Cathy share two images from this month’s and last month’s moonrise meetup, plus a fun experimental macro shot of soap+glycerin bubbles, and a “made scary-by-AI” Bodie church black& white image.
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Photos shared during UCSD PhIG monthly meetings
15 Oct 2025 Themes Fall, Scary/Halloween, & Moonrise: John
John shared an image of the moonrise over San Diego in tribute to our founding group leader Jerry Vaughn. He gave us the sad news that Jerry passed away Oct 10th. His comment that he and Jerry had similar images taken at that meetup.
17 Sep 2025 Themes Still Life, Flash, Storytelling: Gary
Gary recently returned from a Highway 395 solo excursion with his kayak and shared some wonderful images from his trip. Although he photographed the Sept 7th moonrise under the Coronado Bridge, he preferred his great images of moonset over the Eastern Sierras from Lone Pine. Photographing the moon setting at sunrise is a recent alternative of shooting the moon that we are exploring. A balanced exposure is less challenging when photographing the moon setting at sunrise. Plus it’s westward so it opens up a whole new set of foreground elements, like Mt Whitney. Other images from his trip are always historical, educational and fascinating. He also shared a flash photo taken on film where he had some help illuminating a ship with a flash during a long exposure aka ‘flash painting’.
17 Sep 2025 Themes Moonrise & Still Life/Storytelling: Jim
Jim spent most of his time post-processing the Sept 7th Harvest Moon rising under/over the Coronado Bridge. When the moon first rose above the horizon, the ambient blue hour light and moonlight were pretty well balanced. Later, as the moon rose, the brightness of the moon required compositing a darker moon photo with a bridge image. He briefly demonstated a new (to him) Photoshop layer blending technique that helped feather the moon’s edge with the brighter moonrays.
For storytelling and still life images, he shared images from the Oceanside Museum of Art Fabulous Fabric exhibition. Combining several ‘storytelling’ images of the locale, plus detailed images of some art displayed.
17 Sep 2025 Themes Still Life & Storytelling: Heather
Heather share a variety of still life ‘formats’ – classical and storytelling. Her garden images tells of a abundant seasonal harvest. Her ‘classic-style’ tabletop still life images are excellent and humorous. She also had a beautiful abstract pattern image that was hard to decipher – mold.
The cherry tomato and peppers still life was one of the best images shared. Her explanation of cooling down the Japanese beetle in the refrigerator so they would ‘pose’ for a short time was entertaining and educational. Her bug & book still lifes were also favorites of the meeting.
17 Sep 2025 Themes Still Life: Norm
Norm’s been unable to attend the monthly meetings but he recently contributed some fantastic classical still life images. I paticularly like the Orton Effect flower image.
17 Sep 2025 Themes Still Life: Cathy
Cathy shared some beautiful still life images, especially different variations of a sunflower composition. Her ‘loving books’ still life was a lesson in composition with particular notice given the angle of the book and its lighting. Her three sunflowers photos got a bunch of feedback with pretty much everyone in the group preferring the tighter black & white composition.
Getting feedback from the group is one of the best things about sharing images with other photographers. Participants sometimes provide a different interpretation, notice details, and can reaffirm your intent.
17 Sep 2025 Themes Still Life Storytelling: Sharon
Sharon shared some still life/storytelling images this month. Her series of a bowl of limes aging over months during the Covid lockdown are storytelling still life images and are relatable. Her muted, wonderful wilted flower image reminds me of a favorite New Order album cover or a renaissance still life painting – beautiful.
17 Sep 2025 Themes Still Life & Storytelling: Barb
Barb shared a wonderfully lit still life of a whisk and vessel with a reflection added using a software effect (Reflect app). Her other images followed the storytelling theme – wide location shot, medium shot, and close-up detailed shot of graffiti art in San Diego. Some graffiti art is next level and her story captures this.
17 Sep 2025 Themes Moonrise: Thyrra
Thyrra didn’t make it to the Zoom meeting photo discussion but she did share two images of the Sept 7th moonrise from Shelter Island.
