Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club
Established April 1963
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Meeting: September 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
Scott Bean will be our guest speaker for September. He grew up in Kansas and came to really love
being outside. His first forays into
photography were an excuse to be outside, and that 'excuse' is still a major
driving force for him to get behind the camera.
Scott just likes being out away from it all. He’d like to be able to say something deeper
about why he chooses to make photographs, but "I like to" is the most
honest thing Scott can come up with.
Scott wants his photography to connect him to the landscape,
to drive him to go outside, to really “be there” to capture his experiences and
share them with others. He wants viewers
to experience what he experienced when clicking the shutter, not just visually,
but to feel a sense of what it was like to have been there.
Scott’s has now lived in the Flint Hills longer than any other
area of Kansas and yet is constantly stunned by the beauty of this area. He believes you have to spend some time with
Kansas landscapes, and learn how to really experience them, but he feels it is
worth the effort.
Dues
With the beginning of a new
photo club year comes the need to pay your dues. Our Treasurer, Michael Stone, will gladly
take your money at the September meeting.
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
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 Human Experience/Abstract
Exhibition" The City of Overland Park's current art exhibit merges a
celebration of humanity with the challenging nature of abstract art. The
exhibit features studies in all media, including 36 photographs by 13
photographers. On display are images by Johnson County Camera Club
members Marla Craven, Dale Jamieson, Ernie Lowden, Curtis Olinger, Dick O'Kell
and Steven Wall - Closes
September 9.
"The Photographs Exhibit" The City of Overland Park's annual juried photography only
exhibition features a broad range of subject interest, techniques, and creative
talent - Opens September 14.
Images Art Gallery,
7320 W. 80th Street, Overland Park, KS (913-232-7113)
Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday 10am-5pm.
"Photography
by Marilyn Lyons" - Closes September 15.
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 wide
range of subject matter and pictorial genre, from traditional landscapes and
nature, to subjective abstraction
- Closes September 30.
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 Future of Yesterday" Displayed in the Block Lobby
(both levels) are 15 dramatic photographs by Belgian artist Ives Maes. Maes
explores the architecture of former world's fair sites and records how they
appear today. He investigates the effect of time, place, and context on the
remains of these once grand global events -
Closes October 28.
The Editor’s Corner – Bill
Staudenmaier
The hawks fledged in
July. They were out and about, the
parents trying to ignore their cries for food.
The Coopers Hawks were now almost the size of their parents, and typical
teenagers, going about their business ignoring all decorum and in general
causing problems. The parents nested
early this year and the babies were further along by this past July then they
would be in a normal year. They are fun
to watch as they steal food from one another, or fly by at window height
ignoring the rules for hawk navigation.
The nest was in my neighbor’s oak somewhere near forty feet up in the
foliage. The droppings on his driveway
marked the spot so to speak. It appears
they may have remodeled the old nest from last year. I’ve read that eagles do this, to the point
of where the nest becomes one huge construction.
The cap on his fireplace
chimney serves as a table for their meals on occasion. Considering the temperatures we’ve had
recently I would think that this perch might be a little on the hot side since
it is in direct sunlight most of the day.
But perhaps it warms their meal.
Not to gross you out here, but Cooper’s Hawks prey on small songbirds
usually about the size of a young Robin or smaller. Needless to say any bird that dares to burst
into song had better be ready for a quick getaway. The hawks won’t eat rodents, but they love to
chase squirrels for fun.
For a while the hawks used
a limb high up on my maple for their “kitchen”.
Feathers flew through the air to the ground as they plucked their
prey. Then they had the habit of dropping
what remains of the carcass on the ground below them. An untidy habit. I didn’t appreciate cleaning up after
them. But I did get to figure out what they
had for lunch.
Now it is early September
and the songbirds have returned, some migrating through Overland Park at this
time. The hawks left in late August, or
so it appeared. That’s the strange thing
about migration. To just pickup and fly
south, the offspring never having been there, then return to the same area each
year.
My neighbor has a feeder
hanging from the gutter outside his sliding glass door that opens on to his
deck. Prior to the hawks taking up
residence in the neighborhood he would often call and tell me about watching
the Chickadees or Goldfinches feasting on the seed in his feeder. I always blamed his feeder as the reason mine
was vacant most of the time. He would
counter with the fact that I didn’t prepare gourmet meals for the
visitors. Which was probably somewhat
true. He’d accustomed the little
feathered visitors to premium seed purchased from the local birdwatcher’s
store, while I purchased the Wal-Mart variety.
Really, I mean he was encouraging sloth among the little tweets. Cracked and shelled sunflower seeds, coddling
that’s what I call it. Real birds crack
open their own sunflower seeds as nature intended. But my neighbor persisted in pandering to
their acquired tastes. As a result my
seed grew old in the feeder and attracted nothing but the voracious squirrels
who will eat anything. I wonder if a
squirrel ever suffers from acid indigestion?
Probably not, they seem impervious to the problems associated with bad
food. Meanwhile my neighbor continued to
take pleasure in regaling me with the stories of the antics of his feathered
friends.
My neighbor purchased the
“Birds of Kansas” when it first came out.
You may recall one of the photographers, David Seibel, provided us with
a program for the club. Thus my neighbor
consulted this book when we tried to determine which variety of hawk we had
seen. It became a source of debate at
one point a couple of years ago whether we had Cooper’s Hawks or Sharp-shinned
Hawks in the neighborhood. I maintained
they were Cooper’s, but he wasn’t so sure, he consulted his expert, one of the
co-authors of the book. The
ornithologist thought they were probably Cooper’s Hawks. In size, the Sharp Shinned Hawk is somewhat
smaller, but their coloration is the same.
The difference is in the shape of the end of the tail. Cooper’s is more rounded while the
Sharp-shinned is somewhat square. Also
according to the book Sharp-shinned Hawks have not been observed breeding in
this area and prefer coniferous trees for their nests, not large oaks.
My neighbor and I used to
go back and forth with hawk reports. I
took some photos when they were perched on my fence once and made copies for
him. Being confined to a wheel chair he
enjoyed their antics on his deck, which he observed from his perch, in the
kitchen behind the sliding glass doors.
The hawks accepted him, as long as he remained nearly still.
As I said the hawks are
gone now, moved on. But according to the
“Birds of Kansas” they are supposed to be year round residents here. Maybe they’re just on vacation. Soon the chill winds will begin to blow as
the daylight hours shorten and tree leaves take on color. Unless tragedy befalls them, the parents will
return in the spring and repair the nest for another brood.
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. 8701 Metcalf Ave., 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:
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