Seattle area phography clubs?

I am looking for a nature photography club(instruction, trips,

critiques, fun, etc) in the Puget Sound (Seattle) area, and I

thought I would ask if anyone knows of anything or can make any

recommendations.

 

I found a discussion from early 2000, but only one of the links is

still active. Additionally, I've looked at the Seattle Photographic

Society and the Mountaineers Photography club...so if anyone has any

comments on those, it would be apprecitaed.

 

A little background if it helps, I'm "relatively" new to

photography, you can find some of my stuff on my very simple website

(it only works in the evening hours PST).

 

http://brianchapman.homeip.net/bpweb/bpweb.aspx

 

and here's my photo.net info...

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=404317

 

Thanks for the info! Brian

The mountaineers is a excellent club to join. They put on a fantastic workshop usually in the spring of each year plus you can take advantage of their clubs outings and meet others like yourself who are interested in nature and nature photography. Other sources around the area for workshops/instruction are REI, Cascades Academy of Photography in Issaquah and the Photographic Center Northwest along with the community colleges.

Thanks! I'll check those out. You photo.net users are so fast to respond!!

The Eastside Photo Club meets in Bellevue every month. The first meeting is sometime this month, but I do not have the date. It's more convenient for those living on the Eastside of Greater Seattle since one does not have to fight the awful freeways and bridges to get into Seattle.

I'd also be interested in replies to Brian's question. I have gone to a couple of the Mountaineer's meetings (saw Glenn Ketchum at one) and they are excellent. I would like further info on the Eastside Photo Club (I'm in Kirkland).

Stop by your local major camera store. I'll bet they get the same question often .... and I'll bet they have the answer.

I'm a member of the Mountaineers (Tacoma Chapter) and not entirely familar with the Seattle Chapter, but overall the photography groups in the Mountaineers are quite good. They offer a winter-spring series photography workshop over ~4(?) months, with lectures by noted photographers. Check their Web site or monthly newsletter at:

 

http://www.mountaineers.org/

 

My only qualm with the groups is, that being a club for "people in the outdoors", they tend like to focus on that genre, but they do work on non-people photograhy too. Small gripe in reality.

 

I also agree to stop by Glazers to ask for information. The folks at Glazers are a great, helpful to all photographers, even part-timers like me, and there usually is a corner of phamplets for workshops, classes, etc., near the door. OpTechs is also good and only a few blocks away (due east from Glazers), but their focus is more toward the pro's and highend equipment.

 

Good luck.

 

--Scott--

The Eastside Camera Club had it's first meeting of the new season last night (9/5).

 

http://www.cameraclub.00show.com/

 

We heard a fine presention on panorama photography from a pro who specializes in such work. He showed us a collection of photos from a stock agency catalog, all of which were panoramas. Wonderful and inspiring photos. He also showed us some of his equipment including a panaorama camera with a special graduated filter to compensate for light loss at the edges of the 7 inch wide negatives! The ND graduation was from the center out!

 

He also showed us a nifty head that keeps the nodal point steady. This makes it easy to stich together separate photos to make a panorama. Very nice.

 

http://www.cameraclub.00show.com/

<p>I keep a website of all Seattle area photography events from the various clubs - www.seattlephotoevents.blogspot.com. Browse the events - it will give you some ideas.</p>