On Sunday August 2nd, Baltimore Camera Club's Gallery Show will have an opening reception at Gallery Unicorn, 1710 Dulaney Valley Rd in Lutherville, MD. Come join us to celebrate the collection of images assembled for this event by members. Begins at 2pm; Artist Talk at 3pm. Hope you can make it!

Just saw a phenomenal concert at Wolf Trap in Virginia. Sarah McLachlan with opening act Allison Russell and the Rainbow Coalition. Wow. Sarah’s voice is the same as it was 40 years ago. Happy they are good with non-flash photos with cell phone. If you ever get a chance to see her live, please do!

Happy 250th Birthday, United States of America…

Happy Belated Canada Day! Hope you had fun. Looking forward to watching Canada win the FIFA 2026 World Cup soccer/football game on Saturday vs Morocco. Cheers!

We start our IN PERSON AND ZOOM Panel discussion on AI and Photography in one hour. Be here or experience extreme FOMO! Baltimore Camera Club Meeting chat link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89226681516 Meeting ID: 892 2668 1516 / Passcode: 155329

Reminder that a PHENOMENAL #BaltimoreCameraClub panel discussion on AI and photography will be taking place tomorrow night (in person and zoom). @kshantee @jeneemateer @brettjohnjohnson @xophecasa Be there at 7:30pm Thursday, May 28, 2026 or you will suffer from extreme #FOMO!

Excited to be giving a presentation to the Neuroscience Department at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville about @brightfocus.bsky.social funding opportunities and how we partner w others. Thanks to @drneurochic.bsky.social & Sandro Da Mesquita for inviting me. Looking forward to seeing you.

Baltimore Camera Club 2nd Photo-Culturalism Panel Thurs. May 28, 2026|Doors: 7:30 PM Program: 8:00 PM Free attendance in-person & Zoom “Is This AI?—Authorship, Aesthetics, & the Crisis of Trust in Photography” Kelli Williams | Jenee Mateer | Brett John Johnson Christophe Casamassima, Facilitator

Attending my first Tau Global Conference jointly hosted by Alzheimer's Association, CurePSP & Rainwater Charitable Foundation. Kudos to Benjamin Wolozin, Tara Spires-Jones and the other organizers. Melissa Murray and Dennis Dickson will receive 2026 Rainwater Prize. Agenda https://www.alz.org/tau.

Sadly, we’ve come to the end of another @arvoinfo.bsky.social meeting. Meklit, Jimmy, Lucy, Julia, David, Stacy & I from @brightfocus.bsky.social enjoyed our time with you. May you take the connections & information you gained this week & move forward your collective fields. Please stay in touch!

Yes! Another exciting #ARVO annual conference begins! Join Meklit Bekele, Jimmy Liu & me (&others)at booth 9032 to learn more about applying for funding i#glaucoma, #agerelatedmaculardegeneration, (and #Alzheimersdisease). No citizenship limitations & we have funded in 28 countries (and counting).

More great discussions with phenomenal vision scientists at the Wilmer Eye Center Research Day.

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Invited by @edwardsmalia.bsky.social to attend Wilmer Eye Institute’s Research Day—listening & networking w phenomenal scientists & clinicians. Dr. Jimmy Liu and I from @brightfocus.bsky.social are with Dr. @preetisubu.bsky.social from Foundation Fighting Blindness & Dr. Edwards. Come and join us!

Congressional Briefing to advocate for more #glaucoma research funding & keep independent National Eye Institute. Alliance for Vision Research recording—I spoke for BrightFocus at 41m:40s. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alliance-for-vision-research_seewhatmatters-activity-7442926350920822784-1iTj

Attended The Glaucoma Foundation Gala in NYC last night. Wonderful to celebrate our partnership in co-funding glaucoma research by Drs. Audrey Bernstein and Arunkumar Venkatesan on exfoliation syndrome. Here are some photos from the evening.

Took this in the week leading up to Easter in Old Ellicott City. When the sun was getting lower in the sky, casting shadows. Does this have a chance in photo competition as a street scene? Thoughts and suggestions welcome. For example, would it be better in black and white or cropped further in?

Another option set. If go with black and white landscape theme, any two or more do you think are your preferred for printing and hanging on wall in gallery?

Question for y’all out there. Which two of these might look good printed and hung in a gallery? Need to choose some for our club’s show.

Last night, I submitted four images to #BaltimoreCameraClub Print Competition. One of my B&W images won second place in the Associate Monochrome competition! It is one of my images taken on the Underground and Medieval Torture Chamber tour of Prague last September. Title: Last Supper Enjoy!

Advocated today in DC at Congressional Briefing for #agerelatedmaculardegeneration funding to NIH & NEI. Thanks to NAEVR/AVER & AMDF for inviting @brightfocus.bsky.social to give a private funder’s perspective. Only by working together can we keep the research pipeline moving to make AMD history.

Check out my April and June photos in the 2026 Edgar Allan Poe calendar. If you’d like your own, click to order. Baltimore Camera Club members donated the use of our photos, to support the Poe House in Baltimore, where he wrote many of his masterpieces. Enjoy! https://poe-baltimore-inc.square.site

Four phenomenal member speakers at #BaltimoreCameraClub this week. Shailesh Waikar, Rich Eskin, Kenny Epps and Phyllis Bergman taught us about how to use AI to revive old photos, Senescence, Event photography, & successful hiding of Jewish people in WW2 Amsterdam Zoo. Stay tuned for YouTube video.

Sharing two photos I took in Okanagan valley in British Columbia at Christmas. Submitted for competition to Baltimore Camera Club last week, but judge said that they didn’t resonate with him & said ‘There isn’t anything wrong with it. It just needs more right’? Should I change? How? Advice welcome.

Snowmaggeddon 2026: 9” of snow, surprise visit from red-shouldered hawk, proudly wearing Ottawa Charge PWHL hat when digging out the cul de sac when city snowplows lift up their blades when going around the circle.

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