By Vicki White

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Our October 12, 2016 General Meeting presentation is titled:  “Shooting Down HWY# 395” by O Truman Holtzclaw.

 

Truman’s presentation will take us from Bodie State Historical Park in the North, to Cerro Gordo (Old Mining Camp) in the South.  To actually travel and see the sights in this program takes about 4-5 days and covers about three hundred miles with all the side trips.

 

Places we will visit (photographically) are: Bodie State Historical Park, Conway Summit, Mill Creek, Lundy Lake & Beaver Ponds, Mono Lake, Tioga Pass, Devil’s Post Pile Park, Law’s Railroad Museum, Chalk Bluff Petroglphys, White Mts., Eureka Dunes, Manzanar Internment Camp, Alabama Hills, Owen’s Valley, Fossil Falls, Cottonwood Kilns and Cerro Gordo Mining Camp. 

 

The program is 45 minutes long and will include digital images, music and narration. 

 

After 34 years of teaching science in Sacramento, Truman retired in 2001.  Prior to that he, took up photography as a bird watcher.  He and fellow bird watchers would regularly argue about what they had seen.  So Truman bought a camera and telephoto lens to document what they had seen.  From there he joined the Sierra Camera Club of Sacramento in 1983 and eventually branched out into all areas of photography.  He is past president of the Sierra Camera Club and past Chairperson of the Gold Rush Chapter of PSA.  He has presented programs at Asilomar, Fotoclave, Gold Rush Chapter of PSA and the PSA internationals.  In addition, Truman regularly puts on workshops and programs for Camera Clubs in the in the Western U.S..  He is regularly a “Judge/Evaluator” for camera clubs (Redding to Fresno), art councils, county fairs and he has also judged several times for international competitions including PSA internationals.

    

In 2001 Truman started his own photography business, "A Beautiful Image" (abiphotos.com), which includes shooting weddings, commercial assignments, special events, portraits, & selling. Truman has recently, 2009, started up a photo tour company, "Photo Success Tours" (photo6S.com).

    

His foreign travels include China, Japan, Africa, Canada, Mexico, South America, Baltic Sea and Europe.  His favorite areas to photograph are in the Western United States.        

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