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Steve Scott - President & Fieldtrip Co-chair
 I am originally from Northern California. I was born and raised in Yuba City California, graduated from Yuba City High (Home of the Honkers!); attended and graduated California State University Sacramento with a degree in Business Administration. After graduating from college, my professional career took me to the East Coast where I worked in Corporate Banking first with Smith Barney then HSBC Bank in Wilmington Delaware. I have lived in Salt Lake City since 2002.
I have had an interest in photography for a long time. I would always find myself taking pictures of something, using my father’s old Yashica 35mm SLR. Before heading off to college in 1988, I purchased my first SLR, a Canon EOS 650 (it is the same camera I use today!) My interest in photography never really changed from casually taking snapshots at that point, until after I graduated from college and in 1994 making my first pilgrimage to Moab Utah. Upon laying my eyes on the red rock that first time, I new I wanted to capture the beauty that is the Colorado Plateau. Since then, I have worked very hard learning some of the technical aspects of the craft; but more importantly, learning and developing my own personal compositional style. It is a continual process, one that I am thoroughly enjoying, as not only do I get to pursue my artistic interests, I also get to enjoy the explorations and excitement that often accompany going to various locations on the Colorado Plateau and throughout the west. |
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Ron Whiteman- Vice-President
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Bonnie Kitt-Whiteman - Secretary & Newsletter Editor
I was born and raised in Salt Lake City area and spent most of my time outdoors in the fields and canyons close to home. Maybe that’s why my first love in photography is landscape, flowers, and "critters". My mother was an artist and although she never made it a profession, she was involved in some kind of art all her life. Photography was one thing she experimented with - I guess that’s where my interest began. I spent a couple of years doing a little photography and layout on my high school yearbook staff, and was the photo editor on a college magazine for a short time - even got the cover shot one quarter. My first real camera was a Nikon automatic SLR that I bought to take on a tour of Scandinavia in 1990. It was a control freak and kept me from taking a lot of pictures because they weren’t "right" according to its little computerized mind. I traded it for a great Tamron lens. Several years later I found WCC and my husband Ron. We both have been with the club for the past 10 years, Ron from WCCs inception, and I’ve learned a great deal about photography from Ron and other club members. I work as a computer techie so the digital world is my playground. I love to explore Photoshop and see what kind of photos come out. A four wheel drive Photo Van is Ron’s and my dream car. When we win the lottery, that’s the first purchase - or maybe when we retire. |
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Amy Hargreaves Judzis - Treasurer & WebWench
Michigan was my home in my young and foolish years. In my older, and still foolish years, I have lived in Alaska, North Carolina, Texas and finally, for the last seven years, Utah. Suffering from serious right-brain/left-brain confusion, I have always been enthralled by both art and science and therefor majored in almost everything during a checkered college career.
My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic for Girl Scout camp. I took pictures of my camp friends, the dog, noncamp friends, the dog, scenery, and the dog. A few years ago, I ran away from reality and went back to college to get a degree in computer science. (I wasn't so far from reality that I didn't think about actually making some money upon graduation.) I bought my second, and first "real" camera, a Canon Rebel II, while I was at University of North Carolina Asheville and took nerd breaks photographing along the Blue Ridge Parkway. I took pictures of the cats, scenery, the cats, flowers, the cats, animals and, of course, the cats.
Now I'm married to Arnis Judzis. I still have my Rebel and am still taking pictures of the cats. Arnis and I share an Olympus 5050D and I have a Canon 20D for the important digital stuff. Photoshop is my favorite program. Wasatch Camera Club is my first camera club and it's wonderful to be able to associate with people who are sincerely interested in photography. |
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Dwane and Virginia Williams - Competition Committee Co-Chairs
Virginia and I are both from American Fork, Utah and even went to high school together. While we didn’t associate at all during this time, we managed to get together and married 4 years after graduating from high school. We have four children, a couple of whom can also manage a camera.
Virginia studied arts (including photography) at Dixie College and soon purchased the very advanced Canon AE1. She still asserts that I married her just to get my hands on her……….camera. I had been using a Ricoh 500G (a small 35mm rangefinder with a leaf shutter and 40mm lens) and felt quite proficient with it but would learn better when I began studying photography while finishing my degree in California. We always fancied Ansel Adams and his grand landscapes but would find our greatest delight photographing people. I have been earnestly shooting weddings and portraits for about 20 years but shot my first wedding 29 yrs ago. Ah, to be young, foolish and have no idea of all the things that can go wrong while shooting a! weddin g. But for us, it has been most rewarding to develop friendships with our subjects and see their excitement when we’ve actually produced a nice portrait of them. While we still like grand landscapes we have yet to have one of them get excited about how good we made them look. I guess there must be room for improvement.
Over the years we’ve used a variety of equipment but mostly Nikon and Canon 35mm / digital and Mamiya medium format cameras. We use Photoflex light disks, Stroboframe flash brackets, Nikon & Sunpack & Novatron flashes. We like fast glass for the ability to nail the focus and soften backgrounds. |
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Cheryl Daugherty Velasquez - Public Relations Chair
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Wade Velasquez - Fieldtrip Co-chair
Since I could hold a pencil I was always doing something "creative"...at least I thought so. Parents and walls never seem to mix. Eventually I discovered paper and was smiled upon more often. Art and music was always a way of life growing up. We were constantly moving it seemed so imagination and the arts became friends. The years passed and interest peeked, but until taking an art appreciation course, while majoring in business management did I become serious and ambitious. I decided to follow my heart and studied Graphic Design and Illustration... photography was rather found by accident once I bought a used Minolta for $50 at a pawn shop.
I found a love of photography from there, eventually invested savings into a Nikon outfit and grew all the more. I came to enjoy the creative aspect of developing film and printing. I still find myself intrigued by being able to capture a moment within a few short minutes instead of hours, or days, that it would take to create a design or illustration. Instead I now "illustrate" in the darkroom and with various media.
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Autumn Morton - Workshop Committee Co-chair
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Lisa Thompson - Workshop Committee Co-chair
I am the daughter of a wildlife biologist, so I developed an interest in many things outdoorsy at an early age. We moved quite a bit when I was young, but stayed the longest in Wisconsin, where I finished junior and senior high and acquired a degree in Resource Management/Parks and Recreation in college.
I bought my first Chinon SLR when I worked for the National Park Service at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (I was on a tight budget as a government employee). I met my husband, Jim, while we were both Park Rangers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Our twin girls, Hannah and Cheyenne, were born in Nashville. We moved to Brunswick, GA, which is on the southeast coast, when the girls were six months old. After about 3 years of intense mothering and little free time, and after living in the south for 13 years, we headed for Utah in 1995, a place which none of us had ever laid eyes on. It took awhile to get accustomed to the elevation change (12 feet versus 4500 feet), how dry it is (16” of rain a year versus 36”), and no bugs!! I could not imagine that the deserts here could hold my interest. How wrong I was!
As our girls got older (they are now 13), I found I had a little more time, and renewed a previous interest in working with dogs. Our family currently raises puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind, and I lead our local puppy raising club. I occasionally bring my current puppy, “Neutron” to WCC events.
I bought a Canon camera about 8 years ago and winged it for many years. After joining the camera club in 2002, my understanding of photography and its’ related hazards (like spending money on camera gear) have gone up exponentially. I recently succumbed to the call of digital and have a Canon 10D. One of the side effects of belonging to the WCC is new friendships with people who have the same interests. The field trips are the fast track for learning as you can be totally immersed in photography. We are lucky to live in a place of unlimited photo opportunities. I look forward to the coming year and welcome your input, and, dare I say, complaints!
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Curtis Parker - Program Chair
Anybody who's gone to the Salt Lake County or theState Fair knows Curtis -- he probably recruited half of the membership. As a bonus he has a really cute white mustache. |
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Cami Baker - Co-chair Hospitality and Membership
Cami makes a long drive to stand before you at the entrance table and be nice to you. Be nice back to her. |
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Darlene Monson - Co-chair Hospitality and Membership
I was born and raised in Ogden, UT, can’t remember the year. I have two daughters and five grandchildren. I’ve been married for 15 great years to Mike and we live in North Ogden.
I graduated from WSC and worked as a medical office manager until six years ago. My time now is spent enjoying my family and my hobbies, one of which is taking photographs.
My first camera was a Polaroid Swinger, although I remember taking shots with a Brownie before that. Through the years I gradually upgraded and am now using a D70, which I find is much smarter than I am. The more I learn the more I realize there is so much more to learn! Adding the computer in the last six years has presented it’s own challenge, but one that I am enjoying. My favorite thing to photograph is (of course) my grandchildren but I also enjoy beautiful scenery.
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Ryan Harper - Digital Chair
Photography has only recently ensnared me as I’ve strived to learn everything I possibly can. It started about two years ago when I had a chance to buy a used Canon 10d off of an acquaintance, and struggled to learn everything I could about this new device of mine and the concepts of photography in general. I’ve worked with computers ever since our families first IBM PC junior way back in the days and kept at it. Having worked with Photoshop since version 5, I’ve loved working with a digital camera, and can’t imagine trying to learn this stuff using film. So when I finally had a chance to help with the club (not having much photo experience), I jumped at the chance to fill my predecessor’s shoes (the infamous Pete) as the new digital chair.
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Frank Langheinrich - Past President
Frank Langheinrich has been taking pictures since he was six. He was the
yearbook photographer at East High School in 1968. He worked for Gordon
Peery Photography (architectural photographers) 1968-69. In 1992 Frank
started the photography program at Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School where he
taught until 1998. He has taught photography at East High School since 2004.
Over the years Frank has maintained a small commercial business with clients
that include the University of Utah Hospital Foundation, The McGillis
School, Hooters Restaurant and others, along with numerous wedding and
portrait clients. He has also been a photography judge, most recently for
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