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
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 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
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
