WWIG April Meeting

The Western Wisconsin Imaging Group will meet at my home (N2207 Pammel Pass W. in Bridal Coulee) at 6:30pm on Monday April 5, 2010.

Here is the tentative program:

• Social period and review of prints between 6:30 and 7:00.
• 7:00 Mike Early will do a presentation on Bird Photography. It will be both a "how to" tutorial and presentation of some of his work. As many of you know, Mike is truly gifted nature photographer with a really remarkable knowledge of the wildlife ecology of our region. Those who have seen his bird photos will be excited to see his recent work and those who haven't will have a really special experience at this meeting.  
• After Mike's talk, we will review any prints that members bring. For this meeting I would like to dispense with the digitally projected images. I agree with Ron Reimer that the process has been cumbersome and can be made much smoother. I plan to use Picasa for receiving, organizing and projecting the images, but haven't had time to learn and master how to do so. So this time, prints only please. At the last meeting a theme was selected (by a drawing of suggestions). It was limestone. If you have limestone images, please print them for display and review.
• I will show a portion of a video that I think will be of considerable interest to the group. I concerns the work of Alfred Stieglitz and is much more that a biography. Rather it emphasizes his break with Pictorialism and his essential role in establishing the course of photography as a Fine Art for much of the 20th century. The video also covers a good deal of material dealing with the development of Modern Art, especially in America. The program is too long to show in one evening and about half will be covered at the April meeting. If there is sufficient interest I can show the rest at a subsequent meeting.

 Please do check this blog during the next week for more information and miscellaneous ramblings. Kudos to Jennifer for the photos she posted yesterday. I think that her image of the sailboats is exceptional. The repetition of the blue covers punctuated by the red one has seems like a visual representation of rhythmic music.  Blog contributions by members are sincerely appreciated.

Regards,
Byron