Eastern Maine Camera Club

The Eastern Maine Camera Club will meet 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb 2nd, at the Bangor Parks and Recreation Building, 647 Main St. Guest speaker will be Noel Topping, speaking on Wedding Photography. 

The following snippet comes directly from Noel's Web Site (http://noeltopping.zenfolio.com/):

"Noel and Melissa are primarily New England Wedding Photographers.

Noel has worked with Bangor Adult Education and Bangor Photo offering classes in Photoshop and Lightroom to beginner and experienced photographers.

Noel has offered Photo Restoration services from damaged photos all the way up to and including Insurance Fire Restorations of albums caught in a house fires.

Noel is an accomplished image maker and teacher. Please come prepared to ask questions and enjoy an evening of image making discussion."

The event is free and open to all. For information, call 207-318-9995 or email info@easternmainecameraclub.org.

The Eastern Maine Camera Club will meet 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov 3rd, at the Bangor Parks and Recreation Building, 647 Main St. Guest speaker will be Peter Jones, speaking on Cave Photography. 

Peter has put together a show that will have something for everyone. How often have you seen photos from deep inside the earth?! In his own words...

"It is a mix of some of my better images over the years, some history of work that I have done at Carlsbad Caverns NP, some of the more complicated images I’ve made and details of how the images were created. There’s also a very brief introduction as to how I got into caving, cave photography and being a potter (my full time career for 43 years). At the end of the presentation, I chose one image that I took a couple of years ago to illustrate all the post capture processing I did on it to become the final image. I will also bring along a lot of gear I use to take my images. The final thing I will do during the presentation is to take questions from people."  "...I don’t want to overwhelm with technical detail, but I also do want to show that some of what I do requires advanced knowledge and techniques to make it appear easy and seamless. In short, it should provide something for everyone. Certainly what I do is likely to be very different from what most photographers do, so it should be a nice sidetrack for people to learn about."

The event is free and open to all. For information, call 207-318-9995 or email info@easternmainecameraclub.org.

The Eastern Maine Camera Club will meet 6:30-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Bangor Parks and Recreation Building, 647 Main St. Guest speaker will be Colleen Miniuk-Sperry of Chandler, Arizona, speaking on ” The Art of Seeing Differently.” Chandler has been the Artist in Residence with Acadia National Park three times, which enabled her to publish “Photographing Acadia National Park: The Essential Guide to When, Where and How” in February 2014. She will share her insights on how to see and connect with subjects on a deeper level. The event is free and open to all. For information, call 207-318-9995 or email info@easternmainecameraclub.org.

Photography is a medium for depicting the human condition. Scenes capturing every day life on urban streets provide momentary reflection of ourselves in the act of living.  The AW@3Fish Gallery in Portland has such an exhibit with images from one of our upcoming speakers. The exhibit will be open until September 20.

"Urban Street Shots"

You can get a look at the gallery web site here:  http://www.addisonwoolley.com/

Take the opportunity to see this fine work if you are in the vicinity of Portland.

Don

The Bangor State Fair 2016 Photo Contest has wrapped up.  The results have been posted here: http://easternmainecameraclub.org/bangor-fair.aspx.

To get more information click here for our Contact Us form.

Some members are reporting that they are not getting the emails that Don sends out regularly.  Don sends the emails as a "Newsletter" from our website.  So the emails get generated by the web site, and are automatically sent to all members who have registered on the web site, paid their dues and subscribed to the newsletter.  Oh, and they are sent to the email address you registered with.  They come from info@easternmainecameraclub.org.

So there are a couple things you can check if you are not getting the emails. 

1.  Is your email registered correctly on our web site?
2.  Are you subscribed to the Newsletter?
3.  Is mail from info@easternmainecameraclub.org going to your spam folder?

So for the first item, log on to our web site and click on the "My Account" link at the very top of any page.  There you will see a "Security/Identity" tab, where you can change your email address (you can't change your id, that always stays the same).

To check that you are subscribed to the newsletter go to the "Newsletter" tab.  There you will see a check box (image below) for the "EMCC Somewhat Daily Newsletter".  That has to be checked in order for the emails to be sent to you.  Only members can sign up for this newsletter. 

Also notice there is a "View Previous Editions" link.  You can always go there to see all the communications we have sent.  Check it out, it's a good place to look and see if you have been missing anything.

If all of that is OK and you are still not getting your emails you may want to check your spam folder.  All email systems are a little different but almost all have a way to mark email as "Not Junk".  Several of our members with AOL mail have found the newsletters going to spam.  Below I'll include some instructions I found online for marking email as "not spam" in AOL.  If you are using another system and can't figure it out just send me an email, let me know what system you have,  and I'll see if I can dig up some instructions for you. 

 Jim Nickelson will be speaking Thursday April 7, 2016 at Bangor Parks and Rec.  Science is the underpinning for all of Jim's photography.  Before he got into photography, he was a NASA engineer and a corporate lawyer.  He now teaches at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine.  More information and examples of his work can be found at jimnickelson.com.

The meeting will be held in the Senior room at Bangor Parks and Rec, 647 Main Street, Bangor Maine.  Start time; 6:30 PM. The public is invited. The cost; FREE.

Eastern Maine Camera Club organizes speakers the first Thursday of the month from October to May.  The schedule is typically posted on http://easternmainecameraclub.org/events.aspx in September.  We update the information throughout the season as speakers are confirmed.  Please check often to get the latest information. 

For more information about this event or Eastern Maine Camera Club use our Contact Us form by following this link. 

This coming Thursday March 3 is a speakers night.  Robin Robinson will share her work. Robin is from Maine, and specializes in Maine Nature photography.  As a writer, birder, and gardener, Robin's mind is always on the natural world.  Her work has been featured in "Downeast Magazine," the "Portland Press Herald," the "Bangor Daily News," and others.  Her photographs have been selected for the juried Maine Photography Show.  She is also a speaker and educator state-wide, and her work has been displayed in numerous galleries.   Her web site is: http://www.robinrobinsonmaine.com/.

The meeting will be held in the Senior room at Bangor Parks and Rec, 647 Main Street, Bangor Maine.  Start time; 6:30 PM. 

The public is invited.

Once a week, sometimes more, sometimes less, Don sends out email communications to members that have signed up for the "Somewhat Weekly" newsletter.  Only members have access to sign up for that newsletter.  In this post I will show you how to subscribe/unsubscribe to that newsletter, and show you how to view past newsletters, in case a glitch in the matrix causes you to miss one. 

First, when I give you access to the member area the first time, I always sign you up for the newsletter.  So you should start getting the newsletter automatically.  If you want to turn that off or on here's what you can do.

1.  Go to "My Account" at the top right of any page on the site
2.  Click on the "Newsletters" tab
3.  Check or Uncheck the "Emcc Somewhat Weekly" check box to subscribe or unsubscribe.

That's it.  The image below illustrates the options. 

Also notice the "View Previous Editions" link.  Clicking that will take you to a page with a list of all the emails that have gone out. 

I'll also include that link here, but remember you have to be logged in to our site, and you must have access to the member area (meaning your dues have to be up to date).  Link to view previous newsletters

I've created a new snack sign up form at SignUpGenius.com.  This is the first time I've ever tried it, seems like it will work to allow people to sign up and get automatic email reminders when it's your turn to bring snacks.  Give it a whirl.  Let me know if it works or not.  If you know of something better and would like to take over managing this just let us know!!!

Here's the link to sign up for snacks:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0d48aeaf2fa0fd0-snack