Next Zoom Meeting will be Oct 15 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for Oct’s meeting are “Fall“. Please share photos of fall colors or autumn-themed
“Scary/Halloween” – perhaps a little early for our mid-Oct meeting, but it was proposed – Scary images.
“Moonshadow” – if you’ve ever taken a photo under the full moon (Oct 5-6), you’d be surprised at how much it looks like daytime. But you might notice a dark sky with stars.
Photos for the Sept’s meeting themed “Still Life“, “Flash/Moonrise” & “Storytelling” 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 Oct 15 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for are:
- Fall: Autumn is coming or already noticable in some parts of the country/world. Share images of fall colors or autumn themed.
- Scary/Halloween: It may be early but share any scary or Halloween-themed images
- Moonshadow: Oct 6th is another full moon so try taking a moonshadow image. Even an iPhone can take an image under the full moon. It looks sunlit but different.
- Open: share any photos of a recent trip, project, or interest
Next meetups: Oct 6th 5:30pm possible full moonrise meetup. We’ll keep trying to get that perfect moonrise shot. Location TBD.
Sep 17th Meeting Minutes: The Sept 17th meeting from 2-4:30pm had 6 participants via Zoom. This month’s themes were: “Still Life”, “Flash”, “Moonrise” & “Storytelling”.
- 2:00-2:35pm: Before photo-sharing participants discussed their recent activities, events, and general goings-on. Our recent San Diego Coronado Bridge Moonrise meetup was fun but some photographers were not satisfied with their results. Reshooting the USD dome is a potential location for an Oct 6th fullmoon meetup.
Gary talked about his recent solo kayaking trip to Lake Tahoe, Mono Lake and Lone Pine. There were also a discussion about local and regional photography contests. Particularly the California Native Plant Society & San Diego Floral Association which Cathy got an honorable mention. - 2:30-4:05pm: participants shared their photos. Participants shared a wide variety of Still Life, Storytelling & Moonrise photos.
Participants also shared wonderful non-themed travel images. - 4:05-4:30pm: discussion of next month themes and another potential moonrise meetup Oct 6th
- Themes for Oct –
- “Fall“: although a little early for Southern California, if you are traveling or have Autumn-themed photography such as changing leaves to share.
- “Scary/Halloween”: Someone proposed a scary image theme and with Halloween coming, seems appropriate although, again, a little early. This theme will extend into November.
- “Moonshadow”: taking photos under the full moon can create some amazing results. The moonlight can create hard shadows like sunlight but with starry skies.
- “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: