This issue, as well as all previous issues, is available for download at our newsletter archives page.

Thanks to editor-in-chief Bryan Zimmerman for all his hard work!

We always keep a basket of fruit on our kitchen counter. This is a simple picture of the fruit. I placed the camera on the counter to take the photo. No additional lighting was used. I did, however, modify the lighting on the basket in lightroom using the brush tool, painting a lighter exposure on areas of the basket to bring out the “woody” look.

Thank you for selecting my shot.

This issue, as well as all previous issues, is available for download at our newsletter archives page.

Finally, on behalf of the entire club, I’d like to extend our thanks to Tj Delikat, newsletter editor emeritus, for all of the hard work she put into the publication during her tenure.

This was taken at Hawk Mountain’s north lookout on one of the weekends during prime migration season, which also happened to be a fairly prime weekend for the foliage in the area. We were sitting on one of the rocks farthest out and right at the edge so that we had a good view of any birds that came through, but none really came close enough to get a decent shot at.

This fellow came hiking up the trail and stretched out on the rock below us. I saw the photo and nearly fell off my rock trying to get my second body (with the 10-22mm) out of my backpack. I shot probably 12 frames at various focal lengths, orientations, and apertures, and this one was the best of the bunch. (1/25s, f/8 @14mm, ISO 100) If memory serves, I also had a circular polarizer on at the time.

Leaving a wedding held in South Queensferry, Scotland, I noticed one of the guests leaning against a light pole, overlooking the Firth of Forth and its famous railroad bridge. The pose looked like a cross between Cary Grant and Pierce Brosnan in a scene from a vintage black and white movie. He was also one of the few people in the group not wearing a kilt (note: which the photographer was at the time). It was late afternoon and the sky was…well, as they say in Scotland…dull.

Shot with my Canon Rebel XTi at f8 and 1/125th, 200 ISO. Converted to B&W with PSE7.

Two time options here–

–Some want to start VERY EARLY in the morning and catch some sunrise shots. It was suggested that the early birds then meet for breakfast in the DWG area and meet up with the…
–later group around 9:30 or 10 am and then take one of the hourly DWG Trolley Rides, which run every hour, rain or shine. I have a coupon for 10% off the trolley ride, making the cost $7.65 each.

We will need to make a reservation since that will be the premier foliage weekend!! Please sign up here on the forum page if you are interested in going. Let us know if you want to be an early bird or if you want to sleep in a bit and whether you are interested in going on the trolley ride.

FORUM SIGN UP PAGE

Breakfast time and location to be announced here a bit closer to the date. If you have a favorite spot up in the DWG area, please suggest it here!!

Also—if you’d like to hike to a particular spot, make it known here on the forums and chances are someone will probably want to join you.

Events Committee—Loretta Killian, Sandy Gelatt, Jeff Grim, Rhonda Pagano, Judy Zabrecky

His first and only camera is a Nikon D200 which he bought in May, 2007. He enjoys long distance travel and photography complements it very well. He did amateur video recording before that.

He plans to show a 15 minute movie about Vietnam with integrated photographs. His wife, Zina, did most of the video recording. He’ll show his best photographs in more detail after the movie.

Please mark your calendars for a very exciting evening of top notch work!

Friday, September 25th
Saturday, September 26th
Sunday, September 27th

Downtown Bethlehem. Many events. For details, parking, events info–see website above.

Since there are 3 days for this event, it will be an On-Your-Own event or shoot with other LVPC members. Feel free to arrange informal groups either in person or on our Event Announcement thread in the Forums.

THE PRIZE—Your choice of one item:
–Dan’s Camera City $25 gift card
–LVPC exclusive coupon book for discounted Dan’s Camera City goods and services (including free camera cleaning)
–SmugMug pro account for 1 year (for those who don’t already have one)

To be in the drawing for the prize you must:
#1–complete the Scavenger Hunt correctly,
#2–post your items to the Share Your Images thread in the forums by Sunday night
#3–send TJ two Celtic Classic images of your choice (not necessarily Scavenger Hunt items) to be included in the LVPC newsletter by emailing them to: publicrelations@lvphotographyclub.org

The Scavenger Hunt items will be posted in the Forum at:

http://www.lvphotographyclub.org/forum/index.php/topic,2206.0.html

on Thursday evening. The items were picked by LVPC Events Committee member Rhonda Pagano. No one knows what the items are except for Rhonda until they are posted.

The winner will be picked at random at the October LVPC meeting by President Andy Smith from a jar with the names of those successfully completing the event as stated above. You need not be present at the meeting to win if you are picked.

LVPC Events Committee: Loretta Killian, Sandy Gelatt, Jeff Grim, Rhonda Pagano, Judy Zabrecky

This image was made at Giving Pond in the Delaware Canal State Park below Upper Black Eddy, Pa. Conditions were very foggy and the lifting fog left behind a shroud of dewdrops on every spider web around. It was just a question of finding the right spider web. Some might think this image was made with a macro lens but, in reality it was made with a 300mm lens and 2x teleconverter on a 1.6x crop camera (that’s a 35mm equivalent focal length of 960mm!).