Darkroom for sale

Besseler 23C enlarger
50mm Nikon lens
easel
safelight and filters
timer
thermometer
large and small developing tanks
polycontrast filters
3 8x 10 trays
3 11 x 14 trays
static brush
squeegee
couple books
grey card

If you are interested please contact Lindsay Lochman at qfinnmc@sbcglobal.net


I am also selling a UMax Powerlook 2100XL high quality scanner has a very large 12x17 scanner bed. Includes top scanner attachment for scanning photographic negatives. Also includes a 32 slide holder for transferring all of your slide film into digital projections.
It provides the flexibility to scan illustrations, newspapers, magazines, transparencies, textiles, color photos, black and white photos, negatives, and even radiographic x-rays. Great for photographers, designers, or family photo preservationists.

The only down side to this is it still uses scsi connection, the predecessor to USB. You need to buy a transformer or have a computer that still takes scsi or buy a converter cable. I never searched hard enough to figure it out. If you are interested contact me at Gafferphotograph@gmail.com

Here is a 100 meter long photograph there are some pretty impressive portraits with in this image.

http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html

SPE Midwest

I am freshly back from SPE Midwest back in Minneapolis. It was a great weekend a lot of talented speakers with a room full of port folio reviewers. I am just going to add a bunch of links on this post for you to check out. The first one is Alec Soth he was the featured speaker and I highly recommend all of you to check out is work.

http://www.alecsoth.com/
http://www.paulshambroomart.com/
http://garyhallman.com/
http://www.mvswanson.com/- Photography and Business
http://www.weisman.umn.edu/
http://aimneworleans.blogspot.com/- New Orleans Study Program
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/index.jsp
http://www.guestcurator.com/
http://www.pausetobegin.com/
http://www.sjphoto.com/
http://mediastorm.org/
http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/- Top Photo History podcast in america

Well that is it for now I hope you get some useful information out of these website. Jessica might have more for us on wednesday.

Also the SPE National conference is in Philadelphia, PA on March 4-7.

CGG

Postcard Examples!

NOTE: I am apparently not so good at uploading pictures onto here, so you'll get the basic idea of what the postcards look like. If you would like to see the different sizes and full cards - theyre all on my Flickr:

Focus Postcards on Flickr
So heres some inspiration to get your creative minds flowing! These are all of the postcards I showed to the group on wednesday.

Focus Related Postcards:








NON-Focus Related

Titian Redwood Tree- 84 images in 1

This is an amazing photograph of a Redwood tree that is in the most recent National Geographic magazine. Please Check out the video here http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player#/?titleID=nichols-redwoods-gatefold&catID=1 This is an image that is changing the way photography is being produced. There is 84 images stitched together in 120hrs to create a seamless image of a giant Redwood tree. There is a very inventive contraption that holds three cameras and 6 remote triggers on a gyroscope attached to cable that will lift it 300 feet in the air. Stitching images together is gaining a presences in the world of photography. With the introduction of the Giga-pan camera that automatically takes photos with any standard digital camera and stitches them together to create a massive file. You can seemingly zoom into this images forever. http://gigapan.org/ These massive files will change the process of a photographer at any level. I just hope we dont see them showing up on facebook with a bunch of drunk girls.

CGG

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Green Gallery

I have talked to the Green Gallery in Riverwest and I am trying to set up a time we can show at there gallery. I will hopefully have more information this Wednesday.

Corey

Support for a house fire

Eric one of focus officers had a tragic occurrence this weekend. His house burned to the ground. He is waiting to see if he lost his photographs. His computer and hard drive both sustained fire and water damage so we all should cross our fingers for him. Eric and his roommates lost about 90% of there belongings. A lot of photo and Video equipment was lost in the fire. He is trying to get his life back together and will be missing the meeting this week.

I am proposing that we have our show this semester in his household honor. We should try to raise money, through print sales, for the items lost in the fire.

Eric we are here for you support. Get your life back together and come back to us as soon as possible.

Corey

Recent Work

I've been making very little work lately because of the long hours and rigors of being an apprentice, but this is a series I made under moonlight in Michigan a couple of weeks back.

Just because you never see daylight, doesn't mean you can't still shoot. I apologize for the small image.

MoCP : Reversed Images, Opening Reception 9/24/2009

Good evening members of focus, glad to see you all are getting along well. Your officers look like great candidates this year, I'm impressed by their drive.

Thought I would let you all know that there is an opening reception tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2009/09/reversed_images.php

MoCP always has great shows and the opening receptions are a good time. It's a great way to see some good art and meet like minded individuals from Chicago.

If anyone would like to come down I'd be happy to meet you at the museum after I get off of work at 5:00, I may only be able to stay a few minutes but still, I would be delighted to see any of you.

I wish the best for you all this year and please know you have a resource in Chicago, I'm available for questions, advice, and I'm always up to go shoot some photographs.

Your former president and founder,

Tom Harris

Fall

Look forward to seeing you all wednesday.

Corey

Spring 09 wrap up

Thanks all for a great semester. The check off votes from the recent student votes have been tallied and 19 of us managed to check off focus which brings us 90.25. Thats wonderful!! We have two new officers on board (welcome, Stephanie and Eric), along with Corey and myself still. During the summer, keep your eyes and ears out for possible show locations, and any ideas that we might want to strive towards.

We have also started a Flickr group to share everyones work - so if you are on flickr, the groups link is:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1053579@N22/

depending how everyone feels about it, if everyone creates a flickr account, we may switch the blog to there instead, as you are able to post announcements and things of the sort.



Thanks again, I hope finals go smoothly for everyone, and have a safe summer. See most of you next semester, and to those we wont - HAPPY GRADUATION :)

Show Take-Down, and Chicago

SHOW TAKEDOWN IS THIS FRIDAY (APRIL 10th) - I believe the time is 10am. I will edit/update if I am incorrect. PLEASE be there or get ahold of someone to pick yours up if you are unable to make it.

Other information:

Last email I sent out:
Good afternoon!
It sounds like we have a good confirmation on plans for the Chicago trip. PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL SO WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHO IS GOING!

We are planning the trip for SUNDAY APRIL 26TH

1. We want to take the METRA train from WAUKEGAN (changed from Kenosha because the times it departs and arrives are not doable for our schedule), which is only $5 roundtrip on weekends, so that would be more cost effective than the Amtrack from milwaukee

We need to figure out:
Who will be going
Who would be able to DRIVE to Waukegan (and how many fit in your car)

http://www.metrarail.com/
sunday schedule: http://metrarail.com/Sched/cnw_n/cnwn_sui.shtml (from keno to chi)
http://metrarail.com/Sched/cnw_n/cnwn_suo.shtml (from chi to keno)


2. Museum of Contemporary Art: http://www.mcachicago.org/
Open 10am to 5pm
Admission is $7 WITH STUDENT ID. (dont forget yours.)
There are free group tours. They start at specific times, and there are a few different types. We can all discuss this at the next meeting. Please take a look at the museum website to see if there is anything interesting to you. If someone would like to contact them and ask about specific group tours, that would be wonderful. Perhaps let them know we are a photography group and would be interested in a more detailed talk about photo work they have there:
"School, corporate, or other groups wanting a tour at the MCA should call 312.397.3898"


3. Museum of Contemporary Photography: http://mocp.org/
Free admission
Open noon to 5pm
If someone would like to contact them and inquire about group tours or anything of the sort, that would be awesome:
General Information: 312.663.5554
Email: mocp@colum.edu


4. Other random notes: some of us would like to stay down there and get dinner. Depending on how many we have, we would probably want to call ahead and make reservations/warn the restaurant a large group will be coming in. Depending on how many people want to go, if anyone is unable to stay later for dinner, we could go in groups. Say we have four cars of people, and one car had to return early, we will figure that out when the time comes around.
Train: $5, MOCA: $7 - that is only $12 for general everythingness. So factor in food, and if you feel like being nice and chipping in a little for your driver.
I think leaving milwaukee around 9am would be ideal if we want to really get a lot out of the day.

Midterm Update (ewww... midterms)

This is a hefty email, please read it all :)
A well deserved congratulations is in store to everyone who has their work up at the Jazz Gallery, wonderful work everyone, what a great team effort!! Now that we have accomplished putting together an extremely successful show (which comes down April 11th), we have a few new things we have put on our plate!
First of all - the Jazz Gallery is open Fridays 5-8, and Saturdays noon-5

Second off, we are planning on future events for the group:
1. SPE (The Society for Photographic Education) holds a conference once a year (which is actually going on right now in Texas). So obviously, this will not be taking place next semester, but the following semester. We are going to try to get a grant to attend. From my understanding, Helen is going to do a little more research for information, if anyone else would like to give her a hand, feel free to get ahold of her to see how you can help out: hgcoggin@uwm.edu

2. Next, We would like to do a gallery day down in chicago, possibly the last sunday of april. Perhaps having a print sale or fundraiser of sorts before hand if possible. Tom posted some information on shows going on down there, and possibly we could do a little more research and draw up some sort of itinerary. Please email me back if SUNDAY APRIL 26 is a possible date for you to attend. We should also make sure there are galleries open that day. This trip will not be funded, so everyone will have to pay their way (think transportation, gallery doors, and food). For transportation, we have discussed carpooling, carpooling to kenosha to take the $5 roundtrip train, or finding out if megabus is an option.

3. We also want to get a photographer to participate with the artists now! lectures. This goal will be more attainable for next semester. I believe Corey is going to be doing some research on finding an artist to visit. (feel free to email corey - cggaffer@uwm.edu - with any other suggestions - huge or small names, it doesn't matter. As long as they are alive. haha)
A list we have started
a. The Park-Harrisons
b. Sally Mann
c. Catherine Oppie
d. Tobin Yelland
e. Jen Davis
f. Scott Paulus
g. Dan Bishop (a local commercial photographer)

4. With mention of the last photographer, who is a local photographer, we have also brought up the idea of demo/workshops. Perhaps bringing in local artistry/photography businesses to talk about how they are approaching their photographic careers and offer us some guidance/inspiration, and information in general! (Some areas we are thinking about are: wedding photographers, commercial photographers, fashion etc) Speaking of which, as "not artistic" as catalog photography is, the Kohl's headquarters is in Milwaukee, and they constantly have full time photographer position ads in milwaukeejobs.com
Perhaps we could contact them and see if they would want to do some sort of workshop with us? Just throwing around a few ieas!

Alright, I think that covers it all! Let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to email me, corey or helen with any suggestions!
Have a great weekend!
Meg

Chicago, shows and events

Hello my friends, Tom Harris here with some news from the south.

First of all, let me say I'm thrilled that you guys are keeping the club going strong and I'll do everything I can to be at your opening.

Secondly, I'm in Chicago now, on the north side and if anyone needs a friend to shoot with down here, someone to go to an opening or exhibition, or a place to stay, you know how to get ahold of me.

Third, I've got a little bit of information on gallery openings down here in Chicago that you might be interested in.

The Art Institute is opening its new Modern Wing on the 16th of May.  It is a beautiful piece of Architecture, designed by Renzo Piano and although it probably lands on finals week, it would be a fun thing to check out...

There is a show right now at MoCP that I've not been able to check out yet, but it is called PhotoDimensional, it features the relationship of photography and 3 dimensional sculpture. Vik Muniz has a piece there, I've always been a fan of his stuff. This show is up until the 19th of October.

The next show at MoCP, which opens May 1st, involves urban planning and its relationship to the static quality of buildings and their unability to change with the ever changing environment of a city.  This one is really interesting to me and I'm definitly going to be at the opening, and would love to have anyone interested join me!  It is called The Edge of Intent.

Photographically I'm working on 2 different projects myself right now and just got a photograph published in a magazine, I'm pretty happy with it.  I don't have any exhibitions coming up right now but I'll let you guys know if I do in the future!

I hope to show up at one of your meetings sometime, just to listen and get nostalgic.  I hope you're all looking foreward to warmer weather and easier shooting conditions soon.

Best!

-Tom

Man Versus _________

The title of the show is confirmed "Man Versus ______"


EVERYONE PLANNING ON PARTICIPATING IN THE SHOW MUST SEND KATE AN IMAGE to be included on the post card (and possibly in the show). This is how we are going to figure out who/how many members are showing their work.
Kate's email: KTDean@uwm.edu

She needs the files by Monday, as we would like to decide on the final design at this weeks meeting (Wednesday@6:30pm Mitchell Hall room B49)

At The Jazz Gallery: 926 E Center St
Install/drop off date: March 14th-15th
Opening Reception: March 20th from 6-9pm
De-install: April 11th

Meeting and Show!

Thanks to everyone who showed up to our last meeting. As for this week, we are in the process of deciding a theme for our upcoming show at the jazz gallery. Please feel free to share ideas/opinions here!

So far, everyone responded to the "versus" idea.

a small list of information on the show:
Install/drop off date: March 14th-15th
Opening Reception: March 20th
De-install: April 11th

WE WILL BE HAVING OUR REGULAR MEETING TIME AND PLACE TOMORROW! (wednesday @ 6:30 in B49)
we will be discussing the show theme and post card. Hopefully we will get those sent out very soon to get them in time to adequately promote the show :)

See you all tomorrow!
-Focus

Focus 2009

02-18-09

Well we have the blog back up and running thanks to our good friend Tom Harris. We have been working on getting a gallery for the group to show in this semester. Jenny Urbenak talk to the Jazz gallery to possibly have a show their. We will soon know about if that is going to happen or not. 

Our next meeting is tonight and we hopefully have a good time critiquing each others work. I am working on getting the grants written for basic operations fees. The next SAC meeting is on Wednesday the 25th at 7:00 it is at the same time as our meeting so I might not be able to come to that meeting or we can all go to SAC or cancel the meeting. we can talk about it tonight. Well keep checking the blog hopefully we will be able to keep everyone posted on what is happening in Focus.

Corey Gaffer