Happy New Year everyone! If you like taking pictures in the snow, I am sorry, we have not had much of an opportunity this month. It is still early. I myself am enjoying the mild weather.

Jay Davis will be our guest speaker for the March 19, 2020 meeting. He is a past president of our club. Jay will be discussing architecture photography. Check out his website .

Dues

Kathleen tells me some of our members have yet to pay their dues. Please bring your membership current.

Baright Gallery Photos

Judy has received contact from two members to arrange to pick up their photos from the Baright Gallery display. There were a total of five people that did not pick up their photos on December 31. I sent individual emails to those members. If you had not picked up your photo(s) and did not receive an email from me please contact me with a good email address. I will try to connect you with Judy so arrangements can be made.

Bellevue Library

“People Walking Dogs” photos are now hung at the Bellevue Library, 1003 Lincoln Rd, Bellevue, NE. If you are in the area please drop by.

Forest Display

We are now able to display our subject matter photos at the forest. The display racks are now located in the main atrium. We are showing our “Snow and Ice” or Judy says “Ice and Snow” photos. We had too many submissions this time for the number of spaces. Later on Judy and Frank will go and swap them for some of the others.

January 16, 2020 meeting

Ken Smith will be our featured speaker. He will be discussing astro and nighttime photography. Check out his website .

Mingle Forum

Are there any of you members, subscribers…etc using our Member Forum section? This plug in is an older one that has not been updated for a long while. None that I can find. It maybe one of the reasons I can not update a security (PHP) database. I would like to obtain a newer plug in program that will replace the forum with a similar one. Leave a comment below and I will also bring it up at our next meeting.

In Closing

Thanks to all of you for your support and kind words of encouragement. I once again want to thank our board members for their participation and helping make our club work. I hope to see you all at our next meeting. Phil

The Best Settings For Low Light Photography

Please remember to pick up your photo from the Baright Photo Gallery at the Fontenelle Forest on Tuesday December 31 between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM. Those of you who cannot make it, we will gather them up and bring them to the January 16 meeting.

Good News

The forest is going to allow us to continue displaying photos on those wire racks in the forest’s atrium. We will discuss subjects to display at the January meeting.

The forest wants us to pick up our photos from their gallery on December 31, 2019, New Year’s Eve. Volunteers will be there taking down the photos starting at 11:00 AM. We will be there for two hours. Those of you unable to pick up your photo, we will put the photos in boxes for you to pick up later. Probably at the January 16th meeting. You will be able to keep the frame and glass.

Kathleen is waiting on feedback from the forest about showing more of our photos on the wire frame assemblies we have used in the past. If they allow us to keep on using, we can go back to the plan of having two ongoing displays. One at the Bellevue Library and one at the Forest.

Please make a committed effort to get down to the forest on December 31, 2019 between 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. I will post another reminder shortly before New Year’s Eve.

Kathleen sent out e-mails to our members on December 4. I am posting this as a reminder to all those who may have forgotten to respond. If you e-mail the webmaster, I will forward them onto Kathleen. And don’t forget to send those photos in.

Greetings. 

Our Photo Club potluck is coming up on the 19^th at the Camp Brewster Lodge. Please reply to this message if you plan to attend and didn’t have a chance to signup last meeting. Let me know if you plan to bring a guest.

Just a reminder that WE ARE THE PROGRAM  for the evening.  Camp Brewster  has a great projector so send four favorite images to our webmaster, Phil.

webmaster@fontenelleforestphotoclub.org       

Please do all this by Friday, the13^th!!!

Hope to see you there.

Camp
Brewster

1313 Bellevue Blvd. North
Bellevue, NE 68005

From I-80, take Hwy 75 (Kennedy Freeway) South to Chandler Road. Turn left onto Chandler. Stay on Chandler approx. 1 mile until the road ends at the stop sign at Bellevue Blvd. Turn right onto Bellevue Blvd. Continue approximately .3 of a mile to Camp Brewster (on the left)

Google Maps link

https://goo.gl/maps/5cRuhkTtoVXRCRPFA

I hope everyone had a grand Thanksgiving day!

You may remember I said I was having a problem with our website’s slideshow plug in (app). I contacted the company and they helped me out with the plug in and is now working as intended.

I was able to update the WordPress website. In doing so, caused the crash of the site. Still working on some bugs. Make a change and some things don’t work right after. Still waiting on info about the security of the site. I want to change the website to include a secured URL address. “https:// www. fontenelle…” We currently have an “http://www….” address.

December meeting Slideshow

I have photos from only 10 people. This is another opportunity to shine and show off your photos. This is not like dragging out the Kodak Carousel and looking at some over and under exposed photos of the cousins at a water park and have to sit through 45 minutes of a boring Kodachrome slide show.

Send me your four or less photos. Size them at around 2000 pixels on the long side. If you are unfamiliar on how to resize your photos send me what you can and I can resize them for you. Don’t be afraid to send us some of your favorite photos. The subject of the photos are up to you. They can be new pictures or older ones you would like to share. Our photo taking talents run the gamut of experience. Remember some mail servers limit the size of the files sent. If you run into this problem, just send the photos individually. Send to either the webmaster (me) or Phil Mininni (me). After the December potluck I will put the slide show on the home page of our website.

New Members

I want to welcome two new members that joined our club at the November meeting. I apologize for not recognizing them at that time. Welcome Brent Headley and Nathan Lentsch. Nathan has the distinction of being our youngest member. The challenge of any group club is to continue to be relevant and interesting. I hope we as a group can keep encouraging each other to continue to be active in the club.

Photoshop and Lightroom

My wife Sue was an employee of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She retired from there also. As a retiree she was eligible to get the Adobe Creative Cloud suite for $10/year. Well that has changed. Retirees are no longer eligible due to contract changes between the University and Adobe. So I was torn whether to subscribe or fall back on my Photoshop Elements 8 program. I decided to go with Photoshop and Lightroom. It costs me $9.99/month plus tax. I am going to learn more about the program. I have already taken some online courses. I don’t have to tell you that the older I get, as the saying goes”if you don’t use it…” The cost is not too bad. If your not already using PS and LR, check their website out, Adobe.com.

Please leave a comment if you have any questions or corrections below. See you all at the Christmas Potluck Dinner on December 19, 2019.

Video of the month

Tony and Chelsea Northrup are photographers with their own YouTube channel. They are pretty down to earth people. They also have their own business. They sell photo books. One of them I recently purchased. It is “How To Create Stunning Digital Photography” It is easy to read and understand. You can also download the book. It has links to a lot of their videos. It may even be a great Christmas gift for someone.

Minutes of the Fontenelle Forest Photo Club Nov. 21, 2019

About 32 people met at 7:00 P.M at,Fontenelle Forest

Phil Mininni,  Presided

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PHOTO DISPLAYS– Judy Dye

Dec..: Snow and Ice

Toads and Frogs in the near future

Treasurers Report (Kathleen): There is $1920 in the clubs treasury

Phil reported:

There will be an open house at the hot Shops from Dec. 7-9

Ex president Jay Davis may give a program on architectural Photography in the near future.

Donna is working on a revised club brochure.

Phil called on members to provide up to 4 photos each for the Christmas show,

Phil mentioned that because of previous commitments at the nature center our December  meeting and show will be at Camp Brewster. There was some discussion as to whether this place is adequate for our meeting . Pros and cons were discussed and the over all feeling of the members was that it would be adequate. There were concerns about the size and heating in the room. It will be held on Dec. 19 and will be a pot luck with the club providing chicken and each member asked to bring a salad or desert. Those coming should sign up on the sheet being circulated.

PROGRAM TONIGHT

The program tonight was presented by Mark Graeve of Rockbrook Camera. He talked about whats new in cameras and photographic equipment. The following cameras and equipment were discussed:

Cameras:He showed cameras in the following classes: Point and Shoot cameras, Interchangeable lens cameras, Mirrorless cameras. He talked about the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Lens: Tamron 150-600,Tamron 18-400,Canon and Nikon all in one lenses.

Lighting Equipment: LED lights, External flashes, Built in small flashes, GoDoc system

Gimbel head on a tripod,

Camera Bags: Roller bags,Small bags

Monopods

Thanks to  Wayne Brill and Emett Egr  for bringing treats

The meeting was adjourned about 8:15

Submitted by Eric Scholar, Secretary.

The website is back up. Security version issues still need to be resolved. I am researching. Phil