Speake: Amy Gulick

Topic: Conservation Photography |  The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind

Join Amy Gulick on a journey to explore the web of human relationships made possible by wild salmon in Alaska.

Bio: Amy Gulick is an award-winning photographer and writer, and a Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers. Her images and stories have been featured in Audubon, National Wildlife, Sierra, Outdoor Photographer and other publications. Her work in Alaska has received numerous honors including the prestigious Daniel Housberg Wilderness Image Award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation, the Voice of the Wild Award from the Alaska Wilderness League, a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, and a Philip Hyde Grant Award from the North American Nature Photography Association. Her award-winning books include The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind (www.thesalmonway.org) and Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest (www.salmoninthetrees.org).

Visit her website: www.amygulick.com

ocus Stacking Flowers and Landscapes on a Shoestring

Have you ever found yourself shooting with a high ISO setting simply because you didn’t have enough light available to get the depth of focus you wanted for your artistic vision?  Focus stacking enables you to get depth of focus throughout your image by stacking images with overlapping “in focus” sections.  In years past, focus stacking required additional equipment like focus rails.  Now there are many software solutions that allow you to accomplish the same thing.  In this talk, I’ll show you how I achieve focus stacking using lenses you probably already own along with Photoshop.  The only additional expense may be for a set of extension tubes.  The techniques I will talk about can be applied to both landscapes and macro photography.

Dr. Kim Kuhlman earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998 and fatefully hitched her career to NASA, working at Caltech, JPL and the Planetary Science Institute.  Funding cuts resulted in a career pivot, away from imaging individual atoms in rocks and minerals to imaging pretty much everything else as well as website development and SEO.  She earned her Certified Professional Photographer degree from the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) in 2015, and her Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from PPA in 2018.  She was a Silver Medalist in International Print Competition in 2018 and a Bronze Medalist in 2020.  Her PPA Loan image, “Say What?” was nominated for a Grand Imaging Award (GIA) in 2017.  Kim has been a PPA Certification Liaison since 2018.  Please let her know if you have any interest in earning your certification.  Kim is currently a member of PPA, the American Society of Photographers (ASP), the Professional Photographers of New Mexico (PPANM), and the Professional Photographers Guild of Houston (PPGH).

Zooming with the Marauders

We are pleased that the first “Zooming with the Marauders" is scheduled for January 19th at 7pm. Images taken between December 10th, 2020 and January 13th, 2021 wll be viewed during the presentation. This month's Marauders' theme is “Looking Through a Window''. Images must be submitted to Gary Lamott by 10:00 pm Monday, January 18th.

For this theme, you can do many interesting things. Here are a few ideas; use curtains to create textures, frame the image with the window frame, and shoot through water droplets.

We are doing this “Type 2 Activity” where we identify a theme for the month, and then you find a location, date, and time of your choice to photograph the theme. This is the safest of the three processes we have developed as relates to the Covid risk.

You can submit up to three photographs which speak to your interpretation of the subject. Feel free to use your imagination with your interpretation of the theme.

All members will be invited to the “Zooming with the Marauders” meeting under separate communication. The Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday, January 20th, at 7:00 pm. 

During the Zoom meeting, persons may speak about their image(s), if they choose to do so. This is not a critique, but rather a sharing of images and insights around the image(s).

Persons who participate in this Marauders, (by sending in at least 1 image), will be entered into a drawing for a Photography book. The winner will be announced near the end of the Zoom meeting.  NOTE: Barry and Gary’s name will not be entered into the drawing.

These Zoom meetings are not a substitute for sharing your images on the Flickr ELCC Marauders' site, and we encourage persons to continue to post their images on this site.

Marauders has traditionally been open to non-ELCC members, so if you know someone who is not a member and would like to participate, please send us their name and email address.

 Please email either of us (Barry or Gary) with any questions……

 Sincerely,

 Barry Schwartz and Gary Lamott

Marauders Co-Chairs

Speaker: Wayne Suggs

Topic: Images Captured Only with Candlelight

About Wayne Suggs

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