Jeff Clay

  • Resizing Digital Images

    Image resizing remains a persistent challenge for some members. Despite good intentions, a significant number of submitted images are still being resized incorrectly,…

  • A Brisk Walk in the Sahara

    I returned at the beginning of October from a two-week trip to Algeria that included nine days camping deep in the southern Sahara.…

  • Winter in Iceland

    In January of 2025 three camera club members — Greg Smith, John Berneike and Jeff Clay — joined a Winter in Iceland tour…

  • Saharan Sleep

    A timeless song drifting on warm airs.Motes dancing in twilight’s fading beams.Clear night settling, ancient suns dancing.The Dark … calming, cooling, caressing.Embraced we…

  • Exposure Newsletter – Vol 4 Issue 1

  • Clear Thoughts on Clouds

    For a landscape photographer, clouds can make an image, just as the lack of them can break one. Whether high wispy cirrus, aggressively uplifting orthographic…

  • 1-Hour Nighttime Timelapse

    My wife and I took a short, 7-day trip to Iceland two weeks ago. We were fortunate to have generally beautiful days to…

  • In a Different Light Project Slideshow

    Board Chair Jeff Clay has been exploring the world of digital infrared photography for over 20 years. He has a compiled a representative…

  • The Gift

    Tenacious it isTaking root, seeking the lightWind, rain companions Words and Image Jeff Clay

  • Traveling the Creative Continuum Presentation

    On August 5th, 2025, photographer and educator Steve Giardini gave a Zoom presentation on ways and approaches to pushing your creative explorations. For…

  • Exposure Newsletter – Vol 3 Issue 4

  • Creating a Personal Photography Project

    On June 25, 2025 New Jersey photographer and instructor Arik Gorban presented a webinar on how to plan and execute a creative photographic…

  • Anatomy of a Deepscape

    What is a deepscape you might ask? Most of us are aware of nightscape / Milky Way landscape photography. Those are forms of…

  • The 3 (+1) Travel Lens Setup

    As modern digital photographers we are all, to some degree, slaves to the continual cycle of upgrading. Kept in thrall we are to…

  • A decaying old piano sits in a field with a storm on the horizon behind

    Forgotten Melody

    How did that song go?Shuffling our feetMusic from the pianoSo warm and sweet Belting togetherChorus and verseDuet foreverFor better or worse But harmony…

  • Wander, Wonder

    Time and tide has but left us to beAlone to wander the land the seaGifted each and one to wonder freeWith little hazard…

  • Level Up Workflows

    A Level Up workshop was given on 8-April and four presenters gave detailed workflows for different aspects of photography. The Workflow documents can…

  • Exposure Newsletter – Vol 3 Issue 3

  • Lines, Angles, Patterns, Light & Shadow

    Working with light is the easy truism of what photographers do: no photons, no image burned on sensor, plate or film. But really…

  • Patience and Persistence Pay Off

    On the last full day of our recent winter Iceland tour I awoke to a major white-out of a snowstorm. We were in…

  • Sentinel

    Under skies brightI stand uprightSparse it may rainStill I remainSun hurts me notPerched crows my lotCome back next yearI will be hereUnbendableI Sentinel…

  • Creative Cell Phone Photography by Nancy Ori of PSA

    On January 14 Nancy Ori gave a smart photo photography presentation to the club. If you are logged in as a member you…

  • Exposure Newsletter – Vol 3 Issue 2

  • When an Antelope Isn’t

    The U.S. Geological Survey claims there are eight islands in the Great Salt Lake. Other sources put the number at nine or ten.…

  • Celestial Seas

    Unfettered, sail heavenwards — on wings of ionsThrough gates of gossamer glow — into wondrous realmsStarry way-posts beckoning — worlds to discoverSoar in…

  • Jason Cameron

    Born and raised in the photogenic state of Utah, Jason is a lifelong lover of the art and practice of photography. Ever since…

  • Exposure Newsletter – Vol 3 Issue 1

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  • A Three Hour Tour: Iceland by Helicopter by Jeff Clay

    In August Board Member Jeff Clay had an 8 hour layover in Iceland en route to a week trip to Greenland. Rather than…

  • Getting a Different Perspective

    When visiting any famous sight anywhere in the world, one’s initial inclination is to always capture the standard and famous photo of the…

  • No Cedars in the Cedar Mountains Wilderness…

    …but there are plenty of junipers, raptors, mule deer, pronghorn, bobcats, a few mountain lions, and now and then, wild horses.  In 2009…