Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be at the Pin & Cue Bowling Alley in Whitefish, MT. at 6:30PM Thursday, September 13th.

Minutes from August

Bruce Harris really did a nice program. It reminded me of the days when my dad gave me my first camera and in my youthful exuberance I thought that I could make a nice picture out of anything. As the years passed and I became a better technician I slowly discovered that the only really good pictures I could take were the one that were so drop dead beautiful that any body could make them as well as I. This is due mostly to the lack of curiosity and exuberance that I wasted on my youth.

In order to be a good photographer you need a wonderful imagination to go along with a great lens. In my opinion the imagination part of the equassion is the most important. I have seen hundreds of the best pictures ever taken and many were taken a hundred years ago with the world's oldest lens using glass plates for film. The only thing early day photographers had going for them was patience and their imagination. Today every camera and every lens is far superior to the best equipment anyone had for the last 100 years and yet our photography is not that much better.

Which gets me back to Jim's program, those guys had great imaginations.

We need more outings like the one Bruce and the Berkeley Camera Club took to exercised our brains and find great pictures. They found them in a boat yards rather than a can't miss shots of Glacier. In our club most of us do landscapes, flowers or wildlife. Nothing wrong with that but it would be fun to see more work like that of John Martineau, Joe Beck and Rex & Ginna Short. They are a perfect blend of creativity and technology. They all use state of the art gear and combine it with a fine eye for composition. In Short they do photos like the rest of us find only in our dreams.

It was an eye opener for me to see the Lafayette camera club (July) and then the BCC August and compare the difference between both of them and our club.

I enjoyed looking at San Francisco from the near by mountains and was pleasantly surprised to see so much open country around such dense population. My memories of my last CA. trip are mostly of cars and windmills. There is no doubt in my mind that the CA. state tree should be a giant windmill. If every windmill in CA produced one watt they could easily light up Montana and Wyoming. One other thing that occurred to me while driving on the freeways around San Fran during rush hour traffic is that one could waste a lot of digits or film depending on your persuasion just photographing vanity license plates.

Once again our show and tell was excellent.

Land, Sea, or Air, Jeff and Adele were there. They even had a couple B/W shots, which were very nice. I especially like the self-portrait swim shot.

Bruce Ruby is another of our versatile photographers. He did some really nice work shooting RC jets. When you try getting a picture of something as small and as fast as a radio controlled jet airplane you for sure are pushing the envelope. He also did some great Osprey and barn photos.

Steve and Becca got some wonderful shots of Mt. Gould, Many Glacier and Two Medicine. We can count on them to go somewhere neat and do some really nice work.

Rex & Ginna Short were in Utah and Arizona where they continued there excellent work shooting flowers, fireworks and one of my favorite places in Utah, Valley of the Gods.

Steve Mitchell is another relative newcomer to our club who rarely takes a bad photograph.

Thanks to all of you who brought pretty pictures and made our meeting as fun as it could be.

Camera Club Web Site

Rex & Ginna Short redesigned their camera club site adding a bunch of outstanding images. They really have a unique style and I emjoy looking at their photographs.

Check out their page to see more of their work.

If you would like to add a page to the Glacier Camera Club site, please see Adele. adele@digisys.net

Buffalo Hills Terrace

I need help for November; help, help, help.
Bruce Harris September
James Haring October

OTHER NEWS

The 344 Gallery

Shaw has his show up now, please stop by and see it. We will have a reception for him Friday October the 5th at 5PM. Mark your calendars now.

The Gallery schedule:

Shawn Coggins September/October/November
John Kyle December/January/February

PROGRAMS

Myrna Fleming November