Photo meet-up and picture-ish news

February’s low-key, friendly photo meet-up I’ve semi-organized will be on Sunday, y’all. Everyone — with any skill level and any kind of camera (this is, after all, for fun) — is invited. We’re meeting first at Green Sage in downtown Asheville at 5:30 p.m., so this is a sunset/early evening shoot. Tripods or flashes are a good idea — or not, if you’re into blurry, motion-full images. Let me know if you have any questions. We had a great time in January and if you’d like to see our shots from the January meet-up (which included shots of, among other things, a washing-machine graveyard), go here.

In other news, I have some photography-related tidbits to share:

The US Forest Service, I heard yesterday, has changed it’s rules for student groups going out to shoot photos on Forest Service property. Those groups now need a permit, as I understand it. I don’t know how this applies for general groups, but it’s worth investigating if you’re thinking of taking or going with a group of people out to shoot.

And tonight, in Asheville, there will be a lecture by Andrea Clark who, in the late 1960s, took around 1,000 photographs of the city’s East End (part of which includes what is now known as The Block, around Eagle and Market streets) before it went through urban renewal. The photos are now in the collection of the Buncombe County Library. She will be speaking tonight at 6:30 p.m. at UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall on “Visions in Black and White: Asheville’s East End,” presumably about her photographs and documenting the area. I love this type of photography, so I’m hoping to attend.