Last Regular Meeting: Ryan Yantis spoke about being at the Pentagon on 9/11 and American Pride Inc, non-profit organization that has been developed to bring a positive impact to the lives of all first responders and their families.
6/13: Installation Dinner at Sunset Ridge Country Club. Invitations have been mailed for the 2019-2020 Installation Dinner. Please RSVP to Suzi Gantz by June 5th. Remember you are charged for the dinner even if you don't attend.
6/14: Northbrook Chamber Golf Outing: Our club will be sponsoring a hole at the chamber's golf outing. Volunteers are needed to man the hole and talk about Rotary. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Scott Rose.
7/4: Annual Pancake Breakfast
7:30 am - 11:00 am
Village Green
Volunteers will be needed to help out at the breakfast. The link to sign up for volunteer shifts will be emailed shortly.
7/9: Annual Rubber Ducky Race will take place at 6:45 pm at the Village Green.
Photographer George Steinmetz has taken to the sky to show us the big picture
Above the door of George Steinmetz’s garage hang two unusual traffic signs: one of a llama from the Altiplano high desert of Bolivia, the other of a dromedary camel, the type that he has photographed in his trips across the Arabian Desert.
Inside the house, surfaces are stacked with books and collections from his travels, including butterflies and giant insects, hats, and bottles of desert sands. His sunny studio looks out on treetops, and cabinets full of photographic transparencies line the walls. Museum-worthy framed photographs are everywhere — some his own, others by his talented and famous friends and colleagues from around the world.
In more than 40 years as a photographer, Steinmetz has captured panoramic aerial images of the plains of Africa, the Gobi desert, the vast sand dunes of Brazil, and the frozen expanses of Antarctica. He has photographed New York City’s urban landscape, Kansas’ wheat fields, and Indonesia’s palm oil plantations. He has done much of his work while dangling from a paraglider in what looks like a flimsy motorized lawn chair.
His photographs have appeared in the New Yorker, Smithsonian, Time, and the New York Times Magazine, and he is a regular contributor to National Geographic. He has also published several books: African Air, Empty Quarter, Desert Air, and New York Air.
Steinmetz is used to being the observer, not the observed. Talking about himself may not be his preference, but he proved a lively conversationalist when he sat down with frequent contributor Julie Bain at the New Jersey home he shares with his wife, Lisa Bannon, and their daughter and twin sons. In a lengthy chat, interrupted by a tour of the house and a photo show-and-tell on his studio computer, he described what it’s like to capture the world from an aerial perspective.
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