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, May 13, 2013

The Aperture | May 13, 2013



The Aperture

Newsletter of the Johnson County Camera ClubEstablished April 1963

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Meeting:  May 13, 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 AgendaThis is it, time to download your contest entries on a flash drive and bring them to the May meeting.  If you need to review the rules again for the End-of-the-Year Competition, they have been included toward the end of this newsletter.   Gretchen Cole will be collecting and organizing the images for submittal to the judge. We will feature Show & Tell at this meeting.  Bring five to seven images; your choice of subjects.This is also our annual business meeting to elect new officers and board members and to discuss next year's End-of-the -Year Competition.  Carol Barlau will reveal the new subjects for next year.


Notes from Our Last Meeting-President Steve Wall presided over the meeting.-        After discussing some club business issues Steve passed the microphone to Bruce Hogle who introduced Scott Bean our guest speaker for the evening.   Scott grew up in Kansas and has produced many beautiful images of different areas of the state.   -        A field trip is planned to Long Lips the butterfly farm in Paola on 7-20-2013.  The cost is ten dollars per person.-        Steve suggested National Geographic Live at the Kauffman Center to the members.-        The meeting was adjourned.


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


Images Art Gallery, 7320 W. 80th Street, Overland Park, KS (913-232-7113)
Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday 10am-5pm.

"The 2013 Juried Show" Images Art Gallery presents their ninth annual jurored art exhibition. Among this year's selected entries are 27 photographs, including images by Johnson County Camera Club members Dona Corben, Marla Craven, Wayne Hickox, Charlotte Jackson, Dennis Littleworth, Curtis Olinger and Richard O'Kell  -  Closes May 11.


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."Northland Exposure Artist's Gallery" A group exhibition by members of this artist owned and managed gallery located in downtown Parkville, MO. Among the works featured are images by JoCoCC member Dona Corben, and photographers Roger Cissner and Tom Holle  -  Closes May 11.

Community Art Gallery, Community Christian Church, 4601 Main, KCMO (816-561-6531).
Hours: Monday thru Friday 9am-4pm, and Sunday 10am-noon.

"Photographs From Bhutan, China and Vietnam" Adventure photographer, Charles Porter, presents a series of striking images (made during short stays in each of these Asian nations) that illustrate the unique quality of location, people and culture  -  Closes May 14.


All Souls Gallery, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, KCMO
(816-531-2131). Hours: Monday thru Friday 9am-3pm, and Saturday (but call first).
"Painted" Photography by Aaron Daugherty  -  April 22 thru May 17.


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 2013 Juried Exhibition" The City of Overland Park presents their annual jurored art exhibit, and among this year's selected entries are photographs by Johnson County Camera Club members Crystal Nederman, David North, Brian Schoenfish and Steven Wall  -  Closes June 9.


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).

Community Art Gallery, Community Christian Church, 4601 Main, KCMO (816-561-6531).
Hours: Monday thru Friday 9am-4pm, and Sunday 10am-noon."Photographs From Bhutan, China and Vietnam" Adventure photographer, Charles Porter, presents a series of striking images (made during short stays in each of these Asian nations) that illustrate the unique quality of location, people and culture  -  Closes May 14.


All Souls Gallery, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, KCMO
(816-531-2131). Hours: Monday thru Friday 9am-3pm, and Saturday (but call first)."Painted" Photography by Aaron Daugherty  -  April 22 thru May 17.


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 2013 Juried Exhibition" The City of Overland Park presents their annual jurored art exhibit, and among this year's selected entries are photographs by Johnson County Camera Club members Crystal Nederman, David North, Brian Schoenfish and Steven Wall  -  Closes June 9.


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
Spring is trying hard to establish a foothold in eastern Colorado, today was an exceptionally nice day for early May.  We worked in my daughter’s yard in Fort Collins, my wife raking and trimming the dead remains out of the gardens, while I worked at removing and disassembling a chain link fence on the northeast side of the house.  So why are we back in Colorado again just two months past our last trip here?


My daughter’s husband is in Hawaii on a business trip and she flew to Hawaii to meet him for a short vacation.  All of this has gotten complicated, but this was the only way it would work out.  Tony had to be there early for a meeting and will be getting back a few days after she returns.  Rebecca is an art and biology teacher so she had to arrange for time off.  We agreed to take care of our grandchildren while they are in Hawaii.  The kids will be in school all day so we will have to find something to keep us busy.  But that won’t be a problem.  We might even find time for a walk around “Old Town” if another sunny day crops up.  Now back to the fence.


My daughter wants to put in a wooden fence and a gate in place of the chain link on the side of the house.  The section I have removed will furnish parts to repair the area where her back fence was damaged. Some large limbs came down off her Cottonwood tree during the last heavy snow and ice storm and bent the top pipe of the fence.  Most of the upper pipe support there is bent and twisted, but that’s not the main problem.  The fence fabric has years of growth from an invasive (according to a CO website) flowering shrub which managed to work itself in around the open spaces in the wire through the years. Because of that I’m not going to put a lot of effort into this.  My daughter likes these flowering shrubs called Cotoneasters (never heard of them in Kansas) so I doubt she will let me take them all down to the ground along the fence line at the back of her lot.  And since her back fence borders on a busy road, unlike her neighbor who has a nice wood fence which even I could climb over, the chain link fence is not easy to traverse.  Rambling misshapen, the chain link fence and shrubs provide a barrier that would stop anyone trying to climb over.  So my solution is to simply slip a new top rail through tangled leaning branches such that the repair matches the remainder of the fence.  When the bushes start to leaf out and bloom you won’t be able to see the fence anyway; repair problem solved.


It may be my imagination but Colorado Cottonwoods have upper branches that are a lighter color gray, almost white, compared to Kansas Cottonwoods.  The heavier bark on the bottom of the older trees also seems to have deeper furrows in comparison.  When the light is right this texture shows up quite nicely.  It seems to create an appearance of strength.  I’ve told myself I need to find a significant stand of Cottonwood and just shoot pictures of the branches and huge trunks lining a quiet stream.  Doubt that anything would come of it, but it might make a pleasant field trip.  Meanwhile back at the fence.
Today I finished work on the chain link fence.  Unless you really look hard you can’t find the repaired area.  No Cotoneasters were destroyed in the repair process and a successful integration of the natural world with a barrier has restored the sought for balance.


Rules Summary for the Year End Photo Contest 2012-2013

Gretchen Cole and Pat Woods will be collecting and organizing the images for this year’s judge, Wayne Thompson.  The following rules apply.

Entries are due at our May 13, 2013 meeting.  Only those who have paid their membership dues may enter.  Only images shot on or since our May 14, 2012 meeting to present May 12, 2013 are eligible.  Re-processed images or images recorded prior to May 14, 2012 are not eligible for the 2013 contest.  Copying portions of images from past images for insertion into current contest images is also prohibited if they pre-date May 14, 2012.    

Judging results will be presented at our June 10, 2013 meeting.

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. 

Please remember to adjust the size of your images at 72 in the resolution box and then 1024 pixels for the longest side.  Save all your images to a Flash Drive as a JPEG.  Check each 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. Label each image with your last name, one underscore, category code, and number as follows.  


Architecture = ARCloudscapes = CLPattern Interrupted = PICritters = CRHappiness Is = HIPeople = PESquare = SQSaturated = SAVintage = VI


Place each category you are entering in a separate folder on a Flash Drive labeled with your first and last name so it can be returned to you. All images will be copied to a DVD for the judge’s convenience.    The following is and example of how to designate your file identification.New Folder = AR 
Photographer_AR1.jpgPhotographer_AR2.jpgAnd so on.  Before turning in your images please verify that they are readable. 

Should you have questions contact Gretchen Cole at gretchencole@comcast.net or Pat Woods at p-woods@kc.rr.com .


Images for Show and TellThere 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 ContestSubmittals 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, Patricia Fries, Paul Douglas