Linda Somers is featured on the TGO Photo Club Page – but first read, below, what I have to say about the club. Yes, my intent is to brag about our Club.

The Club invites you to join them and enjoy a wonderful group of people.  We meet at the Nature Center on the first and third Friday at 1:00 pm.  Ed Swan (321-269-3682) leads the meetings and organizes the agenda to accommodate a wide variety of interests in photography.

Read on – I’ll tell you of some of those interests:

You all know one of my hobbies is to take a photograph and use PhotoShop to change that photograph.

Using my iPhone, I took this photo in Havana, Cuba this summer. It is a Street Dancer performing for us tourists – I wanted to have you, the viewer,  focus on the warm smiling face and her eyes. And I wanted to practice playing with monochrome in PhotoShop.

So I changed the original iPhone photo using PhotoShop. Do you think I succeeded in getting you to focus on the warm smile and bright eyes.?

Lets look at more interests of TGO Photo Club members:

Photographer Dave Cesari, whom I really like and respect, says “If you do it right the first time you do not need to change it!” – Dave does get it right each time and post often on the clubs website – I love his works and his comment.

But say I, “By playing around with photoShop and attending club meetings, my mind is better trained on how to get the shot I want – It trains my mind to take a better photo in the first place.”

Another photographer, Nancy Presant, says, “I really enjoy our club.”  Why?  Because she gets to take club members on field trips to enjoy shooting photos in zoos, wildlife sanctuaries, on boat trips, and many others locations – I think she and some members enjoy the social aspects of photography.

Here is a candid shot – members deciding which phots to hang on which wall of the Manor porch. – Six walls, 50 photos and video/slide shows.  Members brought in 50 photographs last Thursday.  Photo hanging day was like a party.  So, you see, we have fun often, not only on Nancy’s field trips.

Some of our members enjoy taking photos of wildlife.  Every day you can find them photographing TGO wildlife at the nature trail bridge.  Then, on a daily basis, they post their photos on the Nature Center’s Facebook page.

Some members want to learn to better use their cell phone camera to snap photos of their Florida home and send photos back to their family up north – maybe to rub in our warm weather a little:

Linda Somers could send this cell phone photo to her family up north saying …”I love seeing  beautiful color – not that white stuff… Love You”

We, also, take great pride in hanging photos on the walls of TGO.

Check out the walls of our library – It is a one member show, by Jim Dick.

How about the back-porch of the Manor.  Almost 50 brand new photographs by many members.  Susan Hubbard, also, maintains a motion triggered video panel on one of the walls with dozens of member’s photos.

Here is an over-view of all six walls – There will be a big reception party on March 2.  Come enjoy conversations with the photographers.

Do you know that the CSA office wall holds 10 photos by the club members:

Go see the wall in the CSA office. It is much better than my iPhone photo of the wall.

The Manor Lobby is decorated with 3 large photos by member,  Doug Jensen.

The Manor Lobby is beautiful.

Hope I was able to show you what a great club the TGO Photo Club is and why I am so proud to be a member of it.

Join us in the Nature Center at our Friday meetings. Bring your ideas and your photos to share – anything from simple iPhone photos to precision photos from professional cameras – all are welcome.

If you would like to show us your photo techniques – Ed will find a spot in our Friday meetings for you to give us your insight. That is how it is – we learn from each other.

Note:  the website in the Happenings is incorrect.  The correct address is jimsdaily.wordpress.com  Linda Somers is the featured photographer there today.

See you at our Manor Porch reception on March 2. Come meet the photographers.

Oh my, as you swing through life – swing by one of our meetings – see you there.