Next Meeting
Our next meeting will be at the Pin & Cue Bowling Alley in Whitefish, MT. at 6:30PM Thursday, April 10th.
Minutes from March We had a real nice and well-attended meeting. There were lots of pretty pictures and 32 people there to enjoy them.
Jeff and Adele did a real nice job of photographing a wonderful float trip down the Colorado River. They have way too much fun.
Steve & Becca, everyone’s favorite couple stayed closer to home and shot Moose in their back yard. Nice pictures too.
B. Ruby got some nice photos of my pond and some nifty airplanes.
My favorite photographer for the month was Jerry Meislik who really did some great work in a great place. Raise your hand if you want him to take you on his next trip to the Galapagos. Looks to me like one of the best places on Earth to photograph wild life. That is if you can call the residents there wild. Great job Jerry.
Jesse found some cute squirrels to play with and he also got to the park for some more fun with photos.
John Stalowy got some nice creek shots and John Safford did Elk and some nice shots of the Clearwater River.
Larry Stolte reported on his gig at Buffalo Hills. He is enjoying it and the folks there really love his shows. Thanks For the great work Larry. The New England stuff was outstanding too.
Mike S. did some nice fall colors and Nick brought us a really wonderful bunch of pictures from Costa Rica. Thanks Nick.
My notes say that Rossella showed us some outstanding pictures and that Steve Mitchell did Indian relays and sled dogs.
So much for writing in the dark
Other News
PLEASE READ THIS
The Flathead Lake Cherry Growers Association has contacted our organization with the desire to explore two projects that might offer opportunities for our organization and one or more of our members. Last year the FLCG gave away a trip for a family of four to help promote purchasing Montana cherries. The trip program was administered by FLCG’s marketing company, DOMEX, a Washington based fruit marketing company. The program was a huge success. The winning family will be vacationing in the Flathead during this cherry season.
Following are the 2 projects the FLCG would like to explore with our club.
With cherries being such a big part of the Flathead Valley and the amount of tourists that vacation during this time of year, these projects should offer our club a way to become a major part of the cherry season and obtain good exposure the club and help promote the fun of photography with young and old members our communities.
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Buffalo Hills Terrace
Larry Stolte has taken this project to heart and is really doing a nice Job. He has no idea how grateful I am and how much his audience enjoys his photography. He does a show for the residence at Buffalo Hills Terrace once a month and they love it. We can do as many shows there as we want to do and I would really appreciate other volunteers helping him. Please let me know if you have one day a month to spare.
I found this somewhere
It seems that no matter where I go these days, be it a classroom at UCLA or a cocktail party in Pasadena, I am queried about the conundrum that many photographers, students and professionals alike, are facing regarding photographing with a digital or film camera. First, I hear about all of the frustrations with digital, from the lag time to file sizes. But then I hear about the attributes, e-mailing images to family, no lab costs or storage issues.
Many of my students, having had recent photography classes, tend to be more aware of the possibilities of having such a varied field of choices from which to make pictures with; color positive and negative films, black and white negative films and digital cameras with a multitude of megapixels available. But still, the question of film vs. digital always comes up in the first class. The additional choices of cameras, lenses, old school and new school techniques add questions to the questions. But, does anyone ask about light refraction anymore, or just compression ratios? My answer to that, is almost never.
Not being a believer in absolutes, I make the artist analogy which is, that no-one expects an artist to use just one medium. They can chose oil or acrylic paint, charcoal, gouache, or a number of other mediums, in order to achieve their desired results.
I feel the same way about photography, that it’s about the end result. What is it that the photographer is trying to say or do? Once they figure that out, then it is about working backwards and selecting the medium that suits the desired result.
With digital being heralded as the replacement for film in the future, another critical question that I feel should be asked is; what photographic attributes are unique to each medium? After using my professional digital cameras now for 4 years, I have finally started taking pictures with them that I feel are unique to digital, that I wouldn’t have taken in the same way with film, or my old film cameras. This information will inform me further in my choice of medium for a particular subject.
As for myself, I work with all mediums these days. For my editorial clients, and some corporate clients, I shoot digital because of the time factor and ease of electronically transmitting images. (Jonathan Rhys Meyers photograph for The New York Times). For other clients, I shoot color negative film. For some of my personal work, including a global project that addresses how women are impacted by war, I am still shooting Tri-X. (Alice McNally photograph).And, to put a nostalgic touch on this issue, I was in Tibet in May 2007, and shot with Kodachrome 64, (Monastery Door) which is still available through Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, KS , and is still incredibly beautiful. I just couldn’t see shooting digital there. I wanted to be unobtrusive and took an old Nikon and a Leica auto focus film camera. The results are exactly what I’d hoped for-beautiful deep reds and subtle blues and greens.
So, even though it may be a confusing world of pixels and emulsions for both amateur and professional photographers, I believe that we are also in a photographically exciting time because of all these choices. Not only do they enhance the possibilities for creativity and productivity, but also expand our ability to communicate visually.
Classifieds
None this time
The 344 Gallery
We need a new show at the Gallery. If you have between 10 and 20 prints ready to hang and want to show them, please let me know. I would love to hang them.
PROGRAMS
Greg Thigpen June
Bruce Ruby August
Pady Dusing September
