Welcome to the start of our new, exciting, but unique camera club season.  We start this season in pretty much the same way as we ended the last.  The pandemic still looms large so our meetings including competition night will be brought into our homes via zoom.  

We do have an entire new list of competition themes and a new group of judges to critique our images.  We are very excited by all that this season has to offer, including our first judge of the season, Matthew Mahlstedt.

Matthew is a photographer based in Baltimore MD with the simple business name of That Baltimore Photographer. He grew up just outside of Annapolis in the small town of Odenton. During that time he learned the basics of photography, including darkroom techniques from his mother, an amateur photographer herself. 

Matthew has over a decade of professional experience and a lifetime of personal shooting. As a member of the Baltimore Camera Club, he grew frustrated seeing photographs dismissed for being “too pink” when they were actually infrared images, or when a judge referred to a film scan as an “effect.”   When the Maryland Photography Alliance announced they would be training judges, Matthew jumped at the opportunity to provide a better caliber of judging.