The Aperture
Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera Club
Established April 1963
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Meeting: March 11, 2013 (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 our guest
speaker, Jim Griggs, who will present an overview of Lightroom 4
The emphasis will be on the Immensely Powerful Library Module of Lightroom 4 as well as Demos on selecting the top images from a shoot using the National Geographic Editors method; Unique Adjustments in the Develop Module.
Jim
is a very engaging speaker. Be sure to
come to this one! Bruce has seen Jim's
LR4 demo and highly recommends it for LR4 and ACR users, as much of the
functionality is identical.
Notes from Our Last Meeting
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.
"Invented
Worlds: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen" Forty of her works
spanning more than three decades are on display. She uses the simplest of
imaging devises, a handmade pinhole camera. By making or arranging subjects to
be photographed by this technique, she creates a dreamlike vision of wonder and
discovery resulting in a landscape of imagination, blurring reality and myth.
Besides creating her own camera, she also made all the props in her photos -
Closes July 28.
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
The blizzard of 2013 dumped a good amount of snow; I can
almost stand on the compacted remains in the shadows and not sink in. I don’t recall a recent storm of such
intensity, creating a colorless landscape, consisting of shades of charcoal and
light gray to bright white. After our
very heavy snowfall it will be interesting to see how long it takes spring to
catch up. The daffodils along the side
of the driveway were pushing the envelope.
I buried them with layers of snow when I shoveled our drive, but where
the snow has melted they appear to be fine.
Survival is the mode for wildlife.
Slate-colored Juncos and Black-capped Chickadees flit about as if they
knew what was going on and don’t really seem to care about whether the snow
melts or not. Yet they don’t neglect to
visit my feeder for a little sustenance.
The squirrels of course are wandering about the yard watching the birds
and trying to concoct a plan for getting up to my feeder. No doubt they’re getting tired of digging
through the snow to reach terra firma.
But they persevere and manage to dig up acorns either by luck, memory or
skill and a good nose. Then there is
always the seed the Juncos and Chickadees scatter on the ground below the
feeder. Squirrels aren’t fussy gourmets.
Unfortunately we mere humans have evolved beyond survival
as our primary need in a wilderness. I
say unfortunately because we need so much manufactured comfort for survival.
Most things need electricity, like it or not. The other day the electricity
went off without warning. Usually, at
least in the past, an outage was accompanied by a loud noise of a transformer
failure or a light show in the night sky featuring colors of deep burgundy and
steel blue flashes during nights of violent rainy weather. But then, there was that other exception last
year, when the top of my sycamore decided to part from the main tree trunk. My neighbors weren’t too happy with me since
it took out the distribution lines along the backyards. Fortunately it wasn’t cold and the power was
only off for that night and part of the next day. KCPL crews did an excellent job removing my
downed tree parts from their entangled lines, working through the night with
minimal noise. By midday we had power
again even though my yard still looked like a war zone. My neighbors should thank me for that
disaster; we got new power lines out of the inconvenience.
But back to this recent problem, we reported it quickly,
only to be told by the KCPL recording that they were aware of the outage; no
further explanation. In about half an
hour the lights were back on.
If you sat in the house and merely kept warm following
the blizzard, perhaps reading a book or some other sedentary activity, then you
missed a great chance to document the world of white that awaited you outside
your door. The first thing to hit me,
were the animal prints in the snow, squirrels, rabbits and a few I couldn’t
identify. They all appeared to show a
determination to a destination, but sometimes crossed over or circled the yard
before moving on. Where the seed from the feeder dropped to the frozen white,
small bird tracks in confused miscellaneous directions covered the top of the
snow. Some tree limbs were lying on the
ground, broken off no doubt because of the extra burden they held, but in many
cases the weight of the snow was responsible for low, just hanging limbs. A redbud across the fence in my neighbor’s
yard popped back into shape after the sun began to melt the snow stuck to its
branches.
The snow seemed to change the sounds of the
neighborhood. Few cars traveled the snow
packed streets; those that did traversed in a slow quiet mode with more
respect. But even at that, the snow
changed the sounds of nature. Bird song
seemed to have a odd muffled tone.
I managed to capture some good abstract shots before the
melting began. The snow packed the holes
in my chain link fence offering a textured quilt of white. A few bushes that had not shed their dry
leaves took on top flowers that reminded me of cotton ball fluff. When the melting started, the small branches
on trees lost their white icing, but the main trunks displayed a broad streak
of white as if some mad painter had taken a wide brush to them.
Even though I’m tired of shoveling, I appreciate the
disappearing snow and the slow release of the much needed moisture into the
soil.
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:
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, Patricia Fries, Paul Douglas
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, Patricia Fries, Paul Douglas
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