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!

Friday, February 8, 2013

The Aperture | February 11, 2013


The Aperture


Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club



Established April 1963
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Meeting:  February 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
Following a short business meeting, president Steve Wall will introduce the following member presentations.

Carol Barlau will show images from her photographic adventures in “Out of Africa”

Gretchen Cole will present images from her trip to Michigan in “Upper Peninsula Michigan”.

Erin Schuerman will present “Preveal” using an iPad and Preveal software to estimate canvas sized for clients and/or gallery shows.
 
As always, if time allows, we will try to accommodate Show & Tell for images from other members of our club.


Notes from Our Last Meeting
-President Steve Wall presided over the meeting with 29 members attending.
-        The January meeting consisted of a presentation by Tom Strongman auto editor for the Kansas City Star.  Tom talked about the student group, "Minddrive", who've built 3 electric (at least partially solar-powered) cars. They drove one cross-country last year. Minddrive is an organization for which Tom volunteers. The website is: http://minddrive.org/  Tom also showed some of his automobile images.
-        Some members also brought images for Show & Tell.
-        The meeting was adjourned.


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

                  "Bonjour Picasso" Renowned photographer, David Douglas Duncan, provides a behind-the-scenes look into the intriguing Spanish artist's life in Cannes (1955-61). Including some of Picasso's high-profile friends and former lovers, everyday moments, and a commencement of a new work  -  Closes February 10.

                  "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.

Thornhill Gallery, Avilla University, 11901 Wornall, KCMO (816-501-3659).
Hours: Monday thru Thursday 10am-5pm, and Friday 10am-3pm.

                  "Modern Streets of an Ancient Empire" Photographer Angie Jennings presents a series of images made during a recent visit to China  -  Closes February 15. 

Tim Murphy Art Gallery (top floor), Irene B. French Community Center, 5701 Merriam Drive, Merriam, KS (913-722-7750). Hours: Monday thru Thursday 9am-8pm, Friday 9am-4pm, Saturday 9am-3pm, and Sunday 2-4pm.

                  "Places, Parts, Structures & Constructions" Local photographer Ric Cummings and mixed media artist Ted Denton have combined their creative talents producing a unique and visually engaging exhibition. Closes February 16.

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, KCMO (816-221-2626).
Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday 11am-5pm.

                  "Vera Mercer: Still Life Photographs" The Omaha based photographer is gaining world-wide renown for her bountiful, lush and bigger-than-life compositions of food. The lushness of her large scale images resemble the glorious baroque still lifes of Dutch and French artists of the 17th century  -  Closes February 23.

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 frequently revised range of subject matter and pictorial genre, from traditional landscapes and nature, to subjective abstraction  -  Closes (eventually).


The Editor’s Corner – Bill Staudenmaier

When I was twenty-one I thought I had reached a milestone in my misdirected existence.  I was through taking orders from my parents, I was free, because this was the legal age for all things related to having arrived in adulthood, or so I thought.  I believed I knew everything, could make my own decisions without assistance, because I had been to college and that was it, I was prepared to meet the world.  But I wasn’t.

I’m sure this may sound familiar to most people; you want to get away from home.  No matter how nurturing it may have been, you need to get away, to make your mark in the world.  You are invincible, and afraid of nothing, until the first raindrop falls on your parade.  If you married at this point in life you soon realized that you couldn’t live on love and that living your life required planning and work.  Fun and games had ceased, this was the real world and it was all too serious.  Suddenly you had to make decisions, get a full time job and plan a career path.

Now looking back over the years, garnering all the information you can to jog memory, perhaps looking at photographs from that period in your life, you realize that things actually were a little different than you may have considered them to be at that time.  But the choices you made led you to the place where you are now, and it’s too late to change that. 

I recently attended a relative’s funeral service.  Her life came to an abrupt end when she suffered a brain aneurysm while driving, lost control of her car and hit a utility pole.  She wasn’t married so there were no children, only her co-workers, her two older brothers and other relatives to attend the service.  She was not ready to leave this earth, as the groceries she had just purchased would attest.  She was still organizing her life. 

At the wake there were photos taken in her parent’s living room showing her as a child at Christmas.  It struck me as to how similar these images were to the ones my parents took when I was a child.  The clothes her brothers wore in the photo, the furniture in the room, the wallpaper, even the Douglas fir Christmas tree.  It could have been our house.    

The point here is that the similarities of life are often more striking than the differences.  What I thought was unusual in my life as I was growing up was really not that different from other children up and down the street, a few blocks over or perhaps even in a nearby town.  We were all influenced by some of the same things as we grew up, believed in the same causes, the politics of the day, and in my generation, concerns about the Vietnam War.

We take pictures of our children, grand children and family and friends.  We note the changes as life goes on.   An old photo I really like shows a group of neighborhood children all patiently posing for the photographer, someone’s mother.  I’ve forgotten who took the picture, it doesn’t really matter, but I’m in the photo.  It is an unusual image because it shows all of us, the old neighborhood gang of girls and boys, in a peaceful smiling state of being.  It wasn’t always this way of course, occasionally a minor fight broke out when there were disagreements on the rules of a made up game we were playing.

Great memories of a simple time perhaps?  Now that I think of it, it wasn’t so bad after all.  
  

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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