MAPS meetings are held on the second Monday of each month from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. You can attend in-person or by using Zoom.
All MAPS members are invited to attend the monthly meetings and will receive a Zoom invite. Check out our Zoom web page to prepare for the monthly program meetings and for tips & tricks we might have. Non-members are welcome to attend in person or view the recording of the monthly program once it is posted.
The highlight of each monthly meeting is a presentation about a photography topic. Presentations are typically oriented toward nature photography (animals, birds, insects) or landscape photography. Our program committee carefully selects the speakers. All presenters are accomplished photographers, and many are involved in photography professionally and/or as teachers. At one or two meetings a year, instead of a presentation, we offer non-competitive evaluation and critique of member-submitted images by a professional photographer.
- Huibo Hou – Personal Expression in Black and White Landscape Photography
- Gary Hart – Leveraging Your Camera’s Vision
- From Prairie Plants to Prairie Critters: a Macro Journey – Dave Jagodzinski
- Self-Expression Through Imagery – Steven Koppel
- Cindy Crosby – Chasing Dragonflies
- John Weinstein – Photos from the Field Museum
- Don Hurzeler – Kilauea Eruptions and Rain Forest Recovery from Lava Flows
- Bill Skinner – “Old & New – What’s Best for You”
- Jack Carlson – Photographing Signs of Spring at the Chicago Botanic Garden
- Jane Fulton Alt – Finding the Muse: A Creative Journey
- Jessica Cepele – Stacking Images for Landscape Photography
- David Schooley – Noise Reduction & Sharpening – Getting it Right in Camera First