Don’t forget: We will be meeting on Tuesday, July 5, for our next meeting.

Are you interested in taking better photos of flowers with the gear you already own? Photographer Patty Hankins will present ‘The Secrets to Great Flower Photography’. Her program will show you how you can create beautiful pictures of flowers whether you are using a point and shoot or the latest DSLR. Patty is a nature and landscape photographer in the Washington, DC area. Her website, Beautifulflowerpictures.com has great information on taking flower and nature pictures, and her FaceBook page has over 600,000 fans! She leads workshops both indoors and out in and around the Eastern United States. Take time to stop and smell the flowers and join us on July 5th.

Member photo theme for July: Birds & Feathers

Join us Monday, April, 4 at 6:30 at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Rd., Williamsburg (Norge). Join us for the April meeting as wildlife photographer and founding club member Ken Conger presents: “The Bucket List Year”

Ken will present a buffet of spectacular photos captured during his 2015 adventures to Kenya/Tanzania, Chile, Finland, Madagascar and special locations in America. Outside of his wild-life photo tours, in 2015 Ken concentrated on capturing images of rare/endangered, special species on his “Bucket List”. Ken compliments his photos with stories, animal facts, audio and short videos.The program provides a view of a wildlife photographer’s world and the challenges taken in order to capture stunning wildlife images.

Member photo theme: Patterns & Textures. Send photos to Craig. Images sized at 4X6 inches and 200 PPI resolution are perfect.

Join us Monday, March 7, at 6:30 at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Rd., Williamsburg (Norge). Billy Dodson will be our speaker.

Member photo theme: Motion. Please get photos to Craig by Friday, March 4.

Join us Monday, February 1, at 6:30 for our next monthly meeting at the James City County Library, 7770 Croaker Rd., Williamsburg (the library in Norge). Our speaker will be Wayne Berry.

Wayne Berry, a retired captain from the Newport News Fire Department, was born and raised in Newark, NJ and currently lives in Hampton. He became interested in photography in the 70’s and started with a Polaroid camera and eventually 35mm film cameras. Trained in New York City, his photographic interests are Street Photography, Portraits and Cityscapes. Currently, Wayne serves as the president of Hampton Roads Digital Photography Club in Hampton, VA. He recently returned from the PhotoPlus Expo in New York and will talk about all the new and exciting things coming in the future for photographers.

Member’s photo theme: Shadows and silhouettes.