Field trips are generally conducted on the weekends with occasional trips scheduled as
over-nighters. You need not be a member of the Ridgewood Camera Club to participate in a field trip. Look in our Photo Galleries for some images from recent field trips.
If you are a non-member who wishes to signup for a field trip please send an email with your name, phone number and email address and our Field Trip chairman will register you.
For information see the flyer
We’ll plan on arriving at Belmont Park (Race Track) by 6:45 a.m. on Saturday morning, Sept. 26th, 2009. We’ll plan on meeting at an appropriate time and at a convenient place to facilitate car pooling. Entrance to Belmont Park is free and we’ll have the opportunity of photographing the morning workouts. Lighting conditions are perfect for photography in the morning at Belmont and we’ll be able to stand right at the rail. (We can virtually reach out and touch the horses.) We’ll also have the chance to get some portraits of the jockeys while they’re mounted on their horses. “Breakfast at Belmont” is the name of the program but we won’t be having breakfast at Belmont. The morning shoot will be over around 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. After that, we’ll all head to a local diner for breakfast.
Those attending will have the chance to photograph aerial acrobatics, WWII soldiers and an army (no pun intended) of re-enactors. Many and varied aircraft, from large to small planes will be on display. The afternoon will feature a thrilling air show complete with Aerobatics, stunts and daring maneuvers. WWII aircraft and aerobatic planes will be featured. Now for the really good news. The gates don’t open until 10:00 a.m. which means we get to sleep in a bit before departing for the Greenwood Lake Airport. You can check out the venue yourself at: http://greenwoodlakeairshow.com/index.html In case you haven’t noticed, we have a field trip scheduled for Saturday, September 26 to Belmont. It’s quite unusual to have 2 field trips scheduled back to back but I’m a true believer in “Carpe Diem” (seize the day). I’m trying to convince Alyce and Bun to “wing walk in tandem” on a bi-wing flight and allow us to photograph them.
Walden Motocross Track is located in Wallkill, New York and the track offers the photographer a wonderful opportunity of photographing Motocross as well at ATV riders in action. There’s little to no restrictions as to where you can stand and what you can or can’t photograph. Safety and common sense are your only restrictions. People pictures as well as action shots abound. Departure time and meeting place will be announced at a later time. There will be a reasonable entrance fee. Check it out yourself at: http://mxwalden.com/
The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is a fabulous opportunity to photography very creative people in outlandish and garish costumes. Anyone participating in this parade is by their very nature an exhibitionist and won’t mind being photographed. As a matter of fact, they’ll welcome it. If you’re not familiar with the event, check out the following link: http://photos.halloween-nyc.com and check out the photo gallery of images taken at previous parades. (Quite similar to Carnevale in Venice.) This is a weather dependent event without a rain date.
I don’t think much of an explanation is necessary. Bun led us on a very successful photo shoot of the New York Skyline from Weehawken. Now we’ll try photographing the skyline from Liberty State Park. Single image as well as HDR and Panoramic Photography will be the order of the day (or should I say night?). Again, a departure time and meeting place will be announced at a later time.
Obviously, New York will be all dressed up for the holidays with lights, color and excitement. We’ll make plans for meeting and going into the city as we get closer to the scheduled date. There will be travel and possibly parking expenses to share.
If you haven’t been to Longwood Gardens then you can’t imagine the wonderful photo ops that await you. It’s a truly magnificent place. Not only will we be able to photograph their regular floral displays but we’ll be treated to their wonderful Orchid Extravaganza. Longwood Gardens permits the use of tripods. They also charge an entrance fee. Since it’s a 3 -1/2 hour car ride, we’ll plan this as an overnight trip. We’ll leave late Friday afternoon or early Friday evening and stay over Friday and Saturday nights which will enable us to photography of Saturday and Sunday. We leave for home early to mid afternoon on Sunday. More formal plans will be made as we get closer to February. Check it out yourself at: http://www.longwoodgardens.org
Steamtown is a National Park in Scranton, PA.
Steam engines excite the senses, Steamtown keeps their stories alive!
Feel the heat from the firebox. Hear the bell and whistle. Smell the hot steam and oil. Feel the ground vibrate under your feet. See the one ton drive rods turn the wheels. Hear the chuff-chuff-chuff of the smokestack. Today, you can relive the era of steam as the engines come back to life. The cinders, grease, oil, steam, people and stories of railroading have returned. Plans will be announced as we get closer to March.
Check it out for yourself at: http://www.nps.gov/stea
Innisfree Gardens in Millbrook, New York is a slice of heaven right here on earth.
Innisfree is a 150-acre public garden in which the ancient art of Chinese landscape design has been reinterpreted to create, without recourse to imitation, a unique American garden. At Innisfree the visitor strolls from one three-dimensional picture to another. Streams, waterfalls, terraces, retaining walls, rocks, and plants are used not only to define areas but also to establish tension or motion. The 40-acre lake is glacial, most of the plant material is native, and the rocks have come from the immediate forest. Formal plans will be made as we get closer to May. There will be an entrance fee.
Check it out for yourself at: http://www.innisfreegarden.org
Saturday, May 24th
Sunday March 30th
Date: April 11th - 13th, 2008 (Arrive Friday, depart Sunday)
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Sunday, January 27th 2008 (changed from January 20th)
Date: Tuesday, December 4th
Saturday November 17th 2007
Nov. 3, 2007
cancelled - weather
October 13, 2007
Sept. 8, 2007
November 19, 2006
October 15th, 2006
September 14th-17th, 2006
March 26th, 2006
November 20, 2005
Cancelled
October 16, 2005
Cancelled Due to ?
May 14, 2005
Canceled Due to Illness
April 17, 2005
February 26, 2005
January, 9, 2005
December 13, 2004
November 20, 2004
October 16, 2004