Plant Walk at Wmsbrg Botanical Gardens– Meet Helen Hamilton at Freedom Park at 9am for a plant walk and photography session working on ‘challenge photography’ of tiny plants at the gardens. RSVP to Helen at helen48@cox.net.
Join us Tuesday, July 11, at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Rd., Williamsburg, at 6:30 in the Kitzinger Room. Guests are welcome!
Member Dave Reubush will be the guest speaker for the July meeting. Dave will give a slideshow of photos and details his two trips to Antarctica in his presentation that was originally scheduled back in January before the snow storm cancelled our meeting for that week.. Dave is a retired NASA aerospace engineer and since retiring has taken up hobbies including scuba diving, travel, and photography. Dave and his wife made the first trip to Antarctica and enjoyed it so much they went a second time. Please join us to hear his stories and see some great photos from his trips.
Note that July’s meeting is on Tuesday, July 11. It is the second Tuesday of the month.
Member photo topic: Birds & Feathers
Chris Tennant will have this photo exhibited in “A Sense of Place: Photography of the High Peaks,” an exhibit in the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown, New York, from June 2 through October 9.
CNPC member Judy Jones’ photo of an osprey with a just-caught fish won for the Spring selection in the James City County seasons photo contest.
Osprey with fish, by Judy Jones
Patty Hankins
Join us Monday, June 5, at 6:30 p.m. for our monthly meeting in the Kitzinger Room of the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Rd., Williamsburg. (This is the library in Norge).
Returning guest photographer Patty Hankins presents her new program: Adding a Sense of Depth. We live in a three dimensional world that our cameras capture in only two dimensions. Patty will be sharing both composition tips for use in the field and post-processing techniques you can use to add a sense of depth to your photos. Patty is a flower and landscape photographer in the Washington, DC area and author of Wildflower Meditations: A Gift for the Spirit. She leads several photography workshops and photo tours each year including flower photography, landscape photography, and photo editing. Visit her website at: BeautifulFlowerPictures.com
Monthly photo theme is Flowers & Blooms
Congratulations to Ken Conger whose photo of three (very cute!) Virginia fox kits was featured on the back cover of the May/June 2017 issue of Virginia Wildlife magazine!
Chris Tennant will lead a Focus Fundamentals meeting on Monday, March 13th at 6:30pm on Night Photography at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Rd., Williamsburg. Everyone is welcome!
Join us Monday, April 3, at 6:30 at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Rd., Williamsburg. Join us at the April meeting as Bob Schamerhorn presents his ‘Birds of Prey’
program. This includes some of our most exciting, fierce, and perhaps most interesting North American predatory birds which includes:
Hawks, Owls, Falcons, Eagles and even Vultures. Bob focuses primarily on mid-Atlantic raptor species, with information on food, migration, adaptations and identification. Learn about some of their protection history, survival struggles, successes and what it takes to get photographs of these amazing birds.
Photo theme: Patterns & textures
Liz Clayton specializes in flower and landscape photography. She is drawn to graceful lines, simple shapes, and bold colors. Her love for learning post-processing skills meshes well with her interest in trying new photography techniques. For the past two winters she has expanded her close-up and macro knowledge to include water drop and water drop collision photography.
Join us at the March meeting as Liz presents “Using Nik Color Efex Pro and Topaz Software to enhance your images?”
Rob Sabatini
From Rob: “I am an amateur photographer who resides in Richmond Virginia. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York I had little exposure to wildlife but fondly remember trips to the country and occasional encounters with deer, frogs and salamanders. For most of my life my interest in photography was limited to travel and family where I developed rudimentary skills with a variety of film cameras but was never satisfied with the results obtainable through commercial developing that lacked the opportunity to process and edit my photos. A collision of opportunities including the explosion of digital photography, the discovery of a heron rookery on the James River, and the gift of mentorship resulted in my avid interest in wildlife photography. It is an honor for me to discuss and share some of my experiences and photographs from both local and travel venues with photographers of all skill levels that range from the few I might be able to help to the many that I can learn from.” In his spare time, Rob Sabatini is a periodontist and retired Air Force colonel who received his dental degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1981 and returned to the School of Dentistry as a professor in the department of periodontics after his military retirement in 2005.
The meeting is at 6:30 at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Rd., Williamsburg. It is free and open to the public.
The member photo theme is Silhouettes and Shadows.