Berks Photographic Meetup Group

September 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM: Bill Coughlin will present “Infrared Photography”
Photography has been a hobby of Bill’s for over 50 years. He remembers his first camera – a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye that used 620 Roll Film! That camera got him hooked on photography and over the next several decades he used various Canon, Nikon, and Fuji cameras. His first ‘real’ camera was a Canon FTb, full manual exposure of course. Bill is a Wisconsin native and he and his family moved to Pennsylvania in 1983. His first digital camera was the Sony Mavica MVC-FD5 which used a 3.5 inch floppy disk as the recording media! The image resolution was 640x480. With compression the floppy could store between 20 and 40 images!
With 4 children and 13 grandchildren, he has thousands of family pictures with many prints stored in boxes. His long-term project is to digitally scan all of them and share with his family.
Bill’s photographic journey includes many different photographic genres including macro, landscapes, portraits, a few weddings, travel, black and white, and infrared. He was introduced to infrared photography when his uncle used Infrared photos to tell the health of crops on his farm. The Infrared Camera could ‘see’ what the naked eye couldn’t see and that inspired Bill to experiment with various infrared filters and post processing techniques. According to Bill there is beauty to be found in unique and surreal infrared images captured with light from beyond the visible light spectrum.
On September 8th Bill will be giving a presentation on Infrared Photography. He will be discussing the light spectrum, options for IR photography, external filters, issues with various lenses, examples of IR photos using different filters, and his infrared photography post processing workflow.
In addition to serving as the Financial Secretary for BPS for the past five years, he is also Chairman of the Community Outreach and Engagement Committee. He coordinates getting volunteer photographers for various events held by non-profit organizations. Bill looks forward to sharing his Infrared Images and IR photographic techniques with you on September 8th.

- September 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM: Mollie Issacs will present “Put More Life In Your Wildlife Photography”


Photographing animals, birds, and other wildlife can be exciting and rewarding. With the right techniques and a little knowledge, your wildlife photography can soar! Join Mollie for this eye-opening peek into the finer points of getting the images you strive for. You’ll learn some pro tips and tricks that will elevate your wildlife and bird photography to a higher level. This program is educational, inspirational, and fun! You will come away with fresh ideas and a renewed enthusiasm for all the photography you love.


Mollie Isaacs is a professional photographer who specializes in Nature, Wildlife, Flowers, Birds, and Abstracts. She is passionate about photography, and loves to share that passion by teaching others. Early in her career she studied with Ansel Adams and Joyce Tenneson. She has won the Kodak Gallery Award 14 times, considered by some to be the “Oscar” of photography. Her work is in the Permanent Collection of the International Photography Hall of Fame, and has been exhibited at Epcot Center in Disney World, and Grand Central Terminal in NYC. She runs Awake The Light Photo Workshops & Tours, offers online Webinars, and personally leads photo workshops around the country and beyond. Read more about her and see her work on www.awakethelight.com

This will be a paid event for non-members with a $10 donation. For non-members interested in attending, please register by making your $10 donation at https://store.berksphotographic.org/product/club-donation/.