The Aperture
Newsletter
of the Johnson County Camera Club
Established
April 1963
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Meeting:
November 12, 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
We will have a 10-minute
mini program and a 10-minute instructional program. Also you are encouraged to bring a maximum of
five images per member for Show and Tell.
Dues
If you still owe dues please pay by check in the amount
of $25, payable to the Johnson County Camera Club. If you have moved since last year please
contact our Treasurer, Michael Stone mstoneopks@kc.rr.com so he can revise his list. If you have changed your email address since
last year please inform our newsletter editor, Bill Staudenmaier wstaude@sbcglobal.net , so you can continue to receive the newsletter. 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
Photographs Exhibition" The City of Overland Park's annual juried photography only
exhibition offers a broad range of subject interest, techniques, and creative
talent. This large exhibit
features the work of 22 local photographers. Including images by JoCoCC members
Marla Craven, Wayne Hickox, Mark Higgins, Dale Jamieson, Julie Johnson, Ernie
Lowden, Crystal Nederman, Dick O'Kell. Dave Shackleford, Brian Schoenfish,
Shari Stanberry and Steven Wall - Closes
November 11.
Images Art Gallery, 7320 W. 80th Street, Overland Park, KS (913-232-7113)
Hours: Tuesday
thru Saturday 10am-5pm.
"Photographs by Ric Cummings
and Luke LeTourneau" - Closes November 12.
All Souls Gallery, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, KCMO
(816-531-2131).
Hours: Monday thru Friday 9am-3pm, and Saturday 9am-noon.
"Guatemala:
The Past Is Present" Dale Jamieson, a JoCoClub member, attended a recent workshop
adventure in Guatemala and found the patterns, textures and colors of this
nation's culture and landscape, both inspiring and influencing his creative
imagination -
Closes November 16.
Ernie Miller Nature Center, 909 North K-7 Highway (westside of K-7), Olathe, KS (913-764-7759).
Hours: Monday
thru Saturday 9am-4:30pm (closed noon to 1pm) and Sunday 1-4:30pm.
"Art
Fest 2012" This annual juried art exhibition honors artists and photographers
residing in Johnson County. Among the photographers accepted are JoCoCC members
Bruce Hogle, Dale Jamieson (Purchase Award), and Steven Wall -
Closes November 18.
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 photographs offer the viewer a wide range of
subject matter and pictorial genre, from traditional landscapes and nature, to
subjective abstraction - Closes (eventually).
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.
"Heartland:
The Photographs of Terry Evans" Evans, a Kansas City native, is widely recognized as one
of the nation's finest landscape photographers. Known for her stunning views of
the Midwest, its people and its artifacts, the exhibit features 100 color and
black-and-white photographs from her extensive body of work -
Closes January 20.
Note: Artist's talk and presentation by Terry Evans, Atkins
Auditorium, Saturday, November 10, 1-2pm. Public is invited, however, a
reserved free ticket is required, call 816-751-1278.
"Cabinet of Curiosities" This exhibition of
photographic specimens explores the connections between science and art. It was
inspired by the cabinets of the 17th Century, in which the owners assembled
collections of objects that reflected the marvelous, unusual or extraordinary -
Closes February 10.
The Editor’s Corner – Bill Staudenmaier
Random
thoughts of some particular value, or not.
Autumn. The time is passing faster than we want to admit. Daylight saving time requires a body clock
adjustment for some. The leaves are showing color, some just turn brown and
drop. The chill winds have begun to
blow, warning us that another bleak winter may be in the offing. Across Kansas, the Cottonwoods, shown a
bright yellow in late October. On our
way back home they had turned brown, less than a week, since our first passing.
But perhaps it will be mild as last winter’s days. My Maples still have light green leaves on
the tree, yet those fallen to the ground have a pale gold tinge. Even the learned prognosticators sometimes
get it wrong. I’m not going to speculate
on what the coming weather will be, surely I’d get a wrong reading.
Images.
What determines a good photograph; I don’t really know, do you? A few are deemed great or good at the least
and I fail to perceive the point if there be any, of some of these images. For example, I have a book setting on the
desk to my right that I wonder whatever possessed the noted photographer to
select the image that he used for the cover of this softbound work. It is a black and white lightly sepia
toned. The subject is, well I guess, I’m
not really sure what he assumed the real subject to be. It shows an outdoor water faucet protruding
from what appears to be the rather weathered wall of a house or building of
some sort. Perhaps it’s the abstractness
that should capture your attention. The
eye, my eye, is drawn to the ragged edge of what appear to be wood shingles,
but there is not enough there to really make any identification with
certainty. On the left is what appears
to a dangling electrical cord poised over a black background, which is shared
by a wall of sorts, which could be concrete.
Strong shadows, with the light from the right, up at a diagonal to the
faucet, illuminate the scene. But there
is a horizontal shadow, or perhaps a paint discoloration that confuses me. My eyes want to see the source of this. It appears to be another pipe coming in from
the right with insulation of some sort painted to match the shingles. Back to the concrete edge, I can’t perceive
this as concrete because I’ve seen sheets of cork that resemble this. The image bothers me because I can’t
determine, or do I need to understand, the source of water for the faucet. Is it through the wall or from this pipe that
comes in from the side? Is any of this real or a clever setup? Who cares?
The main thing is whether you like the image, whether it somehow
attaches itself to your mental fixation of what is or is not. Why did this photographer take this image, to
what end, to what hidden purpose?
Reading. One of my
favorite haunts for books is the Half Price Books store on Metcalf. In the back on the right you will find the
two-buck books. They used to be a
dollar, but I guess other folks started to discover their value. Other than fiction and non-fiction they are
in no particular order, especially once they’ve been plowed over by the
customers. I often purchase books of
fiction by authors I’ve heard of, but really have no intention of paying full
price for. Now I suppose if I was one of
these authors I’d be mildly disgruntled to find my work in this area. But better to have someone purchase it at a
steep discount and pass the book on than for it to be consigned to the
paper-recycling heap. Just remember, I
remind myself, you don’t have to have it.
I started collecting a certain series of books at full price once on
watercolor art work. When I got to book
nine I decided enough was enough. Beautiful though these books may be I seldom
pull one off the shelf to look at.
As the leaves continue to fall we
gather them and grind them for use in the garden and our compost. But this too will end. Shortly the hunter-gatherers will forge
through the aisles of the local supermarket in search of the makings for a
meal. Families will come together, to
share once more, another Thanksgiving Day.
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. 8700
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:
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