All entries received are now processed, if your name is not on the list, I do NOT have your images.

Craig.

All entries received as at 8Pm Sunday 29th of April should be listed, if your entry is not there, contact me ASAP.

Craig.

Had a very busy week with work and Anna’s Graduation, will process the entries I have received so far in the next 48 hours.

Craig.

The May meeting has been brought forward a week because of the clash with Mother’s Day. It will be May 6th at the Ramada as usual. Deadline for Digital entries will be Sunday April 29th, don’t be late!

Craig H.

The Catalogue for the 2012 San Joaquin Valley International Exhibition is available now at http://2012.sjvccc.org.

In the first week of April it has been viewed 375 times by 190 different people from over 26 different countries! 1 in 10 visitors was using a MAC, and over 1/4 were viewing using Mozilla Firefox.

Craig H.

Think digital images are new? You’d be surprised, the first digital image on a computer was done in…… 1957, 55 years ago!

One of the first scanned images. Produced by NIST in 1957, the image shows Walden Kirsch, son of the leader of the team that developed the image scanner. This is a composite of two binary scans to produce approximate gray levels.

The first Digital Sensor was a whopping 10,000 pixels (Note pixels, not megapixels!) and was produced by Fairchild semiconductor in 1973.

Kodak produced the first color sensor in 1975….. So Digital, not so new!

Craig.

I have replaced the gallery software to a better program that should be easier to use, have yet to finish tweaking it though.

Craig H.

The Field trip for SJVCCC will be April 7th to McKenzie Table Mountain Preserve.

More information on the McKenzie Preserve can be found at www.sierrafoothill.org/preserves.htm.

Craig.

Because of problems with getting the dates into the PSA Journal, they have extended the deadline for the SJV International to tomorrow, the 27th of March.

Craig.

At Yesterdays meeting John Greening showed us all a book he finds very useful in his work as a docent for trust lands, I know I have wanted to identify flowers and critters I have shot in the past and think this will be ideal, you can read about the book HERE. You can buy it at that site for $24.95 plus shipping.

I just bought a used copy on Amazon.com for a lot less ($4.42 including shipping).

Craig H.