Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club
Established April 1963
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Meeting: January 9, 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 for January
The
program for our next meeting will feature information on self-publishing. We will spend the first half of the evening
focusing on the software and products offered by Blurb. The presenters include Erin Schuerman, Bruce
Hogle and Brian Schoenfish.
The second part of the
evening will feature member Show & Tell images. Surely you took some photos over the
holidays. Maybe you even got a new
camera or accessories from Santa Claus that you just had to try out. Bring five images to share with the
membership. Please see the requirements
for image sizing listed herein.
Bio Sheet for our Spotlight Section
Don’t miss out on an
opportunity to be featured in our newsletter.
This is your chance to let the other members learn a little about you
and your photography. Please send your
bio sheet to Erin Schuerman, Program Committee Chair, at .
Notes from Our Last Meeting
At The Galleries – Michael Stone
(Photography currently on display):
Irene B.
French Communiry Center Art Gallery (Top Floor)
5701
Merriam Drive, Merriam, KS
(913-322-5550)
Hours: Monday thru Thursday 9am-8pm, Friday 9am-4pm,
Saturday 9am-3pm, and
Sunday 2-4pm.
"Annual
2011 Student High School Visual Arts Competition" This wonderful juried
exhibition, selected from the 641 entries submitted representing 20 high
schools, features 158 works of art. Of which, 47 are photographs and 32 are
computer generated images. This is a definite "must see"
exhibit. However, time is short - Closes January 7.
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" JCCC member Ernie Lowden's 17 photographs offer the viewer a broad
range of subject matter and pictorial genre, from traditional landscapes and
nature, to subjective abstraction
- Closes January 28.
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.
The
Photographs of Brett Weston This exhibition features 39 photographs, and presents a
concise survey of the career of Brett Weston, son of famed photographer Edward
Weston. Brett's work exemplified the modernist aesthetic. In the details of
everyday things, he combined fact and form, objective reality and abstraction.
Reports from those who have already seen the exhibit agree, its a "Do
not miss!" experience for any serious photographer -
Closes April 1.
The Editor’s Corner – Bill
Staudenmaier
What
is it about January that prompts us to look backward and forward? Make resolutions we can’t (or just don’t
intend to) keep. Consider this season of
the year as a time for new beginnings.
The past is what it is, and hopefully, we have learned something from
it. Life is somewhat like a chess
game. Plan your moves in the present,
with an eye for the future, and what your opponent might have in mind. Yet none of us are good at predicting the
future; it is all one big guess.
Thinking
grand thoughts of what might have been, thoughts that can never be brought to
reality now, often fraught with pain.
What was cannot be changed, and can never be again. To this extent high school reunions are
somewhat a farce. They bring together
those of us who feel the need to connect with what was, in an attempt to
establish a relationship with what is.
But we’ve all gone our separate ways and the connections, except for the
few that we have forged along the way and maintained, cannot reclaim that which
was.
I
have a few friends I keep in touch with, though not with any regularity, and
perhaps that is the value of our connection.
We owe each other nothing, just some minor recollections, past
connections of places and events, areas where we might have shared a common
interest. To this end we meet, on an
irregular basis, reminisce or catch up on current events in our lives, and try
to solve the problems of the world.
These are of course the fallacies of our lives, such that in reality, we
care little for that which was, other than to retrieve the commonality of our
days. So we stumble and stroll through what we
perceive to be our life. We see but we
do not comprehend what this world is about.
For
those in a far away country suffering from starvation, there is no appropriate
future. There is no hope for what can or
might be. It is all summed up in the
here and now of what is and what must of necessity be. Today never ends for these people nor is the
view beyond the window of any greater dimension. The photographers and news groups that cover
world events many times face danger themselves to get the defining photos and
the verbal explanations of world events.
For some this danger is sort of a high, a euphoria that builds upon the
fear of the unknown. It becomes
something that needs to be experienced.
Is it really heroism or a temporary chemical imbalance that causes one
to make a rational decision in an irrational set of circumstances? The incentive is there of course for the
photographer to capture the defining moment in an insurrection. To what final end, or what lasting glory;
perhaps recognition of images well executed.
Should we always take the safe path and never experience danger? This leads nowhere except to safety and
comfort.
Unfortunately, we in our time and place, find comfort in
our photography. Become
complacent. Don’t attempt to challenge
ourselves. But in not challenging
ourselves we will not advance. So let’s
resolve for the New Year to blaze new paths.
Find subjects that excite us.
Stretch the boundaries of creativity.
Set the groundwork for our future.
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 in jpeg format at 72 dpi. 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 2011-2012 Photo Contest
Submittals
for our Year-End-Contest are due at our May 2012 meeting. Only images shot since April 2011 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 2012
meeting.
2011-2012 Year-End-Contest Subjects
- Abstract
- Autos/
Transportation/Wheels
- Close
Up
- Curves
- Rusted/Busted/Old/Dilapidated
- From
Below
- HDR
- Nostalgia
- “Wild”
Things
Please patronize the following area businesses when you need
photographic supplies or camera repairs.
Overland Photo
Supply, Inc.
8967
Metcalf, Overland Park, KS 66212
(913) 648-5950, FAX (913) 648-5966,
Hours: M-F 10-7, Sat 10-5
Crick Camera
Shop
7715 State Line Rd, Kansas City, MO 64114
(816) 444-3390,
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:
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