For all of you who missed it, the dozen or so of us who made it had a great time at the February field trip to the state capitol. Donna Gustafson is to be thanked for coming up with great photo ops, especially in the winter when weather is unpredictable.
If you are missing these field trips, you are missing one of the better parts of belonging to the camera club. We can all sit around and talk about great photography,
For all of you who missed it, the dozen or so of us who made it had a great time at the February field trip to the state capitol. Donna Gustafson is to be thanked for coming up with great photo ops, especially in the winter when weather is unpredictable.
If you are missing these field trips, you are missing one of the better parts of belonging to the camera club. We can all sit around and talk about great photography, but talk is cheap! There’s nothing like getting out there and doing it! And, when you are out there with other photographers, you cannot help seeing many different ways to photograph the same subject. It is really a great opportunity (especially when it is inside where it is warm).
We also had an excellent speaker at our February meeting, if you missed it. Don Wilson, an avid wildlife photographer, spelled out exactly how to go after photos of the big animals in North America. His presentation included tips on how to get close to them, where to find them, what equipment to use, and even what to wear. It was a very thorough and enjoyable presentation. Again, Virginia Miller has put together a terrific program. Don’t forget to tell her, if you saw it!
At the February meeting, I talked a little about your obligation to contribute to the club, whether it be as an officer, or as a committee person, helping with a special program, or even helping set up the meeting room. There are no paid workers in this club. We all contribute our time to benefit the organization. If you haven’t contributed to the effort, why not come forward and make yourself available? I think you will enjoy the experience, and make this a better club because of it. If we all pitch in and do a little, no one has to do a lot!
Back to more fun things, Virginia has another great speaker for us this month, Matt Steinhausen, an enthusiastic pursuer of barns! Yes, barns. Barns are fast disappearing from our landscape, and Matt is trying to record, both in design and photography, these masterpieces of early settlers’ art before they are gone. You may not have stopped to think about it, but the barns you see across the countryside were not designed by architects. Rather, they evolved from designs handed down by farmers from generation to generation. Matt has traced that evolution and will present it to us, with examples of his excellent photography (and how it was made).
On another front, the club is involved in a couple of interesting partnerships, one already underway, and one just being studied. We will be partners in the Annual (still “annual” even though it was missed last year) Lincoln Children’s Zoo Photo Contest. The program is under study now, and I hope to have details by our next meeting.
Also being pursued, is a relationship with the Preservation Association of Lincoln, an organization dedicated to the preservation of historical elements in our city. This mostly involves buildings, but also includes other historical things, such as the negatives of the Edholm and Blomgren photo studio. A number of you showed an interest in this endeavor at the February meeting. I foresee our involvement being in the area of historical structure photography, and the like. The concept is now before the Preservation Association of Lincoln for evaluation. More to follow; positive, I hope. Thanks to those of you who supported this idea.
I’d better quit now, or Jim Atkins is going to take away my word processor! See you on the 21st.
Clark Springman
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