The Grand Lake Photo Club has been asked by the Mercer County Farm Bureau to do a year long project. This project entails club members photographing area farms throughout the year.  By doing this project, we hope to showcase a year in the life of agriculture in Mercer County.  Members will be able to capture everything from homesteads, crops, people (both young and old) and animals.  Several opportunities will be set up throughout the year for the members to be able to document these important aspects that are a part of all our lives. The Mercer County Farm Bureau plans to put together an exhibit in February of 2012 to display the story our photographers have captured in 2011.

Starting with our meeting in September, our meetings will now take place in the Richardson-Bretz Memorial Building, where the offices of the Mercer County Civic Foundation reside. The building is located directly behind the library on Fulton Street.

Several members were able to capture some amazing photos during the reenactment, photos are posted on the Civil War at the Fort Field Trip page.

We'd like to thank J. Paul Bruce for coming from Dayton to conduct our 1st workshop on August 22nd. Entitled PhotoShop for Photographers, 16 participants in the half day workshop were presented instruction on the basics of PhotoShop as well as some very helpful tips on applying layers, workflow and much more.

We hope to have more instructors conduct quarterly workshops in the future, covering a wide variety of topics pertaining to all aspects of photography.

Thanks to all that attended, and I hope everyone came away with something they can apply to their future work...

We now have a Twitter Account, this will be a good tool to use for the "Flash Shoots"- informal meetups for members to get together for impromptu photo shoots...just Tweet to Meet!

8-3-2010
We have several new members joining the club this month, welcome to all!
Our next meeting will be August 29th at 3:30pm at the Inlet Room (East side of the Galleria)
After our "regular" meeting we'll be having a "Boot Camp" to go over basic camera functions (see below)
We'll also be taking member photos...Smile Pretty! These are used for the Meet Our Members page, that  includes a personal biography, which you can fill out in the member's portal section. We also need the photo for the membership cards.

Attention Members: If you've had your photo taken and  you haven't picked up your membership card yet they will be made available to you at the August meeting.

8-3-2010
Now that our major event (Photo Club Contest/Exhibition) is done, it's time to get back to the basics...Basic Training will resume after each regular meeting in order to help new members to get more familiar with the settings on their cameras, as well as for us old timers who still need help....
Basic Training will cover the basics each month, including camera settings, exposure settings, white balance, etc....
Be sure to have some familiarity on how to make adjustments specific to your camera, this will really help when we go outside to shoot some test shots!