Calendar

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.

 

Jun
1
Mon
2020
Learn a Little More Compositing @ Anywhere allowed by SIP Guidelines
Jun 1 – Jun 6 all-day

For this field trip, I’m asking you to go to the Photoshop Training Channel and learn something new about compositing, then apply that knowledge to your own photos.  You’ll have a week to do it, from June 1 to June 6; and I have to tell you, the presenter, Jesus Ramirez, is fantastic.

Please RSVP to me so I can keep track of how many people are participating. Have fun and do something creative!

Jun
20
Sat
2020
Tabletop Shots @ Your Home
Jun 20 – Jun 21 all-day

Here’s another shelter-in-place activity, since we still can’t gather in groups. On a tabletop-type surface (table, desk, anything flat) create a scene or a still life and shoot it. The only restriction is that it has to be indoors.

Please RSVP to Trisha Brown if you plan to participate.

Jul
4
Sat
2020
4th of July Fireworks @ Jack Hoffman Field
Jul 4 @ 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm

The annual Cloverdale Community Fireworks Display starts at dusk on July 4th. Presented by the Cloverdale Lions Club for over 40 years, the professional pyrotechnic display has been moved to Jack Hoffman Field, the baseball field just west of Cloverdale High School at the corner of School Street and Jefferson Street.

NO FIELD SPECTATORS WILL BE ALLOWED.

The fireworks can be viewed from cars, homes or any vantage point where you can see them (the hills in town and outside of town) Please keep physical distancing and masking requirements in mind.

This is the only 4th of July fireworks show I was able to find in Sonoma County, but if you know of another, please let me know and we’ll include it.

Please RSVP to Trisha if you plan to attend this one.

Update! Tony Reynes let me know that there will be fireworks in Napa. July 4th, 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm, Oxbow Commons, 1268 McKinstry Street, Napa.

Here’s a link to the details:

https://www.cityofnapa.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=231

Jul
18
Sat
2020
Really Close Up, Really Tiny Things @ Anywhere
Jul 18 – Jul 19 all-day

Here’s an opportunity to practice macro photography. Your task is to take really, really close up photos of really, really tiny things. It can be anything, taken anywhere. If you have a macro lens, use it. If you don’t, get as close as you can to create a macro look. Cropping is legitimate as a last resort, but the point is to work on your macro photography skills.

Have fun and let me know if you’ll be participating!

Aug
8
Sat
2020
Exploring the Eastern End of Golden Gate Park @ Golden Gate Park - details below
Aug 8 – Aug 14 all-day

As Rick White previously reported, the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park is closed due to Covid-19; most, if not all, other park indoor venues are closed as well. Given that, Rick will lead an outdoor field trip as follows:

August Field Trip: Exploring Golden Gate Park, Individual exploration of the eastern end of Golden Gate Park (bounded by 19th St [west],Stanyan St [east, Fulton St [north] and Lincoln St [south]) anytime between Saturday, August 8th and Friday, August 14th.

There are many photo ops within this area including some great architectural and horticultural features. To name just a few: the Conservatory of Flowers (a jewel of a Victorian glass greenhouse and the adjacent Dahlia Dell which should be spectacular at this time, the area around the Music Concourse featuring the music bandstand, the de Young Museum, the CA Academy of Sciences, the Rose Garden and Japanese Tea Garden. Throughout this area there are other gardens, ponds, statues and art works. In good weather there are unlimited opportunities for a peaceful picnic.

Good park maps and additional information may be found on line. Some links below:

https://sfrecpark.org/1159/Getting-to-Golden-Gate-Park

https://sfrecpark.org/770/Golden-Gate-Park

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60713-d311684-Reviews-Golden_Gate_Park-San_Francisco_California.html

Please let Trisha know if you plan to attend.

 

Aug
21
Fri
2020
Spend an hour with a flower @ Anywhere
Aug 21 – Aug 23 all-day

This one will take place between August 21st through 23rd inclusive. The theme is “Spend an hour with a flower.”

I’m serious – a whole hour, one flower. You can photograph several, but the images only count if you spent an hour with each flower whose image you enter in the field trip competition. You have lots of time to spread it out! Three whole days.

Let Trisha know if you plan to participate.