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Red Barn on the Palouse Shutterbug Times Official Newsletter of the Olympia Camera Club Olympia, WA Established in 1935 July 2020 www.olympiacameraclub.org Volume 85, Issue 7 Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/OlympiaCameraClub Red Barn on the Palouse Page 2 Volume 85, Issue 7, July 2020 In this issue: President’s Corner - President’s Corner p. 2 Bruce Living- As the new President of the Olympia stone will be Editor’s Note p. 2 Camera Club, let me introduce myself providing pro- Monthly Meeting Topics p. 3 to you. My wife and I moved to Lacey grams for Prac- about 3 ½ years ago. We came from the tical Photog- Memorial Frank Townsend p. 4 - 5 flat lands of Kansas to the great Pacific raphy, second Virtual Field Trip Schedule p. 6 Northwest. We came to be close to our Tuesday of the Annual Banquet Report p. 7 grand kids; I think that is a retired per- month, Clair son thing to do. Pulling up roots and Ferris will be Membership Report p. 7 leaving all our friends behind certainly coordinating Membership Sharing, third Wabi Sabi p. 7 was not easy. I joined the Camera Club Tuesday of the month and Ed Tromble three months after moving here and will be putting together the General OCC Website Header p. 7 have now found a wonderful group of meeting, fourth Tuesday of the month. PSA Webinars p. 8 new friends. I never thought I'd end up We may try out a virtual “Koffee as the President of the club, but here I Klatch” meeting hosted by Rene Con- Virtual Field Trip Help p. 8 am. I know we have challenges to face ger. Cynthia Whelan will be coming up McLane Creek Nature Trail p. 9 as we go forward. The Covid-19 has with ideas for virtual field trips for a done a number on our nation and every while, but we are looking for someone Website Field Trip Galleries p. 10 place where people used to meet face to to step up and resume the great work OCC U-Tube Channel p. 10 face. Our club has been around since Cynthia has done when she leaves the Thurston County Fair p. 10 1935 and will stay strong even through position in the fall. So we have a lot this adversity. Today's new term, going on and we want all of you to be a Washington State Fair p. 10 “Virtual Platform” is how the Club will part of it. Photo Quote p. 10 be operating in the months to come. We will continue to meet on Tuesday eve- Keep taking photos, flood our Facebook Olympic Peninsula VFT p. 11 - 16 nings and we will still present programs page with your images and always be Board Mtg Minutes p. 17 - 18 and do membership sharing. If you looking at the beauty around you. have not joined us on “GoToMeeting”, Election of Officers p. 18 you should give it a try. In the weeks to T. Walton Member Galleries p. 19 - 21 come I hope to have a survey sent out to the membership to help provide direc- PSA p. 22 tion for the Club to work towards. Dates to Remember p. 22 How to Submit to Newsletter p. 22 Editor’s Note: Upcoming Meetings p. 23 Executive Committee p. 24 What a thrill to see all the images you have submitted for July’s Virtual Field Trip around the 101 Loop on Committee Contacts p. 24 the Olympic Peninsula. It will be an inspiration of new places to photograph when we can get out and travel more and enjoy the great outdoors in our beautiful state. For the past two years I have been the coordinator for Member Sharing Night. I want to thank everyone who contributed by sharing im- ages, engaging in critiques and discussion on the images and through your enthusi- asm for this new meeting format. Your willing involvement in these monthly meeting made my job much easier. Clair Ferris will be taking over as the coordinator of Member Sharing Night in Au- gust. I look forward to his fresh new ideas. Page 3 Volume 85, Issue 7, July 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 July 14, 2020 7-9 pm This month's Practical Photography meeting will be a "Roundtable Discussion" of photography related topics that you bring to the table. Let’s talk about topics that you would like to see covered over the next few months, the technology of our "virtual" meetings; the opportunities and limitations that it has; how we might focus topics of interest to those of you who are interested in that topic (e.g., how to navigate XX Brand camera menu, or use YY post-processing soft- ware, or more generally how to do [macro, landscape, wildlife, fast action, etc.). If you have a topic you would like discussed that is very specific to one type of camera or software, send me an email and I will try to research your ques- tion/topic before the meeting. Hope to see you at this months' meeting!! Bring your questions and discussion topics! Bruce Livingston, Coordinator Member Sharing Night July 21, 2020 7-9pm For this month’s member sharing we are going to focus on a theme and that theme is Wabi Sabi. I wrote an article in the June Newsletter and I also wrote another one for this newsletter on page seven. Wabi Sabi is finding the beauty in the imperfect, imper- manent, incomplete and broken. To embrace Wabi Sabi in photography is to slow down and notice the overlooked beauty of the mundane and imperfect; a crack in a tea cup, withered fruit, a dying flower or rust on metal. Everyone can photograph Wabi Sabi. It doesn’t take a special camera or lens or going to a specific place. Wabi Sabi is all around you, you just have to look. You may submit up to four images. 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, Wabi Sabi folder. Your images must be in Drop Box not later than the Monday evening prior to the meeting. Pam Hoaglund, Coordinator General Meeting July 28, 2020 7-9pm Our presenter for the General Meeting is Jim Griggs. Jim is a retired photographer from Kansas. He spent his career traveling around the United States and the world doing various photo shoots for business's and leading photography trips to Africa. He will be going back to Africa next April for an entire month leading two trips making a total of elev- en trips he has led on the African continent. Jim will explain about the different types of safari's, how to choose one and basically his research and experience on where and when to go. He will talk about weather expectations, lodges vs. camps, medical concerns and finally what to do specifically about photography. Jim's photography is amazing and I'm sure you will agree after seeing his presentation. Ed Tromble, Coordinator Page 4 Volume 85, Issue 7, July 2020 In Memory of Frank Townsend by Bruce Livingston It is with a sad and heavy heart, that I inform you that Frank Townsend passed away in the morning on June 8, 2020. Frank was a pillar in the Camera Club for many years; a former President of the Club; the delegate to the Northwest Council of Camera Clubs (NWCCC); the past president of NWCCC; Treasurer of Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest (NPPNW); coordinator for many years of the clubs’ publication of the “Annual”; Superintendent, along with his wife Terri the Co-Superintendent, of the Open Class Photography Exhibit at the Thurston County Fair; field trip coordinator for the camera club; and recruiter of new members and future leaders of the Camera Club. I’m sure that I’m missing many other ways that Frank contributed, unselfishly to our Club. Frank, you were a friend and an inspiration to all of us. You will be greatly missed. During our Annual Meeting Rosalind Philips presented a video tribute to Frank. You can view the video at the follow- ing link:https://www.olympiacameraclub.org/videos/ You can also view Frank’s personal Flickr page at this link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/113852346@N06/ Page 5 Volume 85, Issue 7, July 2020 Frank Townsend Gallery Page 6 Volume 85, Issue 7, July 2020 Olympia Camera Club Virtual lund. Please send the images as an attachment to an email Field Trip Schedule to [email protected] by midnight by Cynthia Whelan Thursday, September 3, 2020. For the foreseeable future, OCC will not be gathering for field trips. But, we want to continue to share our collec- tive love for photography by gathering our photographs from our previous experiences and showcasing them in the OCC Newsletter. All Virtual Field Trip photograph due dates will be post- ed on the OCC Member Calendar. Virtual Field Trip Please size your images to 2048 pixels on the long side.
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