Photo By Danielle Lancaster

In this Issue:

l Bluedog Photo News

l Workshops

l Exhibitions

l Checking Out Web Sites

l Photo Tip

l Bluedog's Eco Tip

l For Sale

l Photo Trivia

l Dedication to a Master of the Lens

Photo Tip: For Great Holiday Photos

Here in the southern hemisphere summer is here and that means holidays! Here's a couple of tips to for your holiday photography:

l Compose Creatively: Paying special attention to how you organise the various elements in your image.

l Move in Close: Make your subject fill the frame!

l Don't Use Flash Indoors: Well that's whenever you can get away with it! While the flash can save your image it produces cold, flat, harsh light and at night produces red-eye.

l Use Flash Outdoors: Force your flash to remove unwanted shadows from the sun!

l Plan Ahead 1: That's have your batteries charged, plenty of cards and your camera with you!

l Plan Ahead 2: Don't overlook something you take being the perfect gift for later in the year. Everyone love photos and they make a cherished gift!

l Take loads of photos: Not everyone will be perfect and when photographing children then you need to keep clicking.

l Look for Themes: Tell a story by themes - they make wonderful records.

l Get Insurance: If you are travelling get insurance and read the small print. Some of your items may be covered on your home insurance but check first.

l Have Fun!

Checking Out Web Sites:
This web site was sent in by Georgia - THANKS!
Check out the FOTOGRAPHICS page & Foodscapes - food for photographic thought.

http://www.carlwarner/html

If you have come across a great web site
send it to us and it may just be featured!

What's On: Photography Exhibitions

l Water Trees and Roots :: Stories from the Vietnamese community
From refugees to inspiration, Water, trees and roots celebrates the journey, challenges and successful establishment of Queensland's Vietnamese community through photographs and stories.
Venues & Dates:
Charleville Library - 27th-31 January 2009

l Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour: Showcases photography and moving image works by artists from the contemporary Asian, Pacific and Australian collections.

Venues & Dates:
Hervey Bay Regional Art Gallery
11 December 2008 – 24 January 2009

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
20 February – 19 April 2009

Gold Coast City Art Gallery
16 May – 28 June 2009

Bundaberg Arts Centre
15 July – 23 August 2009

Cairns Regional Gallery
4 September – 8 November 2009

Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
25 November 2009 – 17 January 2010

l The Centre: Scenic Rim Treasures with photography by Chelso Foskett, Rob Packer and Annika Salisbury.
Venues & Dates:
Corner of Brisbane and Short Streets, Beaudesert QLD
Till 1st Feb 2009

l Half Light: This is the first major survey of the work of Australian Indigenous artists engaging with the photographic medium and the portrait. Showcasing a range of techniques from classical black-and-white portraiture to digital imagery, the exhibition offers an unprecedented insight into the black experience that transcends national borders and the harsh reality of the everyday.
Venues & Dates:
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Rudy Komon Gallery, Upper Level, Sydney
Till 22nd Feb 2009

Photo Trivia: Did You Know?

Dr. Harold E. Edgerton was one of the most significant inventors of the 20th century. Among his inventions was the strobe light, a fast-blinking electronic light that seemed to make moving objects stand still.

Edgerton's achievements in stroboscopic and ultra-high-speed photography are illustrated in books that tell the history of photography as well as in science textbooks. His pioneering research laid the foundation for the development of many modern technologies and electronic devices.

His photographs illustrate such moments as: a bullet seen the instant it explodes through an apple, a perfect coronet formed by a milk-drop splash, and a football dented by the contact of Wes Fesler's booted foot. These images have become classics of modern art and science.

Splash of Milk Drop, c.1936.

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Bluedog's Eco Tip

Pack a Waste Free Lunch:
One of the best ways to reduce rubbish is not create it in the first place!
When packing your lunch consider making it waste-free by:
l Using a reusable lunch box and containers to store food in
l Packing a cloth napkin rather than a paper one
l Use cutlery from home than plastic
l Taking your drink in a reusable container such as a thermos or recycled water bottle .
l Take your food scraps home to compost.

Packing a waste-free lunch may take a bit more time and creativity but, given the environmental benefits, it's well worth the extra effort. Here are some tips for making it work:
l Pack lunches the night before and store them in the refrigerator.
l Maximize leftovers - prepare extra servings at dinnertime for the next day's lunches. Pack the leftovers in lunch boxes in the evening when you're doing your regular dinner clean up.
l Keep fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other nutritious foods on hand.
l Keep nuts and dried fruit on hand for emergencies.

Dedication to the Masters of the Lens
Adam Clark Vroman
(1856-1916 )

Born April 15, 1856, in La Salle, Illinois. Died July 24, 1916, in Altadena, California. Vroman started working for the Railroad in 1874. In 1892, to improve his wife's health, they moved to Pasadena, California. In 1894 after the death of his wife, he entered into a partnership with J.S. Glasscock and opened a book and photographic supply store. The store prospered and Vroman's Bookstore still operates in Pasadena today.

Don't be surprised if you have never heard of Vroman, many haven't. His major contribution to photography is recognised as his ability to utilize the wide range of dramatic tones available in platinum prints. With a straightforward style, and dramatic black and white printing of cloud and shadow, Vroman in the late 1890s, created the visual vocabulary used 30 years later in modernist sculptural landscapes of Edward Weston and Paul Strand.

Vroman started working for the Railroad in 1874. In 1892, to improve his wife's health, they moved to Pasadena, California and this is when he started experimenting with 5 x 7” camera. In 1894 after the death of his wife, he entered into a partnership with J.S. Glasscock and opened a book and photographic supply store. The store prospered and Vroman's Bookstore still operates in Pasadena today. By 1895 Vroman was an accomplished photographer, and with a group of other amateur photographers would travel on outings, experiment with different cameras, film, paper and photochemistry.  In this same year he traveled to the four corners area of the Southwest on the first of eight photographic expeditions over the next 10 years.  He used multiple cameras with formats ranging from roll film up to 8.5 x 6.5.

He was influenced by Charles Lummis and other members of the “Arroyo Culture” active in the Pasadena area.  Major interests were the preservation of historic Spanish Missions in the Southwest and preservation and promotion of Native American culture and arts and crafts and I feel his documentation of this one of his high contributions to our world. Through his photographs he showed with sympathy and insight Indian life in the Southwest. He photographed the Hopi, Zuni and Navajo rapidly disappearing ways and his obsession to capture this has left an amazing collection of historical images.

He was a patient man stating his success in photographing the Indians was his personal technique, "If you are a little patient, and do not try to hurry matters you will have but little trouble. ...The Indian must always have plenty of time....; sit down with him, show him the camera inside and out.....". A lesson many of us could learn from.

Vroman did not sell or exhibit.  He made and gave handmade platinum print souvenir presentation albums and groups of silver prints for use by traveling companions, Indian subjects of his photographs, writers, ethnologists and others with similar interests in the Southwest.  Vroman’s last tour of the Southwest was in 1904, and then his interests turned toward Japan and collecting Netsuke, much as he collected rare books and Indian arts and crafts.

Adam Clark Vroman.

Clouds near Enchanted Mesa

Hopi Maiden with Squash-Blossom Hairdress, 1901.