Because Labor Day is on the first Monday of September, the meeting this month will be on the second Monday, September 12. Five members — Judy Jones, Terry Moore, John Jellings, David Beals, and Donnie Goodrich — will give short presentations with photos from trips they have taken.

The photo theme for September is Landscapes.

Meeting will be TUESDAY, August 2nd.

Guest speaker will be author and photography teacher David Everette presenting a program on Birds in Flight.

Join us at the August meeting to hear David Everette present ‘Birds in Flight’.
David has spent most of his forty years in photography photographing Richmond and the state of Virginia. He has produced a body of work that covers landscape, waterscape, scenic, and myriad other subject matter. He has also photographed the James River for more than thirty years and produced an abundance of images of its waterscapes and wildlife. After having a custom photo lab and managing another custom lab, he is now earns his living as a corporate photographer.’

Member photo theme: Coastal Life

This is the Cookie for the August meeting: Write ‘I Found It’ on a piece of paper with your name and give it to Rose Baker before the meeting. Cool prize for the winner.

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.