April 16 Program: The Infrared Zone

Do you think you’re photographing in the right dimension? Well, consider this if you dare…

Infrared photography is a journey into a wondrous land of photography where what you see is transformed into another dimension with your camera.

Infrared, or IR photography, offers photographers the opportunity to explore the world of the unseen. Infrared photography creates unique images capable of portraying things not normally visible to the human eye.

Learn how infrared photography can give another dimension to your vision of the world.


Silvana Della, our April speaker, is a software engineer by trade. She began her fascination with photography as a very small child. The early fascination turned into a lifelong obsession. Decades later her passion never faltered, but her view of the world evolved. Photographing what the eye can’t perceive is what she loves best to capture.

Past President of the Stony Brook Camera Club in Franklin, Massachusetts, she is the recipient of many photography awards. Her images have appeared in Lighthouse Digest, Yankee Magazine, and the Boston Globe, and were featured in Nikon’s 100th birthday celebration. She has presented and judged at camera club councils, camera clubs, and art associations throughout the US.

Silvana helps others expand their own photographic vision through her photography workshops, photo walks, photo tours, private instruction, and club presentations on various photography topics including infrared, Milky Way, black & white, nightscapes, deep space photography, and time-lapse. She challenges photographers to consider that there is much more in a scene than what is visible to the human eye and to tap into the power of their cameras to discover it.

To her, life is best summarized by the quote “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.” – from the 1958 film “Auntie Mame”.


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From Sean Fitzgerald

During Sean’s March 19 presentation, “Photographing Texas Prairies”, Sean mentioned a few websites that he thought would be helpful in learning more about Texas prairies, including a map. He also talked about the wonderful website/app iNaturalist. (See below)

Sean also shared his email address:  sean@seanfitzgerald.com

Native Prairies Association of Texas 

texasprairie.org

Map: https://texasprairie.org/npat-prairies-at-a-glance/

The Nature Conservancy

https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/texas/

Coastal Prairie Conservancy

https://www.coastalprairieconservancy.org/home

iNaturalist

https://www.inaturalist.org/

Plus mobile app

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TOMORROW NIGHT – March 19 Program: Photographing Texas Prairies

Fire specialist lighting prescribed burn with drip torch on the Blackland Prairie at Clymer Meadow Preserve, Texas Nature Conservancy, Greenville, Texas, USA.

Good photography can change hearts and minds. Join professional photographer Sean Fitzgerald for a presentation on how to photograph prairies for maximum impact, with a particular focus on often overlooked Texas prairie ecosystems. Learn valuable tips to take better photos using a variety of techniques to help you tell the stories you want to tell. 

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March 19 Program: Photographing Texas Prairies

Good photography can change hearts and minds.

Join professional photographer Sean Fitzgerald for a presentation on how to photograph prairies for maximum impact, with a particular focus on often overlooked Texas prairie ecosystems. Learn valuable tips to take better photos using a variety of techniques to help you tell the stories you want to tell. 

Sean is a Texas-based nature, conservation and travel photographer working primarily in editorial and commercial assignments, stock, and commercial fine art. He also leads photo workshops for Ted Turner Reserves. He is a past president of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA), a current member NANPA and American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), and currently helps lead photographer advocacy efforts on copyright reform and public land access.

For more information, go to www.seanfitzgerald.com.

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March 19 Program: Photographing Texas Prairies

Good photography can change hearts and minds.

Join professional photographer Sean Fitzgerald for a presentation on how to photograph prairies for maximum impact, with a particular focus on often overlooked Texas prairie ecosystems.

Learn valuable tips to take better photos using a variety of techniques to help you tell the stories you want to tell. 

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Rafael Pons with PhotoPills

Our speaker at the February meeting was Rafael Pons. Rafael wanted me to pass along how great it was to get to meet with our club virtually. He had a great time teaching PhotoPills to the club and was happy that we seemed so interested. He wanted to say that he knows the app is a bit overwhelming, but with a bit of practice, it gets much better.

He says, “For those interested in the Camp, they have 1 opening right now. (maybe there’ll be more, there are always cancellations. The Camp is super fun…quite a unique experience.” For those that might be interested in joining in 2024 here is the link to their website: https://www.photopills.com/Camp

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TOMORROW NIGHT – Program: How To Plan Your Sun, Moon and Milky Way Photos with PhotoPills

With more than 800,000 downloads worldwide, the PhotoPills app has become the Swiss Army Knife for photographers. It includes everything you need: from sources of inspiration (PhotoPills Awards) and learning (photo guides and videos) to multiple tools to help you plan your photo ideas (planner, augmented reality, exposure, depth of field …).

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February 20 Program: How To Plan Your Sun, Moon and Milky Way Photos with PhotoPills

Join Rafael Pons (the PhotoPills Team) and learn how to use PhotoPills to plan your photos involving the Sun, natural light, the Moon and the Milky Way.

Surprisingly enough, PhotoPills co-founder Rafael Pons claims not to be a photographer. However, he travels the world teaching how to use PhotoPills to help photographers imagine, plan and shoot legendary photos.

With more than 800,000 downloads worldwide, the PhotoPills app has become the Swiss Army Knife for photographers. It includes everything you need: from sources of inspiration (PhotoPills Awards) and learning (photo guides and videos) to multiple tools to help you plan your photo ideas (planner, augmented reality, exposure, depth of field …).

To start planning your photos with PhotoPills visit the web: photopills.com

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One, Two, Three:  Let’s Talk Infrared, April Meeting, Silvana Della Camera

For those on the club’s Facebook page, you may have noticed recent postings by a couple of members, Chris (Eddie Ray) and Chuck, of their infrared photography.  I thought I would take this opportunity to point out that our speaker for the April meeting is Silvana Della Camera.  The title of the program is “The Infrared Zone”. 

Like our other speakers, Silvana has volunteered her time to share her talents and love of photography.  She enjoys several different types of photography but says Astrolandscape and infrared photography are her specialty. Whether you are just getting into photography or want to bring your work to another level, Silvana wants to help you tap into your vision of the world. ​

While checking in with Silvana this week regarding the April meeting and with members posting infrared photos, she suggested this might be a great time to introduce her website, https://silvanadellacamera.com and newsletter. 

Silvana, just like most photographers who have spoken at our meetings, hopes by speaking to photography clubs and other group organizations, they can introduce themselves, their work, tours/workshops, books, etc.   Please take a few minutes and browse her website. 

She would absolutely love and appreciate each of you signing up for her newsletter and looks forward to having you join in.  The signup only requires your email address.  In case you wanted to know, she does not collect any other information, nor

does she sell her list.  You will find SUBSCRIBE on the right hand side of the Home Page as well as on several other pages on her website.  She does not send it out often and you can unsubscribe at any time. I’m signed up and I can confirm she doesn’t send out often and will not flood your email account.  The newsletter contains photography tips, articles, workshops, and more!

And for those thinking about Infrared or new to it, I spotted a new book available on her website, “Sights Beyond the Spectrum”, published December 2023, available in hardcopy or ebook.

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February 20 Program: How to Plan your Sun, Moon and Milky Way Photos with PhotoPills*

Join Rafael Pons (the PhotoPills Team) and learn how to use PhotoPills to plan your photos involving the Sun, natural light, the Moon and the Milky Way.

The goal of the PhotoPill Team is just to help you take legendary photos.

Surprisingly enough, PhotoPills co-founder Rafael Pons claims not to be a photographer. However, he travels the world teaching how to use PhotoPills to help photographers imagine, plan and shoot legendary photos

*PhotoPills, www.photopills.com, is an app! It is currently $10.99.

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