Winter Setting Shoot at Lanterman's Mill

photography courtesy of Tom Schwerin

In early September, the NEO Shoots group gathered to photograph at Mill Creek Metropark in Youngstown. A big draw was Lanterman's Mill, a huge old 5-story gristmill preserved by the Mahoning Park District. Tom Schwerin, our host, mentioned that the unheated mill holds its snow cap in the winter and all the windows are candle lit. The evergreen wreath is the frosting on the cake!

This shoot will start at 3:00 PM. We will meet at a Bob Evan's nearby. Address of Bob Evan's is...

1038 N Canfield Niles Rd.
Youngstown OH 44515
(330) 652-8211

Lanterman's Mill is located along-side Canfield Road (Rt-62) midway between Hopkins Road and Glenwood Avenue. We should arrive at the mill around 3:45 or 4:00 PM. Check the map links in this listing. Print and bring a copy of the map with you.

This scenery needs to be shot in twilight, not evening. By 5:30, the shoot should be over. Dress appropriately.

There is about a 1/4 mile walk from the parking lot. If it is icy, choose your footwear accordingly.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 12/15/06.

Holiday Dinner and Outdoor Lighting Shoot

Let's jointly celebrate the close of a great year of shooting with NEO Shoots!

This holiday get together is planned to start with a hearty group meal at the Mapleside Apple Farm Restaurant on Pearl Road in Brunswick. Reservations will be by pre-arrangement, so we will be asking for a commitment and a count by a certain date. Standard menu selections and pricing will apply.

After dinner, we can go over the legendary street lighting display at Crowne Point in nearby Strongsville.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com. Important - in your email RSVP, please indicate how many restaurant reservations you want us to make for you.

This information was last updated on 12/22/06.

Lighting Studio Still Life Creations

OK, the weather is turning and it might be fun to spend a morning comparing notes indoors in a studio environment using studio strobes, seamless paper, reflectors, props, and imagination to see what ideas we can dream up to inspire still life photographs during the long cold months ahead. You will be back home in time for the Brown's game.

This is an indoor shoot in Bob Kulon's home. We have 4 Alien Bees studio strobes, flash meter, light boxes, reflectors, umbrellas, stands, seamless back drops, etc. This shoot allows us to put some creative sets together using simple props and lighting. Experiment. Everyone gets a chance to try ideas and shoot. We can probably have 2 sets going at once. We can preview results, live, on a digital projector that will be set up in the basement studio. (Bring your camera's video connection cable.)

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 10/30/06.

The Golden Bogs of Kent Shoot

The Tamaracks are generally a luminous orange-gold this week at Kent and Triangle Bogs. We should be able to capture some creative scenics with this unusual habitat.

We're going to start this at the Triangle Lake Bog at 8:00 AM, shoot a while, and then drive over to the Kent Bog, ETA 9:30 AM.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 10/28/06.

Kent Bog Venue Link

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Triangle Lake Bog Link

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Fall Excursion to Beaver Creek State Park

This natural area is touted to be one of the primo Autumn color locales in Ohio. We will meet at the Mill Pond, Gaston's Mill and Pioneer village area just below the Nature Center.

Directions: Travel Route 11 south to the RT 7/267 Exit, left at end of exit, approximately 2 miles. You will be heading north on Route 7, you will see Beaver Local High School on your left and just past the school you will see Bell School Road on your right (it is between the High School and the Middle School Buildings). Right on to Bell School, travel approximately 1-1/4 Mile and you will see the sign to turn left onto Echo Dell Road. You will see signs for Beaver Creek State Park at all of these turns from Route 11.

Folks that sign up will be given Dave's Cell Phone number for route guidance as needed. For your questions, you can reach Dave directly by email to lightnin571@comcast.net.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 9/29/06.

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Mentor Headlands Fall Dunes Shoot

Let's go back and see how thing developed over the year in this coastal habitat. We should run into migrating birds, decent weather, and unusual foliage at its annual splendor. There is even a possibility of hitting the annual monarch butterfly migration!

We will meet at the NE corner of the parking lot, next to the entrance to the dunes preserve.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 10/8/06.

Harvest Moon Skyline at Perkins Beach

This year, on 10/7, we will have a dramatic Harvest Moon (99% full) (weather permitting). This is a Saturday evening. Here's the details:

• Moonrise 7:09 PM EDT*
• Sunset: 6:58 PM EDT*
• Declination: the moon will rise in the east 75 degrees from due north.

If you stand on Cliff Drive, next to Perkins Beach, where we shot the Skyline pictures in July, the moon will rise right behind the Cleveland Skyline.

First time out we experienced a bit of fog/smog at sunrise, but the images were still dramatic. We decided to return when the harvest moon rises over the skyline. This date and location should do it.

We will meet on Cliff Drive as indicated on the map.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 10/2/06.

Map Link

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Warehouse District Architecture Reshoot

Last time this was so good, we'll go back for more.

Let's get together and see what we can make of some of the interesting and historic buildings and details. We should be able to wrap this up by mid-morning before the Brown's game. We'll meet-up is in front of the Rockefeller Building (located on the NW corner of Superior Avenue and W. 6th Street).

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 8/25/06.

Aerial Map of Parking

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Wyandot Classics & Cruisers Shoot (Upper Sandusky)

photography courtesy of Andrew Crow

For those interested in classic cars, this is an amazing opportunity to walk amongst over 500 or so shiny street cruisers, all decked out to the nines. This classic car meet is well established and has reached legendary proportions, culminating in an evening "flame throwing" competition. Now there's a photo op!

Please confirm your intended attendance by adding a message indicating your intentions on this topic on the discussion forum.

This information was last updated on 9/17/06.

Rescheduled: Hinckley Reservation Lake Sunrise and Ledges

We are rescheduling this after the 8/27 rainout.

Starting at the lake at sunrise for dramatic scenics. Moving to the ledges (either Wardens's or Whipp's) for the amazing sandstone cliff faces.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 8/30/06.

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Daybreak at West Side Market

This is a busy microcosm of humanity as the place comes to life. Smack dab in the middle of a bountiful harvest too! Catch the vendors in all their antics. This is great locale for walk-around "catch" shots, architectural details, and market basket still life studies.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 8/25/06.

Mill Creek Park Shoot (Mahoning MetroPark)

photography courtesy of Tom Schwerin

Mill Creek MetroPark is a winding stretch located within urban Youngstown. It offers an extremely diverse range of scenic marvels. Tom Schwerin, a local photographer, has agree to show us around the venue. Depending on weather conditions, here are some of the possibilities:

• Lanterman's Mill (5-story!)
• Covered bridge
• Cascade Falls
• Old metal suspension bridge
• Parapet Bridge, stone bridge constructed by WPA work groups
• Wet Lands boardwalk
• Fellows Gardens

Meeting Place: There is a Bob Evans on the north side of the intersection of Route 46 and I-80 (see map). When you get off the ramp turn left and Bob Evans will be on the left just across the entrance ramps for I-80.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 8/29/06.

Cleveland Air Show from the Flightline!

We have reserved a private Sponsor Box at front flightline for 10 people - Box #108. You can be part of this by buying your ticket from Bob Kulon (I fronted the money). The $250 fee is split 10 ways, so each person pays $25. Come and go as you please, have unobstructed access throughout the show, bring your own comfort chair if you wish (we checked), tripods are no problem (we checked).

If you long for Air Show photos, front row seats, without the hassles of public annoyance, in the company of other photographers, this is it!

Please indicate your desire to be put on the standby list with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

Rain or shine, no refunds.

This information was last updated on 8/12/06.

Hinckley Reservation Lake Sunrise and Ledges

Starting at the lake at sunrise for dramatic scenics. Moving to the ledges (either Wardens's or Whipp's) for the amazing sandstone cliff faces.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 8/1/06.

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Hale Farm Civil War Reenactment

Hale Farm & Village (2686 Oak Hill Road, Bath, Ohio) will host its annual Civil War Reenactment Saturday and Sunday, August 12 and 13. Over the weekend, more than 500 reenactors are expected to descend upon Hale Farm & Village, making it one of the largest Civil War reenactments in Ohio.

These Civil War enthusiasts will establish an encampment, and recreate several days in the lives of two Civil War battalions, their families, and other accompanists. They will spend their time preparing meals – as would have been done at a Civil War-era campsite – tending to their uniforms and weapons, and preparing for their next battle. Visitors can mingle with the reenactors, who will share information on their lives and times as well as their clothing, their articles of war, and what the daily grind was like for a Civil War combatant.

At 2:00 p.m. each day, the muskets and cannon fire (and Canon and Nikon fire) will disrupt the tranquility of the north pasture at Hale Farm & Village. The battles will transform the grounds, for about 45 minutes, into a reenactment battle of the most costly and deadliest war fought on American soil. Admission fee.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 8/2/06.

Water Garden Shoot

photography by Jack Graham

We'll be at Tricker Pond Supply in Independence. The address is 7125 Tanglewood Drive. Tricker is one of the oldest and largest dedicated water garden suppliers in the country. Your exotic water lilies and lotus flowers are here folks. Bring a macro or a tele zoom with some macro capability and a tripod. A reflector and a strobe might help due to the angle of light. Don't forget bug repellant! Indoor ponds for annuals; outdoor ponds for perennials.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 8/2/06.

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Classic Corvette Meet Shoot

A last-minute photo op! This tip came from Carolynn Bennett. We're going to wing it here folks. Not sure who can commit to this or not, but certainly some of us will show up. There is no need to let us know of your intentions, just be there at 11:00 and we'll meet up.

This classic Corvette meet will be held at Corsa Performance Exhaust, at 140 Blaze Industrial Park in Olmsted Falls. Cars will be there starting about 11:00 a.m. and be there until about 3:00 or 4:00, Sunday.

Blaze Industrial Park runs South of Bagley in Olmsted Falls (or maybe Berea). It is about 1/2 mile East of Columbia. See the map link.

This information was last updated on 7/20/06.

Beaches and Sunrise Skylines Shoot

This is a double-header. We're going to start "near" Perkins Beach, a small beach next to Edgewater that has great early sunrise views of the skyline. We plan this for 5:00 AM! By 6:00 AM the good light is over. Then, we'll pack it in and move west to Huntington Beach in Bay Village. Gates open at 7:00 AM. More skylines, sand patterns, athletic swimmers training, gulls, rock formations. If you still have any energy left, there is a waterfall and rose garden down the street.

IDEA: If the tall ships are in North Coast Harbor — and they should be — this should be a even more opportunistic shoot for those with long lenses.

Note: The Perkins Beach parking lot is not open at this hour. We will meet on Cliff Drive as indicated on the map.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 7/8/06.

Parade of Sail / Harborfest Shoot

Why not take the afternoon off work? This is apparently the only time that all of the 12 tall ships can be seen on the water in full sail. We already have enough interest and this shoot is a go. Bringing a telephoto, polarizer, tripod, hat, sunscreen, and folding chair is probably a good idea. (It sounds like bringing a beast of burden would be a good idea as well).

We have identified the main deck of the William G. Mather Museum as having the best vantage point for this shoot. They are opening the main deck for a public viewing party. See the map link to the right.

NOTE: This event is on Wednesday. Originally listed as Thursday. That was an error. Sorry for the mix up.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 7/8/06.

Warehouse District Architecture Shoot

Let's get together and see what we can make of some of the interesting and historic buildings and details. We should be able to wrap this up by mid-morning before the sun gets really hot. We'll meet-up is in front of the Rockefeller Building (located on the NW corner of Superior Avenue and W. 6th Street). Some folks may go to a local eatery afterwards - see the discussion.

Please confirm your intended attendance with an email to bkulon@hotmail.com.

This information was last updated on 7/1/06.

Aerial Map of Parking

Tour Map Link

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