Sharon shared some sporting images from the family album and as usual a humorous image of the family pet ‘enjoying’ the pool.
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16 July 2025 Themes Summer Adventures: Mikky
Mikky shared photos from his recent trip to Africa. These are images he took of Victoria Falls, some from a helicopter. Many of his images are panoramas because of the size of Victoria Falls. Animal photos from his African Safari will be share soon as he processes them.
16 July 2025 Themes Summer Adventures, & Sports: Gary
Gary shared images from his recent trip to Morro Bay and Avila Beach. He caught some fun images of the resident sea otters. some other critters and the beautiful coastline. He also had an opportunity to photograph a Mission, last month’s theme, so he shared a couple creative shots of it.
16 July 2025 Themes Summer Adventures, SD Fair, & Sports: Cathy
Cathy was inspired to shoot the San Diego Fair during its run, like Gary and myself. She particularly focus on isolated moments amongst the chaos. She was also the one to propose “Sports” for this month’s theme but had trouble finding an interesting vantage point without obstructions.
16 July 2025 Theme Summer Adventures: Barbara
Barbara is recovering from an injured arm/shoulder so she hasn’t had much opportunity to get out with her camera. She was able to photograph some beautiful flowers in her backyard and share a ‘street-type” image of some young people reveling on a date.
16 July 2025 Themes: Summer Adventures, SD Fair, & Sports
Our Wednesday July meeting had the usual group of participants plus a new member, Barb Donovan – welcome! The Zoom meeting went from 2-4:15pm. Our themes this month were a continuation of the San Diego Fair, Summer Adventures, and Sports. Here are the images shared this month:
16 July 2025 Themes Summer Adventures, SD Fair & Sports:
Jim shared recent images from the San Diego Fair and a recent trip to Sequoia National Park. Because of past images from Sequoia NP being rather dull, he experimented with using a R72 infrared filter. This filter brings out the character of sunlit foliage and is great to use during midday sunlight.
He also ventured out to catch the moonrise over Mt Ecclesia in Oceanside. Last month, the marine layer blocked the moonrise so he tried again in July. The skies were free of marine layer, but the best images had some clouds in front of the moon. This darkened the moon enough to balance the exposure between the dome structure and the moon.
18 Jun 2025 Themes Missions, San Diego Fair, Riverside Fair: Jim
Jim has photographed California Mission whenever traveling to their area. Growing up near the Mission San Luis Rey, that Mission has also been a favorite. Not necessarily the most photogenic of the Missions, Mission San Luis Rey is conveniently close and with the right light and situation, can generate some memorable photos. The SD Fair is the opposite, offering photo opportunities only limited by the photographer’s imagination. Jim wanted to try on-camera flash photography the evening and night of the meetup June 11th. Although not very successful, it inspired him to come back before the Fair ends and try again. Here are his images:
18 Jun 2025 Theme San Diego Fair: Heather
Heather loves capturing people and their interaction or reaction. Her take on the SD Fair was capturing people amonst the chaos and noise. The June 11th evening meetup was actually very uncrowded so the chaos and noise is worse on the weekends & July 4th. Here are her photos:
18 Jun 2025 Themes San Diego Fair, Open: Gary
Gary shared some photos from his recent road trip to Bodie and Yosemite. He also participated in the SD Fair meetup and was so inspired, went back to take more images. He caught some great images of people’s reaction to the rides. Bodie images definitely benefit from being presented as black&white. He also has a rare (in recent years) panoramic image taken from Glacier Point in Yosemite. This road has been closed for quite awhile. He used his iPhone to pan the scenic horizon.
