September featured artists at the Museum & Arts Center will be Olympic Peaks Camera Club featuring Ken Timm and Pat Pates.

Ken Timm, a retired musician and teacher, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He got his first camera out of a catalog while in elementary school and remembers wanting an Exakta, but only had enough pennies for some ultra-cheap piece of junk that worked for about three rolls of film before self-destructing. In the 1980's he got a "system" camera. He' has stuck with Minolta since then, but now the sale of Minolta to Sony may change that. The things Ken wishes to photograph most are those that cause him to whisper "wow!" because the moment seems unique, awe-inspiring, exciting, dangerous, or beautiful. He believes such fleeting moments are seldom planned, but also difficult to render well.

Pat Bates joined the Sequim-Sunland Camera Club (now the Olympic Peaks Camera Club) in 1990 after leaving California following a 1989 earthquake. She was secretary of OPCC for quite a spell, and for a many years she was in charge of refreshments, a somewhat unrewarding job except for the opportunity to meet all club members. She started taking photographs in Santa Cruz, California, joined a club there, and was a member for twenty years, serving for a time as its president. She has used an Olympus OM-2 as her principal camera; she has shown both slides and prints at the club. Pat is a graduate of Oregon State University. As a high school teacher, she taught physical education, health, and science in her home town of Seaside, Oregon; in Longview, Washington; and in Moorpark and Santa Cruz, California, the latter for 26 years.