“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” Steve McCurry Today was the last f8 meeting for 2018 and featured two of our own members both capturing images during their travels abroad... The first set of pictures and narrative was from Scott Herman... “The photos were from Strasbourg FR one of the towns that I had visited as part of our Christmas Markets River Cruise on the first week of December, 2018. The markets were bright, colorful, and scattered throughout cities in France and Germany. There were foods of every kind, with a preponderance of hot wines and beers, as well as the usual libations., and booths that sold all things Christmas and holidays. Each market was probably more similar than different. In addition to the temporary booths, the brick and mortar stores also were decorated gaily with stuffed animals of every conceivable kind, and decorations of every kind and color. Additionally, a number of the cities had towering gothic churches as backdrops, leaving a riotous and contradictory set of sights. It was with shock and horror that, exactly one week to the day, and at the same time of day, in the Strasbourg Christmas market a terrorist took the lives of at least 4 people where there had just seconds earlier been joy and celebration. My memories of this delightful trip will always be somewhat muted by despicable current events.” (edited for space) The second set of images is from Joe Loudermilk This is his commentary for his images ...just a few are shown below “Joe presented photos today of architectural subjects in New York City and Tokyo Japan. The shots were in color and post processed to highlight the main the focal points of the image an soften and darken the remaining areas of the images. Many to the images were taken at night or dusk which also emphasized the lighting on, around or in the buildings.” Last thing for the end of the year blog post is a picture of our f8 Pasadena Salon members at our "sometimes annual" end of the year party. This year it was hosted by Julia & Jim Woodward...thank you guys L-R Standing: Kevin Hass, John Holmes, Mark Myers, Scott Herman,Carel Struycken, Jim Staub, Rene Sheret, Charley Kohlhase, Joe Loudermilk, Debrah LeMattre
L-R Sitting: Charles Edwards, Julia Woodward, Kathy Wishner, Bill Wishner, Rod Williams, Cyndi Bemel, Paul Dupont Absent from picture , but present at the party was Howard Landau For a complete list of f8 Pasadena Salon members open the "Contributors Page " on this blog site
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