Calendar

Feb
8
Sat
2020
Lake Sonoma Steelhead Festival @ Lake Sonoma Fish Hatchery
Feb 8 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Here’s a local journalistic opportunity. The Steelhead Festival happens when the fish are running. The event is free and offers exhibits, tours, fishing, art projects, archery, a bubble show, food trucks, wine and beer, and live music by Heartwood Crossing. We’ll meet for lunch at noon and see if we can find a picnic area. Feel free to bring a picnic lunch if you’d prefer not to buy food from one of the trucks.

Dogs are discouraged due to the large size of the event and the number of children and strollers.

Feb
27
Thu
2020
Program: Journalism @ LBAGC
Feb 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Our Journalism program will be presented by Adrian Mendoza.  You can see his work at www.adrianmendozaphotography.com

Feb
28
Fri
2020
Tattoos and Blues @ Flamingo Hotel
Feb 28 @ 12:00 pm – Mar 1 @ 8:00 pm

This event runs through the weekend, Feb 28-Mar 1. It provides an opportunity to do some portrait, journalistic, or creative photography of people getting or inking tattoos. It’s fun and lively and most people readily give permission to be photographed.

Our group will gather at noon on Saturday and people can stay for as long as they like. Food is available on site.

Cost: $20 daily pass, $35 weekend pass

Feb
29
Sat
2020
Tattoos and Blues @ Flamingo Resort and Spa
Feb 29 @ 12:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Tattoos and Blues festival at the Flamingo Resort and Spa, 2777 4th Street in Santa Rosa.  The festival runs the whole weekend (Feb. 28-Mar. 1), and the group date is Saturday the 29th (leap day). It opens at noon and closes at 11 pm on Saturday; there’s also a car show in the parking lot that closes at 6:00 pm.  Cost for a single day pass is $20 and for the weekend $35.
Please RSVP to me to let me know if you’re coming and if you’d like to meet up for lunch. If there’s interest, we can meet for lunch at noon at Yeti Himalayan restaurant, catty corner and across the street from the Flamingo. The address is 190 Farmers Lane, but it’s easier to go into the parking lot from the street that goes right to the Flamingo.
A link to the festival website’s schedule page is below.
Mar
26
Thu
2020
Introduction to Portfolio Competition & N4C @ Online with Zoom
Mar 26 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Mar
28
Sat
2020
Point Reyes Lighthouse + @ Point Reyes Lighthouse
Mar 28 @ 6:15 am – 3:00 pm

There will be options for the early birds and normal people in terms of where/when to meet up. Early birds will meet at Bovine Bakery in Point Reyes Station at 6:15 am and normal people at 9:00 am at Drake’s Beach. Details are in the write-up Tony Reynes made that includes information on what to bring and what we’ll see.

There aren’t any food facilities so bring your lunch. Trip will end at 3:00 pm.

Apr
19
Sun
2020
Shoot from Home @ Your Home and neighborhood
Apr 19 all-day

We know we’re sheltering-in-place (SIP) at least through April, so here’s a little something to stimulate your photographic creativity! Within the strictures of SIPping, this field trip will take place inside your home, outside your home, and on neighborhood walks for one day, as long as you follow social distancing and protective gear rules. Subjects and techniques are only limited by your imagination.

Please RSVP to Trisha if you’re participating. Hope you can make it!

Apr
25
Sat
2020
Recreate and a Piece of Art and Photograph the Result @ Your own home
Apr 25 – Apr 26 all-day

Find materials around your house (no shopping allowed!) that will allow you to create a “reproduction” of a piece of art. It can be from a painting, a sculpture or any other artistic medium. We’ll send out some examples to stimulate your imagination. Have fun with this!

Update: The date of this event has been extended to include the whole weekend.

May
9
Sat
2020
Pinnacle Gulch Beach Regional Park, Bodega Bay, or Abstract Photos made with Oil, Soap, Milk, Water and Color @ Either Pinnacle Gulch Beach Regional Park, Bodega Bay, or your own home
May 9 @ 12:00 am – 11:45 pm

We’ve come up with two alternatives for this field trip date, depending on whether or not the shelter-in-place order has been lifted. It’s unlikely, but just in case:

Option 1: Pinnacle Gulch State Beach Regional Park, Bodega Bay

Mother’s Day there will be a close-to-full moonset at about 7:30 am over the water and a negative tide of -1.4 feet. These conditions will offer many opportunities for excellent photos. It means an early hike down the trail, so we’ll leave from the parking lot at 6:00 am. We may look at a route from Doran Beach for the not-so-physically-fit. Parking lot is VERY small, so carpooling will be important.

Option 2: Abstract Photos made with Oil, Soap, Milk, Water, and Color

The materials for this option can be combined in any way that suits your fancy. I’ve used oil, water and food color; oil, soap, milk and food color; and other combinations with colored glass below the set up. We will send out instructions by email.

Please RSVP to Trisha if you plan to participate. As we know more about the SIP order, we’ll provide more information about whichever option becomes the field trip.

May
16
Sat
2020
Night Shoot at Lake Sonoma, or Photographic Distortion @ Lake Sonoma Overlook or your own home
May 16 all-day

Again, because we don’t know yet when the shelter-in-place order will be lifted, we’ve developed two options for our second field trip in May.

Option 1: Night Shoot at Lake Sonoma (Cancelled)

The details for this event have yet to be worked out. Joel is working with the ranger at Lake Sonoma to identify the specific site for this activity and the beginning and ending times, so we’ll update this trip once those have been finalized. We’ll send out a list of the gear to bring and we’re hoping this can be a potluck event with a BBQ cookout for vegans and omnivores. Stay tuned…

Option 2: Photographic Distortion

Because the shelter-in-place orders haven’t been lifted enough to allow our night shoot at Lake Sonoma field trip, we will be going with option 2, Distortion. This is an in-camera distortion activity. It can be prismatic, intentional camera movement, multiple-exposure, or magnified. The only restrictions are that the distortions must be created in camera, not in post-processing.

Please RSVP to Trisha if you plan to participate.