The Camera Club

Since Vince and Jo Anne have moved to their new condominium, I have become friends with two of their neighbors, both photographers.  How cool is that!  As luck would have it, it turned out there was a meeting of the Arbor Creek Photo Group today, and I was here!  So Vince invited me to the meeting of all these photographers.  What a great time I had!

It is such a wonderful group of people, from all professions who are interested in photography and can share their joy of photography with each other.  Some have pretty advanced equipment and others are doing astounding images with their iPhones!  It doesn't matter what you shoot with, it is what you see, and people in this group are all learning from each other and photographing so many different subjects.

They each have at least one photograph on the gallery on the wall of the community room.  It was nice to see the sharing of information between members.  What was also impressive to me is how knowledgable they all are about the world we live in, and many who have traveled extensively.  Not only do they do photographs, but they have a depth of understanding about their subjects and about history.  This room is filled with really smart people, and they were welcoming to me as well.

There had been a photo assignment for members, and they showed examples of their work on the assignment during the meeting.  There was also a detailed demonstration of a couple of new techniques that come in the latest version of Photoshop, and how to use these to best effect with some of your images.  I had heard of one of these techniques, but had no idea about what it did and how it was used, and I was stunned to see it used in the hands of an expert!

And of course there were all kinds of individual discussions among members during the break.  The meeting went on for over two hours, and it seemed a much shorter time than that.  It was such a rich esperience.  This group makes me wish I could go to all of their meetings!  Hey, it's only an 8 hour drive to get here!