Member Projects & Events including photo outings.

Check the PhotoZone Meeting educational events HERE.  We have many educational events planned.  All will take place after our meetings regularly scheduled on the third Sunday each month.  Meetings are held at The Emerald Art Center, 500 Main street in Springfield.  Meetings start at 1:00pm.  Visitors are welcome. Please enter by the side door on 5th St.  Special events usually start around 3:00pm. Note: the events page will open in a new tab.

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Sandy Brown Jensen - a Life Project

I am proud to be a guest blogger for The Gather Academy website with a story about how my dad turned from a soldier at Bloody Omaha into a photographer in the 1950-70s. Hope you find it uplifting in these uncertain times!

Sandy

https://www.gatheracademy.org/blog/a-story-about-my-dad-warrior-photographer

Here are two short digital stories that retell parts of the story in narrated video form:

Sharpshooter https://mindonfire.us/2014/04/01/sharpshooter/

Glory Story https://mindonfire.us/2019/12/05/glory-story-a-father-a-daughter-and-their-mutual-muse/



Greg Giesy

The Common Merganser

A series of 18 photos

Nature Photographers are always trying to find the action shot. With most birds that is a flying shot, a shot that shows them catching something to eat, or a fighting shot. With diving waterfowl generally, you get them sitting on the water or a photo without their head showing an arched back and then they are gone under the water.

Common Mergansers are one of those waterfowl. The female or immature Common Merganser is interesting looking with burnt orange feathers on the head that flare out in back and a long thin beak. 

Steve Dzerigian

"Simple, approaching views of walls, chosen because they symbolize some psychological issue, whether personal or more general, the series presented here is an outgrowth from on-going work with The Human Landscape.” Addressing aspects of our influence in the world and human nature, this body of work calls to attention a broad range of historical constructions interacting with time, and nature."

All are toned gelatin silver prints. Click on each image to enlarge. Hover to view the title.

Ryan Kimball

Ive been fly fishing my whole life and  have been interested in and practicing an old type of simplified fly fishing that originated in the mountains of Japan called tenkara. As a fly tyer, I became fascinated by the simple and beautiful flies (or kebari as they are known) used in this type of fishing. When I started photographing these flies I wanted them to have the look of an illustration in an old fishing book. Eventually I would like to get a series of maybe 12 images that I could print in small squares on Japanese washi and present in a box with copies of the actual flies from the photos in the lid. 

   On the technical side all of these images were shot and processed on my iphone using various apps and extreme crops. The massive crops and associated image degradation actually made for a great starting point to achieve the look I was after. I have tried a few attempts to make these with my full frame canon and photoshop but they just never turn out as well as the iphone images. 

Click each image to enlarge

Greg Giesy

I took these mushroom photos with a Canon EOS R5 using a Canon 24 to 105mm zoom lens in full bright morning sun.  Though they had yellow and brown some from their pristine condition I think the  color from stark white helped the photos.

The first 6 photos are my standard color photos adjusted for printing in Lightroom and the second 6 are black and whites taking me back to my zone system days in the darkroom though these were done using Photoshop.

I think I am headed to doing more black and whites in the future. 

Click on each photo to see the full size image.

Memoriam for David N Jones

David was the Featured Artist for our Show in May at The Emerald Art Center in June of 2021

Memoriam for Donna Gilhousen

Donna was the Featured Artist for the PhotoZone Gallery at New Zone in October of 2020

Greg Giesy

Slowing the Shutter for Movement

For the people that know my work sharpness and clarity are what they expect in my photos.  After watching some videos from other nature photographers I decided to try to put movement in to some of my flying bird photos.  

The first six photos are how I standardly have a high shutter speed for clarity.  The other photos are taken lowering the shutter speed to try and get wing and body movement with still hoping for face and eye sharpness.

All are of Great Blue Heron at Alton Baker Park in Eugene, Oregon.