competition Make-up Session.  Members can make up one missed month’s worth of competition material.  This means you may submit ONE missed submission in each category of the regular competition evening:

Black & White Open Subject Print
Black & White Assigned Subject Print

Color Open Subject Print
Color Assigned Subject Print

Digital Projection Open Subject
Digital Projection Assigned Subject

For the assigned subject submission, it must be the subject of the missed competition.  In other words, you cannot submit an entry into the Black & White Assigned Subject for March’s Assigned Subject (Storms), if you had already participated in that month’s assigned subject.

You can view the complete season’s submissions for each category and member by viewing the 2008-2009 Cumulative Scores Link on the right column or by clicking here.

Voting will be done by Club members for this make-up session, and there will be no comments.

I hope you can join us, the slide shows are fabulous.