You are invited to the next meeting of the Washington Area Computer User Group (WAC), scheduled on Saturday, May 12th from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia. The meeting is free and open to the public. Preregistration is not required to attend. The May 12th WAC meeting will feature two presentations about photography. Traveling presents a number of challenges for taking photographs, whether using traditional film or digital equipment. Arctic and equatorial climates offer special challenges. Religious views, cultural differences and political situations present other challenges. Photographing children and other wild animals can be stimulating and frustrating. Besides cameras, what other equipment should you take? In what ways are film and digital photography alike? Are there any special considerations for travel outside the U.S.? What special considerations are there in using digital equipment? How can you get decent photos in bad weather? WAC member Lorrin Garson will answer these questions. Primary focus will be on amateur photography with both point-and-shoot and Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras, with emphasis on the latter. Professional photographers prefer to shoot digital camera raw images. What is camera raw and why are they switching to it? Is this important to me? What's the benefit of shooting camera raw? WAC member Chuck Roberts will demonstrate camera raw images and how to deal with them using Adobe(r) Photoshop(r) Elements 5.0 and Photoshop Lightroom(tm) for digital photographers. In addition, he'll demonstrate how both Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Lightroom help with managing your photos to assist you in locating that special photo in your collection. WACUG is a non-profit general interest computer user group that supports the Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux operating systems. For more information, call the WAC AnswerLine at (703) 370-7649 or visit our web site at http://www.wacug.org/.