Our Photo Critique Focus Group will be a Zoom-only meeting. The goals of this group are to provide honest peer reviews in a supportive environment, as well as to sharpen photography skills through discussion and feedback

It is optional to submit images for critique, although it is encouraged.  For those who want to participate, images for critiquing (limit of 2) should be sent by midafternoon on the day of the meeting. Images should be jpegs, with the longest side 1400 pixels.

We will send an email and post to the Facebook group if there are any changes to the schedule.

Group Coordinator
Teddy Alfrey teddyalfrey@gmail.com

Adobe Photoshop Workshop

Are you looking for ways to improve your camera or cellphone photographs? Maybe there's something distracting that you didn't mean to be in the picture, or it’s not quite sharp enough, or it’s crooked or too dark, or the sky is just plain blah! This workshop will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to improve and enhance your photographs. 

Topics will include USING THE TOOLS AND PANELS, PROTECTING YOUR WORK, RESIZING, STRAIGHTENING, CROPPING, CORRECTING KEYSTONING, SHARPENING, ENHANCING SATURATION, SPOT-HEALING, USING GENERATIVE FILL, SKY REPLACEMENT, and more. You’ll also learn how to create your own greeting cards for all occasions and add vignettes and/or attractive borders to your photos for a finished look. You will need to have Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements installed on your home computer. You are also welcome to attend if you do not have Photoshop and would like to know more about it before purchasing.

The workshop, taught by Juliet Frey and Roland Bydlon, will be presented via Zoom (with possibility for in-person also—more on this later) on four consecutive Thursdays: April 23, April 30, May 7, May 14, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Deadline to sign up is April 16. Please follow the link below to sign up for the workshop: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoEd4I4RXXRFeTNfHWsMQUeaQtNi22qS463SvkwE7c1O3dmA/viewform?usp=dialog

Questions? Contact Juliet Frey, jstarkfrey@comcast.net

We are planning to conduct our Serendipity: Perfect or Not Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. All paid members for the BPC are welcome to attend.

Please send your photo files to Becca Cambridge (becca.cambridge@gmail.com) by noon today. Images (limit of 6) should be jpegs, with the longest side 1400 pixels. The ppi (resolution) does not matter. Please label them: Your name-01.jpg with the number indicating the order that you want the photos presented.

Serendipity Zoom Meeting URL:
https://zoom.us/j/92731211164?pwd=cVQrV3N2SGxOSzhGenU1NFRkd1hTZz09
Meeting ID: 927 3121 1164
Passcode: 112024

Group Coordinators:
Becca Cambridge becca.cambridge@gmail.com
Joyce Byrer jkbyrer@icloud.com

We are planning to conduct our SPUDS (Street, Photojournalism, Urban, Documentary, Sports) Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. All SPUDS focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year will be invited to join this Zoom meeting at 7:00 pm.

As most of you know, with each meeting we have a photo share - if you have some images that you would like to share with the group, that would be great.  Our focus group subject matter consists of Street, Photojournalism, Urban, Documentary and Sports (hence the name SPUDS). 

Please send your images (up to 10) to Juliet Frey (jstarkfrey@comcast.net) by 3:00pm on the day of the meeting. Files should be jpeg or tiff and the longest side of the photos should be 1400 pixels in length.

Group Coordinator
Allan Yates herrbarnack@gmail.com

Adobe Photoshop Workshop

Are you looking for ways to improve your camera or cellphone photographs? Maybe there's something distracting that you didn't mean to be in the picture, or it’s not quite sharp enough, or it’s crooked or too dark, or the sky is just plain blah! This workshop will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to improve and enhance your photographs. 

Topics will include USING THE TOOLS AND PANELS, PROTECTING YOUR WORK, RESIZING, STRAIGHTENING, CROPPING, CORRECTING KEYSTONING, SHARPENING, ENHANCING SATURATION, SPOT-HEALING, USING GENERATIVE FILL, SKY REPLACEMENT, and more. You’ll also learn how to create your own greeting cards for all occasions and add vignettes and/or attractive borders to your photos for a finished look. You will need to have Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements installed on your home computer. You are also welcome to attend if you do not have Photoshop and would like to know more about it before purchasing.

The workshop, taught by Juliet Frey and Roland Bydlon, will be presented via Zoom (with possibility for in-person also—more on this later) on four consecutive Thursdays: April 23, April 30, May 7, May 14, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Deadline to sign up is April 16. Please follow the link below to sign up for the workshop: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoEd4I4RXXRFeTNfHWsMQUeaQtNi22qS463SvkwE7c1O3dmA/viewform?usp=dialog

Questions? Contact Juliet Frey, jstarkfrey@comcast.net

We are planning to conduct our Film Users Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. All focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year will be invited to join this online meeting at 7:00 pm.

Photoshare: Please send your images (any reasonable number) to Lawrence. Images should be jpegs, 1400 pixels on the long side; the ppi doesn't matter. You'll have an opportunity to tell us what camera, film and processing you used.

Group Coordinator: Lawrence Ruich (ljruich@gmail.com)

Photoshare: “Junk Drawer” or “Tool Chest”.

Please send images you would like to share (limit of six) to Steven Gilbert (stevengilb@gmail.com) no later than noon on the day of the meeting. Please label the images with your last name and first initial, followed by a number indicating the order in which you want them shown. Images must be jpegs and no more than 1400 pixels on the longest side.

About the Meeting:

We are planning to conduct our monthly Bloomington Photography Club Meeting as a hybrid meeting. We will be meeting at 7:00 pm in person in the Chapel Room of the Bell Trace Retirement Community, 800 Bell Trace Court, Bloomington, IN. The Chapel Room is in the main building at Bell Trace. From the main entrance take the elevator to the basement; the room is about 30 feet straight ahead. It is next to the Commons Room where we have our holiday party. The meeting is open to all members and non-members. If you can’t join us in person, you can participate via Zoom. All paid members will automatically receive a Zoom invitation or you can go HERE to get the link. If you are not a paid member, you may request a link from Juliet Frey (jstarkfrey@comcast.net).

Adobe Photoshop Workshop

Are you looking for ways to improve your camera or cellphone photographs? Maybe there's something distracting that you didn't mean to be in the picture, or it’s not quite sharp enough, or it’s crooked or too dark, or the sky is just plain blah! This workshop will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to improve and enhance your photographs. 

Topics will include USING THE TOOLS AND PANELS, PROTECTING YOUR WORK, RESIZING, STRAIGHTENING, CROPPING, CORRECTING KEYSTONING, SHARPENING, ENHANCING SATURATION, SPOT-HEALING, USING GENERATIVE FILL, SKY REPLACEMENT, and more. You’ll also learn how to create your own greeting cards for all occasions and add vignettes and/or attractive borders to your photos for a finished look. You will need to have Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements installed on your home computer. You are also welcome to attend if you do not have Photoshop and would like to know more about it before purchasing.

The workshop, taught by Juliet Frey and Roland Bydlon, will be presented via Zoom (with possibility for in-person also—more on this later) on four consecutive Thursdays: April 23, April 30, May 7, May 14, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Deadline to sign up is April 16. Please follow the link below to sign up for the workshop: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoEd4I4RXXRFeTNfHWsMQUeaQtNi22qS463SvkwE7c1O3dmA/viewform?usp=dialog

Questions? Contact Juliet Frey, jstarkfrey@comcast.net

This will be a zoom meeting. All LAWN (Landscape, Architecture, Wildlife, Nature) focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year are invited to join this meeting.

Program: TBA

Photoshare:  Please send images you would like to share (limit of 6) by mid-afternoon on the day of the meeting, using DropBox at https://www.dropbox.com/home/BPC%20LAWN

If you prefer you can still email images to Zolt Levay (zgl@me.com) or Don Waters (donwaters98@yahoo.com) or Don Thompson (donthompson358@gmail.com)

The maximum dimension of your photos should be 1400x1400 pixels and should include your name within the photo file names. Name them so that they can be shown in your preferred order, with a number prefix, for example.

Group Coordinators
Zolt Levay (zgl@me.com)
Don Thompson (donthompson358@gmail.com)
Don Waters (donwaters98@yahoo.com)

Photoshare: We are planning to have the Creative Techniques Focus Group meeting conducted using Zoom software. All focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year are invited to join this meeting. Please send your images to Juliet (jstarkfrey@comcast.net) by noon on the day of the meeting. No set limit on the number of images--just common sense. It is interesting to see the originals of images on which you have worked your magic. And if you can remember how you created them :-) that is always great to hear! Images should be jpegs, 1400 pixels on the long side; the ppi doesn't matter. Number them in the order you would like them shown. 

Group Coordinator
Juliet Frey: jstarkfrey@comcast.net

Adobe Photoshop Workshop

Are you looking for ways to improve your camera or cellphone photographs? Maybe there's something distracting that you didn't mean to be in the picture, or it’s not quite sharp enough, or it’s crooked or too dark, or the sky is just plain blah! This workshop will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop to improve and enhance your photographs. 

Topics will include USING THE TOOLS AND PANELS, PROTECTING YOUR WORK, RESIZING, STRAIGHTENING, CROPPING, CORRECTING KEYSTONING, SHARPENING, ENHANCING SATURATION, SPOT-HEALING, USING GENERATIVE FILL, SKY REPLACEMENT, and more. You’ll also learn how to create your own greeting cards for all occasions and add vignettes and/or attractive borders to your photos for a finished look. You will need to have Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements installed on your home computer. You are also welcome to attend if you do not have Photoshop and would like to know more about it before purchasing.

The workshop, taught by Juliet Frey and Roland Bydlon, will be presented via Zoom (with possibility for in-person also—more on this later) on four consecutive Thursdays: April 23, April 30, May 7, May 14, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Deadline to sign up is April 16. Please follow the link below to sign up for the workshop: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoEd4I4RXXRFeTNfHWsMQUeaQtNi22qS463SvkwE7c1O3dmA/viewform?usp=dialog

Questions? Contact Juliet Frey, jstarkfrey@comcast.net

All BPC paid members will receive the Zoom invitation to this informal get-together hosted by Sarah Slover. A chance to ask photo-related questions! Wide-ranging conversations! Interesting discussions!

For more information contact Sarah Slover sarahjensvold@gmail.com

Program: We will have our usual photoshare. Send no more than 6 photo files to Cheryl Molin (CherylMolin@gmail.com) by noon today so I can get them into the file I use for sharing with everyone. Images should be jpegs, with the longest side 1400 pixels. The ppi (resolution) does not matter. Please label them: Your name-01.jpg with the number indicating the order that you want the photos presented.

We are planning to conduct our Macro Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. If you are a paid BPC member and would like to be invited to join this online meeting, please send me an email.

Group Coordinator: (CherylMolin@gmail.com)

Please join me for a Zoom Portrait Focus Group photo share at 7:00 pm. If you wish to share images that you have taken, please send them to me (max. 8 images). Deadline is noon the day of the photo share. All Portrait focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year will be invited to join this online meeting.

A reminder that our understanding of “Portraits” is broad and inclusive.  Your images may be formal, casual, set up or candid, planned or spontaneous, individuals, couples or groups.  Let’s see what folks have been up to since we last met.  I will send you the Zoom link on the day of our meeting.

If you know someone who wishes to participate and has not yet signed up for the group, please advise me and I will happily include them.

If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 812-345-0142.

Looking forward to virtually seeing each of you.

Group Coordinator: Kip May kipmay2@icloud.com 
Kip May Photography
141 N. Adams St
Bloomington, IN 47404
812-345-0142

Printing Your Images – Learn from an Expert

The BPC Exhibit Committee will host a pop-up event at Spectrum Creative Group, located at 101 West Kirkwood Avenue, Suite 112, in Fountain Square Mall. The session will be led by Kendall Reeves, owner of Spectrum Creative Group and an accomplished photographer. Kendall will discuss print options and best practices for achieving high-quality photographic results. Mark your calendars for May 23. 11:00 a.m. No sign-up is required. For those interested, an informal late lunch will follow the visit to Spectrum; details will be announced. Questions? Contact Deanilee Deckard (deanilee1@aol.com).

We are planning to conduct our Serendipity: Perfect or Not Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. All paid members for the BPC are welcome to attend.

Please send your photo files to Becca Cambridge (becca.cambridge@gmail.com) by noon today. Images (limit of 6) should be jpegs, with the longest side 1400 pixels. The ppi (resolution) does not matter. Please label them: Your name-01.jpg with the number indicating the order that you want the photos presented.

Serendipity Zoom Meeting URL:
https://zoom.us/j/92731211164?pwd=cVQrV3N2SGxOSzhGenU1NFRkd1hTZz09
Meeting ID: 927 3121 1164
Passcode: 112024

Group Coordinators:
Becca Cambridge becca.cambridge@gmail.com
Joyce Byrer jkbyrer@icloud.com

We are planning to conduct our SPUDS (Street, Photojournalism, Urban, Documentary, Sports) Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. All SPUDS focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year will be invited to join this Zoom meeting at 7:00 pm.

As most of you know, with each meeting we have a photo share - if you have some images that you would like to share with the group, that would be great.  Our focus group subject matter consists of Street, Photojournalism, Urban, Documentary and Sports (hence the name SPUDS). 

Please send your images (up to 10) to Juliet Frey (jstarkfrey@comcast.net) by 3:00pm on the day of the meeting. Files should be jpeg or tiff and the longest side of the photos should be 1400 pixels in length.

Group Coordinator
Allan Yates herrbarnack@gmail.com

Our History of Photography Focus Group will be conducted as a Zoom meeting. All focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year will be invited to join this Zoom meeting at 7:00 pm. The goals of this group are to review the history of photography, famous photographers, photographic styles, and media.

Group Coordinator
Teddy Alfrey teddyalfrey@gmail.com

We are planning to conduct our Film Users Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. All focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year will be invited to join this online meeting at 7:00 pm.

Photoshare: Please send your images (any reasonable number) to Lawrence. Images should be jpegs, 1400 pixels on the long side; the ppi doesn't matter. You'll have an opportunity to tell us what camera, film and processing you used.

Group Coordinator: Lawrence Ruich (ljruich@gmail.com)

Photoshare: “Textures” or “Patterns”.

Please send images you would like to share (limit of six) to Steven Gilbert (stevengilb@gmail.com) no later than noon on the day of the meeting. Please label the images with your last name and first initial, followed by a number indicating the order in which you want them shown. Images must be jpegs and no more than 1400 pixels on the longest side.

About the Meeting:

We are planning to conduct our monthly Bloomington Photography Club Meeting as a hybrid meeting. We will be meeting at 7:00 pm in person in the Chapel Room of the Bell Trace Retirement Community, 800 Bell Trace Court, Bloomington, IN. The Chapel Room is in the main building at Bell Trace. From the main entrance take the elevator to the basement; the room is about 30 feet straight ahead. It is next to the Commons Room where we have our holiday party. The meeting is open to all members and non-members. If you can’t join us in person, you can participate via Zoom. All paid members will automatically receive a Zoom invitation or you can go HERE to get the link. If you are not a paid member, you may request a link from Juliet Frey (jstarkfrey@comcast.net).

This will be a zoom meeting. All LAWN (Landscape, Architecture, Wildlife, Nature) focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year are invited to join this meeting.

Program: TBA

Photoshare:  Please send images you would like to share (limit of 6) by mid-afternoon on the day of the meeting, using DropBox at https://www.dropbox.com/home/BPC%20LAWN

If you prefer you can still email images to Zolt Levay (zgl@me.com) or Don Waters (donwaters98@yahoo.com) or Don Thompson (donthompson358@gmail.com)

The maximum dimension of your photos should be 1400x1400 pixels and should include your name within the photo file names. Name them so that they can be shown in your preferred order, with a number prefix, for example.

Group Coordinators
Zolt Levay (zgl@me.com)
Don Thompson (donthompson358@gmail.com)
Don Waters (donwaters98@yahoo.com)

Photoshare: We are planning to have the Creative Techniques Focus Group meeting conducted using Zoom software. All focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year are invited to join this meeting. Please send your images to Juliet (jstarkfrey@comcast.net) by noon on the day of the meeting. No set limit on the number of images--just common sense. It is interesting to see the originals of images on which you have worked your magic. And if you can remember how you created them :-) that is always great to hear! Images should be jpegs, 1400 pixels on the long side; the ppi doesn't matter. Number them in the order you would like them shown. 

Group Coordinator
Juliet Frey: jstarkfrey@comcast.net

Program: We will have our usual photoshare. Send no more than 6 photo files to Cheryl Molin (CherylMolin@gmail.com) by noon today so I can get them into the file I use for sharing with everyone. Images should be jpegs, with the longest side 1400 pixels. The ppi (resolution) does not matter. Please label them: Your name-01.jpg with the number indicating the order that you want the photos presented.

We are planning to conduct our Macro Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. If you are a paid BPC member and would like to be invited to join this online meeting, please send me an email.

Group Coordinator: (CherylMolin@gmail.com)

Please join me for a Zoom Point and Shoot Focus Group photo share at 7 pm. If you wish to share images that you have taken with your point and shoot camera., please send them to me (max. 10 images). Deadline is noon the day of the photo share. All Point and Shoot focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year are invited to join this online meeting.

I will send out the Zoom link to each of you on my Point and Shoot Focus Group list the day of the photo share. If you know someone who wishes to participate and has not yet signed up for the group, please advise me and I will happily include them.

If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 812-345-0142.

Looking forward to virtually seeing each of you.

Group Coordinator:
Kip May kipmay2@icloud.com
Kip May Photography
141 N. Adams St
Bloomington, IN 47404
812-345-0142

All BPC paid members will receive the Zoom invitation to this informal get-together hosted by Sarah Slover. A chance to ask photo-related questions! Wide-ranging conversations! Interesting discussions!

For more information contact Sarah Slover sarahjensvold@gmail.com

We are planning to conduct our SPUDS (Street, Photojournalism, Urban, Documentary, Sports) Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. All SPUDS focus group members who have paid their BPC dues for this year will be invited to join this Zoom meeting at 7:00 pm.

As most of you know, with each meeting we have a photo share - if you have some images that you would like to share with the group, that would be great.  Our focus group subject matter consists of Street, Photojournalism, Urban, Documentary and Sports (hence the name SPUDS). 

Please send your images (up to 10) to Juliet Frey (jstarkfrey@comcast.net) by 3:00pm on the day of the meeting. Files should be jpeg or tiff and the longest side of the photos should be 1400 pixels in length.

Group Coordinator
Allan Yates herrbarnack@gmail.com

Our Photo Critique Focus Group will be a Zoom-only meeting. The goals of this group are to provide honest peer reviews in a supportive environment, as well as to sharpen photography skills through discussion and feedback

It is optional to submit images for critique, although it is encouraged.  For those who want to participate, images for critiquing (limit of 2) should be sent by midafternoon on the day of the meeting. Images should be jpegs, with the longest side 1400 pixels.

We will send an email and post to the Facebook group if there are any changes to the schedule.

Group Coordinator
Teddy Alfrey teddyalfrey@gmail.com

We are planning to conduct our Serendipity: Perfect or Not Focus Group Meeting as an online meeting using Zoom software. All paid members for the BPC are welcome to attend.

Please send your photo files to Becca Cambridge (becca.cambridge@gmail.com) by noon today. Images (limit of 6) should be jpegs, with the longest side 1400 pixels. The ppi (resolution) does not matter. Please label them: Your name-01.jpg with the number indicating the order that you want the photos presented.

Serendipity Zoom Meeting URL:
https://zoom.us/j/92731211164?pwd=cVQrV3N2SGxOSzhGenU1NFRkd1hTZz09
Meeting ID: 927 3121 1164
Passcode: 112024

Group Coordinators:
Becca Cambridge becca.cambridge@gmail.com
Joyce Byrer jkbyrer@icloud.com

Join us for the Annual John Sanders Memorial Fall Picnic!

Grab your camera! Peak fall colors. Perfect weather. A beautiful environmental setting and placid lake scenes. Friendly photographers. Food and fun.  Don’t miss the annual BPC fall John Sanders Memorial Picnic and outing.  Sunday, October 18th, 2026 the BPC will gather at the Strahl Lake Shelter House in Brown County State Park.  This is open to all BPC members and their guests.

This friendly, in person festive gathering is scheduled from 11:00am – 4:00pm.  We have reserved the shelter house for the day, so if you wish to arrive earlier or stay later that is fine.  This is a “bring your own food, beverage, plate and utensils”.  Gathering for lunch in the shelter house is at 1:00.  Because of concerns for spreading illness this is not a “pitch in, pot luck” meal, however if you wish to bring a food item or a covered dish to share, people are free to make their own choices with whatever they are comfortable with.

You can enter by either of the two entrances to Brown County State Park and there will be signs for Strahl Lake. Unless you have a season pass, entry fee per car (with Indiana license plate) is $7.00.

https://www.browncountystatepark.net/
 

This is the Annual Planning Meeting where the club's entire calendar of events for the coming year is determined. Photoshare topics, guest speakers, field trips, tech tips, exhibits, workshops, and special events are proposed, discussed, and selected.

All paid club members are welcome! Everyone's input is important, and we would love to have all members of the BPC participate in this annual brainstorming session. Everyone is invited and it won’t be the same without you! We need your suggestions.

If you cannot attend in person, please send your ideas in advance to Kip May: kipmay2@icloud.com In fact, even if you are planning to attend, sending your ideas to Kip beforehand will help with preparations.

If you have any questions, please contact Joyce Byrer (jkbyrer@icloud.com).