Next Zoom Meeting will be Feb 18th 2026 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson; special guest speaker Lois Fong-Sakai, from SD Fair
No themes or photo sharing session for Feb’s meeting since the 2hrs will be devoted to our guest speaker Lois Fong-Sakai. She’ll be talking about the SD Fair Photography Competition.
Themes for March’s meeting are “Animals/Safari Park“. We are planning a 10am meetup Feb 10th at Safari Park
“Black&White” – a popular format for our group and a category that’s often under represented at the SD Fair
“Macro/Bokeh” – easy to do at home – macro photography and/or photos with shallow depth of field (one of my favorite styles).
Photos for the Jan’s meeting themed “Holidays-cont’d“, “Landscapes/Oceanscapes”, “Travel” 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 Feb 18 2026 2pm-4pm, host Jim Wilkinson;
No Themes since there will be a guest speaker.
Themes for March 18th:
- “Animals/Safari Park”. A Feb 10th meetup at Safari Park is planned for 10am, meet at the gate. Feb is free senior admission to the park (parking is NOT free though)
- “Black&White” – a popular style lately with the group, share your favorite b&w images.
- “Macro/Bokeh” – easy to do at or near home, share your favorite macro photos or shallow depth of field images.
- Open: share any photos of a recent trip, project, or interest
Next meetups:
- Jan 31st at 7:15am or Feb 1st 8:00am Windansea Beach Surf Shack;
- Feb 10th 10:00am Safari Park, Escondido
Dec 18th Meeting Minutes: The Dec 18th meeting from 2-4:00pm had 8 participants via Zoom. This month’s themes were: “Holidays”, “Weather”, “Portraits”.
- 2:00-2:30pm: Before photo-sharing participants discussed their recent activities, events, and general goings-on. Jim discuss recent updates with the Retirement Association & meeting with the new Director Larissa. There are some organizational changes, added resources information, and space for in-person meeting at the Retirement Center. A presenter from SD Fair will be our main event at Feb 18 2026 2-4pm Zoom meeting. They will offer information and examples of how to enter photos in 2026 SD Fair Photography Contest.
Cathy proposed a Jan 2nd moonset meetup at Crystal Pier ~6:15am, photographing the pier & moon from Thomas Street (Photopills recommendation). Jan 2-3 are King Tides so Jim proposes a Jan 3rd meetup along the coast, tentatively La Jolla Cove to photograph the 7ft high tides. - 2:30-4:05pm: Participants shared a wide variety of theme and non-theme images; with the lengthy discussion, the last few porfolios were browsed quickly. Jim plans to keep the pace moving so everyone has equal opportunity to get feedback. Plus the order of portfolios will switch alphabetically from month to month so the order changes.
- Themes for January 2026 –
- “Holidays-cont’d“. Please share photos celebrating the holiday season – Christmas/Hanukkah, New Years.
- “Oceanscapes/Landscapes” – with the upcoming King Tides both high & low, share oceanscapes and tidepool photos. Landscapes from recent trips are also game.
- “Travel” – always a favorite, share images of recent travels – goes along with Landscapes.
- “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: