A blue heron with wings spread, long graceful legs bent, feet clinging to a branch suspended in the clouds: nature’s drama captured on camera in a split second.
The bird’s eyes are in sharp focus, and the pink light in the clouds captivates the imagination.
Two masters are at work here — the bird doing what comes naturally, and photographer Ken Furuta, who has captured it for posterity.
The photograph, taken at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve and titled “Precarious Landing,” won first place in the Pictorial category of the 2020 Digital Year-End photo competition held annually by the Laguna Woods Camera Club.
Furuta shoots a lot of bird and wildlife photos and said it takes patience to wait for the action to materialize: “It’s a lot of watching and waiting and catching the right moment.”
He also loves to travel. On a trip to Africa, he photographed a house seemingly at the end of the world. The photo, titled “Isolated,” earned him third place in the Special Subject category of the competition.
“I am always looking for something that might be a little unusual, an unusual scene and new opportunities,” he said.
Furuta’s wife, Susan, is also a photographer. She earned third place in the Pictorial category for “Hungry Trio,” a close-up of hummingbirds at feeding time.
Second place in the Pictorial category of the competition went to Russ Lazar for “Remembered,” an elegant composition of headstones taken at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. Lazar said he had family members in the service, sparking an interest in military sites.
Linda Berman started her photographic journey in portraiture. Yet it was her photo of a cow, titled “Hamburgers Are Made of WHAT?,” that won fourth place in the Pictorial category.
Berman shot the photo on a visit to New Zealand. She passed by a pasture and stopped when a cheeky bovine approached and presented a priceless expression.
“I was startled by this unusual behavior and just raised my camera,” she said. “Cows usually veer away from humans, but this one was different.”
Berman took up photography 43 years ago, when she started taking pictures of her newborn daughter. She also forged a career in the travel industry and has journeyed through remote regions of Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, India, and in Africa, especially regions of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
There she took an exquisite black and white photo of a mother and her children titled “Minding the Children.” It earned Berman the Best of Show recognition. (To see the photo, visit the Camera Club’s website at lhcameraclub.com.)
“I try to catch the decisive moment. I love catching people in their daily lives and capture them in their dignity,” she said. “I don’t go for the photogenic but the real,”
Pat Patti photographs domestic scenes, as necessitated by COVID-19 constraints. In her photo “Gluten Free,” which took second place in the Monochrome category, she created a scene that conveys artistry and humor.
“I had to use my imagination and my grandchild’s toy for inspiration,” she said.
The result is an abstract image of a white plate and spoon dominated by a fat black plastic spider.
Larry Goodman got into photography after moving to Oregon in 2004 to hike and ski and explore the Pacific Northwest. .
“When you first start out in photography, you read books, magazines, and look at the masters, and then, perhaps, decide what you get involved in,” Goodman said. “Then, all of a sudden, you see the ‘wow’ factor. It’s that that makes you want to photograph it.”
Goodman, a professional photographer who has shown his works in galleries, earned second place in the Special Subject category for his photo “Poppy,” notable for its soft lighting, and fourth place in the Monochrome category for “Wise Owl.”
“I try to make very pretty photographs that evoke emotion in a viewer or to make them feel peaceful,” he said.
Goodman also took home a Judges Award for his photo “Feeding Time,” an image of a mother grebe carefully feeding a fish to its offspring. He shot the photo at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine.
“I just set up a little portable chair by the lake where the light was just right and waited for the birds to catch their fish,” he said.
The Camera Club each year presents the Lydia Savedoff Award to a club member, not for photography but for outstanding service to the club and its members. Lydia Savedoff was a club president in the ‘90s and an outstanding photographer and teacher before her death in 2004.
This year, the honor went to Mike Bray, who joined what was then the Camera Club of Laguna Hills in 2009. The club, now 54 years old, was renamed a few years ago, according to Joel Goldstein, the board member in charge of publicity who assisted in this report.
Bray has been a club vice president and served on the board from 2014 to 2018. He has written for “Cameraderie,” the club newsletter, participated in critiques, and presented slideshows and workshops.
After taking pictures of his children growing up, he developed a passion for sports photography. He once took a course teaching how to photograph hummingbirds and expanded into bird photography. These days his passion lies in covering surfing.
“I started out with a Brownie at age 9 and loved to snap pictures of everything,” he recalled.
For information about the Camera Club, its photo critiques and competitions, go to www.lhcameraclub.com.
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