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46 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | JUNE 2018 We meet the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm in the RCN Main Lobby Room; thus, our June meeting will be June 19. Our April meeting genre was composition. Camera Club member, Larry Colby, did a presentation on this genre. He had just returned from a workshop in San Francisco with Julia Anna Gospodarou, world-renowned for her black and white long exposure work. As Larry puts it, "with exposures of four to seven minutes, composition is critical. A photograph should have a foreground to lead the viewer in, a background to keep them there, and a middle ground that has the essence of the photo. Sam Abell, the legendary National Geographic photographer, uses the same rules." Larry showed examples of both Julia's and Sam's work to illustrate saying "your eyes should follow light and shadows, not a post in the background that looks, perhaps, to be coming out of someone's head. We need to be aware of things like a lamp post in the background, even if taking a snapshot with a smartphone." Thanks to Larry for this most interesting PowerPoint presentation. Our chairperson, Irve Sturner, showed two YouTube presentations on composition. Our May meeting had not yet been held at the time of this writing, but the assignment genre remains composition. I'll report again on this topic next month. Visitors are always welcome. We invite all photographers, regardless of skill level, to join us for our regular meetings, workshops, in-house hardware and software demonstrations, guest speakers, field trips, and more. We hope to see you soon. ~ Lyle Cameron CAMERA CLUB SEASONED SOLOS If you are single and enjoy a variety of activities, then Seasoned Solos just might be the group for you. We currently have 20 plus members. At each meeting we discuss what is going on in the Inland Empire and plan activities for the coming month, from local lunches and dinners to excursions to presidential libraries, Redlands Bowl, Metro Link trips into LA and the beach train to San Juan Capistrano. There's not much that we won't consider doing. We meet on the first Friday of each month in the Lodge Craft Room at 6 pm. For further information call Joyce at (951) 850- 3055. ~ Joyce Olson Photo taken by camera-club member John Baeyertz at a polo match at the Empire Polo Club in Indio a few months ago