BONUS Meeting! West LA Group is hosting our own Alison Boyle presenting The Ocean's Cradle
Thursday, September 12, 2024, 7:00 PM Pacific Time via Zoom.
A Bat Star Rests in a bed of seagrass. All rights reserved.
West La Group's September speaker will be Camera Committee's Alison Boyle.
Alison has been a member of the Sierra Club Camera Committee since 1996. She became a trip leader in 2001 and leads one or two trips to local tide pools each year. She is also Co-Outings Chair for the Camera Committee. Alison is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist who recently retired.
Photography is Alison's way of enjoying nature more deeply. She uses photography to reveal the science and biology in her subjects as well as the beauty of their environment. It is challenging and ever-evolving. She enjoys knowing there is so much more to learn from nature. Each discovery helps her develop a deeper respect for it.
This presentation focuses on the diversity of life in the intertidal zone from colorful sea stars and nudibranchs to the algae that they eat. You will see some of the adaptations that enable them to live in this environment and flourish. Her slideshow is a continuation of the article she wrote for the Sierra Club Camera Committee's, Focal Points Magazine (July/August 2023). The link is here: July/August 2023 Focal Points Magazine
This free educational event is sponsored by the West Los Angeles Group of the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club. Members and non-members are welcome. RSVP here: The Ocean's Cradle of Life with Alison Boyle (sierraclub.org)
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