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, December 10, 2012

The Aperture | December 10, 2012


Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club

Established April 1963
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Meeting:  December 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
We will have our annual Christmas picture exchange at this meeting.  The December meeting is our annual social and print exchange.  Prints should be at least 8x10, matted, and wrapped so we can’t see the image.  The photo you get is entirely random, and each year many wonderful images are exchanged.  Participate—you will be glad you did.

Members may bring goodies to share.  Finger foods for the evening are whatever you choose to bring—it need not be fancy.

If time allows we may be able to do Show & Tell since we have no other program scheduled.  Please see the requirements for image sizing listed herein.  No more than five images please.

Dues
Still haven’t paid your 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 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
-President Steve Wall presided over the meeting.
-        The December image exchange was explained for the benefit of new members.  Members were asked to bring snacks to this meeting if they wished.  Shari Stanberry will provide a tablecloth and napkins.  Steve Wall will provide soda pop, ice and paper plates.  Ken Ragan will provide cups.
-        The Year End Contest motion for a directive to be inserted in the club by-laws was voted on and passed.
-        Erin mentioned the club blog, which was discussed briefly.  The upcoming schedule of events for the remainder of the year was presented and discussed.
-        Program notes: 
-        Dick O’Kell did a presentation featuring images from around Crested Butte, CO.
-        Paul Douglas did a presentation on utilizing GPS coordinates in photography.
-        Gil Carlon showed images of Lake Powell and the Colorado River.
-        Bruce Hogle talked about backing up images on hard drives and offered suggestions.
-        Following the scheduled programs the meeting was adjourned.


At The Galleries – Michael Stone  (Photography currently on display)
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
My mother collected recipes printed in magazines and the newspaper, mostly the newspaper.  After she died I placed these miscellaneous clippings in a box and decided to go through them at a later date.  I  just thought these recipes might be of some interest and possibly bring back pleasant memories.  So little more than a year after her passing I was attempting to clean out some documents from a filing cabinet and ran across the box where I had stashed her recipes.  Interestingly, I don’t recall her making but a few of these items.  She was big on cakes and sweet rolls of all sorts, so there were a number of recipes for cakes, pies, sweet rolls and cookies.  One cake that seems to have fascinated her was the red velvet cake.  She had several recipes for it, although while I was living at home I don’t recall her ever making it.  She made a really good German Chocolate cake though, with lots of gooey icing.  There was also a really good pound cake that I liked.  Other than that my memory fails me.

At Christmas time there was always an assortment of cookies.   One in particular I remember, she called a Russian Tea Cookie.  I liked the cookie, but I also remembered the paper the recipe was written on.  Now days of course you can get the recipe off the net along with several variations created by different nationalities, each country claiming it as their own. I used to watch my mother making these cookies, religiously following the recipe, me, offering help when it wasn’t needed. It amazed me, as a child, that this conglomeration of ingredients could produce something so delicious.  A woman who lived two doors west of my parent’s house gave mom this recipe.  She had a daughter named Sharon.  As children Sharon and I used to play together in either of our small yards during the days of summer.  We both had sand boxes and spent hours forming things from wet sand and moving plastic figures around imaginary landscapes.  I had my cars, traveling on constructed roads and bridges, as real as their large counterparts in my mind.  As things go with children, everything was fine until we got mad at each other, for some stupid reason I’m sure, and began to throw sand at each other.  Then Sharon would run into her parent’s house crying and complaining to her mother and I would sneak home and pretend nothing had happened.  Next came the ominous ring of the phone, a call telling my mother that Sharon had to take a bath, because I had dumped sand on here head.  After which of course my mother would give me a piece of her mind and a swat or two across the behind.  Now the reverse sometimes occurred when Sharon would pour sand on my head, but I’d just brush it out, take my shirt off, shake it out, and move on.  But then, I didn’t have long hair, I had crew cut.

Nevertheless our mothers stayed friends for many years and often exchanged cookies or some other baked goods at Christmas.  And that was how the Russian Tea Cookies came to be a standard holiday cookie in our family.  The paper I found in my mother’s recipe file, was handwritten by Sharon’s mother on beige letter writing paper.  A fanciful curving tree in the left hand corner was the memory I retained, for some reason, all these years.  Through years of use it also had stains from the many times mom had used it.

Later years the recipe was passed down to my wife and the other women in the family.  Andrea now makes this cookie during the holidays, all these many years later.  Looking at that paper with the handwritten recipe I can still see Sharon as a young child and her smiling dark haired mother Frances.  In my minds eye I can still see the house they lived in, and my parent’s house, in that special light that is reserved for memories.  

So now perhaps you understand why I smiled when I found the recipe for that cookie, it brought back so many pleasant many memories of a simpler time and place and the people that moved through that space in time.  A Merry Christmas to all of you.
  

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 meetingA 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:

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, Carol Henderson, Bruce Hogle



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