One more April Fools Issue from some years ago of the Norwalk Camera Club's newsletter, which I used to write.

1. Club news
NCC president Joel Stewart nailed for indecent exposure!!!
But Stewart, shown here, insists he is
“not a flasher”
Judges at the last competition really took Joel to task for
very overblown highlights, way too dark shadows, and just
generally bad exposure problems. They were shocked that
such an excellent photographer as Joel had made these gross
exposure errors. When asked why he had not used fill flash to
get better results, Joel said he only used natural light in his
pictures and that he was “not a flasher”.
Norwalk Camera Club
Special April Fools Issue of
the Focus
Program Notes
Famed photographer Ida Noh
studied with many of the great
photo artists from the past cen-
tury. She will reminisce for us
over several hours about these
famous photographers and the minu-
tia of their daily lives.
When asked what was the secret to
her very long life she said “two
things - smoking and I don’t ar-
gue! I never argue” We said but
surely there must be some other
important factors - diet, exercise,
genetics, etc. Her answer - ”You
may be right!”
ASSIGNED SUBJECTS
until summer of 2009
April - Invisible creatures
May - Y’know, those things
June - chewed pencils
Attendance was good
at our last meeting

2. Club news - future speakers
We have some real treats coming up. A pair of very talented animal photogra-
phers will share some of their work with us. Here, on the left, they are seen pre-
paring for some portrait shots of a human. On the right we see one of their more
formal animal portraits.
Also coming up is a slide show by travel photographer Jette Lag, who will
show us some of her candid scenes of London. In her travels Jette has also been
documenting evidence of global warming, like this shot here.
The club is fortunate to have such interesting programming on our calendar.

3. Our last speaker before the summer break is a
real coup - advertising legend Bud Schlock will
show us how effective images are in Madison
Avenue selling. Bud is famous for a string of
non-PC ads like these two here.
Sports news
Our club did very well in our last game against the Stamford camera club, in
scuba soccer. This exhausting sport really tries the mettle of our members. Af-
ter that unfortunate incident between two players, involving a snorkel, everyone
has decided it would be best to omit snorkels from future games.

4. New Member Profile
New member Coco Chien says
she is really, really into pet
photography. She most pre-
fers dogs, but also enjoys tak-
ing photos of her pet turtle,
shown below, and her raven,
which she has taught a few
tricks.
Coco keeps quite busy tour-
ing with her porkers in the pro-
fessional pig racing circuit.
With her frequent winners and
prize money you might say that
she is bringing home the bacon.

5. NCC Judge Profile - Al Bino
Al is a frequent judge for our club
competitions. Despite numerous
member complaints that we cannot
see the competition images be-
cause his hair blocks our sight-
lines, Al has adamantly refused to
respond. Rumor has it that Al is
dyslexic and that his scores fre-
quently show a confusion between
a 6 and a 9.
We caught up again with Phil
Flash, who spends most of his
time hanging around at the NCC
Focus masthead (see the top of
page 1). Phil has left his wild
bachelor days, is now married, and
recently became the father of
twins! The proud father showed us many photos of these cute babies.
We told Phil that they are the spitting image of him. They have his
eyes. Now Phil will have plenty of
occasions to do family portraits.

6. It’s time to renew your club dues! We have our operators standing by to take
your calls, if you want to put your dues on a credit card. Rest assured that we
only use secure practices here and guard your credit card data very carefully.
From the Editor’s Desk
We here at the NCC Focus do a lot of
reading to try to keep up with the latest
books on photography. Our latest tip for
the club is an excellent new book by Mr.
O. Beez, shown below, on “Principles of
Nude and Semi-Nude Photography.”
This is a very useful text to own and as
an extra treat it has many closeup photos
of Mr. Beez in various stages of undress,
including the full monty.