On Tuesday, May 15th, there will be a Worldwide Photo Event called “A Day in the World.” This happening is being touted as the single largest one day documentary project ever. All photos included in the project must be taken on the 15th.
The focus of this project is to show people from all over the world in their everyday lives, whether at work or play, in a positive light or negative, posed or in a natural setting. To participate, you must register at www.aday.org and create a profile. There will be several categories and you can submit up to 10 images. Images should be keyworded for easy searching and contain info about who, what, where and when. This is open to all photographers.

I have added the RRPA as an associate group to the project. Go to http://www.aday.org to learn more. We are registered as a team under RRPA, which means that when you are keywording your photos you should add RRPA to them so that all of our photos can be seen as a group. There is also a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/adayorg .

We will have an RRPA Photo Outing that day, meeting at the Denny’s on William St in Cape to gather and plan where we will be going. Start thinking about who or what you want to shoot. You can also post your shots here on this site.

Please post your images in this thread (from your gallery preferably, but if you do not know to, just get them here from anywhere, including using the BB code from photos on Flickr)

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Please remember you can also use your smart phone with tapatalk or forumrunner to post images in this thread.

Join us in the forum here by sharing your "backlit" photos. We will review them during the meeting this month.

On Thursday, August 18th (6 p.m. - 8 p.m.) Aaron Horrell will be giving a power point presentation on macro photography from a nature photographer perspective at the Cape Nature Center. If you are interested in close ups of southeast Missouri nature, he invites you to call the Cape Nature Center to reserve your seat.

Doug Adams will join him to answer technical camera questions that come up. Aaron will talk about hazards, ethics, and getting close.

The RRPA July photo challenge is framing within the photo by using items, such as tree limbs or buildings, to isolate the subject.

You may share them in three ways for the upcoming June meeting.

1. Here in the forum. Upload to the gallery and post your images in this thread. We will review this thread at the meeting.

2. Bring your photo to the meeting in print (hopefully at least an 8" x 10").

3. Bring a thumb drive to the meeting.

The next meeting of RRPA is scheduled for Thursday, July 28, at 6:30 p.m., at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. We are scheduled to have a couple of presenters.

Rural Missouri and Missouri State Parks have teamed up to bring you the first-ever Missouri Snapshots Photo Contest!

For more information, visit their website.

Entries must be postmarked by Friday, Nov. 4, 2011.

Resizing photos for online galleries in Photoshop Elements, Photoshop, Batch processing in Bridge and Photoshop, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Picasa, and FastStone Image Viewer.

JUNE PHOTO CHALLENGE - SUMMERTIME ACTIVITIES

Share your summer activity photos, including BBQing, swimming, hiking, camping, fireworks, and thousands of other types of activities that are awaiting for your shutter to capture them.

You may share them in three ways for the upcoming June meeting.

1. Here in the forum. Upload to the gallery and post your images in this thread. We will review this thread at the meeting.

2. Bring your photo to the meeting in print (hopefully at least an 8" x 10").

3. Bring a thumb drive to the meeting.

We will be traveling to Hickory Canyon and Hahn State Park (and possibly Pickle Springs) on Saturday, June 18, 2011, at 8:00 a.m.

We will leave the Cape Girardeau Conservation Center parking lot to caravan to the parks.

If there are enough early birds interested, we may organize a group heading up there to catch the early morning light that is best for photography. This group would leave somewhere between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m.

Hickory Canyon (MDC website)

Hickory Canyon (Trails.com)

Photo of Hickory Canyon Falls

Hawn State Park

The next meeting will be held Thursday, June 30, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Public Library.

Bill Brennan has offered to talk about his method of capturing hummingbird's wings without blur by using multiple flashes and proven techniques. We will probably also have shots from members that have been to Yellowstone this summer with SEMO and on their own.

Hello everyone, hope all is well with you. We have been offered an opportunity to attend a wedding photography workshop by John LaRose and the LaRose Studios in Perryville. John has been following the RRPA since just after we began and has a very generous offer. John will rebate $50 of the seminar fee for each RRPA member that attends. I have included a flyer that they have made up for our club, which if you give to them at the workshop they will count as your membership to the RRPA. Please find the attached flyer and/or click on the website below to see a short clip about the workshop.

Price: $389.68 unless you preregister and pay by 3:00pm June 25th, in which case there is a substantial savings down to $298.36.
Deadline: For prepay discount, 3:00pm June 25th. At the door, if space is available, July 9^th from 9:00am to 4:00pm.
How to sign up: info@funweddingdayphotos.com , 573 547-6311 or 800 974-2636 or at 230 W. Ste Joseph St, Perryville, MO 63775. I believe their website is http://www.funweddingdayphotos.com
What you’ll learn: Shooting – From ordinary to Extraordinary, Lighting – Natural Light and Strobe/Flash, Business – Profiting in the Hard Times, Marketing – Customer Loyalty is Gone, Now what can you do?, and much more.

You can view one of their wedding albums at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flc2cJkkj4U

If you have any questions, please email me.

Dan Buckenmyer, President
River Region Photography Association