You don't take a photograph, you make it. (Ansel Adams)

Member Projects for the Year

I still need everyone's project so please email your topic ASAP

This year we are going to try something new for December and have everyone show only their projects for the year. As we talked about at the January meeting each person should pick a topic to photograph this year and work on it all year long, it will help you be a more creative and think outside the box a little more. Each month you can bring in an image to share with the group to show your progress. To help you achieve your goals I am asking that each member send me their topic so that I can write it down and keep track of everyone.

Suggestions for topics could be Windows, doors, mailboxes,shadows, walls, fences, beaches and list can be endless. Each person will need to produce a minimum of 12 images by the end of the year so it is not too hard to do

Orchid Festival March 30th 10-4

The Society will be participating in the Orchid Festival this year at
Sunken Gardens on 4th Street in St Petersburg on Sunday March 30, If you would like to sell your images at the Orchid Festival the images must be of either Orchids or Butterfly's.We will discuss costs at the meeting this week and we will have a sign up sheet for those interested in participating. Costs will depend on the number of people participating.

Click on the Photo Exhibits page on left to go directly to our web page about additional exhibits

Abelardo Morell's "magic box" is the "camera obscura," which literally means "dark room" in Italian.  Used since the Renaissance, the camera obscura  is, literally, Italian for "dark room."  It is also the source of the term “camera.”  In it, scenes from the outside world appear upside down on a wall inside a dark room from which the light has been curtained off except for a pinhole of light.  This ancestor of the modern camera had no film upon which to “fix” or preserve an image.

That's what Morell does.  The subject of his art is light.  Indeed, the word "photograph" is derived from the Greek for "drawing with light."  So visitors can directly experience the camera obscura, the museum is setting up a permanent installation of the camera obscura , which will be available to classes and scheduled tour groups.  FMOPA will be hosting programs and workshops related to the camera obscura for children and adults during the run of this exhibition and other exhibitions.

Morell's work is in the collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and London's Victoria and Albert Museum.