Photo by Bob Baikauskas
Lincoln Hills
Photography Club
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Upcoming Photo Club Meetings and Events
Board Meeting - 2nd Tuesday @ 9:00am - June 13th
Board Meetings occur on the second Tuesday at 9:00 am in the Multipurpose Room at Orchard Creek.. It is open to any current Photography Club member. Copies of the approved "Board Meeting Minutes" are posted on this site on the MEMBERS page HERE
The General Meeting usually features a guest speaker on a specific aspect of photography. It also is a forum for the President or Board Members to discuss current and upcoming events of interest to the membership.
Field Trips
Spring is an active time for field trips. Find information on recent and upcoming trips HERE
Exhibits
Exhibitions offer club members an avenue to show their photographs. Some use these occasions as an opportunities to sell their work. Find information on current and upcoming exhibits and how to participate HERE
Lifestyle Photography Group
The Lifestyle Photography Group provides photo journalistic services to Sun City Clubs and Community Association sponsored events and activities. To learn more visit the Group's page HERE
The purpose of the Photo Enhancement SIG is to help you make your photos better using photo editing software. Meetings are held in the Orchard Creek Multipurpose room. For more info go to the SIG's web page HERE
Video SIG - 3rd Tuesday @ 9:00 am - June 20th
The Video SIG meets at 9:00 AM in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Orchard Creek Lodge. This SIG is designed to help you polish your video skills with camcorders or the video feature on your camera/smart phone. Find out more HERE
Round Table SIG - 4th Wednesday @ 8:30am June 28th
The Round Table SIG provides an opportunity for any member to discuss any topic related to photography. It is the perfect forum for asking, "How do I" questions. For more information about the Round Table SIG click HERE
Print SIG - 4th Wednesday @ 10:30am June 28th
The Print SIG meets in the Orchard Creek Multipurpose room immediately following the Round Table SIG. The Print SIG provides an opportunity for members to present and discuss their prints and receive feedback from fellow Club members. To learn more about the Print SIG visit our page HERE
The May General Meeting Featured Professor Rebecca Gregg
Rebecca Gregg, reflecting back on her 36 years as a Photography Professor, has explored a variety of themes and interests from documentary, nature, still life and travel photography. She captured our hearts at the May General Meeting when she presented, 'Love and Photography.’
Professor Gregg opened up her world to us and challenged us to interpret messages implicit in historically significant photographs. Check out a more in-depth summary HERE
Rebecca Gregg
June General Meeting to showcase skill & knowledge of our Club Members
At the April Open Forum segment of the General Meeting, members overwhelmingly expressed a desire for 'learning tools' to help build photography skills. Although this member request will be addressed in much deeper detail, the June General Meeting venue lends itself well to a learning process by utilizing the talent and expertise we have right in our own club.
The presenters, all Club members, are encouraged to discuss topics of personal interest or expertise regarding any subject associated with photography and video. This meeting format builds on the short presentation last month by John Neil. Presentations will usually be less than 15 minutes and, hopefully, this will encourage more of us to volunteer.
Image Vignetting by Ron Parker
The word vignette originally referred to a decorative border in a book; later, the word came to be used for a photographic portrait which is clear in the center, and fades off at the edges. Sometimes subtle and other times pronounced for special effect, vignetting is a technique that most photographers use at one time or another. Ron Parker will teach the process of creating vignettes so you can use this technique in your own photographs.
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ProShow Gold Presentation by Bill Kress
Bill Kress will be making a presenation on using ProShow Gold to create professional presentations of your photographic images. ProShow Gold allows you to easily create photo and video slide shows on DVD, PC, and Web. Bring your still photos to life by adding motion effects like pan, zoom, and rotate. Add captions to a photo or video. This is a must see presentation for anyone wanting to organize and show-off their photographs.
Screen Sizes by Truman Holtzclaw
Have you ever thought that you would like to have your own gallery on the club’s website but got confused by the sizing requirements in the Photograph Submission Guide? Or have you wanted your photos to be included in the slideshow that is shown at the beginning of the General Membership Meetings but didn’t know how to resize your photo to the specification in the announcement? Truman Holtclaw will take us through the simple steps on how to resize photos to meet specific sizes and will give us some useful tools to call upon for any photo resizing we need to do.
Portrait Pro Software by Truman Holtzclaw
Take a walk through the amazing PortraitPro software with Truman Holtzclaw. PortraitPro is the world’s best-selling retouching software. Fast and intuitive, PortraitPro intelligently enhances every aspect of a portrait for beautiful results. Now we can all get those beautiful portraits by applying smoothing, full makeup control, skin tone control and many other incredible portrait enhancements.
Nominations for Your 2017-2018
Board of Directors
Voting to be held at June 14th General Meeting.
The nominating committee identified candidates for all board positions at the May General Meeting. These current nominees are Bill Kress for President, Bob Dale for Vice President, Dale Petersen continuing as Treasurer and Debra Raach continuing as Secretary. Additional nominees will be accepted up to the June General Meeting. The June General Meeting will culminate the process with voting being held for each position.
By way of introducing these individuals to our membership, they were asked to prepare a brief statement regarding their interest in photography.
Bill Kress (President)
Bill’s interest in photography started while at the Kodak Research Labs, in the 70’s. He took advantage of free film and processing to generate thousands of slides and color negatives and won hundreds of prizes in US and international competitions. He converted to digital about 2005 with the Nikon D70, and never went back to film. His favorite subjects are nature, people and cities at night, and he shares an interest in those subjects with his wife, Dorothe, who is a very good photographer. His next challenge is to master video.
Bob Dale (Vice President)
After retirement in 2005, my wife and I moved to Lincoln Hills. I still had my Minolta film camera, but couldn't get film for it, so it became a shelf decoration. Then an army friend told me/showed me how today's digital photography works. I was impressed and in less than twenty (20) minutes, I was hooked. In 2007, I bought my first digital camera, joined the Lincoln Hills Photography Group and the rest is history. I usually shoot landscapes and maybe a tree or two. I'm still learning, but Lightroom makes me look as though I know what I'm doing. I know better.
Debra Raach (Secretary)
A native Californian, Debra and her husband returned to SCLH last summer after spending a brief 2 years in Philadelphia. She has gotten much more involved with the club this time around and enjoys photographing all things related to nature. Debra is now working hard at learning various post-production apps to improve the quality of her prints.
Dale Petersen (Treasurer)
Dale and his wife Carole moved to Lincoln Hills in July of 2010. His interest in photography has continued from age 14 but became serious after taking photography classes at Napa Valley College in 1972. Those were the times when he could afford the time and money to advance his interests and skills in this hobby! His favorite subjects are nature, landscape and still life photography with both film and digital cameras. He is one of the few people who still has and enjoys his personal darkroom. His biggest photographic challenge is to be able to physically carry and use his favorite 8"x10" view camera and all of the associated equipment more than just a few hundred feet from his vehicle!
Open Forum Follow-Through: Implementing Your Recommendations
The April General meeting featured the Club's first ever Open Forum. Members were given the chance to discuss a range of topics related to enhancing the Club and enriching the membership experience. Club members responded enthusiastically and their ideas and suggestions were documented and captured in detail by member Sandie Cassieri in the form of a pdf spreadsheet. Click on the image (right) to access the pdf.
Diane Margetts and Debra Raach were named to a subcommittee tasked to follow up on suggestions and recommendations and develop plans to implement those that are widely accepted and feasible. The subcommittee will make a monthly progress report to the Board members for as long as it takes to work through the forum's suggestion and discussion points.
Click Icon to view or download Report
Galaxy & Wildflower Photo Opportunities Highlights Summer Field Trips
This Summer will offer two great opportunities to photograph the Milky Way Galaxy over Loon Lake. The first opportunity will take place on the nights of July 24, 25, 26. The second opportunity will take place on the nights of August 21, 22, 23.
During those time periods the moon will not have any impact on night sky brightness and the Galactic Core (brightest part) will be visible at a reasonable hour... not 4:00am.
Specific information regarding this self directed photo op (maps, compass bearings, camping information etc.) is posted on the Field Trip page HERE
Tahoe Wildflowers, Waterfalls & Wildlife!
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Lake Tahoe will be the focal point for a 5-day, 4-night Photo Safari to shoot flora, fauna and landscapes from July 23rd to the 26th.
Go to our Field Trip page for detailed information HERE
You are allowed to bring guests on these field trips unless it is specifically limited to a certain number of "spots". For those trips where we are traveling overnight we normally have a "Pre-Trip Planning Party" with loads of information, handouts and helpful tips. We also have after-trip Show & Tell parties to share photos from the Adventure.
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Galaxy Photo by Brad Senn - The photo was taken at Loon Lake last July. Photo opportunities will be available this July and August.
Wildflowers photo by Allen Adler - Sierra wildflowers will likely abound this coming July as a result of the wonderful snowfall this winter. Don't miss this trip.
September
In September we are planning on a return to the Reno Hot Air Balloon festival which features over 100 hot air balloons.
Photo Flash Mobs - Anytime the light is right!
Flash Mob Trips are those spontaneous happenings usually in the local area. Notices for these trips are sent to you via email on somewhat short notice. They are fun and you will always learn something new. Examples in the past have been some night photography learning opportunities such as shooting the Super Moon and photographing the city lights in Old Sacramento.
May Field Trip Gallery features 80 Images from Club Photographers
We've posted photos to our Field Trip page. See link to Gallery below.
Table Mountain Wildflowers Trip was one of three trips the Club made in May. We've posted 80 photos from the three trips to our Field Trip Page which you can get to by click HERE
Ferrari Pond Adventure
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Larry White hosted two rain-delayed back-to-back field trips to our very own Ferrari Pond. The early group saw the sun just breaking over the pond. The following group captured sun-kissed images of frolicking wildlife. Participants included:
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Les Thomas, Pete Henshaw, Rebecca Davis, Bill Kress, Dennis Berry, Larry White, Truman Hoytzclaw, Sandie Cassieri, Diane Margetts
High Hand Nursery
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Despite having a rain-delay date change, 19 members-with tripods in hand-enjoyed a spring explosion of color at High Hand Nursery in Loomis. Participants included:
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Les & Marilyn Thomas, Jeff & Betsy Hanner, Dennis & Sally Berry,
Debra & Fred Raach, Victor Jew, Bill & Dorothe Kress, Sue Orvis, Carole Haskell, Diane Margetts, Sandie Cassieri, Patricia Lane, Jack Ferrante, Truman Holtzclaw
Table Mountain Wildflowers
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Eight Photo Club members traveled to Table Mountain on Tuesday, April 4th. It was a warm, sunny day with almost no wind, beautiful waterfalls, and many wildflowers in perfect bloom. Dale Peterson, club member and photographer, exclaimed, "The earth is not flat and neither is Table Mountain!" Table Mountain adventurers were:
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Patrick and Susan Jewell, De & Pam Cahill, Dale Petersen, Don Bowden, and Dorothe and Bill Kress
Photography Club Exhibit Now Showing in the Needle Arts Display Case
The Photography Club has taken over the Needle Arts display window in the Orchard Creek Lodge once again through
June 12. The display is located across from the Multipurpose Room (where our SIGs are held). Every year we have the opportunity to show the “world” what we can do with the printed form of photography. Jeff Andersen is the organizer for this event and this year he elected to concentrate on Faces. If the 'eyes are the window to the soul,' the 'face is the image of the heart'.
Whether it is a face that forms the foundation of your world
"Tranquility"
Image by Joe Mello
or one that passed through your life in the click of a shutter, capturing the essence of that face is critical. Many of us don’t really concentrate on this area so it was a real challenge. As you will see when you visit the display, our photographers met that challenge and have produced some wonderful images. The following photographers have submitted images; Jim Cormier, De Cahill, Bob Dale, Becky Davis , Camille Grabowski, Betsy Hanner, Jeff Hanner, Pete Henshaw, Truman Holtzclaw, Carole Haskell, Klara Kleman, Diane Margetts, Joe Mello, Carol Percy, Dale Petersen, Phil Robertson, Charlie Schuman, Brad Senn, Ken Silverman, Bill Szabo and Larry White.
"Kyle"
Image by Klara Kleman
Lucky six take photo tour of Gladding McBean plant.
A Black & White photographer's dream, the site lives up to its reputation!
Joe Parker was a most gracious host and the 100+ year old plant did not disappoint.
The Sun City photographers: Jeff Andersen, Bob Baikauskas, Phil Harmon, Dale Petersen and Debra and Fred Raach were treated to excellent commentaty by Mr. Parker, Operations Manager, and access to the best locations in the plant to photograph.
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The opportunity to tour the plant was arranged by our own John Neil.
Gladding McBean started making clay sewer pipe in 1875 and evolved into a major manufacturer of architectural terra-cotta used on buildings throughout the United States. It is still operating today making sewer pipe and architectural ornamentation for buildings.
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Included here for your enjoyment are some iPhone snapshots from the tour.
Clock-wise from top - Motley Crew of Lucky Stiffs (l-r) Bob Baikauskas, Dale Petersen, Debra Raach, Fred Raach, Phil Hammond and Jeff Andersen flank Joe Parker, McBean Operations Manager who graciously conducted our tour. Bottom Right - Joe was a wealth of knowledge about the plant and all the better places to photograph. Bottom Left - In the heart of the Dragon; the control room for a several-hundred foot-long Hearth designed to slowly and precisely dry castings.
Patrcia Lane adds Gallery & Jack Ferrante posts new Gallery images!
Click on photos to go to respective phtotgraphers's Gallery Page on this website
Photo by Patricia Lane
Photo by Jack Ferrante
It's time to get off your duff and follow the examples set by Patricia and Jack and create your own photo gallery or refresh your current gallery with new images.
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Club Member Individual Galleries have now been expanded to accommodate a total of 32 photographs.
With this expansion members who want to showcase their photos on the website have the option to present as few as four photos up to a maximum of 32 photos. The prior maximum was limited to 20 images.
Those needing guidance resizing their images should refer to the instructions posted on the Members Page HERE
Member Galleries now accommodate a maximum of 32 images, up from 20.
Patrick Jewell to host June 7th Photo Enhancement SIG
The June 7th meeting will be hosted by Patrick Jewell who will be
discussing Lightroom.
Patrick will start off exploring the Lightroom catalog. How to set it up, how to use it to cull your photos, how to make it searchable, and perhaps most importantly how not to screw it up. After he has everyone up to speed on the Lightroom catalog he plans to discuss the tools in the Develop module. There are powerful tools in there and some members do all their post processing in Lightroom.
The SIG will meet in the Multi-purpose Room in the Orchard Creek Lodge starting at 8:30 AM.
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For more information visit our Enhancment SIG page HERE
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To see some of Patrick Jewell's work check out his GALLERY
Photoshop Lightroom
Enhancement SIG meets 1st Wednesday in Orchard Creek Lodge Multi-purpose Room at 8:30 AM
Charlie Schuman, Larry White & Dale Petersen present Prints at May SIG meeting.
SIG Attendees - (l-r) Larry White, Jim Moon, Dale Petersen, Bob Dale, and Allen Adler are beneficiaries of the print presentation by Charlie Schuman.
Making a Point - Charlie Schuman provides details about his motivation and approach regarding the photographing of sporting events.
The Print SIG meets the 4th Wednesday of the Month at 10:30 AM in the Orchard Creek Multi-purpose Room.
To learn more about the SIG and to view prior meeting coverage click HERE
June 20th Video SIG to showcase Proshow Gold Presentation Software
This month's presentation will be given by Bill Kress who will demonstrate the basics of ProShow Gold. This software is moderately priced at $69.95 and, like Premiere Elements, it is a good program for those who are new to or wish a feature rich, yet reasonably priced slideshow design software.
Bill will present the ProShow Gold Wizard and discuss the various built-in templates that are available, how to add start-end frame definitions for text and images and, make multiple key frame effects for one image. We look forward to Bill's presentation on the 20th of June
Hope to see you there!
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For more information, you can visit the Video SIG page by clicking HERE
The Video SIG meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month in the Orchard Creek Lodge Multi-purpose Room at 9:00AM
"Old Things" Replaces "Anything Goes" as Theme of Current Simple Pleasures Exhibit
The theme for the current Photo Club Exhibit at Lincoln's Simple Pleasures Restaurant is "Old Things".
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The exhibit features work by Club Members:
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Stephanie Huntingdale, John Huntingdale, Carol Percy, Debra Raach, Stephen Stewart, Dale Peterson, Rhonda Campbell, John Campbell, Bob Dale, Rudi Franke, Vicki White, Larry White and John Wronkowitz
The exhibit will be on display until April 24, 2017. Simple Pleasures is located in downtown Lincoln at 648 Fifth Street. It's a great spot for breakfast and lunch. Check out the Exhibit and support this local venue.
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Preview the images in a Gallery on our Exhibit page HERE
Abandoned Boat - Photo by Vickie White will be among the Prints on display at Simple Pleasures Restaruant in the Club's 'Old Things' Exhibit starting April 24th.
Check out the "Anything Goes" images that were showcased during the 1st quarter at Simple Pleasures by visiting our Exhibit Page HERE
On July 24, the Simple Pleasures exhibit will rotate to a 'Colorful Summer' theme.
Club Photos Grace the Walls of Buonarroti’s Ristorante in May and June!
Club member photographs are currently on display at Buonarroti's Restorante in Lincoln. Don't miss out on the opportunity to treat friends and family to fine Italian dining while enjoying the works of your peers. The exhibit topic was left to the discretion of the photographer. The photography will be on display through June. Photographers participating in the Buonarroti's exhibit include:
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Rhonda Campbell, Stephanie Huntingdale, Klara Kleman, Pat Monda, Joy Paris, Brad Senn, Ken Silverman, Steve Stewart, Bill Szabor, and Jim Wronkiewicz
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Staircase Crocker Museum by Klara Kleman
Sun City Afternoon by Pat Monda
Click icon to go to Buonarroti Ristorante Website
Pace Race, Softball and Lincoln Lion's Club Special Kids
are Focus of Lifestyles Group Photographers in May.
We've posted three photo galleries to showcase the events.
May was a busy month for the Lifestyles Group photographers. The group's team included: Allen Adler, Jeff Andersen, Jim Cormier, Patrick Jewell, Klara Kleman, Brad Senn, Charlie Schuman and Larry White. Peter Beckett and Kate McCarthy were videographers.
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The first event was the Pace Race held May 6th within the community. Several hundred participated in the event to "promote the ageless commitment to exercise."
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Softball held their 2017 Season Opening Celebration on May 13th, and we had three photographers there to cover the event.
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That same day we covered the Lincoln Lion's Club Kid's Day event. While the event was held off-campus, we felt so strong about this cause that we volunteered to covered the event on our own time.Who knows what the month of June will have in store for us.
We can always use new photographers interested in joining the Lifestyles group. We have posted extensive photo galleries of the three events on the Lifestyles Page. To view an event-specific gallery click on the Photo.
To view Pace Race Gallery click on the above photo.
To view Kid's Day Gallery click on the above photo.
To view Softball Gallery click on the above photo.
You can get to the Lifestyles Page and check out the photo galleries of the above events and learn about upcoming photo shoots by clicking HERE
South Yuba River State Park
Pretty Face with White Spider. Photo by Bill Kress from hike around Point Defiance Loop on April 25.
The Buttermilk Bend Trail and Point defiance Loop Trail were in full bloom during our three trips to South Yuba River State Park in April.
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There were more wildflower varieties on these trails than we've ever seen before at any one place. On the Buttermilk Bend Trail, docents had placed small informational signs near dozens of wildflowers with the picture and both common and botanical names. Having these signs next to wildflowers was very useful and was the first time we had seen this on trails beyond a visitor's center. To complement the wildflower beauty, thousands of Pipe Vine Swallowtail butterflies were feeding on nectar from several varieties of wildflowers and grasses.
Weather permitting, docents conduct wildflower viewing hikes on weekends in March through May, plus Tuesdays in April. The South Yuba River State Park website is informative.
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More information about this location, click HERE
Do you know of a great location you would like to share? We look forward to your contributions. To share a location with others, click the link at the top of the Locations page. To go to our Locations page click HERE
The BLOG is Here!!! Check it Out.
What's New
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Topaz Labs has released a brand new photo editor and it is FREE. They are calling it Topaz Studio and it is the subject of a new blog post. Many of you are familiar with Topaz Lab's plugins for Photoshop, Lightroom, and some other programs. To the best of my knowledge this is their first venture into a truly stand alone photo editor. It has 24 new adjustments and if you own any of their tools there is a menu item where you can access and use them inside the program. Check out the Blog for more information.
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We want to hear from You!
One of the nice things about the Blog is you have the ability to comment on blog posts and respond to someone else's comments. You can even put a photo in your comment. So far no one has commented on any of the posts. We were hoping members would get involved and express there opinions. In fact we encourage you to do so.
If you have any experience with, or opinions about, any of the information presented in the blog posts please share your thoughts with your fellow Club members. Post a comment. I would prefer the Blog be a conversation and not a lecture.
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Have a post idea... Let us know.
One final reminder. Any member can make a Blog post. Just write it up and send it to me. You can even remain anonymous however you do have to tell me who you are but I won't use your name as the author.
To navigate to the new blog look for the BLOG link at the end of the main menu, or click HERE
We hope you will enjoy this feature and participate by commenting on blog posts, responding to the comments of others, and asking questions.
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