December 2024 Meeting - the MEMBERS Show!
Thursday, December 12, 7:00 PM Pacific Time via Zoom.
Some might say the most fun social meeting of the year! Tune in to see what our members have been up to. Check out locations they've visited and techniques they've employed. Marvel at the talent and skill and ask questions about how it all came together.
Please register to watch the meeting here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpfu2grjMiHdAUAbtZPQ5beq3Bv3zUXtQh
Guidelines for members who want to share work:
- please upload no more than ten images here: https://www.dropbox.com/request/8DVRFawqZiDQNk09KXFf
- Images should be 2000 pixels on the long side, sRGB, and jpg.
- If you want your images sorted in a particular order, start the file names with two digits: 01, 02, 03, . . . 10 and include your name in the file name.
This meeting will not be advertised on Meetup to prevent zoom bombing.
About our meetings
Our meetings are held on the second Thursday of even number months (February, April, June, August, October and December) at 7:00 PM Pacific Time. These meetings are free to all interested parties, but you must register in advance to gain access.
Each year, four of our six meetings are presentations by invited speakers and feature special locations or topics, photo techniques, or conservation issues.
We are always looking for high-quality programs and welcome suggestions and referrals. If you have one, please contact our programs coordinator, Susan Manley at ssnmanley@yahoo.com.
The other two meetings are Members Shows, when several of our subscriber-members share a selection of their best photos. It's almost like a photography potluck! Look for Members Shows in June and December. We hope you will attend and share!
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Photographer Nick Brandt brought large scale B+W prints to share for our December 2009 meeting and the best available space to display them was the floor. He had amazing and moving stories of capturing portraits of a variety of East African beasts and of the adversity they faced every day. In 2009, in his book On This Earth, he wrote:
I'm not interested in creating work that is simply documentary or filled with action and drama, which has been the norm in the photography of animals in the wild. What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being. In the state of Being before they are no longer are. Before, in the wild at least, they cease to exist. This world is under terrible threat, all of it caused by us. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera. The photos are my elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."
His work continues. See www.NickBrandt.com