Coast­side Pho­tog­ra­phers is a new Half Moon Bay based pho­tog­ra­phy Meet­up group and I am the orga­niz­er!

The idea is to focus on pho­to oppor­tu­ni­ties unique to the San Mateo Coun­ty coast­line. There are many (200+) bay area pho­to relat­ed groups in Meet­up, none cen­tered in Half Moon Bay. I know plen­ty of coast side pho­tog­ra­phers that trav­el over the hill to attend lec­tures and pho­to walks (myself includ­ed) and I want to help us get togeth­er local­ly.

For now, I will orga­nize pho­to walks as nat­ur­al align­ments and com­mu­ni­ty events occur. Long term plans include reg­u­lar meet­ings to talk and learn, but find­ing a venue to accom­mo­date the group, which has grown to over 150 mem­bers as of this writ­ing, is the chal­lenge. A few local cof­fee shops have offered their ser­vices, but I have yet to take them up on those offers. The library has no meet­ing rooms for us and only allow library spon­sored activ­i­ties, at least until the new library is built. The Recre­ation Depart­ment charges a hefty fee unless you are a cer­ti­fied non-prof­it.

But the future is promis­ing. We have already had 4 suc­cess­ful meets since we start­ed at the end of Jan­u­ary and mem­ber­ship grows every­day.

Sur­pris­ing­ly, we have mem­bers from all over the bay area. For those that must trav­el, I try my best to update sched­uled meets as to chang­ing weath­er and traf­fic con­di­tions.

If you are inter­est­ed in join­ing or check­ing us out, click through to Coast­side Pho­tog­ra­phers. This will take you to our Meet­up web­site where you can read about us, view our pre­vi­ous meets, sug­gest ideas in the Dis­cus­sion Forum, check out the post­ed pho­tos and read our Poli­cies and Guide­lines.

It is free to join (free to sign up with Meet­up) and most meets will be free. Occa­sion­al­ly, I plan to hold tech­ni­cal sem­i­nars and charge a fee.

Take that cam­era out of the bag, charge the bat­tery and come join us as we pho­to­graph the coast!