Tuesday Oct 7 at 7pm

Double feature!

“Hummingbirds before and after.”

Member Cindy Brackney has been showing some great hummingbird photos. She will compare some of her out-of-camera images to the edited final versions. She will also share information about her settings and how she uses props in some instances.

Cindy started in photography in her twenties with a Minolta film camera. When she retired, she got back into photography using a Canon 5D Mark III. For hummingbirds, Cindy typically uses a Tamron 150 to 600 zoom lens. Her hummingbird photography has been a work in progress as she utilizes perches and feeders to encourage them to pose.

“1906 San Francisco Earthquake”

Karolinn Schmidt O’Connor was in San Francisco at the time of the great quake of 1906. Her photographs of the devastation were discovered in the mid 1980’s at the bottom of an old trunk in the attic of her sister’s home in Peoria, IL.

Her great niece, Becky Schmidt Dailey, inherited these original photographs from her father. She used her photographic skill to restore them. Becky has been a photo artist since 1965. She started her profession at Burchett Studio in Peoria, IL. Over the years she has copied and restored many old images, including negative retouching, print retouching, air brushing, black and white printing, hand oiling, and photography. Her photography included weddings and sports teams for grade and high school.  She has given presentations for PPA (Professional Photographers of America), APPI (Associated Professional Photographers of Illinois) and Peoria Color Camera Club in earlier years.  

Becky has assembled a historical journey from before and after the quake. Join us Oct. 7th for a photographic journey back in time. 

We meet at the Life Together Center located in Peoria at 3625 N Sheridan Rd (at War Memorial Dr) in Peoria, IL at 7pm. It’s the community center of the First Federated Church. Doors open at 6:30P and the meeting begins at 7P. Look for our sign at the door to enter. Peoria Camera Club typically meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from Sept to May.

Visitors are welcome. Please email to let us know you are coming. membership@peoriacameraclub.com.