meetup photos on Flickr

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Warner Parks - November 2022

WordPress Meetup Marbella - 5182 by Rafael Poveda

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Meetup del grupo WordPress Marbella - May 2013

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We were experiementing with lighting, but I think that this is a nice headshot of Steve. This photo is sharper than I expected. I forgot to change the shutter speed to 1/125 for this experiment, and I was shooting close to 200mm at 1/25 second. I had IS enabled, so I assume that's what helped me get a reasonably sharp image.

I tweaked this image in Photoshop. The original had a weird orange background from the ambient light (since I didn't gel the flash to match). I applied a color balance layer with a hand-crafted layer mask to affect just the background. I also knocked down the red tones in the face a little.

Strobist info:

* Key: SB-24 into a white reflective umbrella, camera right at about 4 o'clock.

* Fill: ambient overhead lights (not the same color balance)

Triggered with RadioPopper JrX radio triggers.

SCREENSAILOR Deltek Maconomy Network meeting Spring 2013 by Pål-Kristian Hamre

York Minster by John Grey

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at the Utata meetup

NYTM.ORG - Message to NY Tech Meetup Community by Quest Telecom

Text reads as follows:

NYTM.ORG IS BLACKED OUT IN PROTEST OF PIPA/SOPA — READ MORE BELOW

WANT TO CALL SENATOR SCHUMER OR SENATOR GILLIBRAND? THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS AT MOBILECOMMONS YOU CAN JUST TEXT THE WORD PIPA TO 877877 AND WE'LL CONNECT YOU DIRECTLY TO WHICHEVER SENATOR'S LINE OPENS UP FIRST.

DEAR NY TECH MEETUP COMMUNITY:

THANK YOU.

This afternoon, over 2,000 of us gathered together to protest an unprecedented attack on the future of our industry and to demonstrate and to defend our love of the open web.

In an effort to combat piracy which we all would like to minimize if not outright eliminate, Congress, at the behest of monied special interests representing the copyright holding industries, is proposing to redesign the Internet. If they are successful, they will not only stifle innovation and investment in emerging technology companies in New York and elsewhere, they will irrevocably damage the architecture of the Internet so as to embolden censorship around the world.

The Internet and related connection technologies have created a renaissance in startup innovation in New York that now rivals Silicon Valley as a hub for economic growth. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers have been inspired to become entrepreneurs creating thousands and thousands of new jobs and offering professionals in many of New York’s traditional industries the opportunity to start new careers participating in the 21stcentury global economy. More importantly, the open web has fostered a new era of reform around the world allowing citizens using the technology to challenge repressive regimes and demand accountability in their political systems.

To be absolutely clear, we totally oppose any piracy of any and all copy righted material, However because of the poor way the language of the legislation is written, there is a very real possibility that that the PIPA and SOPA laws would vastly discourage open innovation, investment, entrepreneurship, and free speech.

This is a classic case of our 20th century government clashing with the realities of our 21st century global economies.

So if you agree with our effort to bring our voices together to fight to make sure Congress does't act in an unilateral and uninformed way, we urge you to call and tweet to our Senators, Schumer and Gillibrand and tell them not to tamper with the Internet.

Instead of sponsoring PIPA Senators Schumer and Gillibrand should be defending the future of New York, free speech, and the open web.

The copyright holding organizations proposing these bills have been gaming the system for decades lining the pockets of politicians with money and using their power and influence as a currency to monopolize their markets.

The Internet however operates in a different kind of currency, the currency of trust and openness.

Today we stand in solidarity with all the other websites around the world who have taken the risk today to shut down or modify their online presence and activities to bring awareness to the issues and to galvanize their respective communities to fight for what is right.

Please join us in the effort to minimize piracy on the web, and help us continue to build the infrastructure for a 21st century New York and a 21st century economy.

Signed:

Andrew Rasiej, Chairman — @rasiej

Scott Heiferman, Founder — @heif

Nate Westheimer, Executive Director — @innonate

Jessica Lawrence, Managing Director — @jessicalawrence

And the entire NY Tech Meetup Board — @nytm

Cars & Coffee Meetup by Eric Adeleye

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Cars & Coffee Meetup at Chili's in Wilmington, North Carolina on May 3, 2014.