Category: FotoFokus
August: Night / Family
This month’s meetup brought a wave of fresh energy, with several new participants joining us for the first time — welcome! Our conversation kicked off with Paul, who shared his knowledge of infrared photography and brought along some stunning examples of his own work, setting an inspired tone for the evening. Riding that enthusiasm, we…
July: Traveling / Symmetry
July opened with a conversation about atmosphere — how to translate the feel of a place into an image. It’s harder than it sounds: what we experience standing there doesn’t automatically carry over to a viewer who wasn’t. Members shared how sounds, smells, and other sensory impressions shape the atmosphere they try to capture, even…
June: Water / People at Play
This month’s opening conversation circled around a simple question: what do you want to get better at — the technical side, or the way you approach a shoot? It turns out the answer says a lot about where each of us is on our photographic path. For FotoFokus, the themes were Water and People at…
May: Golden Hour / Chaos
A smaller group this month — travel kept a few members away — but the contributions more than made up for it. The two themes were Golden Hour and Chaos. Spring came through for Golden Hour. Members headed out in the evenings to catch that low, warm light, though more than a few were reminded…
Roll for Chaos
This month’s FotoFokus theme is Chaos. My first instinct was to go photograph something chaotic — crowds, noise, disorder. Then I thought: what if the process of choosing the photo was chaotic too? Inspired by Roll for Sandwich, I put together a dice-based generator with three rolls — subject, approach, constraint — that combine into…
April: Rural Life / Patterns
April’s FotoFokus opened with a conversation about color filters and how they shape contrast in black and white images — a topic that found its way into the submissions in more ways than one. Rural Life brought the warmer weather outside: members explored the local countryside as it comes back to life, and a few…
March: Architecture Details / Body
Before sharing the month’s images, we spent some time with the biology of seeing. The eye evolved in a world of color — nature offers no black and white, only wavelengths our brains interprets. So when we look at a monochrome image, something interesting happens: stripped of color’s emotional pull, the brain shifts gear. Contrast,…
February: Shadows & Silhouettes / Self Portrait
February brought two themes that turned out to have more in common than expected. Shadows & Silhouettes was an invitation to play — once you start seeing the world in shapes and light, it’s hard to stop. Self Portrait stirred up something a little more personal; our conversations touched on the vulnerability of it, the…
January: Minimalism / Connection
January’s FotoFokus explored two themes that both, in their own way, ask you to slow down and pay attention. Minimalism is the art of reduction — fewer colors, less light, simpler shapes — and there’s something quietly surprising about how much emotion that restraint can hold. Connection carries a compelling double meaning: it can live…
FotoFokus Topics for 2026
For our FotoFokus part of our meetup, each month we share two topics to spark your creativity. Pick one, shoot both, or let them surprise you.