At the March General Meeting, our speaker will be Mary Jo Hoffman who is an artist-photographer renowned for her unique and personal engagement with the natural world.  Best known for her project, "STILL” where every day (every single day) for over a decade, she took a photograph of found nature –no subject too small or too ordinary. For Hoffman, a former aeronautical engineer, this daily ritual cracked open profound revelations about the connectedness of all things, the importance of place, and the creative life. Her book, STILL: The Art of Noticing features 275 of the most stunning photographs the author-artist has accumulated over thousands of consecutive days of daily shooting accompanied by perceptive, deeply felt, and often humorous essays illuminating the insights gained through this daily creative practice. Hoffman lives in Shoreview, Minnesota, on Turtle Lake, with her husband, Steve, a food writer and author, and her indulged puggle, Jack, who accompanies her on her daily foraging walks to find new subjects.

Join Hoffman as she shares her artistic process, approach to noticing, and the concept of micro-seasons, inspired by a Japanese approach to seasons, which divides the year into 72 five-day bursts. There will be time for Q&A if anyone has questions about Mary Jo's flat-lay techniques or photo editing process.

The presentation take-aways will be:

• The Transformative Power of Dailiness
• Placefulness as an Antidote to Online Placelessness
• The 72 Micro-Seasons of the North
• Noticing as an Act of Honoring Place

Jim Smith will host a presentation of member field trip photographs on April 11.

There will not be a separate upload for this show since all of the images will be uploaded to the individual Field Trips and then consolidated for the show.

While Sharon usually puts the shows together, she will be out of town from March 21, so please be sure to upload as many of your images as possible by March 14.  Jim Smith will handle the two remaining trips, Chiricahua Night Photography and Tucson Botanical Gardens.

Please be sure to upload your photographs to the field trip location so we can all enjoy them.  To get to those links, follow the main menu and go to field trips.

With so many great events, it should be a great show!

Presentation details to be added in the future.