Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
And the Winners Are....
Abstract 1st Place Mark
Higgins
2nd Steve
Wall
3rd Dale
Jamieson
Hon.
Mention Curtis
Olinger
Auto/Trans/Wheels 1st Place Crystal
Nederman
2nd Bruce
Hogle
3rd Crystal
Nederman
Hon.
Mention Brian
Schoenfish
Close-Up 1st Place Marla
Craven
2nd Curtis
Olinger
3rd Carol
Barlau
Hon.
Mention Ernie
Lowden
Curves 1st Place Steve Wall
2nd Mark
Higgins
3rd Julie
Johnson
Hon
Mention Mark
Higgins
From Below 1st Place Curtis
Olinger
2nd Erin
Schuerman
3rd Mark
Higgins
Hon.
Mention Erin
Schuerman
HDR 1st Place Bruce
Hogle
2nd Dale
Jamieson
3rd Dale
Jamieson
Hon.
Mention Mark
Higgins
Nostalgia 1st Place Paul Jones
2nd Crystal
Nederman
3rd Bruce
Hogle
Hon.
Mention Julie
Johnson
Rusted/Busted 1st Place Steve Wall
2nd Pat
Woods
3rd Brian
Schoenfish
Hon.
Mention Julie
Johnson
Wild Things 1st Place Shari
Stanberry
2nd Pat
Woods
3rd Paul
Jones
Hon.
Mention Mark
Higgins
BEST OF
SHOW Abstract Category Bruce Hogle
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Program Committee | Volunteers Needed!
The Program Committee is responsible for planning Club events throughout the year. Events include, but are not limited to:
We currently meet at Panera Bread (located at 15108 West 119th Street
If you are interested, please contact:
Erin Schuerman, VP & Program Committee Chair
Cell (913) 645-9898
schuermanerin(at)gmail.com
- Guest Speakers
- Field Trips
- Workshops
- Annual Holiday Party (December)
- Annual Year-End Contest (June)
We currently meet at Panera Bread (located at 15108 West 119th Street
Olathe, KS 66062).
We will have at least one planning meeting over the summer, and one again in August before the Club meetings start for the 2012-13 year.
If you are interested, please contact:
Erin Schuerman, VP & Program Committee Chair
Cell (913) 645-9898
schuermanerin(at)gmail.com
The Aperture | June 11, 2012
Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club
Established April 1963
jococameraclub.org
jococameraclub.blogspot.com
Meeting: June 11, 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
Judge Tom Strongman will give
us the judging results for our Year-End-Contest. Tom is a writer and photographer for the
Kansas City Star producing a weekly column on new cars and an occasional column
on collectors and their cars.
There will not be enough time
for Show & Tell.
Notes from Our Last Meeting
As
a result of a motion, voted on and passed, at the May 2012 club meeting, a
committee was appointed by the President to present a proposal regarding the
club's 2012-13 year-end competition. The committee is Erin Schuerman, Dick
O'Kell and Bruce Hogle (chairperson). Below are the details for the year-end competition for the 2012-13
club year:
Johnson County Camera Club
2012-13 Year-End Competition
Purpose:
·
Have fun and encourage the development of
photographic excellence.
Timeframe:
·
May 14, 2012 - May 12, 2013.
Categories:
·
Nine; determined by the 2011-12 Program Committee.
Awards:
·
Cash awards will be: Honorable Mention, $5; 3rd,
$10; 2nd, $15; 1st, $20, for each category.
·
Best of Show, $20, which will be chosen from the
nine 1st place winners.
·
Photographer of the Year, $30, as determined by the
person awarded the most money.
·
A Club officer will obtain the awards.
Creativity:
·
No restrictions or guidelines shall be placed on
computer-based image editing applications.
[Excerpt from By-laws, dated September 14, 2009]
·
All work must be that of the submitting member and
captured during the specified timeframe.
Eligibility:
·
Those who have paid their Club dues.
Submissions:
·
Digital format; on a flash drive.
·
Any of one to six of the categories; one or two
entries per category.
·
At the May meeting.
If the member is unable to attend, they may contact the persons
preparing the images to make other arrangements as stipulated by those persons.
·
JPEGs; 1024 pixels on the long side. Create a folder for each category, in
which you have an entry. Within the
folder, label each image:
·
Verify images
are readable.
·
If you have questions,
contact the Club Vice President.
·
Category Codes are: Architecture = Ar; Cloudscapes = Cl; Critters = Cr;
Happiness Is ... = HI; Pattern Interrupted = PI; People = Pe; Saturated = Sa;
Square = Sq; Vintage
= Vi.
Judging:
·
The judge will be chosen and contacted by the
Program Committee and/or the Officers.
Suggestions are welcome.
·
The judge will be presented an honorarium of $150,
plus gas money if they are from outside the KC Metro area.
·
Preparation of images for judging will be handled
solely by a separate Committee, who will also prepare the year-end slideshow.
All above guidelines were compiled into one document and were based on
the Club's previous decisions/guidelines. Because no changes were made,
no additional voting is required.
At the September meeting, the chair of this committee will make the
motion below to add to the Standing Rules, which are attached to the Club
By-Laws, regarding the 2013-14 and future competitions:
"The Club Program Committee for the
current club year will publish, not later than the May meeting of that year,
specifics regarding the Club's Year-End Competition for the next year to
include, but not be limited to:
· Purpose
· Timeframe
· Categories
· Awards
· Creativity
· Eligibility
· Submissions
· Judging."
Les Saucier Workshop – Erin Schuerman
The
workshop with Les Saucier was a wonderful experience! Thank you to ALL
the Club Members who helped make this workshop possible and a HUGE thank you to
Mr. Saucier for sharing his knowledge with our group. Hopefully, some of
the images will be shared in upcoming Show & Tells. As a reminder,
you may see some of Mr. Saucier's work at www.AppalachianJourney.com. The Program Committee hopes to provide
more workshops like this in the future. If you know any photographers
that may be willing to run a workshop for the Club, please contact VP/Program
Committee Chair Erin Schuerman at (913) 645-9898.
Art At The Center, Tomahawk
Ridge Community Center, 11902 Lowell, Overland Park, KS (913-344-8656). Hours:
Monday thru Saturday 8am-9pm, and Sunday 10am-8pm.
"The
2012 Juried Exhibition" The City of Overland Park's annual jurored art exhibit
includes 28 photographs by 25 photographers. On display are images by Johnson
County Camera Club members Carol Barlau, Dona Corben, Marla Craven, Wayne
Hickox, Dale Jamieson, Julie Johnson, Dennis Littleworth, Ernie Lowden, Crystal
Nederman, Curtis Olinger, Dick O'Kell, Brian Schoenfish, Dave Shackleford,
Shari Stanberry, Jack Stemm, and Steven Wall -
Closes June 16.
Gallery Hall, Unity
Temple on the Plaza, 707 West 47th Street, KCMO (816-561-4466).
Hours: Monday thru Sunday 9am-5pm.
"The
Land of The Thunder Dragon" Photographs by Laura Robinson -
Closes June 30.
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 17 photographs offer the
viewer a broad range of subject matter and pictorial genre, from traditional
landscapes and nature, to subjective abstraction -
Closes June 30.
R.G. Endres Gallery (Inside City Hall), 7700 Mission Road, Prairie Village, KS (913-381-6464).
Hours: Monday thru Friday 8am-5pm.
"Tri-Phecta" Local award-winning
photographers Anna Dorrance, Mark Higgings (JoCoCC), and Anne Nye have combined
their creative talents and diverse subject interest presenting an array of
photographs rich in contrasting style, interpretation, and reality - July
1 thru 30.
Note: Artists reception will be held Friday, July 13, 6:30 - 7:30pm. Public
is invited.
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.
Timothy H. O'Sullivan: The
King Survey Photographs O'Sullivan's photographs for the King Survey (1867 to 1872) are among
the rarest and most iconic images of America's frontier West. The range of
these images is remarkable, from landscapes and geological studies to
self-reflective meditations on his own presence in a harsh alien environment -
Closes August 26.
Johnson County Museum,
6305 Lackman Road, Shawnee, KS (913-715-2550).
Hours: Monday thru Saturday, 10am-4:30 pm.
“Bill Owens: Suburbia” Owens was an acclaimed newspaper photographer
during the 1960s and 70s in Northern California. He also took pictures about life and living
in the suburbs of Livermore, where he lived, acquiring the distinction
“Photographer of Americana” - Closes September 1.
The Editor’s Corner – Bill
Staudenmaier
Early June always finds us on the road, heading west to
Fort Collins, Colorado for a quick visit with our daughter and family. As with
all children these days, our grandchildren get too involved in their summer
activities to care about much else later on.
The trip across Kansas was uneventful as usual; always
too long. There were the usual regrets
resulting from traveling at warp speed, the, that would have made a great shot
feelings. If I wasn’t driving speed limit and could stop abruptly or turn
around or take a shot somehow. The
deteriorating farm buildings beckon to me as I whiz past. One of these days I promise myself that I
will stop and take at least a few shots before they meet their final
demise. But I never stop, and you know
why don’t you; I’m traveling with a non-photographer whose idea of composing an
image is grab it and run. It will have
to wait until the next trip out this way.
But of course on the next trip I’ll do the same thing, or bemoan the
fact that things have since progressed to a state of deterioration beyond
reclamation. Pitiful excuses.
Approaching Denver on Sunday we encounter a dust storm
that practically obliterates our view of the mountains. The wind is from the south and attempts to
grab control of the Jeep from me. We
persist to move westward at reduced speed and visibility. Finally the strong rocking wind is replaced
with a pounding rainstorm. In
retrospect, it was good that the rain came after the dust, thus giving the Jeep
a good cleansing. Proceeding northward toward Fort Collins the weather has
changed and the cool temperatures have started to warm. We arrive in Fort Collins in time to share an
evening meal.
It is always interesting to me how much the grandchildren
change between visits. They are taller
of course, but I notice the change in facial features the most. Ashley the oldest is eleven and strongly
resembles her mother at that age. Lauren
is nine and surprisingly resembles my other daughter at that age. Then there is Nicolas, seven, who must surely
resemble someone, but we still haven’t figured out who.
Wednesday we went to the mountains for a picnic, the
upper altitudes, slightly cooler. The
site we chose for our picnic is near the top of Cameron Pass Summit, elevation
10,276 feet. There is a small stream,
the result of melting snow, rolling down the hillside toward our shaded picnic
area. Wildflowers in purple, yellow and
white are scattered across the slanting mountainside. In the shadows is the remnant of the last
snow in the area. We enjoyed the drive
to the pass, but it is almost time to head back. Following lunch we head back toward Fort
Collins on the same route, CO Hwy 14, with a stop at one of the reservoirs
along the way for Nicolas to practice fishing.
He is pretty good at casting, but no fish take the bait. So we head back down the highway toward a
place we saw earlier on the way up along the Poudre River. Here we are able to get close by the river,
but again the kids are disappointed, especially Nicolas. We give up for the day and head back to my
daughter’s house.
Her husband is an avid photographer; later in the evening
we talk about the images he managed to capture on his business trip to
Montana. He always plans a side trip on
the way back home, this time it was a stop with some hiking in the Grand
Tetons. Most of his trips, even the ones
overseas, include photography whenever possible.
This past week I’ve been practicing shooting portraits of
the kids on the run. Trying to get shots
of them posed together is almost impossible.
Smile they will, but not all at the same time. Ashley, the oldest, is probably the best at
posing. She’s used to it by now, being
the first child her dad was always pointing a camera at her. So, if she is in the mood, you can usually
get her to pose; she knows what to do.
Her sister and brother however are at that age where they love to mess
up an image with weird facial expressions.
Tomorrow I plan to transfer my images to my computer and
do some editing. But they were all
winners when I took the shots, weren’t they?
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 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.
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. 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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