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Part of the fun of being a member of the Olympia Camera Club is participating on club field trips. After a trip it’s also fun to review the images that others on the trip captured. If you go on a field trip, please plan on uploading your images to the appropriate gallery once you get them edited. To do that, log into the website and choose “Add Images to a Gallery” in the Members Only menu. You can upload up to 10 images for each gallery. Galleries will remain open for uploads for 2-3 months after each event.
Coming soon - October 23 - Third in a series of immersive photography field trips to working ranches, livestock farms, and grassland reserves in Southwest Washington. Set against the vibrant backdrop of peak autumn, this visit will take us to Hercules...
Coming Soon - October 18, 2025. Decades of neglect have left the building in poor condition. It has appeared on the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation’s “Most Endangered Watch List” every year since 2015. Their hope is that the building will ...
September 26, 2025. They have a wide variety of animals here…reptiles, exotic birds, snakes, cat and dogs, chinchillas, bunnies, all farm animals, goats, sheep, lama, alpaca, pigs, cattle, etc.
August 27, 2025. Nancy Nelson has graciously invited club members to their property again this year. If you didn’t make it last year, members had a great time exploring the wooded park-like property, with some members taking pictures down by the st...
July 26, 2025. Every year the Olympia Camera Club sponsors the Open Photography Exhibit at the Thurston County Fair. Here are some photos of the setup process for judging and exhibiting all the photos that are entered.
July 16, 2025. Quarter Circle 2C Ranch is the livestock stewardship and ranch production arm of Aaron and Domo Woodham’s multigenerational family farm homesteaded in 1896 near Randle, WA. The farm is holistically managed with a focus on regenerative a...
June 29, 2025 - Bee Inspired Garden is a non-profit demonstration pollinator habitat and interactive educational center situated on a family farm with a lovely view of Mt. St. Helens. Our host is the owner, Kay Crawford.
Fields of flowers, a beautiful...
June 1, 2025 - Since the 1950s, the Roy Pioneer Rodeo Association has been the driving force behind this local event. The Roy Rodeo is a well-established event in the tiny rural community of Roy, and it is held twice a year during the summer months....
May 10, 2025 - Heronswood Garden, owned and operated by the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, comprises 15 acres in Kitsap County. Heronswood protects a vast array of plants from around the world, with over 8,000 different varieties spread across six distinct g...
May 6, 2025. The field trip to Colvin Ranch and Violet Prairie coincides with the blooming of Camas and the emergence of other wildflowers and forbs that grazers rely on. Colvin Ranch, in continuous operation since 1854, is now managed by Jennifer Colvin...
April 12, 2025 - Capture Spring's Bloom at Whitney Gardens in Brinnon, Washington! Potential flowers include Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Various Spring Bulbs, and Native Wildflowers
March 22, 2025. Participants met up at the Bremerton Ferry Terminal for a trip to Seattle. Photo opportunities included the Seattle skyline, street photography on the ferry, and many scenic views along the way, including the possibility of sailboats...
Each spring, hundreds of thousands of shorebirds stop to rest and feed along Washington's coast and the Grays Harbor estuary during their northward migration and each year the Olympia Camera Club tries to time the date and tides just right to get the...
July 22-30, 2023. The fair isn’t actually a field trip, but because it consumes so much of the club's time and resources, it has basically become a replacement for a July/August field trip.
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May 27, 2023. One of our own members, Tami Shaughnessy grows a beautiful flower garden and has invited us to photograph her garden.
A spur of the moment trip to the Billy Frank - Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge on the evening of June 24, 2022. If you went on the trip, please add some images by uploading them here .
Tami’s garden is ¾ acre of blooming flowers. There are hundreds of perennials including: peonies, iris, lilies and more. It was a great place for macro, birds, flowers or just general photography. If you went on this field trip, please post some ...
April 29, 2022
We had a beautiful day to meet up with other camera club members to photograph the shorebirds migration at Bottle Beach. Both the weather and the birds cooperated nicely. We have learned that we need to leave Olympia about 5 hours...
The plan was to capture the essence of the city, which could include people, buildings, and the beautiful wall art found in downtown. The city spans many blocks and there are many photo opportunities present.
Here are images from the OCC field trip to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge and Waterfalls in the area led by Bruce Livingston. Many have been to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, but did you know that if wildlife isn't your thing, there are ...
Kubota Japanese Garden is in the Renton/Tukwila area. This wonderful garden is built on a steep hillside with many paths and interesting viewpoints for scenic photography as well as the more usual photographic aspects of individual plants or groups of...
On September 25, 2021 the club held a field trip in the little fishing town of Westport, WA. Susan Bradley organized it to include a scavenger hunt for a list of 10 words and we all headed out to capture images to correlate with those words. Here's...
On the evening of August 25, 2021 the club held an informal photo walk at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. Pam Hoaglund led the group.
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On July 10 we took our first official field trip in over a year to the Mt Rainier, Sunrise Visitor Center to capture the Milky Way. We later shared our images at the first in-person meeting since March of 2020 along with other night photographs we'd ...
Be it our Washinton State coastline or the Oregon coast, or the beaches of a faraway land, let's all go to the beach. Waves, stones, shorebirds, blowing sand, sandcastles, beach blankets, maybe even a picnic basket it is all photographically available at ...
A Virtual Field Trip to Your Favorite Location. Who knew that we would have virtual field trips for over one year!
You can join us by reviewing your existing photographs for your favorite place to photograph. Maybe it’s been a while. Maybe it was ye...
This month we will take a virtual field trip to Oregon. The photo opportunities are endless and can take us from the Columbia River Gorge to the Alford Desert to the coast and endless areas in between. Please share with us your favorite area to photograph...
This month we feature images taken at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge near Vancouver, WA. Stately sandhill cranes, shorebirds, and a great variety of songbirds stop at the refuge during spring and fall migrations. Some bird species such as mallards,...
April’s Virtual Field trip is to southern coastal Washington and northwest Oregon: Cape Disappointment, Fort Stevens, Astoria, Lewis and Clark North Head Lighthouse, Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanview, Seaview, L...
We can see a light at the end of the tunnel. Soon we will be able to travel again and get on a train, or plane, or bus, or whatever we like.
So, let’s think big. This virtual field trip is from around the world.
Share with the OCC your best international tra...
Wallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”
Share with the OCC your best photos of our National Parks. Olympia, Rainier, North Cas...
This is a more personal thematic virtual Field trip. What are you thankful for this holiday month? Take a moment to reflect on the last year, and share with us a photograph, or up to five photographs of what you are grateful for this year. You may already...
"Gratitude" A Holiday Reflection in the Times of the Corona Virus
This is a more personal thematic virtual Field trip. What are you thankful for this holiday month? Take a moment to reflect on the last year, and share with us a photographs of what...
Join us in a walk through the night by sharing your Astro and night photography in a virtual field trip to our night sky. Show us a variety of your photos taken of comet Neowise, the Milky Way, cityscapes, the Moon, night time long term exposures, and...
To help camera club members keep on shooting, our next virtual field trip is to your new normal - “A Day In the Life of OCC.” Go out, or stay in and show us five photos from any given day. You are encouraged to pick a day, see what the day brings.
You...
This virtual field trip will take us to the area north of Seattle and will include the Skagit Valley, Whidbey Island, the San Juan Islands, Mt Baker area, and other photographic sites north of Seattle, south of Canada and west of the Cascades. This covers...
A Virtual Field Trip to the City of Olympia. We have all been there many times; the Capitol, Farmer’s Market, Bud Bay, Priest Point, Woodard Bay, Percival Landing, and downtown Olympia. Let’s share our view of the wonderfully close places to take pho...
A virtual field trip to the Olympic Peninsula. It will be like we all went for a drive up highway 101 and now we get to share our photographs with other club members. Many OCC members have been to Olympic NP, Port Angeles, Port Townsend, the beaches and...
We are going to take a special virtual field trip to “The Palouse.” What is “The Palouse?” Why would you go there and what would you photograph? Help OCC members who have not been to The Palouse see what an amazing place it is to photograph. Tractors, rolling...
We have photographed the Columbia River in both Oregon and Washington. Let’s see a wide variety of locations, seasons, and perspectives along the river gorge. By sharing our photos, we can also help others, who have not photographed in the river gorge, g...
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we were unable to conduct in-person field trips during much of 2020 and 2021. Instead we held Virtual trips via the club newsletter each month. The following galleries are hosted on Flickr.
May 2020
Virtual Field Trip to Mt Rainier
March 14, 2020
Quinault Rain Forest Nature Trail
February 22, 2020
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge
January 25, 2020
Macro Plant Photography
December 21, 2019
Tacoma Winter Solstice Waterfront Walk
December 13, 2019
Capitol Campus at Christmas
November 16, 2019
SODO Urban Street Photography
November 2, 2019
Edelweiss Goat Ranch
October 26, 2019
Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island
September 14, 2019
Percival Landing
August 31, 2019
Roy Rodeo
May 18, 2019
Emerald Downs Horse Racing
May 14 and 25, 2019
Lighthouse Alpaca Ranch
May 15, 2019
Bottle Beach Shore Birds
April 27, 2019
Glacial Heritage Nature Preserve
March 25, 2019
Wolf Haven
January 11/12, 2019
Skagit River Eagle Viewing
December 5, 2018
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge
October 6, 2018
Bellingham and Mt. Shuksan
September 22, 2018
Aspen Farms Horse Trials
June 23, 2018
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
June 1-2, 2018
Painted Hills Oregon
May 19, 2018
Violet Prairie Wildflowers
April 21, 2018
Bottle Beach Shorebirds
March 10, 2018
Billy Frank Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
January 27, 2018
Seattle Museum of Flight
October 28, 2017
Lewis River Falls
October 14, 2017
Cranberry Harvest – Grayland, WA
September 23, 2017
Dahlia’s Galore and More
July 22, 2017
Staircase Hike – Olympic NP
June 24, 2017
Mt Saint Helens Night Photography
May 20, 2017
Mima Mounds
April 29, 2017
Bottle Beach – Westport
March 25, 2017
Olympia’s Graffiti and Street Art
February 25, 2017
Seymour Conservatory – Tacoma
January 14, 2017
Mt Rainier Winter Trip
December 2016
Holiday Lights Around Olympia
November 19, 2016
Seattle Butterfly House
October 8, 2016
Kubota Gardens, Seattle
September 17, 2016
Fire on the Mountain
August 4, 2016
Percival Landing Photo Walk
July 26, 2016
Nisqually Wildlife Refuge Photo Walk
July 19, 2016
McLane Nature Trail Photo Walk
July 16, 2016
Busek Auto Museum and Chehalis Steam Train
June 4, 2016
Seabeck Eagles
May 21, 2016
Quilt Barns of Kittitas County
April 30 – May 1, 2016
The Columbia Gorge Hood River Area
March 19, 2016
The Sights of Seattle
February 27, 2016
The Sights of Tacoma
November 22, 2015
Fantasy of Lights in Spanaway
October 24/25, 2015
Hoh Rain Forest & Ocean Beaches
September 19, 2015
Seattle Arboretum and Japanese Garden
August 8, 2015
Morton Logging Jubilee
July 23, 2015
Percival Landing Photo Walk
July 16, 2015
Lakefair Fireworks
May 30, 2015
Portland Rose Garden and Chinese Garden
May 9, 2015
Westport and Bottle Beach
April 18, 2015
Zazu’s House and Chateau Ste. Michelle
March 7, 2015
Columbia Gorge Waterfalls
December 6, 2014
Ft Nisqually and Zoo Lights
November 15, 2014
Seymour Conservatory
October 4, 2014
Cape Disappointment
September 20, 2014
Staircase Rapids
August 16, 2014
Mt. Rainier
July 12, 2014
Sequim Lavender Farms and Hurricane Ridge
June 28, 2014
Lighthouses of Puget Sound
May 24, 2014
Emerald Downs Horse Racing
April 12, 2014
Waterfalls of the Olympic Peninsula
March 22, 2014
Mt Rainier
February 22, 2014
Seymour Conservatory at Wright Park, Tacoma, WA
January 25, 2014
Seattle Center Butterfly House and Kerry Park
December 7, 2013
1855 Christmas at Fort Nisqually
