Our next meeting is on Thursday, October 15^th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church!

Come early to visit and share with your fellow photographers.

Agenda

• 6:30 Set up and social time.
• 7:00 Welcome and Member News
• 7:10 Quote of the Month
• 7:15 Announcements
• 7:30 Program: The Fauna Project with Valerie Bugh
• 8:15 – Member Photo Share

Program: The Fauna Project with Valerie Bugh

Gardens are more than collections of plants; they are dynamic ecosystems. Through a program of weekly surveys initiated in early 2010, a group of nature-loving volunteers has been consistently recording data on the animals found within the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, TX. From inception to the vast number of identifications and observations accumulated, this program tells the story of the Fauna Project. Photography is an important tool in this study, so there is no dearth of colorful images to highlight the insects, spiders, birds, reptiles, etc. and their behaviors. Take a close look at the biome, glimpse some of the diverse residents in an organically cultivated native plant habitat and see why variety is the spice of life.

Valerie Bugh is a local naturalist specializing in the arthropods of the Austin area, with interests in taxonomy and photography. She runs the Fauna Project at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, leads insect/wildflower discovery walks, teaches entomology and botany classes, provides insect/spider identifications, gives talks to local organizations, and is the author of pocket guides to “Butterflies of Central Texas,” “Spiders of Texas” and “Unusual Insects of Texas.”

Website: http://www.austinbug.com/index.html

Member Photo Share Theme: Old Texas

While it is never easy to capture a myth, Texas is full of possibilities.  What photos do you have that tell a story of the past of this place?

Send up to three images to Jerry Sargent at photos@jerrysargent.com

Dues

Annual dues are a bargain at $12 per year. If you haven’t renewed, you may pay at the meeting, or use our PayPal by using this link, or you can mail your check to Winifred Simon at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX  78676. (Only paid members may post on our HCPC Members Facebook page.  If you are a paid member and cannot access the account, ask Charlie Kreitler, our admin, to allow you access.

Social Media

We have two Facebook Pages — Public and Members Only.   

If you have any news or stories you’d like to have included in the newsletter, please send them to hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Our next meeting is on Thursday, September 17^th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church!

Come early to visit and share with your fellow photographers.

Agenda

• 6:30 Set up and social time.
• 7:00 Welcome and Member News
• 7:10 Quote of the Month
• 7:15 Announcements
• 7:30 Program: How Do We Judge Our Own Work? Presented by Club Members
• 8:15 – Member Photo Share

Program: How Do We Judge Our Own Work? Presented by Club Members

Let’s be honest.  We all like the nodding approval of others when our photographs are viewed.  We get that instant feedback from Instagram or other social media platforms.  But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  What if someone gives a lack luster response to an image that we love?  Does that take the wind out of your sails, or are you able to still appreciate what you have captured?

September’s program will give some clues as to how we can view, critique, and appreciate our own work as we develop a personal style.  We will try to answer the following questions:

1. Why did I take the picture?  What caught my eye or initiated a plan of action?
2. How did I take it?  Did I consider shutter speed, aperture, and ISO before pressing the shutter?  What did I leave in and what did I take out of the frame?
3. What makes the image important to me.  How is this image expressive of who I am as a photographer? Why do I keep coming back to it?

There is nothing wrong with being a lucky photographer.  We all need those serendipitous moments.  But planning and executing have their place too.  The “why and how” of taking a picture or “making” a photograph help us realize what we are attempting to accomplish. 

Member Photo Share Theme: Serenity

Lord knows we could use some serenity about now.  Create or find in your files two or three images that bring a sense of serenity, quiet, peace, calm, or relaxation to you.  Your subject might be found in nature, in art, in the setting of the subject, or perhaps in the simplicity of the scene.  This is your chance to give a gift, in your art, to your fellow photographers.

Send up to three images to Jerry Sargent at photos@jerrysargent.com

Dues

Annual dues are a bargain at $12 per year. If you haven’t renewed, you may pay at the meeting, or use our PayPal by using this link, or you can mail your check to Winifred Simon at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX  78676. (Only paid members may post on our HCPC Members Facebook page.  If you are a paid member and cannot access the account, ask Charlie Kreitler, our admin, to allow you access.

Social Media

We have two Facebook Pages — Public and Members Only.   

If you have any news or stories you’d like to have included in the newsletter, please send them to hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Our next meeting is on Thursday, July 16^th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church!

Come early to visit and share with your fellow photographers.

Agenda

• 6:30 Set up and social time.
• 7:00 Welcome and Member News
• 7:10 Quote of the Month
• 7:15 Announcements
• 7:30 Program: “The Souls of Sixth Street” by Camille Wheeler
• 8:15 – Member Photo Share

Program: “The Souls of Sixth Street” by Camille Wheeler

“The Souls of Sixth Street is a documentary project examining the wildly divergent intersections that create a one-of-a-kind community on Austin’s most storied thoroughfare. More than a decade ago, in February 2016, I began photographing the unhoused population of Sixth Street and downtown Austin. As I formed closer connections with people living on the street, I came to understand that I was documenting layers of community, poverty, estrangement, and addiction in relation to the everyday workings of East Sixth, a National Register historic district.

The street features the mundane and the intoxicating: The trucks making deliveries to businesses. The musicians lugging their gear into bars. The door guys enticing customers to come inside for live music and drinks. The party and comedy club crowds packing the sidewalks.

On this unpredictable landscape, I continue to shape my view of Sixth through the relationships I have built with those experiencing chronic homelessness. I have lost friends to heat stroke, cancer, gunshot wounds, and drug overdoses. On the street, I carry cigarettes, cash, and Narcan. Off the street, I spend time in hospitals and at nursing homes with folks I know, sometimes serving as an emergency contact for individuals who have lost touch with their families.

Over the past few years, I have made it my mission to photograph the before and after on Sixth, a place facing certain and drastic change because of major redevelopment that is well under way.

My project is deeply personal. I routinely meet new people. And I regularly return to individuals I know, photographing them time and again and documenting the changes of life and the markers of stress and aging that I know my friends must also surely see in me.“

Camille Wheeler is a veteran journalist with a diverse background in newspaper and magazine writing, reporting, and editing. Her career includes a lengthy stay at the Austin American-Statesman and a subsequent tenure at Texas Co-op Power magazine as staff writer and associate editor.

Wheeler began a serious pursuit of photojournalism in 2014. Two years later, she launched her current project: the documentation of the unhoused community in downtown Austin and on historic East Sixth Street. There, Wheeler has become an advocate for those experiencing homelessness as she documents the juxtaposition of community and poverty. Her work may be found on Instagram, @camillewheels, and on her website at www.camillejwheeler.com.

Member Photo Share Theme: Plants

Plants are everywhere around us in our yards, parks, open spaces, and countrysides. They may frame, compliment, or partly obscure the subject of our photographs. Quite commonly they are the subject; beautiful flowers, interesting shapes, complex foliage, or textures and patterns draw our attention. They can present challenging subjects for photographers, stretching one’s technical abilities with the camera and skills in post-processing. Photos may range from macros to landscapes, the subjects from redwoods to moss. For PhotoShare in July choose from your files up to three images that feature plants as the subject of the picture. Please Send your Photoshare images to Jerry Sargent at photos@jerrysargent.com

Dues

Annual dues are a bargain at $12 per year. If you haven’t renewed, you may pay at the meeting, or use our PayPal by using this link, or you can mail your check to Winifred Simon at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX  78676. (Only paid members may post on our HCPC Members Facebook page.  If you are a paid member and cannot access the account, ask Charlie Kreitler, our admin, to allow you access.

Social Media

We have two Facebook Pages — Public and Members Only.   

If you have any news or stories you’d like to have included in the newsletter, please send them to hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Our next meeting is on Thursday, May 21^st, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church!

Come early to visit and share with your fellow photographers.

Agenda

• 6:30 Set up and social time.
• 7:00 Welcome and Member News
• 7:10 Quote of the Month
• 7:15 Announcements
• 7:30 Program: Exploring the Cathedral of Junk: “Five Photographic Perspectives”
• 8:15 – Member Photo Share

Program: Exploring the Cathedral of Junk: “Five Photographic Perspectives”

Earlier this spring a group of HCPC members gathered to explore and photograph one of Austin’s iconic landmarks: The Cathedral of Junk. This structure was built in the artist’s back yard, over a period of several years, using all things junk. Five of those participants have collaborated to create our May program to illustrate how the different visions brought to their photography and post-processing are revealed in their images of this amazing structure. As expected, each member created a unique portfolio of images. Come to see and hear how this visually rich jumble of junk inspired creativity in your fellow photographers as they show and discuss their favorites. Dare we call it art?

Member Photo Share Theme: Food

Any and everything that relates to foodstuff and eating, growing, harvesting, selling, preparing, consuming. Or maybe a bug being watched by a lizard or a fish speared by a heron. Please send your Photoshare images to Jerry Sargent at photos@jerrysargent.com

Dues

Annual dues are a bargain at $12 per year. If you haven’t renewed, you may pay at the meeting, or use our PayPal by using this link, or you can mail your check to Winifred Simon at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX  78676. (Only paid members may post on our HCPC Members Facebook page.  If you are a paid member and cannot access the account, ask Charlie Kreitler, our admin, to allow you access.

Social Media

We have two Facebook Pages — Public and Members Only.   

If you have any news or stories you’d like to have included in the newsletter, please send them to hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Our next meeting is on Thursday, March 19^th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church!

Come early to visit and share with your fellow photographers.

Agenda

• 6:30 Set up and social time.
• 7:00 Welcome and Member News
• 7:10 Quote of the Month
• 7:15 Announcements
• 7:30 Program: “Rust Rapture” by Johnny Stevens
• 8:15 – Member Photo Share

Program: “Rust Rapture” by Johnny Stevens

A native of Lenoir, North Carolina, Johnny Stevens attended Fleming College in Florence, Italy, where he studied painting, drawing and photography. After earning a psychology degree from Wake Forest University, he arrived in Austin to attend graduate school at the University of Texas Radio TV and Film Program. In 1982, Johnny founded HORIZON Film & Video – an Austin based corporate film and video production company. In 2010, he sold the company to focus full time on photography, his true passion. In the last 15 years Johnny has focused on architectural photography while also enjoying adding imagery to his abstract photography collections known for bold composition and attention to light. His favorite abstract collection is called “Rust Rapture”

“When I attended my first ‘rat rod’ and custom car show in Austin, I was blown away by the spectacular beauty of the cars’ organic finishes. These cars are hotrods whose exterior finishes have been subjected to a beating by harsh elements – rain, heat and occasionally an owner’s belt sander. The blend of old paint and rust produces a stunning patina which I capture through my photography to create a special collection called “Rust Rapture.”

Member Photo Share Theme: Singular

Sometimes a single object inspired the picture or made the final image special.

Send two images to Jim Philpott at J.PhilpottWoodturner@Gmail.Com

Dues

Annual dues are a bargain at $12 per year. If you haven’t renewed, you may pay at the meeting, or use our PayPal by using this link, or you can mail your check to Winifred Simon at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX  78676. (Only paid members may post on our HCPC Members Facebook page.  If you are a paid member and cannot access the account, ask Charlie Kreitler, our admin, to allow you access.

Social Media

We have two Facebook Pages — Public and Members Only.   

If you have any news or stories you’d like to have included in the newsletter, please send them to hcphotoclub@gmail.com.