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    Monday September 6, 2010 is the official Labor Day holiday. There is no shipping anywhere on that date—no orders can be shipped, no orders can be received—so the LensRentals office is closed. However, we will be covering emails all day, so if you need something, please email us. As usual, our website is fully aware of the holiday: the cart won’t let you choo […]
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    Welcome to the new LensRentals.com! Background We’ve been planning these changes since late 2009, and implementing them over the past several months. We have grown over 400% since LensRentals 2.0 went live in 2008, and while that application was itself a large improvement over the previous generation, we had pushed it to its limits. It became hard to keep ev […]

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CMPG Events at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church, Room 212/213 on 09/22/10

Agenda: Guest Speaker Bill Vanko.   Frog photography or the problems with photographing something that’s always wet

August 25, 2010 | Leave comment | Read More

Images Selected for Penn Camera Gallery Exhibition

The ratings are done and the scores tallied! Here are the 22 images selected to be displayed at the Penn Camera (Laurel) Gallery!

Members: If your image(s) were selected, please make the appropriate arrangements for your work to get to Penn Camera. More details shall follow on the events e-mail list and in the forums.

I should mention that the images are …

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August 19, 2010 | 1 Comment | Read More

CMPG PhotoWalk of the Inner Harbor

The Central Maryland Photographer’s Guild, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor Photowalk on August 14th,  was judged to be a rousing success. The theme was “city life”,   The weather was perfect, the track was fast all the walkers were keen to get their best shots, the photo opportunities seemed endless, and the wrap up lunch……. was not on anyone’s diet plan.

A Flickr …

July 28, 2010 | 6 Comments | Read More

We’re Tweeting Too.

First Facebook, then Flickr, what’s next Twitter, you might ask?   And of course the answer would be, Why Yes, Yes it is!

I’ve created a twitter account for the club  ( cmpg_photos )  that  with Geren’s help, is now linked to our website.  Posts, announcements, even uploads to our Flickr site are automatically posted to Twitter.  Why wait for emails …

March 12, 2010 | Leave comment | Read More

CMPG New Meeting Space

We’re happy to announce that we’ve outgrown Room 224 at Chapelgate. Effective with this meeting, we now will be meeting in Room 212/213 — still on the second floor at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church. Meetings are still held once  a month — generally on the 4th Wednesday of the month, at 7PM.

March 5, 2010 | Leave comment | Read More

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    It’s perhaps a little cliche – but we’ve all done it. A camera, a photographer in front of a mirror. Here’s 10 shots that caught our eye today with photographers, their cameras in front of mirrors (PS: this is the theme of the next weekly photography challenge – so get your thinking caps on and [...]Post from: Digital Photography School - Photography Tips. 1 […]
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