Bighorn Sheep Field Trip Scheduled Saturday, Nov. 19

This will be our 4th annual Field Trip to photograph Bighorn Sheep in the rut. As in past years we will meet at Starbucks along I-70 at Downieville and break into groups of 10 or so to drive to the best viewing locations. I will be scouting to map the prime locations Friday morning so we’ll have a fair idea where to find the animals on Saturday.

Here’s the tentative Plan for Saturday:

• Meet for coffee at approx. 6:30 AM at Starbucks I-70 at Downieville; leave Starbucks in 2-3 groups by approx. 7:00 AM.
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The topics for this month include:
You took images and now have card in hand, what next.
Methods to load in computer.
File and backup strategies.
A little on Picassa which is iphoto for Windows
Beginning Lightroom 3
Other software for editing without going to Photoshop
Photoshop Elements User group 8:00-9:00
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The Theme for the November meeting photo contest will be animals. This includes small animals, large animals, wild animals, backyard animals and pets. Enjoy and remember you have to enter the contest to be eligible for the month’s usage of the Kelby Training prize.
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NEW BIRDS AS ART 1ST International Bird Photography Competition to your group. With eleven great categories and huge prize pools that total well more than $20,000, folks have more than 20,000 great reasons to enter. Add in the most
liberal digital guidelines of any major contest and a crew of five top-notch international judges and entering is a no-brainer.

If you are able to promote the contest to your group either via a link in your newsletter or on your website, we would be glad to run a short blurb to promote your organization or group in a BIRDS AS ART On-line Bulletin.
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The Photoshop Elements User Group meeting will be help at the Bergen Park fire station September 28 at 8pm following the Tips and Techniques meeting.
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The September 28th Tips and Techniques meeting will concentrate on mounting prints for our October Evergreen Library display. This will be an excellent opportunity for members to bring their prints and get help mounting the prints to a backing suitable for display at the library. We will be providing materials for both photographic spray adhesive and dry mounting including backing materials. Come and enjoy the workshop. Please email cdirks@dirksphotography.com with the number and sizes of prints you will be wanting to mount so we can ensure we have adequate supplies.
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OCTOBER CONTEST: FALL COLORS
For those who would rather not do this assignment, you may submit in the Open Category. Send your photos to Brad Davidson at contest@evergreencameraclub.com by 8 am, Mon. October 10, 2011. One Photo per Email. Photos no larger than 5 mb. Please do not send as an embedded image. Send as an e-mail attachment. Maximum of three submissions per member in any combination of Theme or Open category. Include your name, Division (A = Experienced, I = Intermediate or B = Beginner) and category (Theme or Open) in the subject line of your email.
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Boyd Norton . . .(wildernessphotography.com)

* . . . is the photographer/author of 14 books, with 2 new ones to be published in 2010: Serengeti : the Stillness of the Eternal Beginning and Boyd Norton’s Outdoor Digital Photography Handbook.
* He has been published in most major magazines in this country and abroad, including Time, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New York Times, Natural History, Audubon, Popular Photography, Geo, Outdoor Photographer, Conde Nast’s Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Outside, Sierra, Vogue, Playboy, Money, and many others.
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For September, we will not have a contest,but instead our speaker Jackie Crivello, will teach a wildlife/pet photography session with her puppy, Pokey Joe. We are encouraged to bring our own camera equipment.

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The Evergreen Camera Club has the exhibition wall in the Evergreen Library reserved for displaying our photographs in the month of October. This is a large space, and can easily hold 60-100 photos, depending on size and arrangement, so there is room for EVERYONE to show some of their work. Nearly everyone in the club has taken some photos good enough to exhibit, so don’t think yours are not good enough. Just pick your best, and/or most interesting. Any subject (suitable for viewing in a public library, that is) is fine. We will have no theme.

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