The April 2026 Meeting: Chas Glazer - Polar Bears
Polar Bears and the photographer. (c) Chas Glazer
Thursday, April 9, 7:00 pm PDT on Zoom
Charles (Chas) Glatzer, M.Photog., is a Canon Explorer of Light, a group comprised of the most influential photographers and cinematographers in the world, each a master of their creative specialty. Since founding Shoot The Light in the mid-nineties, Chas has cemented his place in the world as one of the top wildlife photographers working today. His dynamic and inspirational teaching have also made him one of the most sought-after educators and speakers in his field.
For a preview of Chas's work check out his website: www.shootthelight.com
Register for the meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/32OB0uSXSVaop5V7roxFow
About our meetings
Our meetings are held on the second Thursday of even number months (February, April, June, August, October and December) at 7:00 PM Pacific Time. These meetings are free to all interested parties, but you must register in advance to gain access.
Each year, four of our six meetings are presentations by invited speakers and feature special locations or topics, photo techniques, or conservation issues.
We are always looking for high-quality programs and welcome suggestions and referrals. If you have one, please contact our programs coordinator, Susan Manley at ssnmanley@yahoo.com.
The other two meetings are Members Shows, when several of our subscriber-members share a selection of their best photos. It's almost like a photography potluck! Look for Members Shows in June and December. We hope you will attend and share!
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Photographer Nick Brandt brought large scale B+W prints to share for our December 2009 meeting and the best available space to display them was the floor. He had amazing and moving stories of capturing portraits of a variety of East African beasts and of the adversity they faced every day. In 2009, in his book On This Earth, he wrote:
I'm not interested in creating work that is simply documentary or filled with action and drama, which has been the norm in the photography of animals in the wild. What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being. In the state of Being before they are no longer are. Before, in the wild at least, they cease to exist. This world is under terrible threat, all of it caused by us. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera. The photos are my elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."
His work continues. See www.NickBrandt.com