{"id":24199,"date":"2012-05-09T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=24199"},"modified":"2012-05-10T06:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T11:28:47","slug":"weather-theme-for-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/05\/09\/weather-theme-for-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Weather’ theme for competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rain at Boyd and Pratt streets in Van Wert. (Photo by Rex Dolby)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weather is the competition theme when the Wassenberg Camera Club holds its next meeting Thursday, May 10, at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center. Weather is a pretty broad term that should\u00a0bring out a\u00a0wide range of pictures.<\/p>\n

When you consider the four seasons here in Ohio, each has its own personality and weather patterns to accompany that time of the year. Each season has its temperature range, type of precipitation,\u00a0and cloud patterns.<\/p>\n

Cold temps can reduce battery life quickly and moving from air conditioning into hot, humid air can fog up lenses for a surprisingly long time. In both cases, plan ahead with extra batteries and try to keep your camera where the temperature changes won’t be so drastic, both in summer and winter. Also related to air temperature is the form of precipitation that may fall. This will range from rain, hail, sleet, freezing rain and snow. If you are going to be out in the wet stuff, you can protect your camera by putting it into a Ziploc bag and cutting out a corner\u00a0just large enough to put the camera lens through.\u00a0 Bring a microfiber cloth to wipe\u00a0off any water spots that should get on the lens.<\/p>\n

Cloud shapes can provide clues to the changes in weather and approaching storms. Storm cells can produce awesome pictures, but also provide some major risks. It is more important to be alive than get the shot. Working with a tripod in a high-risk situation is a good way to get the attention of lightning. Thunderheads will often have areas where the lightning flashes more often than\u00a0in other areas of the cloud. By watching the “hot spot,”\u00a0you can almost\u00a0time when the next flash will come and be ready for it.<\/p>\n

The meeting is open to the public and there are no steps to climb between the parking lot\u00a0and the main gallery, so come see us.<\/p>\n

Our condolences go to the family of Bill Sorensen of the Van Wert\u00a0and Lima\u00a0Camera Clubs.\u00a0 Bill was laid to rest on May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rex Dolby Weather is the competition theme when the Wassenberg Camera Club holds its next meeting Thursday, May 10, at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center. Weather is a pretty broad term that should\u00a0bring out a\u00a0wide range of pictures. When you consider the four seasons here in Ohio, each has its own personality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 17:55:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}