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Questions or additions? Just call or email Ken Rockwell at (858) 453-2099. For questions about any particular trip contact the trip organizer.

Everyone is welcome, member or not, to our meetings. Trips are open only to members, which is no big deal since the trips are free and membership is only $25 a year. See our home page to join.

Photos from previous outings.

Old calendar archive.

Monthly Meeting Time and Location: We meet at 7PM on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Wesley Palms, 2404 Loring Street, Pacific Beach 92109, (858) 581-8423. Directions. All meetings are free. (We met at the zoo back in 2006.)

OUTINGS: Photo section outings suggested below merely suggested activities at fixed public locations and are NOT formal Sierra Club Outings. Anyone may come and go as they please. We just get together for fun, even if we meet out of state or out of the country. Smoking is absolutely forbidden. You ought to make advance contact with the organizer, otherwise the leader may not bother to show up if they feel too few people are going to be there. Of course as suggestions you may do as you please regardless of what we do, by all means show up on your own and go Italian, even if no one else is. You are responsible for making your own travel and lodging arrangements for everything.

Live satellite images of cloud conditions over San Diego here. The entire Western USA is here, then just click any area for a close up. Be sure to wave to the satellite! Here's the index page to more images from the same source.

Generalizations about wildflowers: Flowers start in the lower Southwestern deserts and move north and to higher elevations. They can start as early as January in the lower deserts and will have peaked and gone away by April or May. In April or May try the Owens Valley or the Great Smoky Mountains. By early August the flowers in the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada should be peaking. Try Anza Borrego, Death Valley, Carson pass in the Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, Joshua Tree and Lake Elsinore. Try Organ Pipe in Arizona. Try the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina, Yankee Boy Basin in Colorado and Glacier National Park in Montana. (adapted from Christopher Talbot Frank in Outdoor Photographer, August 2005, p. 48.)

Sun and moon data here.

No outing today? Help out by watching some frogs at Frogwatch USA!

Contests

San Diego Natural History Museum Best of Nature Show. Deadline: 15 March, 2009.

Mission Trails Regional Park Annual Photo Contest. Entry deadline: April 24, 2009

National Wildlife Federation 2009 photo contest is open for entries until Monday, 20 July 2009.

Ongoing

Borrego Wildflowers are predicted to be at their best during the first two weeks of March. It should be a
good year for blooms due to the generous and regular rainfall we've had this winter. Check the internet
for info before heading down and if you need some additional advice, stop by the ranger station.

http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca_abdsp.html

For Sale

Canon A-1 body (black, of course)
" 50mm f/1.4 FD lens (1980 Olympic lens cap)
" -2 diopter eyepiece
" 199A Speedlite (complete)

I'll sell it all for $140.

David Lang 619-792-9362

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MAMIYA MEDIUM FORMAT 645 PRO TL Kit.

Entire Pro-Kit includes every thing listed. Light use and in mint Condition. Original Owner.
Everything for $1400. or best offer.
Will sell items 1-6 for $650. or best offer.
Will sell items 7-10 (lenses) Individually.

1. 645 PRO TL Body
2. Two PRO TL Film Backs With Two 220 and One 120 Film insert
3. PRO TL Auto Exposure Prism Finder FE401 with attachable Magnifier.
Recently calibrated at Kurt's Camera Repair, Inc
4. Waist Level finder.
5. Power winder Grip WG 402 and Manual Film Advance Crank

* Five Mamiya Sekor PRO TL Type C Lenses with Front and Rear Caps and shades
6. 80mm f2.8 N

7. 45mm f2.8 N. $300. or best offer.
8. 35mm f3.5 N. $350. or best offer.
9. 150mm f3.5 N. $150. or best offer.
10. 210mm f4 N. $250. or best offer.
* All lens and body caps, camera strap, Original Boxes, Instructions, Receipts.

Steve Lux at 619-579-2974 or sslux@cox.net.

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Haliburton briefcase with photo dividers $100.00
Nikon F 100 FILM Camera with MB 15 $400.00
Nikkor Lens 35-70 2.8 D $400.00
Nikkor Lens 80-200 2.8 D $750.00

Excellent condition Will divide

CASH ONLY
Richard Hoppe
760 809 1777

February 2010

Meeeting, Thursday, 18 February 2010, 7PM: John Watts: Photofinishing with Photoshop K.I.S.S.!

What makes a good color print, and how do I use the basics of Photoshop to achieve my desired results?? If you've asked yourself this question, then this presentation is for you! Using the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Super Simple) method, John Watts will describe the basic elements of a good color print, then show you how to take well-exposed digital images and improve them with just a few functions in Photoshop.

So who is this John Watts character, and why should I listen to him?

John Watts is, at his core, a custom photographic printer. He was first dragged kicking and screaming into the digital age: Now, he embraces it with a passion.

He has been privileged over the last 26 years to work in partnership with some of the world?s finest photographers, and has a knack for making superior color prints for these photographers, as well as many serious amateurs - particulalry as it relates to Nature/Scenic/Landscape photography. John has now taken that expertise and applied it to the world of digital imaging education, and is one of the leading Photoshop and Color Management educators in the industry natrionwide.

So, the question is: Why should you listen to him? The same reason that you listen to your doctor: training and experience. Like your doctor, he's learned what generally works and what doesn't. Also, like your doctor, he's constantly learning new things, and listening to new ideas (a doctor "practices" medicine, after all!).

You can visit John's website at www.wattsdigital.com.

MEETING LOCATION: Wesley Palms, 2404 Loring Street, Pacific Beach 92109, (858) 581-8423. Directions.

Outing: Indio Date Festival at the Riverside County Fairgrounds.

We are going Saturday morning, February 13th, and planning to stay overnight.

It is about a three hour drive from San Diego.

The Festival promises ostrich and camel races as well as a bull riding contest, all of which might provide some fun photo ops. Lots of color, motion and dust!

Fairly cheap lodging is at the Super 8 motel, about a mile from the fairgrounds.

Leader: Linda Lawley (619) 220-0931.

Outing: 20 - 26 February 2010: Yellowstone in Winter. Details.

Contact: Lew Abulafia (760) 213-4349.

March 2010

Meeeting, WEDNESDAY, 17 March 2010, 7PM: Los Angeles Times Photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Don Bartletti.

Location: MoPA.

Outing:

Photos from previous outings.

Old calendar archive.

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