First Meeting of 2010

Iredell Photography Club kicked off 2010 with its first meeting of the year on Monday, Jan. 11, with 10 members present. We met in the computer classroom in the MCC Workforce and Technology Building. The business session was brief and included discussion of upcoming exhibit opportunities in Mooresville as well as the Downtown Art Crawl which will be held on Friday, March 13. Club dues run on the calendar year and are now payable. See Club Treasurer Ted Templeton on that.

An excellent program was given by Kevin Speaks and addressed many aspects of our website, including possible changes to update the design and layout of the home page. Several other websites were visited as examples of ideas we may want to adopt. We also discussed reviving the use of this Blog to post news items and photos of club events and activities. Google maps were added to the Meetings page to make us easier to find. And finally, Kevin demonstrated how to create or reply to a topic and post images in the Forum section of the website. Several members made their first posts to the forum during the meeting.

Next meeting will be on Jan. 25, at our regular location in room 19C. See you there.

Run for Excellence '07

When I'm not posting to the club forums, I'm running with my gang, check us out. We are loose affillation of runners that regularly meet at the local YMCA for cardio training. We try to keep each other up-to-date on the latest race announcements.

Show Reminder

Just a reminder that I have some work at the Mooresville Library. The show will run until the end of February. In addition to my photography, there is paintings by Abstract artist Karah Scott.
I hope you all will go down and see the show.
Library hours are Monday thru Thursday 9 - 9 pm; Friday and Saturday 9 - 6 pm; Sunday 2 - 6 pm

New Web Site

Hello Club and visitors!
As many of you know, the new website is up for the Iredell Photography Club! Click on Iredell Photography Club link on the right, and it will take you straight to our site.
Thanks goes to Kevin for setting up our new web site!
See you all soon!

Full Moon

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. Those tribes of a few hundred years ago kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred.
There were some variations in the Moon names, but in general the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England on west to Lake Superior. European settlers followed their own customs and created some of their own names. Since the lunar ("synodic") month is roughly 29.5 days in length on average, the dates of the full Moon shift from year to year.
Jan. 3, 8:57 a.m. EST - The Full Wolf Moon. Amid the zero cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. It was also known as the Old Moon or the "Moon After Yule."
I took this shot Tuesday morning on the way to work. The Feed Mill is located in Barber Junction, NC.

Parkway

I recently spent some time on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I drove from Wilkesboro over to Elkin taking in the "Crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains" section of North Carolina. Along the way, I found some pretty unique places.
This is the Brinegar Cabin. Carolyn Brinegar's weaving loom is the oldest one still in use in these mountains and can be seen at the cabin.

November Show

Hello Club and Visitors!
Remind everyone that the November Show Reception is Friday, November 3rd from 7-9 p.m. at the Mooresville Arts Depot.
We would love to have everyone stop by the depot on Friday night to the work by Iredell Photography Club members as well as the Lake Norman Club.
See you all there!
Rachel

Glassmine Falls

Best viewed in the spring when water is more plentiful, the Falls are very narrow the rest of the summer. It occasionally dries up completely. You can view the falls from Glassmine Falls Overlook at milepost 361.1. Look across the valley to locate the Falls. Although the stream of water is narrow, the sign says it is 800' high, some sources say 200', but you should be able to see it easily even from this distance.
It's a thin sliver of water cascading down a bare rock outcropping where a Mica mine once was. You can still barely make out the mine entrance to the bottom right side of the rock face.
I took this photo on 10-20-06 around 5 p.m. The temperature had dropped to about 50° and the wind was blowing strong. I was using my 70-200mm lens at 200mm in order to get all I could in the picture.