Virtual Monthly Presenter’s Meeting

Our featured speakers are typically accomplished photographers from throughout the US and beyond. The monthly meetings also include a “photo challenge” segment, in which all current PPF members are invited to submit photos that reflect a specific theme. These meetings are the Third Monday of the month and open to the public. 

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FEATURED SPEAKER

Reid Callanan is Founder and Director of Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, currently in its 35th year offering photography and writing workshops to a world-wild audience. In addition to in-person workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Workshops has had a campus in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico since 2001. Online workshops and international travel programs to Morocco, Scotland, Viet Nam, Turkey, Iceland, Paris, Rome, Portugal, Spain, India, Romania, and Cuba round out its year-round educational offerings.

In 1994, Reid founded the non-profit Santa Fe Center for Photography, now known as CENTER, and is currently Vice- President of its Board of Directors. He serves on the President’s Council for Texas Photographic Society; on the Board for American Society of Media Photographers Foundation; on the Advisory Board for Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion, and most recently on the Board for the National Center for The Photograph.

Reid started photographing in 1974 during a semester abroad at Richmond College in London and has been making images ever since using a variety of photographic processes including silver halide, Polaroid imagery, and now digital capture. His photographic projects include a personal diary of images called HOMESCAPES, black-and-white portraits made in Cuba and Mexico, and most recently iPhone travel images.

“For fifty years, I have used a variety of cameras to explore and discover the world. I have learned to use photography as a diary to document what I notice and my thoughts and feelings about these glimmers of attention. I record light and color, gesture and beauty, and fleeting moments. Carrying a camera is an opener of conversation and doors, but cameras don't take pictures. A camera is a hunk of metal, but for me it’s a creative tool for personal expression. I make photographs from my imagination, curiosity, heart, and often not looking through the viewfinder. 

In my presentation, titled Homescapes, I share favorite images from my life as a fine-art photographer as well as talk about my life as founder and director of Santa Fe Photographic Workshops."

Fretta Cravens is an internationally known Portland, Oregon based photographer and visual artist. She fell in love with flowers as a child running through fields of wildflowers in Texas. In her early twenties, being inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings, she earned a Bachelors of Fine Art in1983 from the University of Texas in Arlington,Texas with majors in Drawing, Papermaking and Photography. Today her botanical portfolio “Timeless Engagement” is exhibited throughout the United States in galleries. Internationally her portfolio has been exhibited in England and Spain. She is represented by the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, in Portland,OR.

Japanese Garden Aug 27 Outing Presentation contributed by Attending Members