At a Glance
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour. Our judge for April will be Larry Vogel. Members bring prints for critique on the third Wednesday of each month. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery. Visitors are welcome, however, submitting images for critique is available for members only. If you’d like more information about joining Darkroomers, please check out our membership page and email us if you have any questions. Larry Vogel has been involved in photography since 1976 and in recent years has become a multi-talented artist using several mediums to pursue and express his creative explorations, including, photography, ceramics, painting and sculpture. Larry has exhibited his work since 1979 and continues to exhibit nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite, California, the Susan Spiritus Gallery in Newport Beach, California, and the Africus, Johannesburg Biennale in 1997. Vogel’s work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections. He was awarded a photographic scholarship from The Friends of Photography for the Ansel Adams Photography Workshops in 1983, which Vogel says he was fortunate to be able to attend, as it was the last of the workshops that the renowned photographer, Ansel Adams, was alive to teach. Larry is co-founder and past director of The Photographers’ Exchange, which has held monthly meetings for members since 1990. After leaving the group in 2011, Vogel created the Digital Photo Exchange, DPX, an online group which holds monthly critique sessions. Additionally, Larry has created a new DPX-AI online group. This DPX-AI group has been created in order to facilitate the investigation of new Artificial Intelligence processing and image creation as it relates to the digital photographer. More information can be found on the DPX tab in the above menu. Larry Vogel has continued to evolve as a creative artist. He has created several bodies of work, some traditional in concept and technique, while others are very experimental and abstract in technique and vision. Because of his evolving approach, neither he, nor his works can be successfully categorized or pigeonholed, which Vogel finds somewhat refreshing and liberating. Vogel recalls a statement by another diverse artist, one in which he declares, “My diversity may be my claim to my obscurity!” Larry says, sometimes he feels that way too. Vogel continued his artistic evolution as he entered into the digital age many years ago. And currently explorations have found Vogel wandering into the new Artificial Intelligence world. Although many of his contemporaries have questioned and held off making use of AI, Larry has embraced the new technology and formed new works in collaboration with AI. New collaboritive projects have already been been created, fusing AI created images with his own digital camera files and photo-compositing techniques in Photoshop. Vogel has over 35 years experience teaching workshops, beginning many years ago with his own darkroom series of workshops and now with a full list of digital processing workshops and location workshops. Check out the list of current workshops being offered on the Workshops tab in the above menu.Vogel continues to offer his expertise in the critique process and has been sought out as a judge and instructor for many camera clubs and county fair organizers. Details coming soon! In 2023, Anne and Mark took their second trip to Antarctica, but this one was much more than just a quick trip down to the Antarctic Peninsula and back. Leaving from New Zealand, they spent 4 weeks exploring the Ross Sea, Amundsen Sea, and Bellinghausen Sea before finally traveling up the Antarctic Peninsula and ending up in Ushuaia, Argentina. Along the way they experienced record breaking storms in Aukland, the Austrailian Sub-Antarctic Islands (Including Macquarie Island), visited McMurdo Station, and visited many of the Historic Huts in Antarctica along with seeing a wide variety of Penguins, Whales, Seals, Albatross, and more. Join us as they relive our tour through some of the most remote areas of our planet. What separates a good photograph from a great one? It isn’t technical skill, the quality of the camera, or proficiency in Photoshop. It’s the vision behind the image – and how effectively the photographer communicates that vision. In this talk, I’ll take a step back to focus on why we make photographs. What is the vision behind our work and the message we want each image to convey? How do we communicate that vision through our choice of subject, composition, and lighting? What emotions and mood do we want to evoke, and how do we achieve that? Ultimately, this talk is about creating impactful, meaningful images that resonate with viewers, not just photographs that are sharp and well-exposed. Photo Credit: Stephen Bay Stephen Bay is a self-taught landscape photographer based in San Diego. He specializes in creating large scenic prints that capture the city and the beauty of the natural landscape. He works intentionally, carefully planning his images, sometimes waiting months or years for the perfect environmental conditions to materialize. Stephen is deeply involved in photography education and the local community. He regularly teaches classes, gives presentations on photographic technique and vision, and provides tutoring and individual coaching. He has also served as a judge for the San Diego County Fair’s Exhibition of Photography. Photo Credit: Stephen Bay Originally from Canada, Stephen came to the U.S. for graduate school in Computer Science. After meeting his wife, he settled permanently in California. Having left a career as a data scientist, he now devotes his full attention to photography. Photo Credit: Stephen Bay You can view Stephen’s work at https://stephenbayphotography.com Photo Credit: Stephen BayJoin us for our Monthly Critique Night!
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