The Johnson County Camera Club is a non-profit organization based in Prairie Village, Kansas. Members shoot both digitally and slides.

Meetings are the second Monday of each month, September through June.

Come share your photographic interests with other photographers. Learn through club programs and informative sessions. Take part in our intra-club competitions. Show and discuss your photography. Grow through helpful critiques and evaluations. Make new acquaintances who share the same interest and pleasure in photography.

Membership is open to all levels of experience. Whether you are a novice, advanced amateur, or professional photographer, your interest and talents are always welcome.

The Johnson County Camera Club extends to you an invitation to attend one of our monthly meetings!

Monday, June 11, 2012

The Aperture | June 11, 2012


Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club


Established April 1963
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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
-President Steve Wall presided over the meeting.
-There was a discussion of Year-End-Contest and rules.  Consideration was given to including the rules for the YEC in the bylaws since some inconsistencies and confusion have been a concern the past year.
-Following this discussion it was decided by vote of the membership present that the President should appoint three members to study the issue and make a recommendation. 
-Items discussed also included the Les Saucier workshop, Missouri Town Field Trip, JCCC business
cards.
-There was also a member Show and Tell.
-After viewing the images the meeting was adjourned.


JCCC 2012-2013 Year-End-Competition – Erin Schuerman
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.


At The Galleries – Michael Stone  (Photography currently on display)
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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