Member Opportunities
A Recent Photography Trip to the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek
On June 21 the club had a planned outing, coordinated by Kathy Syverson, to the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek. This was a private, pre-arranged outing with the foundation that oversees the foundry. Several club members got to photograph in the foundry for about two hours. The foundry is a wonderful location to photograph for form, color, shape and that "old-fashioned" look. Images from that trip can be found here.
Ways to Show Your Work
There are several ways that members can show their work, including the Theme of the Month presentation, signing up to present a slide show at a meeting, participating in one of several opportunities to hang work in the community, and by listing their website on the club's Member Photos page so that others can see their work on their individual websites.
Slide Shows
The purpose of the slide show presentation is:
To allow a photographer to show a body of work that is an example of their style of photography or of their preferred subject in photography or to show their best examples of the overall body of work they have created.
To allow a photographer to show a body of work that is an example of their style of photography or of their preferred subject in photography or to show their best examples of the overall body of work they have created.
- This creates an opportunity for a photographer to “get their work out there” and to get used to showing their work to others.
- This also allows a photographer to play with new software, in this case slideshow software, to determine what software works best for them when they create slideshows.
- Slideshow limit is six minutes but time allocated is for 10 minutes to include discussion. A slide show can include music and text or not but is not to be narrated by the individual.
- The preferred way to bring the slideshow in to show during a meeting is in an "exported" MP4 format, this will ensure the music will be with the slideshow and it will be shown in Quicktime.
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There are various software packages to create slideshows — depending upon your goal with your slideshow. A club member may be able to assist you with finding one that suits your needs.
Slideshow Participants for 2022 are: April: Connie Cassinetto May: Meeting Canceled June: Kathy Scutt |
July: Cheryl Caldereo
August: No Meeting September: Carolyn Elkins October: Barbara Stewart November: Bill Heiser December: No Slide Show, Holiday Party |
Theme of the Month
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The Theme of the Month allows members to show up to three images each month to the group. The purpose of having a theme for each month is to encourage members to get out and photograph with a specific purpose in mind. Members at the meeting can comment on the images. If a member cannot take or does not have in their archive an image to fit the Theme of the Month (TOM) then they may present any three images of their choice instead.
Past themes have included lines, weather, motion, bikes, rule of odds, abstract, still life, portrait, flowers, street scenes, form, and shape. |
Themes of the Month for 2022 are:
August: Meeting Canceled September: f/16 October: Unique Perspective November: Animals-Domestic or Wild December: No Theme of Month, Holiday Party Sneak Peek January 2023 - Primary subject must have three colors |
Display Venues
The Sonora Photo Club (SPC) in association with the Mother Lode Art Association (MLAA) has the opportunity to display their photographs in three venues in Sonora. The Tuolumne County Library on Greenley Road in Sonora offers wall space throughout the library allowing the display of as many as 40 pieces of art work. The club will have their photographs on display in 2022 from May 3 through July 30.
A second venue is the waiting area of the Anti-Coagulation Unit of Adventist Health Sonora, a private medical facility. Those who spend time in the waiting area enjoy seeing the art work that the SPC and the MLAA display there. Although the wall space is small, the artists may hang about 6-8 medium-sized pieces. The SPC will have three different artists hanging their photos from July 15 through October 17, 2022.
The third venue available to members of the photo club is a section of the Aloft Gallery. Artists who are not members of the gallery may display their work on the panel reserved for the MLAA/SPC. At this time, no photo club members are scheduled to display their work in the Aloft Gallery in 2022.
A second venue is the waiting area of the Anti-Coagulation Unit of Adventist Health Sonora, a private medical facility. Those who spend time in the waiting area enjoy seeing the art work that the SPC and the MLAA display there. Although the wall space is small, the artists may hang about 6-8 medium-sized pieces. The SPC will have three different artists hanging their photos from July 15 through October 17, 2022.
The third venue available to members of the photo club is a section of the Aloft Gallery. Artists who are not members of the gallery may display their work on the panel reserved for the MLAA/SPC. At this time, no photo club members are scheduled to display their work in the Aloft Gallery in 2022.