Next Zoom Meeting will be Dec 17th 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for Dec’s meeting are “Holidays“. Please share photos celebrating the holiday season – Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah, New Years.
“Weather/Clouds/Rain” – with the recent rain we’ve had locally, get out and photograph the weather. Evening clouds have made for some dramatic sunsets.
“Portraits” – always a favorite, share images of people, kids, pets, flowers, insects, birds, animals – I’m using the term “portrait” loosely but isolate & define your subject.
Photos for the Nov’s meeting themed “Nifty-fifty“, “Moonrise/Sunsets”, “Shadows/Night” & meetups 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 Dec 17 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for are:
- Holidays“. Please share photos celebrating the holiday season – Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah, New Years.
- “Weather/Clouds/Rain” – with the recent rain we’ve had locally, get out and photograph the weather. Evening clouds have made for some dramatic sunsets.
- “Portraits” – always a favorite, share images of people, kids, pets, flowers, insects, birds, animals – I’m using the term “portrait” loosely but isolate & define your subject.
- Open: share any photos of a recent trip, project, or interest
Next meetups: Dec 4th 7:30am King Tide La Jolla Cove meetup
Nov 19th Meeting Minutes: The Nov 19th meeting from 2-4:00pm had 5 participants via Zoom. This month’s themes were: “Moonrise/Sunset”, “Shadows/Night”, “Nifty-fifty”, & Dios de los Muertos meetup photos.
- 2:00-2:30pm: Before photo-sharing participants discussed their recent activities, events, and general goings-on. Our recent Dios de los Muertos meetup in Old Town Nov 1st & UCSD Fallen Star moonrise meetup Nov 5th. The overall consensus was this year’s Old Town festival was not as photogenic as last years. But that could be because we had already experienced the festival & there was nothing new. The moonrise was disappointing to many participants because of the wide dynamic range between Fallen Star house and the full moon. By the time the moon rose over the building, the difference in exposing the house and the moon was 7-8 stops. This make an in-camera single exposure impossible.
If we plan another moonrise meetup, we’ll try a day earlier than full moon so the moonrise will happen before the sun sets. This may result in a moonrise image between golden & blue hour so a single exposure will catch both moon & foreground detail. - 2:30-3:50pm: since there were only 5 participants & one additional set of images to share, the pace of image discussion was less time-dependent. Often, we do not linger on images because we have a larger number to view before 4pm. Participants shared a wide variety of theme and non-theme images.
- 3:50-4:00pm: discussion of next month themes and a Dec 4-6th King Tide meetup at La Jolla Shores or Cove.
- Themes for Dec –
- “Holidays“. Please share photos celebrating the holiday season – Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah, New Years.
- “Weather/Clouds/Rain” – with the recent rain we’ve had locally, get out and photograph the weather. Evening clouds have made for some dramatic sunsets.
- “Portraits” – always a favorite, share images of people, kids, pets, flowers, insects, birds, animals – I’m using the term “portrait” loosely but isolate & define your subject.
- “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: