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The Aperture | April 9, 2012
Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club
Established April 1963
jococameraclub.org
jococameraclub.blogspot.com
Meeting: April 9, 2012 (second Monday)
Time: 6:30 P.M. chat time 7:00P.M. - 8:30 P.M.
meeting
Location: Matt Ross Community Canter
8101 Marty St.
Overland Park, Kansas
(Note: Marty is not a through street and may be accessed from 80th
St. At this location Marty is one block
off Metcalf behind the car wash and Winsteds.)
Meeting Agenda – Erin Schuerman
Our guest speaker is David Seibel who holds a Ph.D. in Ornithology
from the University of Kansas and is a biology professor, author, poet, and
popular lecturer as well as an avid nature photographer. Seibel is a faculty member at Johnson County
Community College, has published several scholarly and educational works and is
a coauthor and contributing photo editor for the authoritative “Birds of
Kansas” published in May 2011 by the University Press of Kansas. Visit his website at www.davidseibel.com .
We will not have
time for member Show & Tell images following this program.
Year-End-Contest
Preceding the list of subjects
for the Year-End-Contest 2011-2012 at the end of this newsletter, we have
included everything you need to know about this contest and the rules for
entering. Please review these rules to
make sure your entries are in compliance.
Entries are due at the May meeting.
Flames in the Flint Hills –
Bruce Hogle
For those of
you who aren't aware, the Flying W ranch is putting on their
"Flames in the Flint Hills" event again this 14 April; see http://www.flinthillsflyingw.com/announcements/2012-flames-in-the-flint-hills.
It was a great event last year, I thought. The burns were
spectacular! Imagine a couple of thousand acres on fire. You, being able to get up close and personal
with your camera. Also, Josh is a terrific chef!
Also the 14th of April is the big day of the week long Prairie Fire Festival in Cottonwood Falls; see http://www.prairiefirefestival.com/ (no details yet). As part of the event, a handful of us (in the club) are doing a digital "Prairie Fire" presentation at 11:00am that day.
Also the 14th of April is the big day of the week long Prairie Fire Festival in Cottonwood Falls; see http://www.prairiefirefestival.com/ (no details yet). As part of the event, a handful of us (in the club) are doing a digital "Prairie Fire" presentation at 11:00am that day.
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):
Dolphin
Gallery, 1600 Liberty, KCMO (816-842-4415).
Hours:
Tuesday thru Friday 9am-5pm, and Saturday noon-5pm.
"Public
Domain"
Michael Sinclair, a locally celebrated fine art and nationally awarded
professional photographer, presents a series of quiet tree-lined Kansas City
boulevards and a collection of people scenes attending various local functions -
Closes April 21.
All Souls
Gallery, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, KCMO
(816-531-2131).
Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 9am-3pm, and Saturday 9am-noon.
"Nature's
Beauty"
Darrel Newkirk's exhibit of luminous metallic prints celebrate the beauty and
wonder of nature that surrounds us
- Closes April 27.
Sherry Leedy
Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, KCMO (816-221-2626).
Hours:
Tuesday thru Saturday 11am-5pm.
"Traces" Jennifer Onofrio Formes'
series of ghostly photographs evoke the notion of beings from the spirit world.
Her large silver gelatin velvety prints are beautiful and lush. Full of
dramatic ethereal movement, suggesting the presence of ghostlike spirits and
otherworldly beings - Closes April 28.
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 April 28.
The Tavern
Restaurant, 3901 Prairie Lane (N.E. corner P.V. Shopping Center at Mission &
Tomahawk Rd.), Prairie Village, KS (913-529-2229). Hours: Regular business hours Monday thru
Sunday.
"Art
of Imagination" Julie Johnson, a JCCC member, presents 9 large sumptuous prints on
canvas for patrons to peruse, contemplate, and enjoy during their dining
experience - Closes in mid May.
Art At The
Center, Tomahawk Ridge Community Center, 11902 Lowell, Overland Park, KS
(913-344-8656). Hours: Monday-Friday 5:30am-10pm, Saturday 7am-8pm, and Sunday
10am-8pm.
"The
Juried Exhibition" Includes images by JCCC members.
- Runs April 6-June 10.
This year's exhibit includes 26
photographs by 24 photographers. Among those selected by juror, sculptor Kwan
Wu, were images by Johnson County Camera Club members Carol Barlau, Dona
Corben, Marla Craven, Wayne Hickox, Dale Jamieson, Dennis Littleworth, Ernie
Lowden, Crystal Nederman, Dick O'Kell, Curtis Olinger, Brian Schoenfish, Dave
Shackleford, Shari Stanberry, Jack Stemm, and Steve Wall.
The Editor’s Corner – Bill
Staudenmaier
Parting with the collectibles of a lifetime is difficult,
the accumulation of a life of “stuff” that defines you. Unfortunately we all accumulate stuff that we
use throughout our lives; household furnishings, cars, clothes, even camera equipment. It is, in some ways, what we were about
during our lifetime.
Recently we had a garage sale at my mother-in-law’s
house. She passed away last June. The accumulation of stuff during her life
made me pause and wonder what my children will do with my stuff. We sold everything at bargain basement prices
just to get rid of it. There should be
no complaints from those who purchased the items. They have only themselves to blame and their
inability to pass up bargains. One old
guy and his wife made three required trips to haul off their treasure. Another man and his wife showed up with a
trailer after the first load to carry away their purchases. These were the people who have the disease. It strikes you when the euphoria of the deal
demands that you have to have it so you lay your money on the table.
The relatives got first choice earlier in the year. My wife selected what appealed to her,
really, anything that brought back memories of her mother, valuable or
not. I got a few things, guy things,
hardware and tools. But one thing I could
not let pass into the hands of strangers was an oak desk chair. Beautiful and sturdy it had served my
mother-in-law well when she taught school.
She used the chair for so many years, that when she retired, the high
school principal (a close friend) delivered the chair to her house as one of
the retirement gifts. No doubt her
replacement chose a newer padded chair, but this oak chair was a link to her
years of teaching. As I type this I am
sitting in her favorite teaching chair and it somehow has a quality of
construction that the upholstered office chair I’ve used for years does
not. It will remind me of my
mother-in-law and the sturdy strong willed person that she became after her
husband passed away when her children were young. She had to make hard choices. Women didn’t work in those days, but she had
no choice. She had a degree in math and
she taught school. This need for an education
was passed on to her children. It was
her belief that her degree had kept the wolf from the door. To say that I admired this woman is an
understatement.
Those individuals who came to our garage sale were mainly
friends who remembered my mother-in-law, or those in Bonner Springs who knew
her by reputation. After retirement she
didn’t rot away just sitting on her backyard deck. She volunteered in any capacity that would
tolerate her assistance for their cause.
One was a charitable organization that helped the poor with groceries. She remembered no doubt that she had been in
that position once. But she didn’t
neglect or put aside all the experience she had as a teacher. She tutored many of the children of former
students. Perhaps it was that reputation
as a no frills hard-nosed math teacher that they remembered.
The house no longer reminds me of her. The exterior and the grounds are the same, but
the elements that made up he life; the “stuff” is no longer there. The math books are gone as are her favorite
novels. I’ve got a few of these novels
and they offer a slight insight into the person, but not much. I have pictures of course, but she didn’t
like being photographed, you can see that in her facial expression. There are the photographs she took on trips
so I know what impressed her at those times of her life. But in the end I really don’t know much about
her, she was a very private person, and she preferred the mystery.
As I sit and reminisce about the sale, about her life, I
realize that it is extremely difficult to know and understand another
being. But, I have her chair, as I lean
back and stretch, I kind of believe she would have wanted me to have it. A few years ago she started handing out some
of her prized possessions; I asked for nothing, and I could tell that bothered
her. She insisted on giving me a pocket
watch mounted on a brass swivel display pedestal that had belonged to her
father. The watch sits on my dresser in
our bedroom. I remember to wind it once
in a while; it keeps near perfect time, even now.
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.
Rules for the
Year-End 2011-2012 Year End Photo Contest
Work will not be considered unless submitted in accordance with these
listed requirements. Gretchen Cole and
Pat Woods will be collecting and organizing the images to go to the judge. Our judge this year is Tom Strongman.
Submittals
for our Year-End-Contest are due at our May 2012
meeting. Only images shot on or since April
15, 2011 to present (May 2012 meeting) are eligible. Images recorded prior to that date will not
be accepted. Re-processed images
recorded prior to April 15, 2011 are not eligible for submission to the current
contest. Copying portions of images from
past images for insertion into current contest images is also prohibited if
they pre-date April 15, 2011.
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 our
images and present the results at the June meeting. All images
will be copied to a DVD for the judge’s convenience.
Please remember to adjust the size
of your images at 72 in the resolution box and then 1024 pixels for the longest
side. Save the image as a JPG. Then 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 only, labeling each image with your last name,
one underscore, category code, and number as follows.
Abstract = AB
Curves = CV
HDR = HD
Autos/Transportation/Wheels = AT
Rusted/Busted/ Old/Dilapidated = RB
Nostalgia = NO
Close Up = CU
From Below = FB
“Wild” Things = WT
Place
each category you are entering in a separate folder on a CD or Flash
Drive. Storage devices should be labeled
or tagged with your first and last name so they can be returned to you.
The
following is and example of how to designate your file identification.
New
Folder = AB
Include the individual files
within this folder as follows:
Beyonce_AB1.jpg
Beyonce_AB2.jpg
And so
on. Before turning in your images
please verify that they have been copied properly to the CD or Flash
Drive (i.e., that they are readable) and that your name is on the media. If you have questions contact Gretchen Cole
at gretchencole@comcast.net
or Pat Woods at p-woods@kc.rr.com .
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, 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:
President -
Steve Wall 913-782-6339 seeque2@gmail.com
Vice-President - Erin Schuerman 913-322-3959
schuermanerin@gmail.com
Treasurer -
Michael Stone 913-469-5724 mstoneopks@kc.rr.com
Newsletter Editor - Bill
Staudenmaier 913-381-0264
wstaude@sbcglobal.net
Program Committee Chair - Erin
Schuerman
Program Committee Members -
Steve Wall, Brian Schoenfish, Carol Barlau, Ernie Lowden, Marciana
Vequist, Mark Higgins, Mary Cleveland, Shari Stanberry, Bruce Hogle
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