Next Zoom Meeting will be Apr 16 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for Aprils’s meeting are “Flowers“. Please share photos your favorite flower photos. We hope to have a Carlsbad Flower Fields meetup before the next meeting. Second theme is “Leading Lines/Layers/Frame in Frames” – share your photos with compositions that fit these perspective styles.
Photos for the March’s meeting themed “Weather“ & “Animals” 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 Apr 16th 2025 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
Themes for are:
- Flowers: Share your favorite flower photos.
- Perspective: Leading Lines/Layers/Frame in Frame: Share photos following these compositional or geometric styles. Architectural subjects would be a typical subject.
- Open: share any personal photos, regardless of year, that are a favorite.
Last meetup: Feb 9th 0730 La Jolla Cove Meetup
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Mar 19th Meeting Minutes: The Mar 19th meeting from 2-4:15pm had 5 participants via Zoom. This month’s themes were: “Weather”, & “Animals”.
- 2:00-2:30pm: Before photo-sharing participants discussed their recent activities, events, and general goings-on. Jim talked about organizing our vast archives of photos using some photo-organizing software – Apple Photos, Windows PhotoMove app, and Lightroom. We also discussed some potential meetup ideas such as Carlsbad Flower Fields on Thursdays in early April. Also a trip to photograph Anza-Borrego wildflowers and possible Milky Way photo trip in late April during the new moon.
- 2:30-4:05pm: participants shared their photos. Most participants shared Animal photos of birds, butterflies, and Bighorn sheep. Weather was the alternate theme and Gary shared some weather-themed photos. With the full blood moon lunar eclipse just occuring Mar 13th, Cathy and Jim shared there eclipse photos.
- 4:05-4:15pm: discussion of various meetup ideas – Safari Park, Zoo, Carlsbad Flower Fields, Anza-Borrego, Little Italy for airplane landings.
- Themes for April –
- “Flowers“: With the rains in January and February, Spring’s arrival, Carlsbad Flower Fields opening – flowers are next months theme.
- “Perspective: leading lines/layers/frame in frame”: Typical compositional styles applied to architectural, street/urban or landscapes photography.
- 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: