River Concert Series July 21, 2023

The River Concert Series on the green at St. Mary's College of Maryland is over for the summer, but the last concert was great fun for fans of George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein music.   I am pleased to share some highlights of the concert for your enjoyment.  The evening was blessed with warm sunshine, after 4 concerts with threatening rain.  Jeffrey Silberschlag, music director of the Chesapeake Orchestra conducted some wonderful popular pieces, such as "Rhapsody in Blue", "An American in Paris" and Bernstein works from "On the Town" and "West Side Story".

Jeffrey Silberschlag, music director

Melanie Ashkar, mezzo-soprano

Steffan Sccaggari, solo pianist

Jeffrey Silberschlag received a 25 year award from the St. Mary's Arts Council 

Horns

Chesapeake Orchestra

Award winning photos from St Marys County Camera Club End of Year Competition

 Advanced First Place Ballerinas Ballet Caliente at the River Concert Series

 Advanced Second Place Cactus

 Advanced Third Place Newfound Gap Great Smoky Ntl Park

Advanced Honorable Mention Abbott Lake Virginia

 Advanced Honorable Mention Odd Turtle

 Theme First Place (Industrial) Sewing Mabry Mill

 Theme Second Place (Wet) Wet Dog B

Theme Third Place (Blue) Blue Curves

 Theme Honorable Mention (Blue) Blue Bubbles

Also see page B1 of the December 28th Enterprise Newspaper in St. Mary's County for more details about this year's competition.  There were intermediate winners and more honorable mentions.

Camera club Honors for October

I had 3 winning photos in the Camera club Competition, 1 theme (abc123), and 2 advanced.  Strangely enough, I liked an osprey photo that didn't win anything the best!  I like how much action was happening and how two birds framed the third bird.

The theme was called Abc123.  A few hours before I sent in the pictures, I was talking to Jim and noticed that the drawer pulls on our old fashioned filing cabinet looked like the letter "i" if I rotated them 90 degrees. It won third place.

A fairly recent sunrise had a lovely red glow.  I think I made sure the land was cropped off the bottom of the photo, since a previous picture was similar.  3rd prize Advanced.

                       Warm Sunset 

While photographing some gorgeous water lilies, I noticed some water had collected on a lily pad in the shape of a heart, so I called it green heart and it won 1st place in the advanced category.