Seeking Advice

I am hoping to get some suggestions about how to improve these images at our August 5th meeting. Thank you.

Byron

Submitted by Eric Thompson

Eric Thompson is seeking suggestions on how to improve this remarkable closeup of a moth.

August Meeting

The next meeting of the WWIG will be on August 5, 2009 at 7:30pm at my home (N2207 Pammel Pass W.; La Crosse WI; phone 608-788-1812).

Tom Donovan will be demonstrating some photographic gear that will be of interest to all of us and Byron Annis has a couple of items that he would like to show.

Antendees are urged to bring prints and digital images for projection. Please let me know if you are willing to so that I can plan time allotments. If anyone would like to make a more lengthy presentation (30 minutes to an hour) for this or any future meeting, please let me know. I do have several things that can present or I can use video tutorials that are available online. Just remember that the way to shut Byron up is by offering to give a presentation.

I will be explaining how to use this blog for communication among th members in detail at the meeting.

Finally, there will be a drawing for a small light box that will be given away at the meeting. Yes, you heard this right... it's free and it even works.

Invitation to Visit and Photograph Garden

You are cordially invited to visit and, if you wish, take pictures in my garden this week (July20-July25th). We will try to insure that the daylilies look decent and provide photographic opportunities by removing the spent blooms each day. I do have to warn you that although the daylily bloom is at or very nearly at its peak, this year the display is quite disappointing. Because night time temperatures have been so low, the daylily flowers are not opening very well in the mornings and the weather predictions for the coming week are not really encouraging. Also for the first time ever deer have been munching on daylily buds. Even so, most of the 500 or so daylily plants are covered with flowers and the colors and variety of form is impressive. In addition, I do grow about 100 hosta and we have been so far successful avoiding deer damage to them. Finally, our prairie garden is blooming although there will be more flowers in it toward the end of the month.

I can't promise that I will be here for the entire week to show you around but Ryan McKenny, who helps me, will be here every afternoon and will be happy to answer questions. Feel free to call me for further information at 788-1812.

I am going to post this message on our blog as well. Over the next couple of months I hope to make the blog the primary way of communicating among the members so that you won't have frequent e-mails clogging up your inbox. Check out the blog at http://westernwisconsinimaginggroup.blogspot.com/.

WELCOME TO THE WWIG BLOG!

Greetings to members of the Western Wisconsin Imaging Group as well as guest and friends! I have created this blog as a vehicle to make announcements, to foster communication between members of our group, and to provide a forum for exchange of information about photography and digital imaging.

This blog is a work in progress but it is hoped that it will be serviceable by our next meeting which will be held on Wednesday August 5th at 7:30pm at the home of Byron Annis (N2207 Pammel Pass W., La Crosse WI). At that meeting Byron will review how to access the blog, to sign on and to post. In the meantime there will be additional post but these will not replace the e-mail notices. Let's consider this blog to be the beta version for the time being.
Regards,
Byron