Snapshots March 2008 by Capital City Camera Club

SnapShots Official Newsletter of the Capital City Camera Club March 2008

Photo by Carl Saunders

Where are you headed this year?

Look inside to see what state we will be going to this month!

This month’s cover photo was taken by:

Carl Saunders

Club Officers

Chuck Rice – President Robert Thomson – Vice President Open – Secretary Don Ball – Treasurer

Club Members

Ron (Bart) Bartoszewicz Sherry Beazley Anna Bishop Donna Blanks - NOVEMBER Jessica Bowman Barbara Bryan -JULY Sandra Campbell Carla Copeland Mitford Fontaine Robert Fouts Aleah Goode Rhonda Goode Tim Goode Kathy Groves Sandra M. Harris Frank Heatherly Beverly Henry - NOVEMBER Jan Hoffman Jeannine Keener - APRIL Ronald Klein - MAY Francis Knighten Amanda Kuykendall Charles Kuykendall Jesse Kuykendall Nathan Kuykendall Robert Lake Lori Mercer - APRIL Clyde Mills Curtis Miyasaka Jim Pappanastos Judi Parks - SEPTEMBER Wayne Pratt Vincent Sabatine Carl (Snake) Saunders Elly Seo Diane Sims Darryl Spaulding Lori Sullivan Eleanor Thomas Debbie Townes - JUNE Michael Ware Constance Westover - OCTOBER *MONTHS IN RED ARE THE MONTH YOU VOLUNTEERED TO BRING REFRESHMENTS.

I apologize to anyone mistakenly left off the list. Every effort is made to make sure it is correct, but mistakes can be made. Please let me know if there needs to be a correction.

A few words from the Club President

t the February business meeting the decision was made to purchase a digital projector and screen for use by the club in programs and competitions. Those purchases were made and the projector and screen were used at the meeting on March 10th. The digital projector can be connected to any source such as a camera, video camera, or computer making it easier for us to have Power Point presentations, video tutorials and digital competitions that everyone in the room can see. My research into digital projection of images finds that using sRGB color space for your images makes for better projections so, when we get into competitions using this media, I suggest you convert your images to that. We will probably also be setting a maximum size for projected images. All of this is to be worked out at a later date but for now, just know that we now have the capability. Thanks, See you later. Chuck

FOR DETAILS on this CONTEST, go to this LINK: http://www.nwf.org/photozone/enter_photo_contest.cfm 2008 Club Meetings Dates

2008 Business Meeting Dates

April 14 May 12 June 9 July 14 August 11 September 8 October 13 November 10 December 8

April 28 May 26 June 23 July 28 August 25 September 22 October 27 November 24 December 22

Dates are subject to change. Attend meetings or visit the club website for the most up-to-date changes.

March Club Meeting

obert Thompson gave a class on different techniques and products that can be used for matting our pictures, which will be very helpful in preparing our prints for competition. Don’t forget April is competition month. Club members also got to see the new projector and screen that was purchased with club funds. Brand new and it’s already being put to use. We welcome two new members: Rhonda Goode was the winner of our March online competition. See her winning image at right. Tim Goode was the winner of our monthly doorprize. There will not be a business meeting held at the end of March.

New Member: Elly Seo

New Member: Vincent Sabatine

Above: “Bowl of Eggs” by Rhonda Goode March On-line Competition Winner

The club’s new screen!

Just for Laughs! The photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene was too thick to get any good shots, so he frantically called his home office to hire a plane. “It will be waiting for you at the airport!” he was assured by his editor. As soon as he got to the small, rural airport, sure enough, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, “Let’s go! Let’s go!” The pilot swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air. “Fly over the north side of the fire,” said the photographer, “and make three or four low-level passes.”

So, this photographer gets invited to a friends house for a dinner party. He brings awesome new photographs with him to show his host. The host looks at the photographs and exclaims, “These are wonderful! You must have a very good camera.” The photographer says thank you and the evening continues. After dinner, the photographer turns to his host and remarks, “The food was wonderful, you must own some very good pots and pans.”

“Why?” asked the pilot. “Because I’m going to take pictures! I’m a photographer, and photographers take pictures!” said the photographer with great exasperation and impatience.

By Judi Parks

After a long pause the pilot said, “You mean you’re not the instructor?”

Found

in the Galleries at www.photoclub.org

By Aleah Goode By M ike Wa re

By Beverly Henry

M it fo rd Fo nt ai ne

Membership in the Capital City Camera Club is open to anyone having an interest in photography regardless of skill level. The Club offers members an opportunity to learn more about their hobby or craft and to share individual photographic knowledge or experiences with other members. We are an active group, with bi-monthly competitions, programs, and monthly field trips to places that offer us the chance to photograph things of interest. The Club, which currently has around 50 members, meets on the second Monday of each month at the Eastmont Baptist Church, 4505 Atlanta Highway at 7:00 p.m.

2008 Field Trips

April 19, 2008 Field Trip

February 16, 2008 Montgomery Zoo Montgomery, Alabama March 15, 2008 Lowndesboro Spring Fling Lowndesboro, Alabama April 19, 2008 Spring Festival Westville, Georgia May 24/25, 2008 Balloon Festival Decatur, Alabama June 14, 2008 Chewacla State Park and Auburn Univ July 19, 2008 (PENDING) Black & White Workshop w/Andy Meadows Montgomery, Alabama August 16, 2008 (PENDING) Photoshop Workshop w/ Phil Scarsbrook Montgomery, Alabama September 13, 2008 American Village Montevallo, Alabama October 11, 2008 Pike Pioneer Days Troy, Alabama November 8/9, 2008 Thunderbird Powwow Niceville, Florida

Spring in the 1850s Visit Westville, where your family will glimpse the forgotten dreams of a hundred and fifty years ago. It’s the perfect way to inspire your children to learn more about history. Westville blooms during its annual Spring Festival with crafts, games, music, and fun. Visitors are introduced to the South’s pre-industrial agricultural society as they watch mules, men and women demonstrate historical spring activities such as plowing, planting, and preparing the gardens. Also, school is in session at Westville’s Academy -where school children from Georgia, Florida, and Alabama will experience what school was like in the 1850s. These scholars, dressed in period costumes, are provided with slate pencils and slate boards on which to write, and replica McGuffy Readers which enable them to participate in classes and games indicative of that period. Call Toll Free: (888) 733-1850 Locally: (229) 838-6310 Westville PO Box 1850 Lumpkin, GA 31815 www.westville.org Westville is open Tues.-Sat. - 10am-5pm General Admission Adults - $10.00 Seniors, College Students - $8.00 Military Personnel - $8.00 Students K-12 - $4.00 Visit the website for a $1.00 off coupon. Handicap Accessibility A portion of Westville’s structures are wheelchair accessible: gift store, rest rooms, blacksmith shop, pottery shop, courthouse, Climax church, and certain seasonal outdoor events such as candle making, and period baseball.

Make sure you stop by and try some of the muffins. YUM!

Meeting Time: Meeting Place: This is a good trip for everyone to carpool together because of the distance, gas expense, etc. If you have a van or large capacity vehicle, please consider volunteering to drive to Westville. If you ride with someone, please remember to help pay for the gas.

The crew from November 2005

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WESTVILLE Westville is the living history village near Lumpkin, Georgia. Actual historic buildings from the area have been moved to the site to save them from destruction. They replicate a working village of year 1850, complete with appropriate gardens, furnishings, and dirt streets. Westville was founded June 16, 1966 by some of the same people who saved the historic Bedingfield Inn in Lumpkin. The founders of Westville were: (From Columbus): Edward S. Shorter, Joseph N. Mahan, Jr., Don R. Farr,. Dexter Jordan; and (From Lumpkin): William P. Carter, S.S. Singer, L.M. Moye, William B. Singer, G.W. Maddox. The original Board of Trustees included those already listed, Plus: (From Columbus): D. Abbott Turner, Clyde L. Armour, Jr., J.W. Woodruff, Jr., Clason Kyle, Edge Reid, and Samuel H. Wellborn, Jr.; and, (From Stewart County): Mrs. William P. Carter, J.C.Frith, Billy Greene, Ed Holloway, Virginia Barfield, Morton Fort, Jr., Mrs. Charles Lynch, Mrs. L.M. Moye, and George Lee; and (From Ware County): L.B. Harrell. The next four years were spent preparing the site for the Village, mostly with volunteer help. The Julian Singer Family of Lumpkin donated the southeast corner of Lumpkin for the Village. The pasture and forest included an old mill dam and pond. The Village was laid out in the county seat grid pattern of such area towns as Blakely, Hamilton, Buena Vista, Cuthbert, Lumpkin, Americus, and Talbotton. In January, 1968, the Grimes-Feagin House became the first historical structure in the Village. A collection of buildings and artifacts called, “The Harvest Festival” was acquired from the John W. West Foundation at Jonesboro, Georgia. The first of six West Collection buildings, the Yellow Creek Camp Meeting Tabernacle, was moved to Westville also in January, 1968. By August, 1968, Westville has attracted considerable attention as a grassroots approach to resolving the social and economic problems of rural West Georgia. Westville seemed to be a center where all sides could meet to celebrate the value of heritage. Westville opened its “Gates to the Past” permanently on April 2, 1970. By 1976, a collection of 27 building and about 5,000 artifacts had been placed in the Village. Almost everything, except for the original West Collection, was donated . Westville suffered financial problems from 1977 to 1979. However, visitation in the Village soared because of international interest in nearby Plains,Georgia, home of then President Jimmy Carter. The increase in visitation probably saved Westville from closing. The Village was honored by a feature in the August, 1999 edition of Architectural Digest. The Supreme Court of Georgia held a session in Westville’s Chattahoochee County Courthouse in April, 1997. Westville’s visual quality has been attested to many times over the years by the films that have been made in the Village. The largest were The Long Riders (starring four sets of brothers---Keach, Carradine, Guest and Quaid ), Walt Disney’s Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance, ABC’s A Time for Miracles. Westville’s ability to make the past have meaning for the present was recently the subject of a Westville publication. Mike Haskey, award –winning photographer for The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, prepared over a hundred photographs for The Magic and Mystery of Westville. The text was written by Billy Winn, editor for the same newspaper.

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