What we’re about
If you enjoy learning more about photography, taking fine arts pictures, and viewing those of others, this group is for you. At each monthly meeting, we'll share two or three of our favorites–whether new or the past. We'll also plan and enjoy field trips to events and locations that will be rich for exciting and rewarding images. Amateur and professional, fine arts or photojournalism, landscape or street photographers – all are welcome!
The goals of this group are to socialize, learn, and share via photography. Socializing includes friendly discussions about Ocala and nearby places, and understanding how we each see and record photographically. Learning will not stress complicated formulas or how to use digital tools (there are thousands of YouTube/Vimeo videos out there that already do that), but rather understanding how each of us strives to successfully achieve our communications goal through photography. Sharing will take place as we encounter opportunities in our photowalks, events, meetings, commentaries, and guest presentations.
Meetings will be moderated by master photographer John Elliott, a professional fine arts, photojournalism, and commercial photographer for 50 years. For more on him, see www.thehumanpulse.com/profile
We look forward to seeing your images either in print or digital format and hearing your stories of challenges met and visions made! And please share one photo each week on our Facebook page! bit.ly/OPG-Facebook
Please watch this space for information on our meetings. When you join the group, you will automatically receive advance notice of the upcoming meeting.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- "Finding Vivian Maier" – Film ScreeningAppleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
This intriguing documentary shuttles from New York to France to Chicago as it traces the life story of the late Vivian Maier, an eccentric career nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 candid photographs has earned her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers. At Appleton Museum of Art, the screenings at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. are free; no reservations needed to attend. (Not Rated, 1h 23m)
Born in New York in 1926, Vivian Maier spent her early years in the Bronx. Throughout her time in New York City, Maier began to photograph the world around her and develop a visual language through the use of her camera, all while working as a nanny. Nearly a century later, Maier figures in the history of photography alongside the greatest masters of street photography in the twentieth century.