Alliance Francaise of Miami

Lew’s passion for capturing strong emotion and drama through color and composition burns brighter than ever. His family, friends and fellow artists describe Lew as vivacious, warm, generous and above all, creative. A love of traveling enabled him to spend almost 6 weeks in Paris this year. Combining his passion for both travel and photography has led to the exhibition of his Paris work. Lew’s prints capture the art, soul and people of Paris in photographs of city life, museums, and  stunning panoramics. Lew will be showing this series of prints on archival papers and canvas ranging in size from 8X10 to 40X60.

South Florida Camera Club is proud to have Lew Lautin as a member, and I hope to see everyone there opening night in suport of Lew and his artistic expression.

Alliance Francaise of Miami
618 SW 8th Street
Miami, Florida 33130
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Photo by Joe McBroom

Joe McBroom is now eligible to win a brand new Nikon D300 or Canon 50D at the end of the year competition for “Best Photograph of the Year”. His photograph is being framed by Frame Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, and will hang in UNCOMMON Gallery throughout the month of August. Make sure to attend the Gallery Night Party on Friday, September 12th to see Joe’s print is all its glory.

Travel Logs
Our travel log presenters for August were Jack Levy and Jessica Savidge. Jack’s travel log was from his trip to San Francisco and Jessica presented a travel log from her Mediterranean Cruise through Greece, Monaco, Turkey and Italy with her Cousin. If you’re interested in presenting a slide show of one of your travels, please contact Elaine Fitzgerald prior to the second meeting of the month. Elaine can be reached at 954-956-8999.

Canon 50D
Canon recently announced the new Canon 50D to their lineup of digital SLRs. Because of this upgrade from the Canon 40D, South Florida Camera Club will now be offering the 50D as an option instead of the 40D for the end of the year prize. I think its unlikely Nikon will be upgrading the D300 before the prize giveaway for “Best Photo of the Year”, so that option will likely stay the same. I’m sure all you Canon shooters are happy to see this new camera, and I for one am looking forward to seeing what else is announced before Photokina.

Flickr
Many of us are using Flickr for an online photography community and to show off our photos. I highly recommend using Flickr as your online gallery and linking to it from this site. I also created a South Florida Camera Club group within Flickr for club members. This will be a lot of fun for us to see what everyone is doing and will also allow us to communicate in the forum. Please join the group if you haven’t already and check out Flickr if you haven’t yet. You can check out my gallery to see how it looks.

Podcast of the Month (September)
A very inspirational and informative podcast I’ve been listening to lately is put out by Brooks Jensen whom also happens to be the publisher of LensWork Magazine. Most of his podcast are between five and ten minutes in length, so I end up listening to a few of the hundreds he has posted online while I drive to work. Brooks Jensen does one series of podcast entitled “On Photography and the Creative Process” and another new series entitled “LensWork Vision of the Heart”. Both of the series are completely free. I recommend you subscribe to his podcast through iTunes, but you can also download them individually from the LensWork website.

2008 Beijing Olympics Photos
Now that the Olympics are over, we can all look back at some of the best photographs to come out of Beijing. I’m going to be the first to list a gallery where I found some really great shots. If you know of other sites showing great shots like these, please let me know and I’ll update this post with more links.

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James is now eligible to win a brand new Nikon D300 or Canon 40D at the end of the year competition for “Best Photograph of the Year”. His photograph is being framed by Frame Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, and will hang in UNCOMMON Gallery throughout the month of August. Make sure to attend the Gallery Night Party on August 8th to see James’s print is all its glory.

Travel Logs
Our travel log presenters for July were Adrian Farinato and Elaine Fitzgerald. Adrian’s travel log was from his trip to Italy and Elaine presented a travel log from her trip to Guatemala. If you’re interested in presenting a slide show of one of your travels, please contact Elaine Fitzgerald prior to the second meeting of the month. Elaine can be reached at 954-956-8999.

Lew Lautin’s Gala Opening
Alliance Francaise of Miami is pleased to invite you to the Gala Opening of “The Heart and Soul of Paris” Photography by Lew Lautin. The Gala Opening will be September 5th 2008 from 7pm till 9pm and will take place at 618 SW 8th Street. Miami, Florida 33130. Lew Lautin is one of our own South Florida Camera Club members, so I hope to see everyone opening night.

Podcast of the Month
There’s a really good podcast that I’ve been listening to called This Week in Photography or “TWiP” for short. If you’re at all interested in listening to a podcast about photography, this is the best one going.

Flickr
Many of us are using Flickr for an online photography community and to show off our photos. I highly recommend using Flickr as your online gallery and linking to it from this site. I also created a South Florida Camera Club group within Flickr for club members. This will be a lot of fun for us to see what everyone is doing and will also allow us to communicate in the forum. Please join the group if you haven’t already and check out Flickr if you haven’t yet. Check out my gallery to see how it looks.

Photo by James D. McCallum

Steve is now eligible to win a brand new Nikon D300 or Canon 40D at the end of the year competition for “Best Photograph of the Year”. His photograph is being framed by Frame Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, and will hang in UNCOMMON Gallery throughout the month of July. Make sure to attend the Gallery Night Party on July 11th to see Steve’s print is all its glory.

Our travel log presenters for June were Joe Paul and Bradley Rex. Joe’s travel log was from his trip to Ireland and Bradley presented a log from his trip to Puerto Rico. If you’re interested in presenting a slide show of one of your travels, please contact Elaine Fitzgerald prior to the second meeting of the month. Elaine can be reached at 954-956-8999.

There’s a really good podcast that I’ve been listening to called This Week in Photography or “TWiP” for short.  If you’re at all interested in listening to a podcast about photography, this is the best one going.

Photo by Steve Wilkinson

A photowalk is the act of walking around with your camera and photographing your surroundings. Recently the term has become synonymous with a group of photographers (professional or amateur), with big or smaller cameras, walking in predetermined locations and then sharing their imagery. Alone or with a group, the purpose is still the same and that is to go out and shoot.

We are going to meet around 9:45am at Las Olas Riverfront (300 Southwest 1st Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312). They have a little outside water-fountain that is going to be our meeting point. Because South Florida’s weather is so unpredictable and most of our summer rain goes away as fast as it comes, I want to assure you that we will be there, no matter what… Sunny or Raining. If it’s raining we will relocate our meeting point to the first floor, close to the escalators. Paulo’s Cell# 954-270-0751

Las Olas Riverfront
300 Southwest 1st Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
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This is a members only event. Please Join Now if you wish to attend.

Ron has worked with wildlife for over 30 years and has had the privilege of having hands-on experience with a tremendous variety of animals ranging from crocodiles to eagles to cheetahs. He is an internationally recognized zoological authority who has appeared on a wide variety of local, national, and international programs including “National Geographic Explorer,” the “Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “NBC Nightly News,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “CBS’ The Early Show,” “Live with Regis,” “Dateline,” and CNN. Ron is also a frequent wildlife analyst for “MSNBC” and makes regular appearances on Spanish language television programs including international hits “Sabado Gigante” and “Despierta America.”

His extensive experiences have taken him around the globe to explore the wonders of our natural world. From swimming with sea lions off of the Galapagos Islands to tracking tigers on the back of an elephant in India, his adventures have allowed him to live many of the dreams he had as a child. No place has made a greater impact on him than the magical continent of Africa to which he has traveled over 30 times. He considers traveling to the wilds of Africa a “safari of the soul” that will leave the visitor with an indelible impression of indescribable beauty from a world lost in time.

Ron’s images have appeared in publications and galleries around the world including the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Ron hopes his images will help inspire an appreciation for wildlife along with efforts to protect it for generations to come.

This meeting should fill up quick so show up on time to get a good seat!

Best Western
Sawgrass Conference Room
1050 East Newport Center Drive
Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442
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Best Western
Sawgrass Conference Room
1050 East Newport Center Drive
Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442
(Click here for map)