Next Zoom Meeting will be May 21 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for May’s meeting are “Selective Color“. Please share photos that have a single reoccurring distinctive color or create a black&white photo with one color element. A second theme is “Silhouettes-Backlit” – share your photos with a subject silhouetted or backlit.
“Spring is in the air” theme photos are also an alternative as well as any non-theme photos you’d like to share.
Photos for the April’s meeting themed “Flowers“ & “Perspectives: leading lines, layers, frames” are online here.
Welcome to the UCSD Photography Interest Group’s website – ucsdphoto.group. The UCSD Photography Interest Group (UCSDPhIG) is one of several special interest groups of the UCSD Retirement Association.
Our group is comprised of current UC staff and faculty and UC retirees and their legal spouses or same-sex domestic partners with an interest in photography. We have a monthly meeting, every third Wednesday of each month, to discuss various photography topics and share photos. Meetings are currently via Zoom and require an invitation: Zoom meeting registration link.
New members of any skill level are always welcome – for more information on the Retirement Association, membership eligibility, the Interest Groups, & to sign up, use the following links:
- Info on UCSD Retirement Association Membership: https://retirement.ucsd.edu/members/index.html
- UCSD Retirement Association Events – https://hrweb.ucsd.edu/ra/
- Photography Interest Group Zoom meeting registration form
Next Meeting will be May 21st 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for are:
- Selective Color/Single Thematic Color: Share your favorite photos where a dominant color repeats or a b&w photo with one color element.
- Silhouettes-Backlit: Share photos that are backlit, creating a silhouetted subject(s).
- Spring Is In The Air: photos that express the Spring season
- Open: share any photos of a recent trip, project, or interest
Last meetup: Feb 9th 0730 La Jolla Cove Meetup
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Apr 16th Meeting Minutes: The Apr16th meeting from 2-4:15pm had 8 participants via Zoom. This month’s themes were: “Flowers”, & “Perspective: leading lines, layers, frames”.
- 2:00-2:30pm: Before photo-sharing participants discussed their recent activities, events, and general goings-on. We welcomed a couple new participants – Sanford Shane and Christine Hunefeldt. There was a general discussion about travel and reservations at Yosemite National Park. A short discussion on Del Mar Fair photography contest entries.
- 2:30-4:05pm: participants shared their photos. Participants shared a wide variety of Flower photos. Mikky, in particular, had a great collection of bloom photos.
Perspective was the alternate theme and there were some great images composed using leading lines and frames. John managed to combine the two themes, capturing flowers inside a frame. - 4:05-4:15pm: discussion of next month themes.
- Themes for May –
- “Silhouettes-Backlit“: please take and share photos with strong backlighting.
- “Selective Color/Single Thematic Color”: selective color – single subject photo with one strong color or multiple subjects with the same color. Selective color can be a processed image where all colors are desaturated except one. A Single Color example would be an image of someone holding a red umbrella, wearing red clothes, walking by a red car or wall or dog.
- “Spring Is In The Air”: Share any travel or seasonal photos with a strong Spring influence.
- Open Subject – any photos that you’ve taken recently are always welcome.
I’ve set up a google drive share for image uploads to streamline the process of uploading images for the meetings. Create a personal folder and upload image to share here. It requires you to login into your google/gmail account. So if you do not have one, email your photos instead.
Photos from the last few meetings: