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The Lens Paper
March, 2004
Page 4
Paper, current shows, NCPS member information, contact
information, links, forums, guest book, and a site map. At the
bottom of this navigation bar, there is a “Tip of the Week”
telling you something about using the site. The bulk of the
home page is used for announcing the next meeting, the
member share, and the latest member news. This portion of
the home page may change every week, so be sure to send us
your news!
Member Galleries: This is one of the most exciting features
of the new site. We have enough space at our new host to
offer each member in good standing a gallery with up to 50
photos per member! If you haven’t been able to establish a
presence on the Internet, now you can do it with ease. If you
already have your own site, and don’t want to have a gallery
at NCPS, then you can still have an entry on the Gallery Index
page that will link directly to your site. You can even set up
individual portfolios within your member gallery.
Photo Shoots: Our photo shoots have been great
opportunities to learn, socialize with other NCPS members,
and have fun! Until now, we could only see the results at the
meetings. With our new site, we can post photos from
everyone for each photo shoot.
Forums: One of the services offered by our new host is a
great forum program. We now have the following forums:
Site Functionality: comments about the site and
suggestions for improvements.
Photo Shoots: discuss the latest shoots or suggest
ones you’d like to see.
Photo News: discuss news about exhibitions and
other events, workshops, classes, etc.
Classifieds: buy and sell messages for equipment.
Tech Tips: share tips on using software, equipment,
etc.
The forums are easy to use and fun!
Newsletter: We now have the Lens Paper on-line for every
issue back to the August 2003 issue. There are some great
articles in these pages, and now you can go back and read
them in case you’ve misplaced your copy.
Email Accounts: Every member can now have their own
email account, with the format <yourname@nc-photo.org> .
information on this.
Member News: In addition to the news items on the home
page, our site will also have a news archive, where you can
review what’s happened over time.
Current Shows: Here are links to the latest exhibitions in
town. This listing is only as good as our members make it, so
if you see something missing, just drop me a line.
Links: We have started off with a few links that I know are
fairly stable. If you know of some good, stable links that
would really be of use to our membership, send them to me,
along with a short description. Keep in mind that we don’t
want to have to check these all the time, so please don’t send
links to sites that are brand new.
This is just the beginning. Our site will be as good and
valuable as you want it to be. However, it needs your
participation. Encourage your friends to take a look at it, and
use it yourself. Create a gallery. Post to the forums. Send
some images in from the last photo shoot. Add suggestions on
what you’d like to see on the site. We only meet in person
once a month, but through our new site, we can communicate
as often as we want.
MEMBER PROFILE: Jim Respess
Images created by Jim Respess draw from a lifetime of
experience. As a child in his hometown of San Francisco,
Jim learned the ways of urban living but also learned the
ways of the woods with his North Carolina-born father,
hunting and fishing in the back
woods of California. In grade
school, Jim was a musician,
studying trumpet with two
principal players from the San
Francisco Symphony. After
finishing high school, he was
trained as a surgeon’s assistant in
the U.S. Army, a trade that kept
him employed for the next 12
years while attending college. “I
was a quick learner and found
myself performing minor surgery
by the tender age of nineteen.”
It took ten years from high school to get his Baccalaureate
Degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
During that time, however, Jim did a lot of traveling,
including a couple of three-month motorcycle tours through
Europe. “One of those trips was Jan’s and my honeymoon.
We traveled ten thousand miles from Scotland to Turkey
and everything in between living on about $5 per day. We
got to know each other pretty well.”
Jim’s principal focus as an undergraduate was biology but
what he really did was to define a “liberal education”,
taking years of literature, art, art history, and music, as well
as the required science. After receiving his B.A., the