SCCC Focal Points November 2016 by John Nilsson

Going Analog

Focal Points

Sierra Club Camera Committee Newsletter November, 2016

GOING ANALOG Article and Photos by Bob Beresh

From the moment I applied to be an

Artist in Residence for the US Forest Service, I knew that my art would be in the doing and not necessarily the result. The images captured, printed and displayed are a small part of a larger practice. This is the practice of seeing and composing my shots, then developing the film myself. A true hands on experience. This is an exercise in going back to basics. The act of creating analog photographs in a digital world has taken me back to my first darkroom experiences. This was the opportunity to reclaim in part what I had sold off for pennies on the dollar when digital made everything so cheap and easy. I exposed these frames back in August. Now it’s October and they’ve been living in the fridge for the past two months while I re-learned, tested and practiced the technique of processing film again. Putting the pieces back together, from the graduated cylinders for mixing chemistry, to the trays, those odd stirring sticks and the clips to hang film to dry, everything is specific and hasn’t changed. As soon as I start, my muscle memory comes back quickly.

The darkroom is pitch black and the only sound is the whirr of the bathroom exhaust fan. My eyes have adjusted to the darkness and the layout I’ve set up on the counter and toilet seat is memorized, but I’m literally groping in the dark. I haven’t done this in years and with film you’ve only got one chance to get it right. I take a deep breath and get to it. Grabbing the first 4x5 film holder in my stack, I release the dark slide and extract the sheet of film.

Now that I’ve moved from my spot I’m lost. Seriously, I’m lost in my own bathroom and slowly reach for a corner of the counter to orient myself. Then I feel for the large tray where my processing trays are sitting. Got it. The first tray is my presoak. Praying that this tray of liquid isn’t actually the developer, I slide the first sheet into the bath followed by the rest and I begin the meditative act of agitating the six sheets of film by removing the bottom sheet and cycling it to the top of the stack. The emulsion is soft and easily scratched. I’m careful to not scrape a corner of one sheet across another and I even watch out for my fingernails. Back to sheet one and I can feel the indicator notches in the upper right corner. Without any other distractions I start to wonder why the anti-halation coating left in the presoak tray is blue. Not that I can see the thick indigo color now. The thought leaves and I psych myself up to move the sheets of film into the developer.

Carefully, each sheet is separated from the sheet above. Peeled off and slid into the bath of D-76. Starting my timer, I hope that my calculations for temperature and time lead to a nicely dense negative. Do I trust the sage instruction of Ansel Adams, or the countless forum questions and answers from the internet which Iíve digested over the past weeks? I have to trust the calculations as itís too late now. I keep agitating and cycling through these sheets. Continuous for the first minute, then two cycles every thirty seconds. Was that two or three cycles? Concentrate. Eleven minutes feels like an eternity when you are responsible for the only version of your image. I’m reminded why I decided to process my own film in the first place. It’s fun. It’s 4

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exciting. It’s having a hand in the entire image making process from capture to final image. Here’s hoping that light and silver halide played nicely and there are decent images on these little sheets of plastic. The abrupt pierce of the timer going off startles me back to the task at hand. Into the stop bath. Same as before and now I have to find the tray of stop. It’s only on the other side of the sink but feels like it’s feet away. I shuffle my feet to the right and I’m in the middle of the counter between the trays. My right hand finds the lip of the stop bath tray and I quickly transfer over each film, one by one. Careful not to scratch the emulsion, their development is halted with a dip in the Ilfostop. A chemical reaction happens between the D-76 and the Ilfostop that irritates my nose and makes me cough for a minute then subsides. I relax knowing now that whatever image was exposed is there, and I shuffle through the stack a few times then let it sit. Another cycle through the stack before I move the film on to the fix and repeat the ritual. Dip, agitate, sit, agitate some more, rest. Its time to see if this was all a gigantic failure or if we’ve got something. I turn on the lights and look back to my sheets wading in the tray of fix. In a panic I say to myself, “It’s just a dark mess!” What happened? Wait, there are six films there stacked together. Look again. Approaching the tray all is revealed to be fine. Better than fine, actually. Yes! It worked!! Here is the result of this whole exercise in analog photography. A disciplined and technical exercise relying largely on feeling around in the dark that creates an image from a moment in time where light was captured and allowed to strike this emulsion. This one frame is unique. There is none like it. In the forest, I didn’t have cell phone reception or the internet. It’s an analog world and I chose to extend that into my photography with large format film. By going analog, I was able to pay attention to the fundamentals, grow as a photographer, and it brought me back to the joy of photography itself.

Sierra Club Camera Committee November 2016 Meeting When: Monday, November 14, 2016 7:30 PM Where: Felicia Mahood Center 11338 Santa Monica Blvd., West LA What: Members Clive Alcock, Jeremy Evans and Mark Jacobs present:

Ansel Adams Wilderness - 10 Day Backcountry Hike

Join us on this beautifully crafted multi-media excursion through sublime sub-alpine splendor along the seldom visited lake filled southern Yosemite border - covering a 40 mile loop with over 4000 feet gain backpack through the Sierra wilderness. Showcasing the work of two professional photographers on the trip, Jeremy Evans and Clive Alcock, you can expect to be treated to a range of excep- tionally beautiful landscape images including night sky, panorama, macro, black & white as well as magnificent time lapse and other video footages. This unique presentation will attempt to capture the challenges and rewards of a largely ‘off trail’ adventure in the Sierras and will feature a live acoustic musical performance by the very tal ented co-leader of the hike, Mark Jacobs. This is not a meeting to be missed for interested Sierra Club members.

Please Note:

Please join us to Meet and Greet this month’s speakers, Clive Alcock and Mark Jacobs before the Monday night meeting at 6:00 sharp, Monday, November 14, 2016 at Jin Jiang Restaurant, 11057 Santa Monica Blvd. (Just down the street from our meeting room.) Everyone is Welcome. Reservations are not necessary. See you there! 6

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Trip Report - Mono Basin Fall Colors by Steve Anderson Our small band of 7 met and camped at the Mono Vista campground at the south

end of the town of Lee Vining. On the first day after signing in and introductions we took in a hike down along the slow waters of Lee Vining creek before sundown and then later enjoyed a hearty meal at the famous Whoa Nellie Deli. We were treated that evening to red hued lenticular clouds which was a hint of a storm was on the way. Our next day’s hike was up to the beavers ponds of Lundy Canyon. The aspens were at their prime showing the golden hues of fall and the afternoon’s light streamed through the canopies onto our lenses. That evening we drove to Black Point on Mono’s north shore to catch the fickle colors of sunset over a rapidly receding lake level. The short trip left our group splitting up on the third day. After spending a quiet morning at Dechambeau Ranch, we went our separate ways north and south. I took one last look at McGee and Rock creeks on my way back to Orange County and discovered a few spots I had not visited before. It was hard to return to the congestion of the city.

McGee Creek Aspens

Dechambeau Ranch

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Aspen Canopy

Lundy Panorama

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Shooting the Orionid Meteor Shower in Joshua Tree N. P. By Allan Der

Elizabeth Bassirian and I

took a quick trip out to Joshua Tree National Park to shoot the Orionid Meteor shower the night of October 22nd to morning of 23rd. We had a group of the Camera Committee do this last year at White Tank Camp Ground. To shoot the night sky, planning your foreground is essential. You need to do some homework, we use web sites and apps to plan our shoots and we know where the stars will be located, the best angles to shoot and more. We did know there was a storm coming, we thought we could get ahead of it, we did get socked in by noon the next day with some drizzles. The Orionid is an annual meteor shower peaked on October 20-21, 2016 but the adjacent days were good also. It is called the Orionid because most of the meteors come from the direction of the constellation Orion, a point in the sky they call the radiant. The best angle to shoot any meteor shower is about 90 degrees from the radiant. If you aim at the radiant, you will get short to no trails of the meteors, at 90 degrees from the radiant, you can get long steaks across the sky. The expected meteors where 15 to 20 meteors per hour, that may seem a lot, but we miss many of them. Some years it has generated up to 70- to 80 meteors an hour. What makes the Orionid meteors special is because they are pieces of the comet 1P/Halley, aka Halley’s Comet. Halley’s comes by every 75 to 76 years. I led a Camera Committee trip to Anza Borrego desert to see Halley’s when that came by in 1986 and is expected to return in 2061. If I am still around when Halley comes by again, I/we will be out there shooting it. The best times to see the stars, comets and meteors is on a dark night when the moon is down. On this night the moon rose after midnight, so we had to shoot the stars before and shot moonscapes after the moon rose. We took naps on and off and shot the sun rise in the pre dawn hours. If you wait till dawn, to shoot the sun rise, you are already too late. The best places to see the celestial events are in the dark places and we are for9

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tunate to have many of those places here in the desert and mountains of the Western United States, places away from the light pollution of the city. I lived in Los Angeles around the USC area in the 1950’s before the Harbor Freeway and street lights and I was able to see the Milky Way and many stars, those days are long gone now. Light may not seem like pollution but it can affect animal behavior, their migration and with plants, their cycles are upset also. Here is a map of the dark places around the world; http://darksitefinder.com/ maps/world.html. Night photography has been growing in popularity with improvements in digital cameras. We can photograph things that are so faint that we couldn’t see them with our eyes. What you need to shoot the night sky is a fast or large aperture and wide angle lens and ability set focus to infinity. Prime lenses are good for this, you can do it with a zoom, but requires more planning. The camera should have lower noise at high ISO, many full frame camera fit the bill but smaller sensors are getting better now. I have been shooting with a APS-C sensors with success. There is more to it than I can cover in this story, join one of our night sky outings and learn from the leaders. I have also included some resources below you can check out. Resources and information: The Photographer’s Ephemeris or TPE has a web site and App at http://photoephemeris.com, PhotoPills has an App at http:// www.photopills.com Star Guide App: http://www. fifthstarlabs.com/#sky-guide MoonPhase APP at http://www. romanduck.com Lonely Speck at http://www. lonelyspeck.com has tutorials, tools and video to get you started and EarthSky for news about the stargazing and sky events www.earthsky.org. 10

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Note about Joshua Tree and night photography - Joshua Tree promotes night sky watching, the visitor centers and entrance station tell you you can use the day use areas to star gaze overnight. They have an annual Night Sky Festival at https://www.nps.gov/jotr/planyourvisit/night-sky-festival.htm This year it is October 28-30, they have shuttles, talks and walks. But if you follow their directions about the day use area, you may get a warning ticket or at worse a ticket for overnight parking. We parked in the Split Rock day use area, then hiked away on the trail and then off the trail to shoot the night sky. We did this to get away from the campground lights and people disturbing our shots. We came back in the pre-dawn to a warning ticket glued to the car windshield, I had to use naphtha gas to remove the ticket and the adhesive. To see my more of our images, time-lapse video and 360 virtual reality panoramas go to https://flic.kr/s/aHskMpb9E6 and Elizabeth has a nice time-lapse here https://flic.kr/p/NvEd6a

Announcing:

The Member’s Choice Photo Contest

What’s your favorite photo in this Focal Points? Continuing with this issue I am asking all members to vote for their favorite photo. Here’s how: 1. Please email me at dtlanow@gmail.com (Heading: Member’s Choice) and let me know your choice for the best photo by the 20th of the month in which the issue is published. 2. In your email, give me the page and the name of the photographer and a breif descrip- tion so I can identify your choice. I will tally up the votes and announce the winner in the next issue and republish the photo with a paragraph from the photographer about how it was captured, where, when, and even the dreaded mire of camera, settings and lens. This should be a fun feature!

..........John Nilsson, Publisher

Wanna Go on a Hike? Just in case you didn’t realize it........... The Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club has litterally 100’s of outdoor activities that Sierra Club Camera Committee members can attend.

You can find these activities at http://angeles.sierraclub.org/activities

CST 2087766-40. Registration as a seller of travel does not constitute approval by the State of California. All participants on Sierra Club outings are required to sign a standard liability waiver. To read the liability waiver before you participate on an outing, go to: http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/chapter/forms

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2016 SCCC OUTINGS/EVENTS Friday-Sunday, November 11-13, 2016 Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Car Camp: Presented by Natural Science Section Visit this spectacular area in Nevada just east of Death Valley, the last remaining oasis in the Mojave Desert and a biodiversity hot spot for rare plants and animals. Website: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/ ash_meadows/ .We’ll be guided by professional naturalists and plan to follow this schedule: Friday: meet at noon at our campground in Shoshone. We’ll take a walk to see birds in the wetlands nearby and visit China Ranch, Hot Springs and the Amargosa Conservancy. Potluck dinner at our campsite. Saturday: drive to Ash Meadows (about 43 miles) to see the Visitor Center, board walks to see springs, Native American and refuge history, Devil’s Hole, pupfish, and geology of the area. Dinner on your own at a nearby restaurant or at the campsite. Sunday: explore Death Valley or the Mojave Preserve on the way home. Bring your own car camping gear and food for breakfasts and lunches, also a potluck item for Friday evening. The campsites have tables, water, and bathrooms. Cost is $25 per person, $35 for non-NSS members. Make a reservation by sending your email address and a check payable to NSS reservationist Ginny Heringer, 245 San Miguel Road, Pasadena, CA 91105, by November 1st. No refunds after November 5. Leaders: Judy Anderson and Ginny Heringer. Carole Scurlock

Asst:

If you would like to send in a front page photograph and accompanying article for consideration, please send photo IN PORTRAIT CONFIGURATION. Size 11.5” on long side by 9” on short side. Minimum density of 10mp and Resolution of 300dpi. Please Send to: dtlanow@gmail.com New photographers are selected as often as possible. Questions on how to size your cover photo submission to fit are welcome.

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Member Announcements

For Immediate Release

The G2 Gallery and Western National Parks Association Present 100 Years of National Parks: The West On View Oct. 4, 2016–Dec. 24, 2016 | Reception Oct. 8, 6:30–9:00 PM Venice, CA — On October 4, The G2 Gallery will present 100 Years of National Parks: The West, the fourth and final installment of its year-long series celebrating the centennial of the National Park Service (NPS). The West will be one of the largest exhibits shown at the gallery since its opening in 2008. The gallery staff received and reviewed 1,500 photographs submitted by artists through the open call for submissions. Photographic luminaries, such as Robert Glenn Ketchum and Art Wolfe, will be featured alongside a group of emerging photographers that includes Los Angeles locals Rich Greene, a former Fox Broadcasting producer, and John Fisanotti, a former public servant now pursuing his childhood passion for night-sky photography. More than 65 images of NPS-maintained areas including parks, memorials, trails, battlefields, and monuments will be featured throughout the gallery. The show highlights the 11 western states of the continental U.S.: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Photos of famous vistas in the region’s most popular parks will be on display alongside lesser-known but equally stunning sites. From the iconic Half Dome in Yosemite to the ancient pueblos of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the vast diversity of geography, climate and beauty of the American west will be represented. “It's been an exciting year celebrating 100 years of The National Park Service with regional exhibitions," says Assistant Curator Monika Basse. “We're ending with the parks in our own backyard, an area of the country containing landscapes from lush rainforests, colorful gorges, strange buttes and snowcapped mountains to majestically barren deserts.” Full list of featured artists: T.C. Badalato, John Bosma, James Bourret, Robert Bush, John D’Onofrio, Joe Doherty, Doug Dolde, Kevin Ebi, Bill Edwards, Jeremy Evans, John Fisanotti, Franka Gabler, Nicki Geigert, Javier Gil Vieco, Félix Gil de la Casa, Dan Gottlieb, Susan Gottlieb, Rich 14

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G2 Gallery Continued:

Full list of featured artists: T.C. Badalato, John Bosma, James Bourret, Robert Bush, John D’Onofrio, Joe Doherty,Doug Dolde, Kevin Ebi, Bill Edwards, Jeremy Evans, John Fisanotti, Franka Gabler,Nicki Geigert, Javier Gil Vieco, Félix Gil de la Casa, Dan Gottlieb, Susan Gottlieb, RichGreene, Beverly Houwing, Rick Kattelmann, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Matthew Kuhns,Mark Lissick, Jeremy Long, Tom Lowe, Barbara Michelman, Michael Miner, MarcMuench, Jésus Parra, Carl Richards, Karen Schuenemann, Cheyne Walls, Joshua Weinfeld, Buddy Weiss and Art Wolfe. More information at: http://www.theg2gallery.com/exhibits/100_years_of_national_parks_the_west/index.html

Location: The G2 Gallery (www.theg2gallery.com) 1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA 90291-3742 310.452.2842; info@theg2gallery.com Contact: Diane Shader Smith 310.386.6803 dianeshadersmith@gmail.com About The G2 Gallery The G2 Gallery is an award-winning nature and wildlife photography gallery thatfacilitates change by bringing attention to environmental issues through thepersuasive power of photographic art. G2 shares this passion with both celebrated and emerging environmental photographers, who use the camera as a tool toinspire conservation. ##

Do you know anyone who would like to become a member of the Sierra Club Camera Committee? We are seeking new members to share their outdoor experiences and photographs. If you have a friend or acquaintance whom you feel would benefit from and add to our membership, please ask them to join us at our next meeting. Membership only costs $15.00 per year! A tremendous value for certain.

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Member Announcements, continued

Joan Schipper Writes: We Want Your National Parks Photos and YOU! We want you and your national parks photos for a Camera Committee Project. Please join us – or at least send us some images!

Several years ago a group of Camera Committee members devoted images, time and talent to create a program we titled IMAGES OF THE WEST. The program was originally conceived as an introduction of our Angeles Chapter CamCo to the New York City Sierra Club Photography Committee, but it became our introduction to the Angeles Chapter, too. The finished program included music scored just for the show and excellent narration by John Boyle. The show went to NYC and came back to travel around the LA Basin to numerous Sierra Club groups. Now, with the National Park Service anniversary celebration in full swing, the CamCo leadership thinks a fresh program with a focus on National Parks would be an excellent contribution – and a fine new calling card for us. So we are calling for your best National Parks images and if they show the hand of the National Park Service more’s the better. Also, we welcome all interested members who want to contribute to the production, i.e. to discuss the theme, logistics, presentation and organization of the project. If you are interested in being involved in this effort, please contact Joan Schipper and John Boyle at CamCoNPS@gmail.com. Thanks in advance for your anticipated contributions of talent and photography. 16

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Steve Bein Writes:

Starting with the opening on October 15, some of my photos combining B&W/Color images will be shown at the Rebecca Fine Arts Gallery in Cathedral City in the Coachella Valley. I became interested in combining black and white with color in ways different than before, so I began with images in the Colorado Plateau. Some of very famillar locations and some not so familiar, such as the Toroweap Overlook of the Grand Canyon. Most of the prints are 30x45â&#x20AC;? metal prints and most recently created with Olympus Micro 4/3 cameras. Since the limit seems to be 30x45, I will be upgrading to the mirrorless Sony A7R MK II so I will be able to have finished metal prints in the 40x60 range. All the images except for Sunrise at Mesa Arch are with the B&W Color combination technique Starting with some spectacular locations and very familiar, I looked to how to make them different. Places like the Mittens in Monument Valley, I crawled inside a fallen dead tree and used its branches as foreground frames for the image, Then, I looked at the significant zone caused by the existing lines and used the B&W plus Color technique to create a different look and, in some cases, such as Horseshoe Bend, increased the saturation to make the color stand out in liquid lava like appearance. I have been a member of the Sierra Club for over 35years off and on, as a leader and now as an active member of the Camera Section. Actively a photographer in film from half frame 35mm up to 8x10 view cameras, to now digital. Attached are some of the prints I have made in Web sized versions. All Photos this page ÂŠ Steve Bein, All Rights Reserved

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UPDATE: BANNING RANCH Congratulations Banning Ranch Activists! On September 9, the California Coastal Commission voted 9-1 to deny the proposed 895 home Banning Ranch development project - no doubt a direct result of the hard work of the Banning Ranch Conservancy and the Sierra Club Banning Ranch Park and Preserve Task Force. This is a positive demonstration that true good can result from dedicated environmental activists - against all odds and against strong political and financial interests. See the whole story here:

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-lopez-banning-brigade-20160911-snap-story. html Your success is an inspiration and a reminder that people who care can change history. Unfortunately, the fight is not over. The developers are certain to come back with other plans for this property and there will be more battles. Please click on this link:

http://eepurl.com/ceR9AL

to get the whole story and how you can joint the fight for the future of Banning Ranch.

Looking for a cause to get behind that is critical to Southern California? The Banning Ranch Conservancy needs your support. If you have an idea for a trip that the Camera Committee might like to plan for, tell a leader. They are always open to ideas of new places to go, new places to shoot. See the end of the newsletter for a list of contact information for the leaders. 19

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This Monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Member Photos

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.....Jeff Gottesman

Schwabachers landing in Grand Teton National Park is a spot that showcases the beauty of the park. The still waters in branches of the Snake River along with the Grand Tetons in the background present outstanding opportunities for photographers, painters and those that just want to sit and admire the majestic views.

Photo inspired by Ansel Adams. The trees are a lot taller than when he shot his famous Tetons and Snake River photo taken in 1942.

Mount Moran with a lot of haze from the Berry Fire obscuring the lower elevations.

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This Monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Member Photos Cont.

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.......Jeff Gottesman, cond. Earth, steam and clouds. Trying to catch the unique beauty of the Grand Prismatic Spring area of Yellowstone NP.

Photographer and subject in front of steam rising from the Grand Prismatic spring.

The Quintessential Yellowstone photo. Bison and Geyser.

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November 2016

....Clive Alcock

Each of these photos were taken on a brief five-day Sierra Club back country hike into the Ansel Adams Wilderness, on the eastern side of the magnificent Mt Ritter range. Although short, the trip offered magnificent scenery and sub-zero night time temperatures here in early October. It’s no wonder this beautiful area was dedicated to the conservation and photographic pioneer of Ansel Adams!

Minarets and Approaching Storm

Mammoth Lake - Blue Depths

Lake Ediza Reflections

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Mammoth Lakes - Night Sky Sillouete

Mammoth Lakes - Banner Peaks

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November 2016 .....Larry Miller

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......Richard Ross

Here are a few photos from my recent trip to Greenland with Natural Habitat, Natural Habitat has a “Base Camp” in one of the most remote places on the planet, with access only by boat or helicopter. No trees, a lot of icebergs of incredible and varied sculptural shapes, but we did have the Northern Lights on display every night.I didn’t take my usual heavy Nikon gear, but wanted to travel light so used a Sony RX10iii.

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For Sale By Members

For Sale: Nikkor AF-S VR Micro 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED Lens Serial number 6026711. This one is very clean. I purchased this new in 2013 and it has seen very little use. I kept a protective filter on to protect the front element. Comes with original box, caps, instructions, lens hood and soft case. Lens hood stows backwards on the lens when not in use. Uses 62mm filters. This one has Nikons VR (vibration reduction) technology and is very sharp. Excellent portrait lens and also for close up work. For more details on the specs of this lens, please consult the Nikon USA website. Offered at $625. Contact John Fisanotti at jfisanotti@sbcglobal.net or (818) 585-8030.

For Sale: Tenba Equipment Bag Exterior dimension of the bag are 23” wide by 11” deep by 10” high. The interior dimensions of the main compartment are 16” wide by 6-6.5” deep by 8” high. Empty, the bag weighs 4lb 10 oz. The bag comes with adjustable padded dividers for the main compartment. It has a large front zip pocket, a large but shallow rear zip pocket and two end pockets suitable for holding a flash unit. It has a shoulder strap and a hand carry strap. there are lugs at the four corners so you could add a waist strap to help with heavy load. Offered at $50. If you are interested, or need additional photos Contact John Fisanotti at jfisanotti@sbcglobal.net or (818) 585-8030.

Nikon PC-Nikkor 35mm F/2.8 Shift Lens Ai-S Perspective Correction Lens, in totally mint condition - 9.7/10 condition rating. This is a manual focus shift lens only

(no tilt function). Still looks like new. Original Nikon front & rear caps included. $325 or best offer please contact clivealcock@yahoo.com.au

Nikon 300mm f/4 IF ED AF Telephoto Lens, AF-D auto focus lens, in excellent plus condition - 8.9/10 rating. Includes original box, paperwork, hard case, acra- swiss foot plate, two filter holders one with L37c filter, original lens hood plus aftermarket Nikon 82 mm pinch-style cap. $450 or best offer please contact clivealcock@yahoo.com.au 26

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For Sale by Members, continued I have these items to give away: 1 - Aristo D-2 Cold Light Source (Grid Lamp) for photographic enlargers, plus a spare(new) lamp. 1 - 4 x 5 Daylight Developing Tank made by Fink-Roselieve Company (holds up to 12 sheets). 1 - Polaroid Back for 4x5 view cameras, Model 405 (rare) 1 - Polaroid One-Step Camera Call Steve Anderson at 714-614-7808 or email at steveanderson1138@msn.com

Monthly Member Photo Contest And the Winner Is......

Joe Doherty - Snake River Overlook Our first night in Grand Teton NP coincided with the end of a storm, so we went to the Snake River Overlook (the Ansel Adams view) to capture the sun setting behind the Grand Tetons. The show lasted for at least 30 minutes, as the clouds rolled over the peaks and the color ranged from yellow to deep red. It was the only colorful sunset of the week. This was shot on September 15, 2016, using a Nikon D600 on a Gitzo tripod with Really Right Stuff ballhead. The lens is the Nikon 28-300 zoom at 45mm. The image is a composite of 3 frames: 1/30, 1/8, and 1/2 seconds at f11, iso200, and processed in Lightroom CC. ......Joe Doherty

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Sunrise on Mission Peak, Granada Hills

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LEADER CONTACTS: Bob Beresh, Chairman 310-497-7551

Judy Molle, Leader - 916-214-6177

Steve Anderson, Leader 714-962-2054

Peter Mason, Leader - 530-265-2528

Steven Beck, Leader

Carole Scurlock, Leader - 626-794-5207

Alison Boyle, Leader, Co-Chair: Outings -

Allan Der - Instructor - 714-892-4857

John Boyle, Leader - 310-842-8384

Ed Ogawa - Treasurer

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Wesley Peck, Membership - 562-420-8543

Joan Schipper, Leader, Co-Chair: Outings

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judithmolle202@gmail.com

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