Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club
Established April 1963
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Meeting: December 10, 2012 (second Monday)
Time: 6:30 P.M. (chat time), 7:00 P.M. meeting
Location: Asbury United Methodist Church
Music Room
75th St. and
Nall Avenue, Prairie Village, Kansas
(Park behind the church;
meeting entrance is near the corner on the back of the building near
Nall.)
Meeting Agenda
We will have our annual Christmas
picture exchange at this meeting. The December meeting is our annual social and print
exchange. Prints should be at least
8x10, matted, and wrapped so we can’t see the image. The photo you get is entirely random, and
each year many wonderful images are exchanged.
Participate—you will be glad you did.
Members may bring goodies
to share. Finger foods for the evening
are whatever you choose to bring—it need not be fancy.
If time allows we may be
able to do Show & Tell since we have no other program scheduled. Please see the requirements for image sizing
listed herein. No more than five images please.
Dues
Still haven’t paid your
dues? Please pay by check in the amount
of $25, payable to the Johnson County Camera Club. If you have moved since last year please let
Michael know so he can revise his list.
If you have changed your email address since last year please inform our
newsletter editor, Bill Staudenmaier, so you can continue to receive the
newsletter. For less hassle, mail your
dues to:
Michael Stone
12319 West 107th
Terrace
Overland Park, KS 66210
Notes from Our Last Meeting
Revocup Coffee, 11030
Quivira (behind McDonalds),
Overland Park, KS (913-663-3695).
Hours: Monday thru Friday 6:30am-7pm, Saturday 7am-5pm,
and Sunday 8am-5pm.
"Photography by Ernie Lowden"
JoCoCC member Ernie Lowden's
photographs offer the viewer a wide range of subject matter and pictorial
genre, from traditional landscapes and nature, to subjective abstraction - Closes (eventually).
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Block Building, 4525 Oak, KCMO (816-561-4000).
Hours: Wednesday 10am-4pm, Thursday and Friday 10am-9pm,
Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday noon-5pm.
"Heartland: The Photographs
of Terry Evans" Evans, a Kansas City native, is widely recognized
as one of the nation's finest landscape photographers. Known for her stunning
views of the Midwest, its people and its artifacts, the exhibit features 100
color and black-and-white photographs from her extensive body of work - Closes January 20.
Note:
Artist's talk and presentation by Terry Evans, Atkins Auditorium, Saturday,
November 10, 1-2pm. Public is invited, however, a reserved free
ticket is required, call 816-751-1278.
"Cabinet
of Curiosities" This exhibition of photographic specimens explores
the connections between science and art. It was inspired by the cabinets of the
17th Century, in which the owners assembled collections of objects that
reflected the marvelous, unusual or extraordinary -
Closes February 10.
The Editor’s Corner – Bill Staudenmaier
My mother collected recipes
printed in magazines and the newspaper, mostly the newspaper. After she died I placed these miscellaneous
clippings in a box and decided to go through them at a later date. I just
thought these recipes might be of some interest and possibly bring back
pleasant memories. So little more than a
year after her passing I was attempting to clean out some documents from a
filing cabinet and ran across the box where I had stashed her recipes. Interestingly, I don’t recall her making but
a few of these items. She was big on
cakes and sweet rolls of all sorts, so there were a number of recipes for
cakes, pies, sweet rolls and cookies.
One cake that seems to have fascinated her was the red velvet cake. She had several recipes for it, although
while I was living at home I don’t recall her ever making it. She made a really good German Chocolate cake
though, with lots of gooey icing. There
was also a really good pound cake that I liked.
Other than that my memory fails me.
At Christmas time there was
always an assortment of cookies. One in
particular I remember, she called a Russian Tea Cookie. I liked the cookie, but I also remembered the
paper the recipe was written on. Now
days of course you can get the recipe off the net along with several variations
created by different nationalities, each country claiming it as their own. I
used to watch my mother making these cookies, religiously following the recipe,
me, offering help when it wasn’t needed. It amazed me, as a child, that this conglomeration
of ingredients could produce something so delicious. A woman who lived two doors west of my
parent’s house gave mom this recipe. She
had a daughter named Sharon. As children
Sharon and I used to play together in either of our small yards during the days
of summer. We both had sand boxes and
spent hours forming things from wet sand and moving plastic figures around
imaginary landscapes. I had my cars,
traveling on constructed roads and bridges, as real as their large counterparts
in my mind. As things go with children,
everything was fine until we got mad at each other, for some stupid reason I’m
sure, and began to throw sand at each other.
Then Sharon would run into her parent’s house crying and complaining to
her mother and I would sneak home and pretend nothing had happened. Next came the ominous ring of the phone, a
call telling my mother that Sharon had to take a bath, because I had dumped
sand on here head. After which of course
my mother would give me a piece of her mind and a swat or two across the
behind. Now the reverse sometimes
occurred when Sharon would pour sand on my head, but I’d just brush it out,
take my shirt off, shake it out, and move on.
But then, I didn’t have long hair, I had crew cut.
Nevertheless our mothers stayed
friends for many years and often exchanged cookies or some other baked goods at
Christmas. And that was how the Russian
Tea Cookies came to be a standard holiday cookie in our family. The paper I found in my mother’s recipe file,
was handwritten by Sharon’s mother on beige letter writing paper. A fanciful curving tree in the left hand
corner was the memory I retained, for some reason, all these years. Through years of use it also had stains from
the many times mom had used it.
Later years the recipe was
passed down to my wife and the other women in the family. Andrea now makes this cookie during the
holidays, all these many years later.
Looking at that paper with the handwritten recipe I can still see Sharon
as a young child and her smiling dark haired mother Frances. In my minds eye I can still see the house
they lived in, and my parent’s house, in that special light that is reserved
for memories.
So now perhaps you understand
why I smiled when I found the recipe for that cookie, it brought back so many
pleasant many memories of a simpler time and place and the people that moved
through that space in time. A Merry
Christmas to all of you.
Images for Show and
Tell
There is always a
possibility at all of our meetings (if time permits) for member images to be
shown and discussed. Please see the
information below regarding sizing of images.
All images should be sized for 1024 pixels on the
longest dimension and saved as jpeg.
Images should be renamed to include the artist’s last name in the first
characters of the title. Check your
image, if it looks blurry or pixilated (unintentionally), you may have started
with a low resolution or highly cropped image.
In this case, you may need to increase the setting in the resolution box
to improve the image; but be sure to retain 1024 on the longest side. Submit JPG files on a flash drive tagged with your
name. Drives will be returned
after the images have been loaded into the computer for projection.
Subjects for the Year-End 2012-2013 Photo Contest
Submittals
for our Year-End-Contest are due at our May 2013 meeting. Only images shot since May 2012 are
eligible. There are nine subjects to
choose from. You may select a maximum of
six subjects with a maximum of two entries for each of the six subjects
chosen. A professional photographer will
judge the contest, with the results to be presented and discussed at the June
2013 meeting. A comprehensive
list of the rules may be found in the June 2012 newsletter which is on the JCCC
website.
2012-2013 Year-End-Contest Subjects
- Architecture
- Critters
- Square
- Cloudscapes
- Happiness Is
- Saturated
- Pattern Interrupted
- People
- Vintage
Please patronize the following area businesses when you need
photographic supplies or camera repairs.
Overland Photo
Supply, Inc. 8700
Metcalf, Overland Park, KS 66212 (913) 648-5950, FAX (913) 648-5966, e-mail – sales@overlandphoto.com, Hours: M-F 10-7, Sat 10-5
Crick Camera
Shop 7715 State Line Rd. Kansas City, MO 64114
(816) 444-3390, e-mail - crickcamera@sbcglobal.net Established in 1946
The Aperture, newsletter
of the Johnson
County Camera Club, is published monthly. Meetings are held the second Monday of each
month, unless otherwise announced, at the Asbury United Methodist Church. Short articles written by club members, or
selected from other sources of possible interest to club members, may be sent
to the editor for inclusion in the newsletter.
Membership dues of $25.00 for one year are to be paid during the month
of September, which is the beginning of the club year. Anyone who joins the club after March 1st.
will not be required to pay dues and will not be eligible to participate in the
year end competition.
For additional information or questions on the Johnson
County Camera Club, activities, meetings, and membership contact the following
members:
