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16 Sep 2026 Themes Shadows, Silhouettes, “Fishing”: Barb

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Barb always tries to incorporate our monthly themes when she is using her Sony RX100VII camera. She travels frequently and uses the opportunity to apply a theme to her photography taken in a variety of locales. The first two images are sihouette themed. The next three are shadows taken during a recent trip to Colorado to beat the heat. The next 30sec long exposure black&white silhouette was taken before sunrise on a tripod. Her three are “fishing” – finding a vantage point, composing, and waiting for something/someone to enter the frame. Her image of the cyclists on the winding road is a particular travelog-style favorite.

15 Jul 2026 Themes Portfolio Project: Barb

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Barb shared more architectural photos to add to her portfolio. Architectural photos are often great subjects for black&white so she’s exploring DXO Nik Collection’s Silver Efex post-processing. Stay tuned for black&white versions of the color photos if she likes the results.

The glowing white appearance comes from marble chips blown into the exterior stucco plaster

15 Apr 2026 Themes Before/After – Barb

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Barb focused on the Before/After theme showing two sets of images from her recent trip to Japan. The first images are straight-out-of-camera and the second are cropped & processed. The beautiful “trees in fog” image was particularly beautiful and made it into the SD Fair Photography Competition. She also mentioned of the other 15 images she entered, 11 additional photos were accepted – amazing 12 out of 16! We hope she’ll share the other images next meeting since we are all curious what they are.

17 Dec 2025 Holidays; Weather; Portraits: Barb D

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Barb has recently “upgraded” from iPhone photography to a compact but very capable Sony RX100VII. It has a 1″ sensor with a 24-200mm fixed zoom lens. It squeezes all of Sony’s bigger camera features into a tiny point-n-shoot. She recently returned from a month-long trip to Japan and shared a variety of wonderful images taken with this pocketable camera. Her images of fog (weather) in Kyoto and Cabrillo Beach coastline during King Tides show off this camera’s output.

19 Nov 2025 Themes: Nifty-Fifty; Dios de los Muertos: Barb

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Barb shared photos taken at the Oct 26th Dios de los Muertos festival in Oceanside. She’s got a great eye for interesting detail and color. Using her Sony RX100M7 in great light, the 1″ sensor point-n-shoot tiny travel camera generated some incredibly detailed photos. Some of us (especially me) get so caught up in gear specs. We can forget the best camera for the job doesn’t always mean megapixels. It’s the photographer’s eye that is the best tool at creating interesting photos with whatever camera you are carrying. I hope she’ll share photos from her recent 1mo trip to Japan.