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Next Meeting November 10, 7pm
! Getting Comfortable with Street Photography presented by Nyla James
If you've wanted to be part of the fastest growing genre in photography but was afraid to take the shot then let me show you how to become more confident shooting in the streets. When I first decided I wanted to try doing street photography, and you can probably guess why... I asked Bob (Ginn)... How do I start? I wanted to see what had kept his interest all these years. But his advice didn't seem to help me to get any braver when I was out there with strangers while holding a camera! I then began looking into street photography more and decided to try other people's ideas, advice and suggestions.
My goal today is to try and help you get past the social blocks which I went through, and many others before that. If I do, then all my efforts here will be worth it.
Please send Courier information to Alan Upshaw [email protected] Full coverage at www.slocc.org
the San Luis Obispo Camera Club Courier November 2016
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Field Trip Show The Ripon Hot Air Balloon
Festival field trip show will be presented by Peter Boonisar at this month’s program meeting.
At the same meeting turn in (or email) to Karen Peterson [email protected] up to 15 images from the Eastern Sierra field trip for a show, to be presented at the January Program Meeting.
Next Field Trip No field trips are scheduled for November & December.
Club Calendar Nov 3: Board Meeting Nov 10: Program Meeting Street Photography, Nyla James Dec 8: Year End Competition Jan 5: Board Meeting Jan 12: Program Meeting Winter in Yellowstone & the Tetons, Dorothy Cutter Jan 28: Annual Banquet, Madonna Inn
End of the Year Print Competition For 2016, it’s a Fork. The entries will be judged & then displayed at
the SLOCC Annual Banquet, January 28.
2016 Year End Competition December 8, 7pm Judge: Becky Clair
Show & Tell November’s challenge is Grateful.
Image of the Month Alan Upshaw, from the Downtown SLO
Walk-About field trip
Job Openings •We need a volunteer to step forward to handle refreshments. •The Club needs a Secretary!
Clean Out Your Closet ! KEH Camera will be stopping at the Photo Shop in San Luis Obispo
on January 20 & 21, buying used photo gear of all types.
On Display • The Photography of Kerry Drager, the Cambria Library, 1043 Main Street, Cambria, through Nov 30.
• Works by Brady Cabe, Garden Street Goldsmiths, 1114 & 1118 Garden Street, San Luis Obispo
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Our camera club members have many outstanding images that are gathering dust on their hard drives. Unfortunately, no one other than the photographers are seeing them and that’s a shame – because these noble images should be hanging in houses all around the area where hundreds of people could be enjoying them. Why not take these images from our hard drives and send them into the public as beautiful prints!
If you think about it, the best of our images are valuable cultural resources that can enhance our sense of wellbeing with their beautiful, insightful and unique ways of seeing the world around us. But they are gathering dust on our hard drives. As a club we can change that situation.
It would require making a hundred prints and sending them out into our local community. The social value of these one hundred prints could be amplified by creating a space on our web site where people could advertise those prints for swapping. Think about that for a moment. If there were one hundred large format prints of our club members best images, would you want to be one of the hundred people that were swapping those images among themselves? I certainly would. People might ask for more prints and the concept of buying and swapping prints could become a much appreciated part of our local culture
Making one hundred large format prints would be a lot of work for one person, but as a cooperative effort it could be fun. I can’t imagine anything more rewarding or more fun than making a hundred beautiful prints and sending them out into the community we live in, and then seeing them shared through our web site. Here are a few questions that you might have after reading this.
How would we go about “sending these prints out into the community”?
I’m sure there are many ways. We could give them away on the street. We could have an auction. But my preferred method would be an advertised show and sale of all the prints.
Are you purposing this to make money for the club? No - money isn’t that important. The true reasons for suggesting that our club do this are explained in the first three paragraphs of this letter, but I can summarize. With our images decorating their walls people will feel better because of their beautiful, insightful, and unique views of our world. If buying and trading prints of our images becomes a part of our local culture, the art of photography will be promoted as a public good, and our social fabric will be better.
Then why are you purposing to sell these one hundred prints? Why not just give them away? First, giving them away devalues the prints making it less likely people will take care of them. Second, it takes money to make the prints and the person that buys the print should pay for that. Third, the photographers that manage to capture the images deserve to be rewarded for their accomplishments.
What do you think? If you have an idea or opinion, send it to me, please. Best regards, Leo Loebs
Sharing Our Images
22 Members entered 66 images.
High Score Totals of the Night:
27 - Alice Cahill
27 - Mimi Ditchie
27 - Robert Ginn
26.5 - Ralph George
26 - Peter Boonisar
26 - Ronnie Goyette
High Score Images:
Photographer 8 8.5 9
Peter Boonisar x xx
Kathleen Bosch x
Pat Brown x
Tim Bryan xx
Alice Cahill xxx
Mimi Ditchie xxx
Ralph George x xx
Robert Ginn xxx
Ronnie Goyette xx x
Donna H-McBean x x
Ross H-McBean x x
Nyla James xx
Randy Knight xxx
Yael Korin x
Jim Little x
Mike Long x x
Jim Marx xx
Rich Miller x x x
Gary O'Neill x x
Karen Peterson x xx
Christina Stead x
Cheryl Strahl x x x
October 2016 Competition Results Judge: Kerry Drager
