The UCSD Photography Interest Group met at 2pm via Zoom to interact, discuss recent activities, and share photos related to this month’s theme – travel. Because of recent trips, many members shared more than the standard 5 photos. But we finished photo-sharing on-time. Here are the photos organized by member:
Barbara
Cathy
Gary
Jerry
John
Sharon
Jim
I know Joshua Tree in August is 100°F during the day but the Perseid Meteor Shower is August 12-13 from 10pm to sunrise. At night, the temperature is a comfortable 70-80°F. It’s a unique opportunity to photograph the meteor shower with the Milky Way. The meteor shower is Saturday night August 12 until Sunday morning. There’s no moon that night and the Milky Way will be visible all night. Best viewing is in Joshua Tree National Park starting at 10pm until 5am the next morning.
Perseid Meteor Shower Joshua Tree Instagram Post
The theme for May’s Photography Interest Group proposed by Cathy was ‘Unusual View or Abstract of a Common Household Item‘. Since I was traveling, John hosted the meeting. Only three members participated and here are photos from Cathy & Sharon:
Cathy Presmyk
Sharon Soroko
The San Diego Fair is a great venue to showcase your photography. The deadline for submissions was Apr 17 2023 at 11:59pm. This was open to everyone and had a variety of categories including cell phone photography. For more info go to:
There are two One-Day Photo Shootout Contests:
It’s that time of year – visit the Carlsbad Flower Fields.
Activities Calendar through May 14th Mother’s Day
Ongoing Specials (Starting March 6th)
Mondays – With the purchase of one adult or one senior/military, you receive one child’s ticket free (ages 3-10)
Tuesdays & Wednesdays – Between 1:00pm-4:00pm, receive $2 off adults, seniors/military and children tickets
For more info & to buy an advanced ticket online: Buy a Timed Entry Ticket (click the link)
This month’s photography theme is ‘eyes’ proposed by Gary Wellwood. Photos from members submitted this month will be displayed here:
Cathy Presmyk
Sharon Soroko
Gary Wellwood
Jim Wilkinson
I joined the UCSD Photography Interest Group in 2019 when I retired from UCSD-SIO. When I first joined, we’d meet on campus but the pandemic changed everything. I put together this survey to find out what the members of the group are most interested in. We haven’t discussed much except day-to-day things like travel plans and sharing our photos. But I am curious if there is more we can do as a group, in addition to sharing our photos.
The pandemic changed the format of our monthly meetings and meet-ups. I am curious if people want to maintain the current monthly Zoom meeting format or are ready for more. For me, the Zoom meetings are a great way to get-together that doesn’t require I drive somewhere. But I enjoy our in-person get-togethers and want to plan some meet-ups and outings. Please review some ideas proposed below and rank them by dragging them in order of preference:
The latest Apple iPhone camera format has a more efficient algorithm for storing image information in less space. Unfortunately, unless you work regularly in the Apple environment – MacBook, IPad, IPhone – the format may be unviewable. These are hopefully temporary growing-pain for this new efficient image format as more and more photography programs accept the new format. In the meantime, there are several workarounds to work with or convert HEIC to JPG:
then click the … in the upper right corner and ‘save as’
then select ‘jpg’. This is easy but if you are doing more than one photo, you’ll have to repeat the process for each image.
Google ‘HEIC to JPG’ and there are plenty of articles that explain many ways to convert HEIC to JPG. I ended up changing my iPhone image format to JPG to eliminate the need to do the conversion since I post many photos online. Once HEIC works with WordPress and browsers, it will become my format of choice. But unitl then, the space savings of the new format are not compelling enough to add the inconvenience of the conversion step.
Googled “HEIC to JPG’ articles: How-To-Geek Article & Tom’s Guide Article
The theme for March is Opportunistic. Everyone wishing to participate can submit one photo that was an unplanned shot that worked out well. For instance, you are out shooting flowers in Borrego Springs a big horn sheep shows up or, you are driving down the road and a rainbow appears. Basically, a photo opportunity that was unplanned. This month’s meeting is only an hour so members are asked to only share one image to fit the time frame. Additional photos can be posted here if you have more than one image you’d like to share.
Since I was not hosting, I did not receive the portfolio of shared images so this theme page only has mine.
Jim Wilkinson
