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The S3 Photo Group The Third Saturday (S3) photography group is a free street level art outreach program sponsored by the Fremont Art Association and Cooksey-Talbott Gallery. The group leader is award winning local photographer Cooksey-Talbott assisted by the FAA Artist of the Year Jacline Deridder. S3 activities are on the third Saturday of each month. Activities are free and open to all who are interested in making photographs and having a good time. You will find programs ranging in complexity from beginner to advanced. We go out on field trips so please check the calendar so that you are adequately prepared. We do ask participants to sign a liability release for field trips. The S3 photo group is trying to have something for everybody so please feel welcome to come and participate. You can get more information on the S3 program and photography classes through our free online forum at http://faadpg.ning.com. If you are interested in photography please join our free photo group at Ning. We use this Facebook-like group to share photographs and articles of interest in the discussion forums. All of these activities are FREE, on the longer trips folks will throw in some money for gas but if you are short of funds that is strictly not a problem. We welcome you to come on out and join us for a good time!!! - Basic Digital Camera Operations
- Free Photo Workshop – Beginners – Limited Mobility
- January 16th – 10:00 to Noon – FAA Gallery
Point and shoot your way to photo enjoyment! Learn some basic facts about photography and digital that will help you to get the most out of your digital camera. If you like to take pictures casually of your family and travels this free basic workshop will help to demystify the settings of your digital camera and lead you to get better results. Learn how to send your work to have it printed and where you can share your pictures with family and friends online for free. Bring your camera with a charged battery and it’s manual. The class will take place at the FAA gallery from 10:00AM to Noon. This event is excellent for folks with limited mobility. - Shoot Garin/Dry Creek
- Hiking
- February 20th - 3:00pm – Meet at FAA Gallery
Enjoy the wonders of spring in the East Bay hills! Have a nice walk along the east bay hills in the Dry Creek end of Garin park in Union City. We will walk along the base of the hills and go up the slope a little bit. We will select a route based on who shows up. If everyone can go up the hill we will go further up into the hills. We will meet at the FAA gallery, 37659 Niles Blvd Fremont CA, at 3:00pm and proceed as a group to the trailhead. Bring your walking shoes, hat, water bottle, light snack, camera, lens hood, polarizer, tripod (optional) and lens kit. We ask participants to sign a liability release for field trips. - Shoot Sunol
- Hiking
- March 20th – 10:00 – Meet at FAA Gallery
Walk in the Sunol Hills and enjoy the Spring Flowers Spring is in full bloom at this point so we will go to Sunol Regional Park and walk out across the McCorkle plateau towards Little Yosemite. The poppies will be all out and the creek will be running. We will meet at the FAA gallery, 37659 Niles Blvd Fremont CA, at 10:00am and leave for the park at 10:30am. Bring your walking shoes, hat, water bottle, light snack, camera, lens hood, polarizer, tripod (optional) and lens kit. We will car pool and use East Bay Parks passes to save on gate fees. We ask participants to sign a liability release for field trips. - Shoot the Coast – Pt Reyes
- Hiking – HDR Sunset
- April 17th – 12:30 pm – Meet at FAA Gallery
Enjoy a Pt. Reyes Sunset and HDR photo workshop! Come with us for a nice day walking on Pt. Reyes. The flowers will be at their peak so we should have some good wildflower coverage. We will leave from the gallery, drive to Pt Reyes and have a moderate (< 5 miles) hike on the point. We will capture the 7:45 pm sunset on the coast and return home. During the afternoon we will discuss capturing images for use in HDR, High Dynamic Range, photographs. This is a technique that allows you to photograph scenes with extreme contrast. We will meet at the FAA gallery, 37659 Niles Blvd Fremont CA, at 12:30pm and proceed as a group to Pt. Reyes National Seashore at 1:00pm. This is a 2 hour drive of 83 miles each way. We encourage those with good cars to volunteer to ride pool a full car to minimize our environmental impact and to increase the group unity. Bring your walking shoes, hat, warm coat, light gloves, sunglasses, water bottle, camera, lens hood, polarizer, tripod (optional), lens kit and sack lunch. We will eat dinner at a restaurant on the way back. We ask participants to sign a liability release for field trips. - Photographing People – Shoot your kids!
- Beginners – Limited Mobility - Families
- May 15th – 12:00pm – Meet at FAA Gallery
Shoot your Kids! With a camera that is… Come with us to Lake Elizabeth to learn how to make outdoor pictures of your kids and friends that come out better through the use of simple reflectors. We will supply some fomecor and 5 in One reflectors for you to use to make professional looking portraits of your family and friends. This is a good event for limited mobility folks! Very little walking mostly on concrete sidewalks. It is wheelchair accessible. This is not limited to parents so come on down with someone you want to photograph and we will teach you how to make it turn out better then ever before. All that you need is your kids or your friend and a point and shoot or DSLR camera. This is a good trip for limited mobility folks as there are sidewalks throughout the park. We will have a brief introductory lecture at the FAA Gallery starting at 12:00 Noon to introduce some basic photographic concepts used in making portraits. Meet at the FAA gallery, 37659 Niles Blvd Fremont CA, at 12:00pm and then proceed as a group to the park. Bring your hat, water bottle, light snack, camera, lens hood, polarizer, tripod (optional) and lens kit. We ask participants to sign a liability release for field trips. - Shoot Flowers at Regan’s Nursery – Limited Mobility
- June 26th and 27th – 12:00 noon
- NOTE! This is not on a Third Saturday
Earth laughs in flowers… For the past several years we have wandered in the gardens at Regan’s and made macro photographs of their flowers. They welcome us back this year for more floral goodness. There will be a lecture on making macro photographs of flowers where a number of professional photographic tricks will be revealed. After the lecture we will get to practice what we have learned on Regan’s ample supply of flowers. This event is in conjunction with the FAA “Art in the Garden” art festival at Regans so you will have the opportunity of enjoy and purchase art from a number of wonderful local artists. The floral shoot is a great event for our limited mobility folks as it is a short walk from the parking lot and a little bit of wandering over flat walkways. This location is wheelchair accessible. We will meet at Regan’s Nursery, 4268 Decoto Rd. Fremont CA, at noon. Parking is limited there so we encourage ride pooling if possible. Bring your hat, water bottle, camera, lens hood, polarizer, any macro things you have, tripod (optional) and lens kit. Most contemporary zoom lenses will focus close enough to do macro photography of flowers. - The BIG Overnight Camp Out!
- Hike and Camp in the Sierra
- July 21st – 9:30am - Meet at FAA Gallery
- Leave Saturday return on Sunday evening
Are you ready to leave the sidewalk behind and take a walk on the wild side? Come camp with us and share a campfire in the wilderness for a weekend of Sierra photography. We will camp near Burst Rock on Dodge Ridge on Saturday night and spend part of Saturday and all of Sunday exploring the Burst Rock/Powell Lakes/Chickenfoot Lake area at around 6000’. The hike in to the campsite is less the 2 miles over a soft trail under the cover of a pine forest. I would rate this walk as an “easy” hike. This trip is for able-bodied wilderness friendly people who have packs, tents and sleeping bags. There will be no stores or services there so we will carry what we use and share the expense of dinner and breakfast on the trail. I will supply the gluten free meal, stoves and cook pots. I also have some extra gear that I can share. Please contact me if you need gear. Meet at the FAA gallery, 37659 Niles Blvd Fremont CA, at 9:30am and leave at 10:00am. We will proceed as a group to the Pinecrest Range Station in Pinecrest CA. We are asking for volunteer drivers to ridepool folks for this 150 mile 3.5 hour drive. The drive includes a stretch of light duty washboard dirt road. I did the road in my Honda Civic and survived but if we had some SUV type vehicles it would be a good thing. Bring your pack, sleeping bag, pad, tent, plate/fork/spoon. cup, coat, gloves, sunglasses, insect repellant, hat, water bottle, light snacks, camera, lens hood, polarizer, tripod (optional) and lens kit. We ask participants to sign a liability release for field trips. Driving Map Trailhead Map - Magical Mystery Tour
- August 21st
- TBD – FAA Gallery – 10:00am – Noon
Step right up, step right this way!!!! This is a surprise event that will be defined as the year progresses. It will be led by Jacline Deridder as Cooksey will be somewhere up in the mountains. - Concrete Canyons – Financial District SF
- Photo Walk
- September 18th – Meet at FAA Gallery – 11:00 am
Explore a Concrete Canyon in San Francisco’s Financial District! We will take BART over to the city and wander in the financial district and photograph the buildings and the repetitive patterns of the window walls in the “Concrete Canyons”. There is wealth of pattern and architectural detail to be photographed in the Manhattan-ized areas of San Francisco. We will walk from the Embarcadero BART to Sidney Walton Park on the far side of the Embarcadero center and back again. We will meet at the FAA gallery, 37659 Niles Blvd Fremont CA, at 10:00am and proceed as a group to Union City BART. Bring your walking shoes, hat, water bottle, camera, lens hood, polarizer, tripod (optional) and lens kit. We ask participants to sign a liability release for field trips. - Haunted House #37
- Good for Limited Mobility Folks
- October 16th – Meet at FAA Gallery – 6:30 pm
Have a spooky night photo session this Halloween!!! Follow our annual tradition of “haunting” a landmark house on our yearly night photography shoot. Learn about time exposures, open flash photography and painting with light. We will make some photos of a landmark Victorian house (TBA) and then turn it into a haunted building through the use of some Photoshop magic. You will need a camera that can have its shutter locked open in the bulb (B) setting and a tripod or other support to hold the camera steady. We will follow up with a comprehensive discussion in our online group at faadpg.ning.com. - Shoot the Coast – Pt Lobos
- Light Walking
- November 20th – Meet at FAA Gallery – 8:30am
Photograph mystical coastline immortalized by Ansel Adams and the Westons! Point Lobos and the Big Sur area has been called the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. The craggy cliffs of the Ventana Wilderness plunge into the Pacific ocean and support a vast community of terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals. We will try to shoot both the Pt Lobos area and the waterfall at Julia Pfeiffer Burns Park on this all day field trip. We will meet at the FAA gallery, 37659 Niles Blvd Fremont CA, at 8:30am and proceed as a group to the Big Sur area. This is a 2 hour, 100 mile, drive to Pt Lobos and Julia Pfeiffer Burns is a half hour further south so we are asking for volunteer drivers who can help with our ride pool. Bring your walking shoes, hat, water bottles, coat, bag lunch, snacks, camera, lens hood, polarizer, tripod (optional) and lens kit. We ask participants to sign a liability release for field trips. - Review Pictures
- December 18th – FAA Gallery – 11:00-1:00
We will meet at the FAA gallery, 37659 Niles Blvd Fremont CA, at 11:00am
to review and discuss some of our photographs from this years assignments. Bring prints or files for us all to see and enjoy. I will bring a computer with Photoshop and a number of monitors so we can view digital files. Hopefully all of the folks who accompanied us on our adventures will come to see the wonderful photographs that we have made at the various locations we have visited. - Yosemite Fire Falls, a bonus adventure!
- Light Hiking
- February 14-28
For 2 weeks in February the sun is at just the right angle to highlight the ephemeral Horsetail Falls to produce a stunning fire falls effect. Horsetail falls is on the face of the El Cap cliff where at sunset the sun hits the water while the face of the cliff is in dark shadow. This year is lining up to be a good year for water in the high sierra and that is a crucial component of this shot. This effect depends on there being enough water to push the falls out away from the cliff face and a clear sky to allow the sun to come through at sunset. We went last year and got some beautiful shots but the clouds closed in at the last minute. If you are brave and willing to take a long drive we will try to spend a half-day in the valley and capture this stunning effect. Please contact Cooksey in advance if you are interested in this field trip. We need a driver who has chains and preferably a SUV to drive.
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