The Aperture
Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club
Established April 1963
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Meeting: October 8, 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
Jim Griggs will be our guest
speaker. Here is some information from
Jim on his background in photography.
For eleven years I worked as a
teaching assistant to world renowned writer/photographer Boyd Norton. How much
this influenced my photography is hard to describe but somewhere around 99% or
a few percent MORE! Since then I have been doing workshops and some lectures on
photography. I also was an assistant to Jim Richardson of National Geographic
during his assignment to photograph the Flint Hills, an opportunity I jumped on
with both feet. Besides a tremendous learning experience, this was also a
chance to change my viewpoint on digital photography.
For those that know me, you already
realize that everything I do is FUN! If it isn't fun don't do it. Serious to me
is something you put milk on in the morning for breakfast. Relax, chill out a
little, kick back and just have some fun and excitement with photography.
Besides spending loads of time in front of my Macs, I try to spend an equal
amount of time behind the lens! I like the influence other photographers have
on me but I don't like to copy their stuff. I like twisting the tail on the
dragon and doing my own stuff in some unique way. AND, most importantly, I love
teaching what I know about photography! I have been around this so long that it
is second nature to me in some respects but still a learning experience. Get
out of that chair! Go shoot! Limit yourself to one lens for a each week. See
what IT will do and always, always have fun doing it.
Photography has taken me from the
realm of looking at the world to actually seeing the world. There is a
DIFFERENCE!
"You can leave Africa but Africa
NEVER leaves YOU!" - Jim Griggs
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 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
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, Curtis Olinger, Dick O'Kell. Dave
Shackleford, Brian Schoenfish, Shari Stanberry and Steven Wall -
Closes November 11.
Note: Artists
reception will be held Friday, October 5, 5:30 - 7:30pm. Public is invited.
The General
Store & Co., 7922 Santa Fe Drive (Old Downtown), Overland Park, KS.
Hours:
Monday thru Friday 10am to 6pm, and Saturday 9am-5pm.
"The Space Between" Pilar Law presents a unique
collection of deliberately un-focused abstracted views of her surroundings and
their known features. Reality becomes ethereal shapes and lines and splashes of
color among soft light and shadow. Sometimes suggesting a sense of motion -
Closes October 30.
Sherry Leedy
Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, KCMO (816-221-2626).
Hours:
Tuesday thru Saturday 11am-5pm.
"Journey
In The Land" Arkansas photographer Michael Schultz's massive color prints are
unusual, often compressed, dreamlike landscapes that revel in Earth's mysteries
and power, its wonder and enchantment, and our relationship with it -
Closes October 27.
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 (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.
"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.
"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
Parents are constantly on the move these days. Their children never stand still. There are the sports, scout meetings, summer
camp, and so forth, activities upon activities.
Parents find themselves coming and going. Grandparents on the other hand can relax; the
grandchildren will go home, at some point.
But there is a special bond between grandparents and grandchildren that
is more necessary and of the moment. We
enjoy our grandkids because there are special things we can plan to do for them
and with them when they visit or we visit them.
Nicolas is seven years old. He enjoys working on projects with his
grandpa. I’ve shown him and his sisters
how to make things out of wood scraps in their Dad’s workshop. But at my house the attraction is the
electric train set that I’ve never really assembled, the way it should be put
together, in a layout. I started
collecting the cars and engines when my daughters were young. But collecting was all that I did; my daughters
weren’t that interested in trains. But
my grandson Nicolas is interested. He
has the imagination and perseverance to run the trains and can create his very
own railroad. At first I was reluctant
to let him handle these delicate HO gauge pieces. But then I began to think, why not. If they break I can glue them back together
or one railcar becomes spare parts for the others. Besides, what good are they sitting in a box
unseen and forgotten. So we build a
small railroad with lots of imagination a few buildings and an engine or two
and the boxcars, cattle cars, tank cars and cabooses all lined up on a siding
waiting their turn for a run around the track with one of the engines. But for me it isn’t the train it is watching
Nicolas run it and enjoy it.
Nicolas two sisters, unlike my daughters, enjoy playing
with the train. Ashley admired the
detail in the cars, while Lauren just likes to arrange and re-arrange the cars
on the siding. Each in turn runs the
train. A set of wheels pops off and grandpa fixes the problem, or if an engine
won’t run grandpa gets to try to discover what’s wrong.
The kids and I have built wooden toys. Not works of art, just something simple that
each child had a part in and enjoyed doing.
Nicolas really enjoyed building his small soapbox racer with me for a
Cub Scout project according to his mother.
As I think back, I remember my Dad helping me build Cub Scout
projects. Those were special times that
I still remember. My wife is teaching
the girls how to sew. They’ve made some
really nice clothes with grandma’s help.
How do you capture these lives
with a camera? Images are deceptive they
don’t tell the whole story. Take the
last time we were in Fort Collins. I
wanted my son-in-law to take a nicely posed photo of my wife and I and the
three grandkids. The backdrop was my daughter’s flowers, wildflowers and huge
Kansas sunflowers in their front yard.
So here’s the scene, grandma and grandpa are posed standing there
patiently, with the children in front of them.
Ashley, the oldest, smiles nicely.
Nicolas has an exaggerated smile that looks like it is painted on. Lauren, the middle child, doesn’t want her
picture taken. She is making faces. My son-in-law gets several shots, none too
good, but I’ll take what I can get. He
usually has them pose for a Christmas card photo; I can wait.
Reviewing the pictures later causes me to smile. I’m really tempted to mount all the pictures,
from the bad through all stages of almost pleasant. That is life as it is, not perfect, but
passable.
What I’ve observed and learned from my grandchildren on
past visits is that they are growing fast.
I need to take the time to play, slow down and listen and enjoy their
time now. I don’t want to remember only
the photos we took, I want to remember the minutes we shared and the problems
we solved together. Therein is the
treasure of these days that far surpass the images I’ve made as they patiently
posed. They will probably not remember
all the details of what we’ve shared with them, but perhaps they’ll remember
grandma and grandpa with the hint of a smile at some future time and place.
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[at]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[at]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[at]gmail.com
Vice-President - Erin Schuerman 913.322.3959 schuermanerin[at]gmail.com
Treasurer - Michael Stone 913.469.5724 mstoneopks[at]kc.rr.com
Newsletter Editor - Bill Staudenmaier 913.381.0264 wstaude[at]sbcglobal.net
Program Committee Chair - Erin Schuerman
Program Committee Members - Steve Wall, Brian Schoenfish, Carol Barlau, Ernie Lowden, Carol Henderson, Bruce Hogle
