The camera's only job is
to get out of the way of making photographs.
- Ken Rockwell
The Woodland Camera Club
meets the
THIRD Tuesday of each Month
at 7:15 PM.
Norton Hall (the Old Ag Bldg.),
70 Cottonwood Street,
Woodland, CA.
The Membership dues are
$20 per person per year or
$30 per couple per year.
Anyone with an
interest in photography
is welcome.
The Photographic Society of America
Gold Rush Chapter
Another Big Year Ahead!
I hope your holidays were the best ever! My time is just slipping away and I am playing catch up. But I am hoping to change that this year. It’s on my to do list, anyway. Just as soon as I get around to it.
I feel bad that we did not have a Christmas party this past December. But once in awhile we need to make changes. I missed all of you.
This message is for two reasons. One, our yearly dues have come upon us once again. Yup. That time of year. If you are attending the meeting, you can bring your payment with you and Sarah will take your payment for the 2012 year. But, since there will be several people paying, please be patient. What Sarah will need is your name, your email address, your regular address and your phone number. If we already have it, please check the card to make sure that we have everything correct on the card. And, if you know of someone who is a member and is not receiving the emails, please have them recheck that we have the address in the computer correctly. If you are paying by check, you can write that information on the envelope or a piece of paper and put it in the envelope.
Amounts: Single: $20, Family $30.
On this subject, would you let me know how you feel about other members having your information? Are you willing to be in a booklet that the paying members would receive? That would be your name, address, email and/or phone? What would you be comfortable with? I have not given anything out except in cases where I know it was ok. So, important, please let me (Betti) know at the meeting or by the February meeting. Thanks.
The second and other important part of this message is about our meeting. It is coming up next Tuesday. And this is what is planned: We are going to have our yearly Member Competition and have our normal member digital photo sharing. We will also have a quick message from the manager of the Woodland Costco Photo Department. Her name is Melissa. (OK, my bad here, I forgot to put her last name in my phone.) She is the new manager and she is going to bring information about the services of Costco as well as coupons for us. I don’t know if we will be able to use them if we are not members, but she will be able to answer that as well.
So, bring up to six of your PRINTS that you showed during 2011 and up to six of your DIGITAL IMAGES need to be sent to me by Monday noon. Send them to WoodlandCameraForum@gmail.com. And put in the subject line: 2011 Member Competition.
Then, if you would like to show new work for 2012, please send up to six DIGITAL IMAGES by Monday noon to WoodlandCameraForum@gmail.com. Put in that subject line 2012 January images.
All DIGITAL IMAGES should be renamed with the Classification (Nature, Domestic Nature, Travel and Salon)-Your last name- Your first name initial- Title of the image. So it would looked something like: Domestic Nature-Gould-G-African Elephant if Gordon Gould took a photo of an African Elephant at the zoo. You should resize them down so that the longest size is around 1000, but the quality should still be the best, as when it displays on the screen it will have spots otherwise. (This is what happened at the picnic where it showed clipping sections.)
And now: A recap on the meeting dates:
Saturday, January 14: Road trip to Griffith Quarry, Penryn, CA. Between Loomis and Newcastle (just passed Rocklin for those who read this and their email. LOL)
Tuesday, January 17: Regular Meeting Digital Images and Member Competition
Tuesday, February 21: Regular Meeting: Prints
**Friday, March 2: Reception for Mess with the Dress at Gallery 625 – come support those members who put prints in!! Thanks.
Tuesday, March 20: Regular Meeting Digital Images
Tuesday, April 17: Regular Meeting Prints
Tuesday, May 15: Regular Meeting Digital Images (This may change if we get Jennifer Wu for May or September – we need to decide on May 12 or September 8)
Tuesday, June 19: Regular Meeting Prints
Tuesday, July 17: PICNIC!! Or do you want this to be a Saturday? Let me know. Consensus wins.
Tuesday, August 21: Regular meeting Digital Images
Tuesday, September 18: Regular meeting Prints (Unless we have Jennifer Wu this month.) This is also the week of PSA which will be in San Francisco this week, so there will be several members there. (Including me?)
Tuesday, October 15: Regular meeting: Digital Images
Tuesday, November 19: Regular meeting: Prints. Note: This is two days before Thanksgiving. Let me know if you are coming or will be away.
Tuesday, December 18: Christmas Dinner Yearly Competition. Unless, you want to skip this month and hold the competition and Dinner in January 2013. Christmas is exactly one week after the meeting.
This is your club. Let me know what you want so that we can accomplish the goal together.
The members of this club make me happy to represent them. Thank you for all you do.
Betti
The World: Up Close and Personal
Dear Friends and Fotography Fanatics;
I haven't written in a long time, because since I switched to Digital I haven't had any shows, as I don't have a digital projector--probably the next thing on my list to purchase. Anyway, a bit of an event is coming up--it would be lovely to see you!
With great pride (and a little trepidation), I am pleased to announce my first solo photography show in Sacramento! The theme is my favorite travel photographs from my travels to over 60 countries, so be prepared for a smorgasbord of images. The reception is on the Second Saturday Art Walk on January 14th at the Appel Gallery in Sacramento from 5-9 pm. Love to see you at the reception (good company and good eats!) or you can make an appointment to see the show at your convenience.
All my best,
Laurie Friedman
The World: Up Close and Personal
Laurie Friedman
Exhibition Run: January 1-31, 2011
Opening Reception: Second Saturday
January 14, 2011 5:00 to 9:00 PM.
Hours: Everyday by Appointment
Location: 931 T Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
(corner of 10th and T Streets)
Telephone: 916.442.6014 office
Steve Appel 916.799.9014 mobile
Additional Information: http://www.appelgallery.com/index.asp
Artist's Statement:
I attribute my artistic eye and my love of photography and travel to my father who had an artistic eye and also loved to travel. My adventure began 25 years ago with a visit to ancient ruins in Mexico. I captured amazing images of the graphic details in gargoyle faces. I was hooked: There’s a certain thrill when you catch the right image at the right moment in time. This experience was the gestation to my travels to over sixty countries on seven continents.
I guess time flies when you get old and I am feeling old! Where did our summer go? I know we shine when we are in the middle of a long hot summer for the cooler weather and then we want the summer heat when we are in the midst of the cooler weather. And, we are not even in the cold weather yet! But my joints are telling me that I am going to know each and every one of them on a close up personal basis this winter!
I hope you all had a great and colorful Halloween and enjoyed the festivities of the Day of the Dead. I always think that Halloween is the warm up holiday for the biggies to come. You get to dress up – any way you want! – and go to people’s houses for free goodies. And, then, there are the cute kids that come door to door. Lots of photo time for those little show offs.
As we are coming up to our winter holidays, remember to keep warm and layer your clothing. There are some great gloves that offer the glove with the mitten top that flips off. You can also put those wonderful little hand warmers in your pockets. Another item to consider is one of those moisture absorbers that you find in packaging. Grab one or two and put it into your camera bag. Saves you time when going from one temperature extreme to another. Trust me on this one. Helps to keep the fog away!
Our meeting is this coming Tuesday night. It is the last print night of the year. It’s your last chance to show off prints before the December Member Competition. You can bring six prints. Please have them matted or mounted for stability.
Sylvia Koelsch will be telling us about volunteer opportunites with OpLove. An organization of photographing soldiers and their families who are deployed, leaving for deployment and returning from deployment.
Our guest speaker for the meeting will be Sande Parker. She is giving a show of her latest Southwest adventure. So that she can get through it all in a timely fashion, please keep your questions and comparisons until the end.
Sande Parker has been photographing for over 20 years. She has exhibited her photographs in various galleries and venues throughout the Bay Area and area. Earlier this year she won national recognition in the American Heritage Photography Division of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a contributor to ’36 Views of the Golden Gate Bridge’ and that series will be shown at the Crocker in late 2012. She recently completed the Image Analysis course and has judged county fairs and year end competitions She is passionate about her hobby and has traveled to various European and Canadian locations as well as photographing throughout the United States. She loves sharing her stories and images via slideshows, calendars and notecards.
At the Woodland November meeting she will be sharing her story of visiting the Southwest in May 2011 with her hubby and life companion, Ron. This Southwest trip includes images from: Cathedral Gorge, , , the Grand Staircase Escalante including , Hell’s Backbone, Box Death Hollow and . Along with images from Bryce, North and South rim of the , and Sedona, including the Canyon Railroad, Bar M Ranch, ’s Slide Rock, and .
Every kid had one. Not every kid could use one. Blessed were the kids who could take it around the world and walk the dog! Our Road Trip for November is about playtime and skylines. First stop? The National Yoyo Museum in Chico, California.
We will meet on Saturday, November 19 at the Starbucks on Pioneer and Gibson about 6:45 AM. After grabbing a warm drink (they have the holiday chocolates and drinks out now J) we will leave at 7:00 AM and head up to Chico.
The museum opens at 10:00 and has free admission! Good stuff so far? If you are up to it, you could take the world’s largest yoyo for a spin! But you must be able to prove you can spin a yoyo and do tricks with the smaller versions before they will trust you with one that weighs 256 pounds.
After the museum, we will cruise around Chico, probably check out the Bidwell Mansion and the other sites and sights around a college town. By then, we will be looking for a lunch spot and if you know of a good one there, let me know!
Once we have checked out Chico, we will head north on I5 up to Redding and see if the SunDial Bridge will keep us in line. (Get it? If not check out photos of the bridge.) We have the possibility of stopping as anyone in the car shouts out “Photo!” If you know of anything along the way, we are open to suggestion for opportunities.
By the time of the trip all the fall colors will have most likely fallen – so they will be the rare sighting indeed.
If you have not joined us before, please try it out. No driving on your part as our Road Master Forrest Oldham has room for 4-5 passengers and then we have to add vehicles to the caravan. We will eat dinner on the way back and hopefully be back before 8 PM. That, however, is not written in stone.
Let Forrest know at the meeting on Tuesday or send him an email at ForrestOldham55@hotmail.com.
Inforamtion about the
National YoYo Museum, Chico, CA
National YoYo Museum Chico California Information Photos
Ever try to spin a 256 pound yoyo! The world's largest Yo-yo can be seen at Chico's National Yo-Yo Museum. This Guinness Book of World Records beauty, a Big-Yo that actually works, was designed by Tom Kuhn. It is a No Jive 3 in 1, Smooth - San Francisco Custom Yo-Yo.
One of the many rare finds at the National YoYo Museum in Chico, be sure to make this a stop on your road trip. Vintage Terminators, Silver Bullets, SuperYO, and Samurais are on display at a place that is considered the epi-center of yoyo-ing.
Yoyos weren't invented in San Francisco, but they left their heart there around 1928 when the Duncan yo-yo version was invited in San Francisco by a guy named Donald F. Duncan Sr.
Like other inventions such as A&W Root Beer made famous in Lodi but created by a pharmacist in Arizona, the popular Duncan yo-yo was based on a Filipino wood-carved toy importer Pedro Flores drew audiences and applause with.
Duncan purchased both the yo-yo concept and the Flores company to begin manufacturing a crazy, entertaining toy that created a craze during the 1930's. Nearly every boy wanted and purchased a yoyo to learn and show off new yoyo tricks.
Walking the Dog is still a favorite today. As an intro level exercise in controlling your yoyo, the trick actually looks like a dog on a leash, if you can use your imagination. There is a battery of yoyo tricks you better have mastered before entering a yoyo competition.
Yoyo tricks have their descriptive names, and so do the yoyo styles-- Yomega XBrain and the swift Yomega PowerBrain Wing with its piston-like 4-way synchronized clutch system that engages simultaneously make yoyo collecting and performing lots of fun.
Fluorescent colors and visible internal gears in see-through resin, these babies look somewhat like today's skate wheels. Prices are still affordable with a decent model to be had for around $10 and even the next step up costing on $15. If you purchase a full collection of yoyos you should plan to spend a couple hundred bucks. Here are few tricks:
Around the Corner : Cradles the string around your shoulder, then spins and returns back again.
Around The World: Throw the yoyo out from your body at an angle, then spin it on its string in a 360 degree circle, then return it back to your hand.
Additional yoyo tricks include: Atomic Bomb, Barrel Rolls, Baseball, Brain Twister, Break Away, Buddha's Revenge, Creeper, Dizzy Baby, Dog Bite, Double Gerbil, Double or Nothing, Drop in the Bucket, Eiffel Tower, Elevator, Flag, Forward Pass, Gravity Pull, Hop the Fence, Lariat, Loop the Loop, Mach 5, Motorcycle, Over the Shoulder, Rattle Snake, Rewind, Ripcord, Rock the Baby, Roller Coaster, Runaway Dog, Run the Dog, Shoot the Moon, Two Handed Loops, Sleeper, Spaghetti, Split the Atom, 3 Leaf Clover, Through the Tunnel, Tidal Wave, Trapeze, UFO, Walk the Dog, Warp Drive
World Tour, Worm Hole and Zipper. To see videos of these tricks, check out yomega.com. Learn more about the yo-yo at the National Yo-Yo Museum, 320 Broadway, Chico, California. nationalyoyo.org