At the January 2025 UCSDPhIG Zoom Meeting, we discussed an activities spreadsheet to help plan our topics (aka photography themes) & possible meet-ups. The spreadsheet is available to view and edit on our UCSDPhIG Uploads Google Drive. The current version is linked below:
Month: February 2025
19 Feb 2025 Passion Project/Minimalism: Jim
Last meeting, Jim shared ~10 favorite images of 2024. This month he shared several Passion Projects images – he has many ongoing eclectic projects. Trees – he loves photographing trees and the Salton Sea/Bombay Beach are just two continuing subjects he photographs. Minimalism is another genre he wanted to try after watching a YouTube video on long exposure black& white seascape photography. So during a recent La Jolla Cove meetup to photograph cormorants and pelicans, he brought a tripod and did some long exposure oceanscapes.
19 Feb 2025 Passion Project/Minimalism: Sharon
With the recent wildfires around SoCal, protecting your photographic memories is important. Sharon, during a recent potential evacuation order, found some old photos she printed when she was in college. She photographed the old matted prints using her cell phone camera and shared these wonderful images. Protecting and preserving your photography is something we photographers need to focus on.
19 Feb 2025 Passion Project/Minimalism: Mikky
Mikky has a future African safari trip planned so he’s been practicing with a new camera and 100-400mm zoom lens. Although mirrorless cameras and lenses are supposed to be smaller and lighter, his Nikon system will test his baggage packing efficiency. The airlines to Africa have difficult weight restrictions to meet. But when traveling on such a once-in-a-lifetime photography safari, you want to bring gear that will capture the best images. Here are his practice images, many from San Diego’s Safari Park. His male lion photos are a rarity since I’ve never seem him during my many visits.
19 Feb 2025 Passion Project/Minimalism: Harold
Harold shared a wonderful story about how his Rolling Stones photos (film days) were used in keyboardist Chuck Leavell’s biography. Additionally, he had some minimalistic images of Yellowstone’s Prismatic Spring. Here are the images he shared:
19 Feb 2025: Passion Project Cont’d/Minimalism
The themes for February’s Photography Interest Group Zoom meeting were “Passion Project Cont’d” and “Minimalism”. Some participants last month did not get to present their passion project photos because they focused on their Favorites of 2024. We limit our photos to ~10 photos per participants so we have enough time during our meeting to discuss everyones images.
In addition to Passion Project Cont’d images, meeting attendees shared their Minimalistic or favorite non-theme images. Here are the images shared:
Barbara
Cathy
Gary
Mikky
Harold
Sharon
Jim
19 Feb 2025 Passion Project/Minimalism: Gary
Gary shared some fun photos of the local burros from a visit to Oatman Az. His other images followed the minimalistic theme with an excellent high-key snowfall photos. Here are the images he shared this month:
19 Feb 2025 Passion Project/Minimalism: Cathy
Cathy shared photos that followed a minimalistic style this month. Most were from her travel archives since she’s been focused on other genres lately. Here are the images she shared:
19 Feb 2025 Passion Project/Minimalism: Barbara
Barbara’s photography passion is birds. She does photograph other wildlife and street scenes on her outings around San Diego. But birds are a favorite subject using her Olympus/OM Systems mirrorless camera and her 40-150mm (80-300mm full-frame equivalent) lens. Here are the images she shared during the Feb 2025 meeting: