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On Wednesday, June 17, at 6:30 pm, Lisa Asp will be hosting a Zoom meeting for our club. I will send out invitations by email today. Please register as soon…
On Wednesday, June 17, at 6:30 pm, Lisa Asp will be hosting a Zoom meeting for our club. I will send out invitations by email today. Please register as soon…
Participant Best Practices Participant cameras should be turned off. It really doesn't add anything to the experience and it sucks up bandwidth. Participant microphones should also be turned off when…
By now, some of you have experienced live webinars, thanks to some very generous people in the photography community. Maybe some of you have experienced video conferencing using Zoom, Cisco’s…
When: Wednesday, July 8, 6:30 pm. Space is limited and preregistration is required. Because they want this to fill up, I’ve sent an invitation to other clubs, so don’t delay. …
Thanks to Mike Chrun, who happens to be the president of the St. Croix Valley Camera Club, we will have another webinar with Lisa Langell. The subject is "Using the…
Lisa Langell Virtual Meeting – April 29, 4:30 pm The New Nature Photography: Trends for the Future Join this fun, interactive and informative webinar that will boldly change the way…
The next meeting of the Western Wisconsin Photography Club in Hudson will be a VIRTUAL meeting, a webinar presented by expert landscape astrophotographer Dr. Mike Shaw. In this free presentation, Mike…
At the next meeting on Wednesday, March 18, 6:30 pm, expert landscape astro-photographer Dr. Mike Shaw will show how to align your subject with your favorite night-sky object. Have you…
Photography 101 We will have a special meeting on Wednesday, January 22, with Michael Huber presenting “Photography 101”. The goal is to cover the basics of DSLR photography. He will…

At the April 17 meeting Alec Johnson’s talk will feature a series of bold and unique images using the technique of light painting – lighting a subject with a flashlight one detail at a time with a flashlight – and then compositing those frames of light to build a finished image. Each image is its own case study, creating an engaging, lively and educational discussion.
Alec Johnson is a full-time tenured professor at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, MN. He is also a freelance architecture photographer and award-winning fine art photographer. He was an exhibitor of the international juried show, “The Portrait” at Praxis Photo Arts Center December 2018. This past summer, 2018, he was accepted in the Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition and received the Jennifer and William Oliver award for “unique, innovative and unusual” work of art. Alec is also a Singh Ray Filters pro photographer.
Alec’s current photo projects include Outside the Arena, a series featuring the pre-competition ritual of rodeo riders. He is also working on a studio series titled Comfortable. This series is study of space, color and shape in the context of 60’s era comfort food, furniture and table settings. He is represented by the Sterling Art Gallery located in Silver City, New Mexico.