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Join your fellow Darkroomers as we explore one of San Diego’s most colorful neighborhoods, Barrio Logan. We’ll meet up for coffee, explore for a few hours, then regroup at a brewery. This neighborhood is great for street photography, murals, and architecture, so come ready to walk. Bring as much gear as you’re willing to carry, but we recommend traveling light – one camera, one lens.
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
Join us for our Monthly Critique Night!
Our judge for March will be Amethel Parel-Sewell.
Members bring prints for critique on the third Wednesday of each month. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery.
Visitors are welcome, however, submitting images for critique is available for members only. If you’d like more information about joining Darkroomers, please check out our membership page and email us if you have any questions.
About Amethel Parel-Sewell
Amethel Parel-Sewell has over 30 years of multidisciplinary experience as an editor-in-chief, creative director, photography editor, photographer, multimedia producer, graphic designer, and educator. She’s a Program Coordinator for the International Exhibition of Photography at the San Diego County Fair, where she has also served as a judge and a speaker before joining as a coordinator.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in Photojournalism and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief/Creative Director of Brilliant Star, an award-winning international publication encouraging world citizenship, social justice, and using the Arts to make the world a better place. She’s the founder of Light Chasers, a vibrant photography community-based in San Diego, where she and a leadership team host competitions, group exhibits, workshops, meet-ups, and other opportunities for learning and community-building. Amethel also works as a photography mentor when she’s not chasing the moon, the stars, the sun, and other beautiful light.
The best way to contact Amethel is in Light Chasers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LightChasers
From Little League to the Olympics, from city council to Presidents of the United States and everything in between, K.C. Alfred has photographed it all in San Diego during a 20-plus year career as a staff photographer at The San Diego Union-Tribune. K.C. specializes in a variety of photography disciplines ranging from portraiture to sports to aerial and underwater. K.C. will show his photos from the U-T, such as Padres, Comic-Con, and life around town, as well as personal projects, such as his favorite subject, his world-famous skateboarding cat Comet.
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Join us for a day trip to Temecula. We’ll start by meeting at Ricardo Breceda’s Art Gallery in Aguanga at 10 AM – the artist who created the monumental metal sculptures in the Anza-Borrego Desert. The entrance fee is $10/person.
After the gallery, we’ll drive to Robert Renzoni Vineyards, with breathtaking De Portola Valley views, for wine tasting and lunch at noon at Mama Rosa’s Trattoria.
After lunch, we can drive to western-themed Old Town Temecula to explore the shops and grab a few more photos.
