Evening Grosbeaks—Photo: Sally M. Harris

OPAS Program: “OPAS Members’ Photo Night” 
Organized and presented by Christina Heliker
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Rainshadow Hall, Dungeness River Nature Center
Free to attend.

For 2026 we decided to give our members a bit of a breather after the holidays and shift our OPAS Members’ Photo Night to February. This is not a contest, but a chance for members to share their favorite views of birds and their behavior. The subject of your photos needn’t be a rare bird. Our members will also enjoy a good image of a chickadee doing something interesting or just being beautiful. You may submit pictures taken locally or anywhere from your recent travels.

If you have photos you would like to share, please send me a maximum of 8 images by February 6th, 2026, at the latest. That way I can get them organized in time, and everything will be ready to go. PLEASE READ THE IMAGE GUIDELINES BEFORE SENDING.

Note:  If you think you are going to submit, please let me know ASAP. If more people than usual are interested, I may need to reduce the number of photos each of you can show.

Important: Please review your images carefully and do all your final tweaking before you send them to me. Last-minute substitutions are strongly discouraged.

Once I know how many are participating, I’ll let you know how much time you have to show your pictures. To ensure that everyone gets their allotted time, we’ll have a timekeeper!

Plan on letting the audience know what bird they’re looking at, where it was taken, and what time of year you took the picture. If you want to put that info on your photo, it saves having to remember to say it and leaves you more time to tell us other stuff. You do not need to send me that information unless you want me to add it to your slides for you.

Image Guidelines: Please save your images as jpgs and size them to be 1600 pixels on the long edge. Anything larger doesn’t make a perceptible difference when projected. The dpi doesn’t make any difference so long as you stick with 1600 pixels on the long edge. If you’re not sure how to resize your images, send them as is, and I’ll do it for you.

Decide on the order of your images and name them thusly: your last name 01, your last name 02, etc., e.g., heliker01.jpg, heliker02.jpg, etc. This is important! It makes it vastly easier to keep track of all the photos that come in and ensures that they are in the order you want them projected.

If you don’t know how to rename your photos, it’s easy: right click on the file name (e.g., img654.jpg) and then click on Rename.

Send your questions and images to Christina Heliker at cheliker@olypen.com.

Happy Holidays,

Christina