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Questions
or additions? Just call or email Ken Rockwell at (858)
453-2099. For questions about any particular trip contact the trip organizer.
Everyone is welcome, member or not, to our meetings. Trips are open only to members, which is no big deal since the trips are free and membership is only $25 a year. See our home page to join.
Monthly Meeting Time and Location: We meet at 7PM on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Wesley Palms, 2404 Loring Street, Pacific Beach 92109, (858) 581-8423. Directions. All meetings are free. (We met at the zoo back in 2006.)
OUTINGS: Photo section outings suggested below merely suggested activities at fixed public locations and are NOT formal Sierra Club Outings. Anyone may come and go as they please. We just get together for fun, even if we meet out of state or out of the country. Smoking is absolutely forbidden. You ought to make advance contact with the organizer, otherwise the leader may not bother to show up if they feel too few people are going to be there. Of course as suggestions you may do as you please regardless of what we do, by all means show up on your own and go Italian, even if no one else is. You are responsible for making your own travel and lodging arrangements for everything.
Live satellite images of cloud conditions over San Diego here. The entire Western USA is here, then just click any area for a close up. Be sure to wave to the satellite! Here's the index page to more images from the same source.
Generalizations about wildflowers: Flowers start in the lower Southwestern deserts and move north and to higher elevations. They can start as early as January in the lower deserts and will have peaked and gone away by April or May. In April or May try the Owens Valley or the Great Smoky Mountains. By early August the flowers in the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada should be peaking. Try Anza Borrego, Death Valley, Carson pass in the Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, Joshua Tree and Lake Elsinore. Try Organ Pipe in Arizona. Try the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina, Yankee Boy Basin in Colorado and Glacier National Park in Montana. (adapted from Christopher Talbot Frank in Outdoor Photographer, August 2005, p. 48.)
Sun and moon data here.
No outing today? Help out by watching some frogs at Frogwatch
USA!
Contests
San Diego Natural History Museum Best of Nature Show. Deadline: 15 March, 2009.
Mission Trails Regional Park Annual Photo Contest. Entry deadline:
April 24, 2009
National Wildlife Federation 2009 photo contest is open for entries until Monday, 20 July 2009.
Ongoing
Borrego Wildflowers are predicted to be at their best
during the first two weeks of March. It should be a
good year for blooms due to the generous and regular
rainfall we've had this winter. Check the internet
for info before heading down and if you need some
additional advice, stop by the ranger station.
http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca_abdsp.html
For Sale
Canon A-1 body (black, of course)
" 50mm f/1.4 FD lens (1980 Olympic lens cap)
" -2 diopter eyepiece
" 199A Speedlite (complete)
I'll sell it all for $140.
David Lang 619-792-9362
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MAMIYA MEDIUM FORMAT 645 PRO TL Kit.
Entire Pro-Kit includes every thing listed. Light use and in mint Condition. Original Owner.
Everything for $1400. or best offer.
Will sell items 1-6 for $650. or best offer.
Will sell items 7-10 (lenses) Individually.
1. 645 PRO TL Body
2. Two PRO TL Film Backs With Two 220 and One 120 Film insert
3. PRO TL Auto Exposure Prism Finder FE401 with attachable Magnifier.
Recently calibrated at Kurt's Camera Repair, Inc
4. Waist Level finder.
5. Power winder Grip WG 402 and Manual Film Advance Crank
* Five Mamiya Sekor PRO TL Type C Lenses with Front and Rear Caps and shades
6. 80mm f2.8 N
7. 45mm f2.8 N. $300. or best offer.
8. 35mm f3.5 N. $350. or best offer.
9. 150mm f3.5 N. $150. or best offer.
10. 210mm f4 N. $250. or best offer.
* All lens and body caps, camera strap, Original Boxes, Instructions, Receipts.
Steve Lux at 619-579-2974 or sslux@cox.net.
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Haliburton briefcase with photo dividers $100.00
Nikon F 100 FILM Camera with MB 15 $400.00
Nikkor Lens 35-70 2.8 D $400.00
Nikkor Lens 80-200 2.8 D $750.00
Excellent condition Will divide
CASH ONLY
Richard Hoppe
760 809 1777
November 2009
Meeeting, Thursday, 19 November 2009, 7PM: Robert Turner: “Rare Places in a Rare Light.” Location: The theatre in the Museum of Photographic Arts at Balboa Park.
Landscape photographer Robert Turner will offer insights into the art of capturing ephemeral images of beauty and drama in nature. He will share anecdotes on the circumstances that produced many of the pictures in the presentation and discuss the process he has evolved for getting nuances of light and color onto film. Bob will also talk about the formative experiences in the natural world and the visual arts that lead to a career in fine art photography. Many of these continue to drive his pursuit of photographs that inform the soul and convey his deep belief in the value of wild places.
Robert Turner has been working professionally with a camera for more than thirty years. Before turning to images of the natural world he worked in film. As president of Spectrum Films, Inc. he shot on locations from the high Andes of Peru to the streets of Manhattan. He and his partners wrote and directed more than sixty non-fiction films. Their productions were honored with forty-six national and international film festival awards.
Bob now devotes all of his energies to large format, fine art, landscape photography, logging 30,000 miles a year in pursuit of the light on the land. His work will be featured in a number of museum, art fair, and gallery shows in the upcoming year, and hangs in private collections across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His prints also reside in numerous corporate collections, including those of Sprint, A G Edwards, Goldman Sachs, ResMed, and Deloitte & Touche. His images are identified by their strong composition, rich use of color, and sense of depth. They are sold in galleries in New York, Denver, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and Newport Beach, California, as well as Jakarta, Indonesia.
The traveling exhibit, ROBERT TURNER: RARE PLACES IN RARE LIGHT, was hosted recently by the Harvard Museum of Natural History as well as museums in San Diego, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Cody, Wyoming and Napa Valley, California.
In Spring 2007 Bob was commissioned by the Boston Pops Orchestra to create a ninety image photo montage which was projected on a forty-five foot screen above the Boston Symphony Hall stage during two performances of Dvorak’s New World Symphony.
Bob grew up steeped in the natural history of the forests of northern New Jersey and the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. A longtime member of the Audubon society, he is an avid conservationist. He studied anthropology and fine art at the University of Colorado. After college he lived and worked in highland Peru for several years. When not traveling the back roads of the country he lives with his wife in Del Mar, California.
UNUSUAL MEETING LOCATION: The theatre in the Museum of Photographic Arts at Balboa Park.
December 2009
Christmas Party in lieu of Meeting, Saturday, 5 December 2009, 7PM.
January 2010
Meeeting, Thursday, 21 January 2010, 7PM: TBA.
MEETING LOCATION: Wesley Palms, 2404 Loring Street, Pacific Beach 92109, (858) 581-8423. Directions.
February 2010
Meeeting, Thursday, 18 February 2010, 7PM: TBA.
MEETING LOCATION: Wesley Palms, 2404 Loring Street, Pacific Beach 92109, (858) 581-8423. Directions.
Outing: 20 - 26 February 2010: Yellowstone in Winter. Details.
Contact: Lew Abulafia (760) 213-4349.
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