Shutterbug Times Official Newsletter of the Olympia Camera Club Olympia, WA Established in 1935

June 2020 www.olympiacameraclub.org Volume 85, Issue 6

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In this issue: President’s Corner - President’s Corner p. 2 As I am looking back on this past year, Editor’s Note p. 2 I’m struck by how things have changed Monthly Meeting Topics p. 3 - changed in ways that were not antici- Annual Banquet p. 4 pated by me, or very likely by anyone else in the Camera Club. What started Favorite Images Show p. 4 out as a year with great plans and ex- Virtual Field Trip Schedule p. 5 - 6 pectations, turned quickly into a year of having to be fast on our feet, flexible, Field Trip Galleries p. 6 nimble and adjust on-the-fly. The tory that we will be meeting “virtually”. NWCCC Kenmore Gallery p. 6 COVID-19 global pandemic quickly You won’t want to miss being a part of erased our very comfortable and func- “history” as we will be electing officers NWCCC Traveling Prints p. 6 tional meeting space at Capital High for the upcoming year and showing Prairie Project p. 7 - 8 School, and rapidly evaporated any slides that YOU have taken during the Wabi Sabi p. 8 group meetings - even field trips out- past year. So, remember to join us at doors. None of that has changed our 6:00 pm on June 23rd for a “historic” Thurston Co. Fair Update p. 8 expectations, but we had to adjust some Annual Banquet. Membership Report p. 8 of our plans. It has been a little over three months since we have met in- Lastly, I want to thank all of you - espe- PSA Website Competition p. 9 person; however, thanks to the very tal- cially those of you who have stepped up Website Image Header p. 9 ented and resourceful volunteer mem- and volunteered in some way; also to VFT Columbia River Gorge p. 10 - 15 bers of our Club, we have not let this our volunteer Board of Directors and “temporary” setback slow us down. We Committee Chairpersons - many of Board Mtg Minutes p. 16- 17 don’t know for sure what the “new nor- whom wear several “hats” and have Photo Quote p. 17 mal” will look like for our Camera been instrumental in helping us imple- Club, but we have been working hard to ment the changes that have been neces- Member Galleries p. 18 - 20 insure that we continue to provide you, sary to keep our Club active, engaged PSA p. 21 our members, with quality, fun, and in- and together! novative ways to stay engaged. Dates to Remember p. 21

How to Submit to Newsletter p. 21 Later this month, on June 23, we will Bruce Livingston Upcoming Meetings p. 22 have our “Annual Banquet”. This year will be the first time in our 85 year his- Executive Committee p. 23 Committee Contacts p. 23 Editor’s Note:

I received a lot of images for the newsletter and want to thank everyone for making my job a little easier. Alt- hough I don’t have room to use all of them in one newsletter I never throw them away. They are in a fold- er waiting for the next time I need images.

I am especially happy with all of the “virtual field trip” images you have submitted. This month we are traveling down the Columbia Riv- er Gorge and I think you will enjoy the variety of images members submitted showing the varied photographic opportunities the gorge provides. I hope it in- spires you to plan your next trip down the Columbia River Gorge.

Page 3 Volume 85, Issue 6, June 2020 Monthly Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic All club meetings are virtual, taking place using the app “GoToMeeting”

Please join “My Meeting” from your computer, tablet or smartphone If you have misplaced the link to the virtual meeting, it is available in the “Members Only” area on the Club website

New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts: https://global.gotomeeting.com/install/326734229

Practical Photography June 9, 2020 7-9 pm Spring is going fast and gone with it are all the events we as a club normally partici- pate in. One of these has always been the Olympic Air Show which like everything else will not happen this year. This doesn’t mean we can’t learn how it’s done. This month Bruce Livingston will share his know how concerning photographing motion in general and aircraft in particular. Bruce has been shooting the air show for years and with several different camera systems so it should be an interesting evening.

Ed Tromble, Coordinator

Member Sharing Night June 16, 2020 7-9pm For Member Sharing we will continue to do image critiques plus sharing. I would like each of you who want to partic- ipate to put three images in a folder. One image will be for critique and can be one you took at anytime in the past. The other two images should be ones you have taken in the past year (June – June). Please size your images to 2048 pixels on the long side. Put your full name on the folder, go to Drop Box, inside Drop Box open the Member Sharing folder and inside that folder put your images in the Member Sharing Night folder. Your images must be in Drop Box Not Later Than the Monday evening prior to the meeting. You will also need to have a microphone so you can communicate with everyone in the meeting. Pam Hoaglund, Coordinator

General Meeting June 23, 2020 7-9pm

There will be no General Meeting this month. Instead we will be having our Annual Meeting and election of officers. See page 4 for the details.

Townsend Walton, Coordinator

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Olympia Camera Club 2020 Annual Banquet The 2020 Annual Scavenger June 23 at 6pm, portal will open at 5:30pm Hunt/Favorite Images GoToMeeting We are going to try something different with our annual This year, the Olympia Camera Club’s Annual Banquet slide show of member images this year. We will not do a will be held at my home, and your home. The situation scavenger hunt and will just do favorite best images. with the COVID19 pandemic forces us to insure that we keep our “Social Distance” and protect our members. 2020 Olympia Camera Club Official Scavenger Hunt However; that does not mean we can’t have a great time, Rules so in keeping with our Club’s tradition, the Annual Ban- quet will go on as planned on Tuesday, June 23rd, Submit 5 of your favorite/best images taken between “virtually”. We will all meet on GoToMeeting at 6:00 pm 6/1/2019 and 6/9/2020. You may do as much pro- (the portal will be open 30 minutes prior to allow every- cessing as you like on the images. one to enter the meeting). We plan on having a fun- packed evening with a short Business Meeting to elect Rules: Officers for the upcoming year, and a slide-show com- prised of YOUR favorite images from the past year. 1.All images must be JPEGS (.jpg) – no RAW or TIFF images. Because this year is the first time in the Clubs’ history that our Annual Banquet will be held “virtually” and we 2. The images must be between 1024 and 2048 pixels have members that have not participated in our banquet, I on the long side. The resolution should not exceed want to preview what will happen. For the Business 72 dpi. Meeting, the slate of candidates will be presented; we will take nominations from the floor, and then members 3. Favorite/Best of 2019-20 images. Name your im- will vote for the slate of officers. Any additional Club ages as Bxx_Name_ImageName.jpg. business may also be conducted. This year the slate of officers is: a. B means Favorite/Best of 2019-20, xx is the number of the image, Name is your President - Townsend Walton name and ImageName is the name of the Vice-president - Ed Tromble image. For example, the third image I sub- Secretary - Tammy Mandeville mit would be named, Treasurer - John Damitio B03_RosalindPhilips_BergyBit.jpg. b. Please include a self Identification Image th After the short Business Meeting, there may be a few re- as your 6 image. marks by the outgoing President and the incoming Presi- 4. Please put your images in the Images for Annual dent, followed by the slide show of your favorite images Meeting folder inside the OCC Member Sharing from the past year presented by Rosalind Philips. This is folder on Dropbox. always the highlight of the banquet, as Ros does a fantas- tic job of arranging the images with music. 5. Images are due no later than midnight on June 9, 2020. There is still time to submit your images for the ban- quet - the submission due date is Tuesday, June 9. We will view the slide show at the GoToMeeting Annual Meeting on June 23rd. Please contact Rosalind at [email protected] or at 360-790-2814 with any questions.

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Olympia Camera Club Virtual click on it. When the website opens click on “Join My Field Trip Schedule Meeting”. by Cynthia Whelan July 9, 2020 – Olympic Peninsula For the foreseeable future, OCC will not be gathering for (Hwy 101 loop) field trips. But, we want to continue to share our collec- tive love for photography by gathering our photographs This virtual field trip will encompass a large area as we from our previous experiences and showcasing them in will accept images taken anywhere along Hwy 101 on the OCC Newsletter. the Olympic Peninsula. This will include places like Port Townsend, Fort Worden, Hurricane Ridge, Deer Park, You can join us by reviewing your existing photographs the ocean beaches, the Hoh Rain Forest, etc. You will for: the Columbia River Gorge, the Palouse, the Olympic receive an email on July 2 with all the details for submit- Peninsula, and the City of Olympia. Virtual Field trips ting your images. will be featured in the OCC Newsletter with one excep- tion. The Palouse will be a Member Sharing/Virtual Field Trip at a GoToMeeting on June 30, 2020.

All Virtual Field Trip photograph due dates will be post- ed on the OCC Member Calendar.

Please size your images to 2048 pixels on the long side. Put a watermark on the image and title each image. Ex- ample for title: Milky Way over Mt Rainier_Pam Hoag- lund. Please send the images as an attachment to an email to [email protected] by the newsletter August 6, 2020 City of Olympia due date. This virtual field trip will have you show the various photographic sites in and around the City of Olympia. Here is the virtual field trip schedule for 2020: You will receive an email on July 30 with all the details for submitting your images. A Special Virtual Field Trip Evening Sharing: The Palouse June 30 at 7pm on GoToMeeting:

On June 30 we are go- ing to take a special virtual field trip to “The Palouse.” What is “The Palouse?” Why would you go there and what would you photograph? Help OCC members who have not been to “The Palouse” see what an amazing place it is to photograph. September 3, 2020 Virtual Field Trip to the Tractors, rolling wheat and canola fields, Palouse Water- Skagit Valley and the Islands fall, grain storage structures, barns and a big sky are all part of this unique agricultural landscape. This virtual field trip will take us to the area north of Se- On June 8 we will send you an email with the details for attle and will include the Skagit Valley, Whidbey Island, submitting your images taken in the Palouse. the San Juan Islands, Mt Baker area, and other photo- graphic sites north of Seattle, south of Canada and west The link for GoToMeeting can be found on the Olympia of the Cascades. This covers a pretty wide and diversi- Camera Club web page. Go to the “members only” tab, log in and then go to the tab “Teleconference Link” and (Continued on page 6)

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(Continued from page 5) our field trips are listed on the website under PHOTO GALLERIES>FIELD TRIP GALLERIES. fied area. I’m sure we will all learn about some new sites There really isn’t much we can do about moving the old- to explore and photograph. er Flickr galleries. I’m hoping most of the images that are contained in them will remain there, but from here on Members may contribute up to four to six images per out, we’ll be using this new procedure for field trips. If person per virtual field trip. all goes well, we’ll consider moving personal galleries to Please size your images to 2048 pixels on the long side. our website as well. Put a watermark on the image and title each image. Ex- ample for title: Milky Way over Mt Rainier_Pam Hoag- Kenmore Camera Display Canceled lund. Please send the images as an attachment to an by Frank Townsend email to [email protected] by mid- night Thursday, September 3, 2020. To those of you who were preparing prints to be dis- played with NWCCC at Kenmore Camera I must apolo- gize. The logistics of transporting, meeting, and judging during the Covid-19 pandemic are just too great an ob- stacle. Thank you for your desire to participate.

NWCCC Traveling Prints Update by Kim Buechel, Traveling Print Director

The NWCCC Committee has decided to pursue a fall Virtual Conference in place of the regular conference held in November because of COVID-19. The commit- tee is working hard to come up with a method to have three judges, judge the actual prints of the 2020 Travel- ing Salon prints for the final winners. Changes to Our Field Trip Galleries by Colleen Easley The Traveling Prints have been physically judged by two to three clubs. The results have been tallied and the fol- In the past we’ve used Flickr groups to display our field lowing prints will be held for further judging: trip galleries. There are links to every field trip we’ve taken since December of 2013 on the Field Trip Galleries Sierra Fall by Eugene Eckhardt page. It’s so nice to be able to look back to see images Fatherhood by Dennis Plank from those long ago group outings, but things have Scrub Jay with Peanut by Townsend Walton changed at Flickr since they were bought by SmugMug. Iguana Portrait by D. J. Mark Free accounts are now limited to 1000 photos. Some Angelica by Tamara Mandeville members are pushing up against that limit and have ex- Flamenco Guitarist by John Gerecht pressed concerns about uploading more images just to Shop Store Reflection by Kim Buechel get them into field trip galleries. Rebel by John Gerecht.

To solve that dilemma, I’ve developed a way for you to The prints that are not going forward for final judging are upload your field trip images directly to our website. allowed to be returned to the photographer. Please con- The process is fairly simple. You just need to log into tact the Traveling Prints Director through the website if the OCC website and in the Members Only Area you’ll you want to arrange a time and place to pick up your find a link called “Add to Field Trip Galleries”. All the print. instructions are on that page. Your images should be 1024 px on the long side and 2mb or less in size. They Congratulations to those photographers whose print will should also be watermarked with your name for easy be going to the next level of judging. identification. There is a pull down menu to select the field trip you wish to upload to. Good Luck.

Since right now we’re only doing Virtual Field trips, many of you will be able to contribute. Right now you can contribute to the Columbia River Gorge. Links to all

Page 7 Volume 85, Issue 6, June 2020 Photographing the Prairie: A Project by Dennis Plank

As with all the other special activities and festivals this year, we had to cancel Prairie Appreciation Day for what would have been the 25th annual event. When the board of Friends of Puget Prairies met (practicing social dis- tancing) to make that decision just before the Stay Home order came through, we discussed what other means there were to keep people interested in the prairies and make sure that the event didn’t drop off peoples’ calendars per- manently, particularly our regular volunteers. One of the members suggested that we try to come up with some kind of “virtual” PAD. Someone else suggested that a Blog http://www.prairieappreciationday.org/blog/ would be a good idea. Since I do the website and am the With the almost daily inspection of our own prairie, I’ve resident “photographer” on the board, guess who got the become more aware of the timing of events as in this ex- assignment? cerpt from a post from April 13th:

Luckily we have the website through a good local techie “...you’ll see just how many prairie flowers are who specializes in small businesses and non-profits, so starting to bloom now. All these flowers come at he was able to set the basic blog up quickly. Also, lucki- the same time that the Savannah Sparrows and ly, the Center for Natural Lands Management had a new White-crowned Sparrows start singing on territory Americorps volunteer who was willing to do the dirty and most of our winter birds have gone except for work of getting it looking good and putting up the first the pairs that set up their territories here, so my several posts (she also wrote great directions for the lat- bird feeding station is getting very little attention. ter). That left me with the job of creating content and However, the first three male Goldfinches passed editing that brought in from others. The way things fell through on the 11th, so that horde won’t be far out, the person who suggested the whole thing is the re- behind.” cruiter of blog writers on special topics, while I try to fill in with the general progression of the seasons.

Since my forte is most decidedly NOT landscape photog- raphy, I’ve been concentrating on what I think I do rea- sonably competently: birds and flowers, with an occa- sional bug or three thrown in. However, there have been occasions when the blog required that I step outside my comfort zone as in this panorama of an area that had been burned last year on the Glacial Heritage Preserve.

It’s also made me think about elements of the prairie that I haven’t noticed before. For instance, this is the season of spittlebugs. You’ll see their little bubble houses on The project has made me a much better and more dedi- plant stems all over the prairies, often so numerous that cated observer, because I’ve promised myself to try to your boots and pant legs get soaked walking through cover it as thoroughly as I can with reduced access to the them on a dry day. I’ve always thought they were cool, prairies (now hopefully a thing of the past). Since I did- but had never noticed that they seem to really like the n’t want to encourage people to violate the closures, I got permission to visit a couple of CNLM’s private pre- (Continued on page 8) serves. These photos are from their Tenalquot preserve:

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(Continued from page 7) Wabi Sabi Photography by Pam Hoaglund Oxeye daisies (an invasive) or thought much about how they make those bubble houses (the theory is they help Wabi Sabi is the Japanese word that roughly translates as deter predators and prevent themselves from drying out). “imperfect aged beauty” It’s used to describe a philoso- So I pulled a daisy with a spittlebug house in a conven- phy that beauty can be found in the old, the everyday, and ient location, stuck it in a beer bottle with some water, the imperfect. removed most of the bubbles with a tissue and proceeded To embrace wabi sabi in photography is to slow down to take 400 odd photographs at 3 second intervals (thank and notice the overlooked beauty of the mundane and im- you, Intervalometer!) and turn them into a time-lapse: perfect; a crack in a tea cup, withered fruit, a dying flow- https://youtu.be/B3rix-_0Nsg er or rust on metal. There are multiple websites that describe wabi sabi but I The spittlebug was returned to the wild unharmed to thought this website gave a good overview: https:// carry on its life. www.discoverdigitalphotography.com/2016/wabi-sabi- photography-the-art-of-the-imperfect/ Or did you ever wonder how dense spiderdom can be: This one was pure serendipity. This area of our property For Member Sharing night in July let’s focus on wabi had been mowed recently as a firebreak (though the front sabi. Everyone can photograph wabi sabi. It doesn’t take yard looked the same), the spiders must have been in- a special camera or lens or going to a specific place. credibly dense, and there was a late night fog that disap- Wabi sabi is all around you, you just have to look. peared with the first sun leaving very heavy dew. My wife, Michelle, dubbed it Spider Frost.

In conclusion, if you're into nature photography, I'd rec- ommend picking an area that's handy and following it as closely as you can. It's a wonderful exercise and a great Thurston County Fair chance to increase your knowledge of what's happening by Dale Easley around you. And it's addictive. As you have probably heard, the 2020 Thurston County I know that after this is over, I'll be starting a nature blog Fair has been canceled due to Covid-19. On a brighter of my own. note, we ARE looking forward to 2021 when we will cel- ebrate the 150th birthday of the county fair. We plan to have a great celebration with a fair that is "Still nifty at 150." We hope to see you all at this historic event AND that you will consider participating as well.

Membership Report by Colleen Easley

Our membership stands at 150 members. We had one new member join in May. Please welcome, Richard Box.

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PSA 2020 Website Competition Rank Large Clubs (more than 75 members)

st nd Congratulations to Colleen Easley for her 1 place (2 #1 Olympia Camera Club Thurston County, WA year in a row) in the PSA Website Competition. Colleen #2 Plano Photography Club Plano, TX is our website designer and manager and has done a fan- #3 Sandhills Photography Club Sandhills region of NC tastic job with our website. Here is an excerpt from the HM Pocono Photo Club NE Pennsylvania and PSA announcement of the results: NW New Jersey Thanks to each of you who entered this year’s contest! HM Grand Photos Sun City Grand, Surprise, AZ Each large club web site was judged by three and each HM Minnesota Valley Photo Club Twin Cities, MN small club web site by two, PSA member judges. This process is always quite time consuming and I sincerely appreciate our judges’ professionalism, dedication, and commitment to the contest.

It is always a treat to look at all of the websites and see the variety of approaches that are taken, as well as enjoy- ing the beautiful and creative photography that is on dis- play. Keep up the good work!

Sincerely,

Sam Wilson PSA Website Contest Director

Website Header Images by Colleen Easley

Our website software allows for a rotating banner image at the top of each page, but we’ve never taken advantage of that feature until now. I recently created some headers using some of my own images, but I’d like to get a few more images from other members.

I need to crop the finished image to 1260 px wide by 240 px high. If you just want to send me a panorama, I’ll do the cropping. Images can be anywhere in Washington state. Please do not watermark them. Once you’ve sent them to me, I’ll select the ones that will work, crop them to the appropriate size and add the club’s logo to them. Send your images to [email protected] - Thanks!

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This is our second virtual field trip and we are traveling to the Columbia River Gorge. We are going to experience the gorge from the west end near Portland all the way to the east end near Roosevelt, Oregon. The Columbia River Gorge is an extremely diverse and dynamic place. In 80 miles the gorge goes from a temperate rain forest on the west end with 75-100 inches of annual precipitation to the eastern grasslands with annual precipitation of only 10-15 inches. We hope you enjoy the trip….

Page 11 Volume 85, Issue 6, June 2020 Virtual Field Trip Columbia River Gorge Continued Waterfalls Along the Gorge

Metlako Falls Elowah Falls Latourell Falls

Horsetail Falls

Multnomah Falls

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Virtual Field Trip Columbia River Gorge Continued

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Olympia Camera Club Business Meeting Club Website Competition for large camera clubs. This is Draft the second year in a row that our Website has won this June 2, 2020, honor. Bruce then led a discussion on individuals and 6:30pm to 8:30pm groups who have reached out to OCC to advertise webi- GoToMeeting nars and workshops. The NWCCC Traveling Print com- mittee is working hard to come up with a method to allow Officers and Members Present three judges to judge the actual prints of the 2020 Travel- Bruce Livingston, Townsend Walton, Tammy Mande- ing Salon for the final winners. ville, Ed Tromble, Pam Hoaglund, Rosalind Philips, Col- leen Easley, Dale Easley, Susan Bradley and Clair Ferris. Community Liaison Bruce Livingston reported that the Olympic Air Show has The meeting was called to order by President Bruce Liv- been canceled until next year. Nisqually National Wildlife ingston at 6:30 with a quorum present. Refuge reports that trails and parking lots as well as re- strooms remain closed to help prevent the spread of Approval of May's Minutes COVID-19, but they are looking into a plan to reopen. After one change, the minutes of the May 5, 2020 Busi- ness Meeting was approved by unanimous consent. General Meeting Townsend Walton reported there will be no General Treasurer's Report Meeting in June. Instead we will be having our Annual The Treasurer's report was read by Bruce Livingston and Banquet and election of officers on June 23 at 6:00 pm. is on file at the OCC Dropbox. Practical Photography Ed Tromble reported that this month we will have Bruce Livingston present a slideshow of the Olympic Air Show. Bruce will show images from 2015-2019 that he took us- ing different cameras and lenses. He will talk about tech- niques, different camera settings, types of gear and his growth doing post-processing.

Member Sharing Pam Hoaglund will be having members share three imag- es, one image for critiquing (can be taken anytime) and two images taken in the last year. Pam shared that next month we will have the theme of Wabi Sabi -a Japanese term which means finding beauty in the imperfect, bro- ken and decaying.

Social Chair Nothing to Report. Old Business: COVID Update Nothing to Report. Newsletter Pam Hoaglund reported that photos from the Columbia Committee Reports: River Gorge will be the theme for the “virtual” field trip Equipment/Teleconferencing for the Newsletter this month. Nothing to Report. Webmaster Membership Colleen Easley informed us that the new Photo Field Trip Colleen Easley reported that we have one new member, Gallery will be hosted on the OCC website. Colleen also for a total of 150 members. requested more photos for the OCC website header. Pho- tos should be 1260 ppi on the long side and no more than President's Report 240 ppi on the vertical side. She noted that she can crop Bruce Livingston thanked several people for their hard images to fit as long as they meet the long edge size of work within the club to keep OCC going smoothly. Bruce 1260 ppi. also congratulated our website designer and manager, Colleen Easley, on winning first place in the PSA Camera (Continued on page 17)

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(Continued from page 16) New Business Annual Banquet Thurston County Fair Bruce Livingston corrected start time on the Web Page Dale Easley reported that the Thurston County Fair has for the Banquet. The Portal will open at 5:30pm and the been canceled. meeting will begin at 6:00 pm. Calendar reminders will be sent out for the Banquet. Field Trips Susan Bradley reported that the next virtual field trip will Slideshow be June 30, 2020 and will be images that you have taken Rosalind Philips has received submissions from three from the Palouse. July's virtual field trip will be from the members so far. When submitting images, please size Olympic Peninsula. The August virtual field trip will be your images to no more than 2048 ppi on the long edge. images from the City of Olympia. Deadline to submit images is June 9.

NWCCC Gallery at Kenmore Camera Election of Officers Frank Townsend will be checking on the status of the The Slate of Candidates will be read and then we will ask Gallery at Kenmore Camera. In an email he sent to for nominations from the floor. Bruce, he suggested that we should “assume” that we The Slate of Officers is: (OCC) will not participate. President------Townsend Walton Vice President----Ed Tromble NWCCC Traveling Prints Treasurer------John Damitio Several members’ photos have gone forward in this com- Secretary------Tammy Mandeville petition. All others will be mailed back to OCC to be re- All current camera club members will be able to vote on turned to the owners. the Slate of Officers.

NWCCC Adjournment Frank Townsend, in his email to Bruce noted that Townsend Walton made a motion to adjourn the meeting. NWCCC has discussed an on-line Conference November Adjournment was approved by unanimous consent. 14. Brooks Jensen will be featured speaker with two ses- sions.

PSA Pam Hoaglund reported that two members received Hon- Submitted by Tammy Mandeville, Secretary orable Mention in the last round of the PSA Interclub Digital Photo Competition. Pam led a discussion on whether we should participate in the competition next year.

“If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is

that there are no shortcuts in photography.”

– Edward Weston

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Member Gallery

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Member Gallery

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Photographic Society of America (PSA)

PSA is a worldwide organization for anyone with an in- terest in photography. Founded in 1934, the Society is for casual shutterbugs, serious amateurs, and professional photographers. Individual digital membership is $45 a year. Membership offers a wide variety of services and activi- ties:

1. Monthly Journal 2. Online photo galleries 3. Image evaluation 4. Study groups and courses 5. Competitions 6. Annual Conference 7. Discounts on photography-related products/services 8. PSA travel aide

For a complete overview of membership benefits go to www.psa-photo.org

Dates to Remember Sizing Images for Newsletter

All club meetings will be virtual on “GoToMeeting” Format: jpeg, max quality Dimension: 1024 - 2048 pix long side 9 June Practical Photography Please keep images 3MB or less 16 June Member Sharing Night Please title your image and include your name in title 23 June Virtual Annual Banquet & Election of Title_Your Name Officers 26 June Deadline for Palouse VFT Images Please Watermark your image! 30 June Virtual Field Trip to The Palouse All photographs in this newsletter are under copy- 7 July Board Meeting right protection. They may not be used without per- 9 July Articles and Images Due for Newsletter mission from the individual photographers. 14 July Practical Meeting Please submit articles and photographs to: 21 July Member Sharing Night [email protected] 28 July General Meeting Deadline for articles and images for the July newslet- ter is 9 July at midnight.

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Business Meeting Monthly on the First Tuesday of the Month Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Contact: Bruce Livingston, President

Practical Photography Monthly on the Second Tuesday of the Month

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 Program: Bruce Livingston will present a program on his techniques and gear used to pho- tograph the Olympic Air Show

Contact: Ed Tromble, Chair

Member Sharing Night Monthly on the Third Tuesday of the Month

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Program: this month we will continue with a critique one of your images and share two oth- ers taken from Jun 2019 to June 2020. If you don’t want a critique then just submit up to 3 images to share.

Contact: Pam Hoaglund, Chair

General Meeting

Monthly on the Fourth Tuesday of the Month

Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Program: No General meeting this month. Instead we will be holding our virtual Annual Banquet and election of officers.

Contact: Townsend Walton, Chair

Koffee Klatch Meet up, Every Other Wednesday Morning from 9am to 11am Panera’s Bakery, 2525 Capitol Mall Drive SW, Westside of Olympia Open discussion about photography and other topics of interest

Canceled until further notice

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Executive Committee Associate Memberships

President Bruce Livingston

Vice President Townsend Walton

Secretary Tammy Mandeville

Treasurer John Damitio

Committee Chairs

Community Liaison Practical Photography NPPNW Liaison Bruce Livingston Ed Tromble Frank Townsend

Equipment Custodian Member Sharing Night NWCCC Liaison Rosalind Philips Pam Hoaglund Frank Townsend

NWCCC Traveling Print & Newsletter Editor Scavenger Hunt Open Salon Competitions Pam Hoaglund Rosalind Philips Kim Buechel PSA Representative & Webmaster Field Trip Coordinator Interclub Competition Colleen Easley Susan Bradley/Cynthia Whelan Coordinator Pam Hoaglund Social Committee Membership Linda Pardee Colleen Easley Thurston County Fair Colleen and Dale Easley

Olympia Camera Club P.O. Box 13333 Olympia, WA 98508-3333