What You Did This Summer Photography Show-and-Tell

I hope you have had a fun summer filled with lots of photography opportunities. Our first meeting of the season will be Wednesday, August 20th at 7:00 pm in the Library Meeting Room. Hope you will bring a sampling (5 - 7 images) to share and talk about. What did you learn? What skills did you practice? Did you complete any "assignments" for each month? Can't wait to see your work. Photo Club is open to anyone who is interested in photography and growing their art and skills through discussion, practice, and sharing of ideas, experiments, and work.

I was very busy with things other than photography, but did get out for a few adventures.

I photographed my first fireworks. This is an interesting adventure as you are guessing at first were the fireworks will go off so you can aim and capture the explosions. I played with different exposure times to see how that would effect the look of the fireworks. I would like to go someplace to see more fireworks where the is some different scenery to include in the image.

I read that the best time to photograph the full moon is at dawn and dusk of the day of the full moon when you want to include scenery and not need to merge two photos to get the shot. Well, the July Super Moon was hidden by incoming clouds both at dawn and at dusk. Still had a fun experience because we were willing to look for other exciting sites. On the drive home, Toni and I noticed a field of wheat with hundreds or thousands of fireflies. We decided to stop and see what we would get. We got really lucky because the clouds moved in and lightning started off in the distance.

We will have two more Supermoons in a row. Sunday August 10th is the next full (Super) Moon. Here are the sunrise and sunset time for the coming week. http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/usa/aurora-il so you can plan your outing.

Several years ago, I brought a Plumeria stick home to plant. It is one of our favorite flowering trees in Hawaii. Each year the little stick would grow a set of leaves and as fall came, the leaves would drop and the stick would look pretty dead for the winter. Sprint would come and I would get more leaves and an almost imperceptible growth of the stick. This spring there was a big growth spurt that looked different than previous springs, I noticed that there were buds on the new growth and low and behold, the little stick began to flower. This is my portrait of my Plumeria plant. If only there was smellevision. I put up a black background, used my tripod, and natural light of the sun room. (Sorry, Steve).

At a campfire at Bridget's Dad's house, we did a little light painting. Toni can tell you more about here image at the meeting.