Shutterbugs - by Central Coast Photographers

 

2014 Columns

 

 

September, 2014     Shutterbugs    

 

The Deception Pass Bridge in Washington State is a two-lane bridge connecting Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island.It was a Public Works Administration project built by workers from the Conservation Corps.

 

June, 2014               Shutterbugs    

 

I  believe that I am a tactile learner – I need to involve the sense of touch to aid in my learning process. When I know that I will need to recall a lecture, I take notes. I may not ever refer to them – the simple act of putting pen to paper helps my recall. I remember when traveling being awed at the very worn marble steps in the Vatican and then the magic of walking them myself.

 

May, 2014                Shutterbugs    

 

Shutterbugs by Bob Canepa - The best place to start is probably that I am a “jack of all trades and a master of none” in photography. I am consumed in finding the essence of each photographic opportunity, but ever so distracted by the next opportunity. So I guess I flit from one photographic opportunity to another with the anticipation of a child opening the next package at Christmas.

 

April, 2014                Shutterbugs    

 

I like the fact that this feature is called Shutterbugs, because I can embrace that label more easily than "photographer." I figure I spend enough time behind the lens of a camera to qualify as a shutterbug. I guess I could use the same logic to call myself a photographer, too, but I'm careful to note I'm not a professional one. I write fiction as a profession, and take photos just as a way of sharing observations. This is not false modesty. It's a kind of realism. I look at the work of professional photographers, and I know they're doing something I'm not. They are adding something to the moment. I'm documenting it, without much embellishment.

 

 March 2014             Shutterbugs    

 

My primary photography interest is nature. I had a “Norman Rockwell childhood," surrounded by a family supportive of my interests. Growing up on 80 acres of flower-filled old fields, woods, rivers, and creeks in southwestern Michigan, I was fortunate to have nature, rather than media, as one of the major influences in my young life.

 

February, 2014         Shutterbugs    

 

   “The Asahi Pentax H1A with a 50mm f2.8 lens is a 35mm film format camera that produces superior quality film shots. Having a shutter speed of T, B, 1-1/1000sec, you can set this Pentax camera to catch your subject in action…”

 

That was the advertisement that sent me to the local Pasadena camera store in 1966.  I wanted to take photographs, more specifically bird photographs.  And then I got my first roll of slide film back from the lab and realized a 50mm lens was not the best thing for photographing hummingbirds…

 

January, 2014          Shutterbugs    

 

If you are hesitant about picking up a camera and becoming a shutterbug, feeling you just can't match what's going on in the Great Shots section, Devra Cooper should certainly be your inspiration for jumping right in and enjoying this fabulous hobby. She may not have the experience or the intense camera and lens obsession of many, but she has the eye for great shots. Check these out, read what she has to say, then visit her Flickr pages for more.

 

 

 

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