Retzer
Nature Center
Camera
Club
August
Newsletter
August Meeting – Wednesday, August 7th, 2019, 7:00 PM
Program – Jyoti N. Sengupta – Travel Photography
Jyoti, a member of our club, will provide us
with some tips and techniques for getting good travel photographs. He will give us information on how to prepare
for travel and share some of his photographs.
Member Image
Sharing:
Members
are encouraged to submit several (up to five) images to share with the club for
gentle critique. This is a great way to
get suggestions for improving your images and developing your photographic
skills. In order to give everyone a chance to
share their images during the year, we will select several individuals who will
be featured at each meeting. Other
individuals may also provide images which will be shared as time permits.
This month we are asking members who participated in
two club events to share their images.
At our June meeting we did a photo walk on the Retzer property. On July 23rd we had our annual
wildflower shoot at Retzer. If you attended
either of these event, please submit up to five images to share with the club.
Please
email your images to Tom Wright ( TomWrightwi@gmail.com ) by Tuesday, August 6th.
When submitting your images, please
change the file name to include your name as the first information in the file
name. This will help to streamline the process of viewing member
images. We look forward to seeing your images.
2019 Club Programs:
Our 2019 programs and meeting
dates are listed below. Our program chairman, Randy
Scherkenbach, is looking for your ideas for programs for 2019. If you have a topic you would like to see
presented, please let Randy know now.
Please forward your ideas to Randy (rscherkenbach@gmail.com ).
2019 Program Schedule:
·
September 4, 2019 – PSA Wisconsin Club Showcase
image selection
·
October 2, 2019
·
November 6, 2019
·
December 4, 2019 – Holiday Party
Special Club Meeting Opportunity: The Unlimited Vision Photo Club
has invited us to join them at their October 17th meeting where the
program will be a presentation by professional wildlife photographer John Van
Den Brandt. Check out John’s images at www.wildwindimages.com. This promises to be an excellent program, and
we thank the Unlimited Vision club for inviting us. Mark the date on your calendar! Additional information with meeting location
will be in the October Newsletter.
Field Trips:
Photo field trips are a great way
for us to share our common enjoyment of photography, learn some new techniques
and share in camaraderie while getting to know our fellow club members. Our Outings Co-chairs, Elizabeth Whitcomb and
Caryl Sedushak, are working on a schedule that will include some of our
traditional outings plus a few new ones. They are always looking for your ideas
of some places you would find interesting for a club outing. If you have any ideas of places you would
like to have us shoot, please send your ideas to our Outings Chairperson, Elizabeth
Whitcomb (lizannwhit@gmail.com) Better yet, why not offer to coordinate a
field trip. It's not hard - find a place
you would like to go, pick a date and we can announce it to the club. Perhaps you have a favorite place for fall
colors or winter scenery.
2019 Field Trips: None are scheduled at this time.
Facebook:
Our camera
club now has a Facebook page! If you are
on Facebook, simply put Retzer Nature Center Camera Club in the search box and
you will find us. Click on the Join
button and Elizabeth or Randy will approve you.
This is a Closed Group and open only to club members. This means that anything posted here can only
be seen by members of the group. You can
feel free to share your work here without fear that someone outside the club
will have access to it. Anything posted
here is private, so feel free to ask questions – don’t be embarrassed or shy
about it. The monthly Newsletter,
meeting topics and outings will also be posted here. Check it out!
Future Events of Interest:
CAPS – 2019 –
November 23-24, 2019: The
Chicago Area Photographic School features main speakers, teaching classes,
workshops and vendor displays. It will
be held at the Wojcik Conference Center at Harper College in Palatine, IL. Additional information will be available in
the future at the website of the Chicago Area Camera Club Association, www.CACCAphoto.org .
If you are aware of any events of
general interest, please let us know so we can share them with the club.
Photo Contests and Exhibits:
Retzer Club Page on
WACCO Website: The WACCO website
(www.wicameraclubs.org) has pages for each member club to
display photographs from club members.
Check it out to see what our members and other clubs are shooting. If you would like to see some of your images
on our club page, please send several of your images to Caryl Sedushak ( caryl.sedushak@me.com ).
The images should be 2100 pixels on the long side and no larger than 1
mb. Let’s see some of our great member
photos on the WACCO site!
WACCO Fall 2019
Competition – Saturday, November 2, 2019: It is too
early to submit images, but mark this date on your calendar and start thinking
about images you may want to enter.
Members may submit prints and/or projected images in a variety of Open
and Nature categories. More information
and entry instructions will be available at a later date on the WACCO website: www.wicameraclubs.org/ .
This is an easy competition to enter and members are encouraged to see
how their images compare to other Wisconsin photographers.
Wisconsin Public TV Garden &
Landscape Expo – February 7-9, 2010: Entry deadline is December 15, 2019.This competition is in conjunction
with the annual Garden & Landscape Expo. All photos must include plant
material. Categories include Macro,
Landscape, Food and Abstract. Additional
information contest rules are available at www.wigardenexpo.com.
If you are aware of any photo
contests or exhibits, please forward the information to Rick Vollbrecht at Rvollb@wi.rr.com
Wisconsin PSA
Club Showcase Results:
Each year our club participates
in the PSA Wisconsin Club Showcase. Each
participating club submits seven images to represent the club. All participating clubs judge the images and
the final results are tabulated to determine the best images and the winning
club. We are pleased to report that this
year the Retzer Camera Club was judged the best, placing 1st among
the 13 participating clubs!
Congratulations! The individual
images from our club are listed below with their ranking among the 91 images
judges and average score based on a 5-point scale.
Member Image Title Average
Score Rank
Kurt Huebner Halloween
Pennant Dragonfly 4.0257 2nd
Rick Vollbrecht Family Snack Time 3.9684 5th
Jim Edlhuber Graceful Landing 3.8770 11th
John Hasse Gulf Storm Morning 3.7628 15th
Brian Sprague Cooter Turtle 3.7213 17th
Tom Wright HALT! 3.2822
Caryl Sedushak In the Pink
3.1262
In September we will be selecting our seven club images for the next
Showcase. Please start to look for your
great image now! Everyone has an image
that is worth submitting. We
will provide information on how to submit your image in the next Newsletter.
Photo Ops:
As a club, our members have a
wide variety of subjects that we enjoy photographing. This newsletter can serve as an excellent way
to share various photo opportunities with club members. If you know of interesting subjects or events
that may interest other club members, please forward those to Rick Vollbrecht (Rvollb@wi.rr.com) so they can be included in
future Newsletters. If you are
interested in having others join you, that information can also be
included. It is fun to shoot with a
group.
Photography
Classes:
Mike Crivellos
Cameras is
celebrating their 50th anniversary with a series of photography
classes throughout the year. Check out
their class offerings at: https://medium.com/@Mike_Crivellos/2019-event-schedule-de8726223d51
Art’s Cameras Plus has an extensive list of classes covering
everything from camera basics to photographing in a variety of situations and
use of Photoshop Elements. Check out
their web site: www.Artscameras.com .
If you are aware of other photography classes or seminars, please
forward the information to Rick Vollbrecht
