Capturing a Moment
Please join us on Thursday, May 18th, at 7:00 pm, for our next meeting.
Our scheduled guest speaker, Nuri Vallbona, had to cancel due to family matters.
She didn’t want to leave our group without a program on Photojournalism, so she has enlisted her friend, Rebecca Scoggin McEntee, to step in for her. Rebecca is looking forward to meeting our group.
Agenda:
7:00 – 7:20 Welcome, Introductions, and Member News
7:25 – 8:15 Program: Capturing a Moment with Rebecca Scoggin McEntee
8:20 – 9:00 Critiques: Silhouettes
About Our Program: Capturing a Moment with Rebecca Scoggin McEntee
Rebecca Scoggin McEntee has taught photojournalism, photography, and journalism, most recently at South Dakota State University.
Before returning to the University of Texas, where she received a Ph.D. in Journalism in 2015, Rebecca was a photo editor for six years, and staff photographer for fourteen years, at the Austin American Statesman. Prior to working at the Statesman, Rebecca’s career included photography, videography, writing, editing, and television news reporting with a variety of media that included journalism, public relations, and advertising. She was a photographer with the Texas House of Representatives, and produced promotional video projects for the Texas State Health Department programs. Rebecca also enjoyed producing a cartoon strip for a few years that ran in the Round Rock Leader and a few other newspapers. Rebecca’s research has focused on the use of photographs for journalism and strategic communications, with a major emphasis on the editing of war imagery.
Dues for 2017 are $12.
New members joining after the first of the year will pay a prorated amount. You may pay by check at the next meeting or mail to our treasurer, Winifred Simon, at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX 78676, or pay using PayPal.
Critiques: Silhouettes
You may submit up to 2 images. Please resize them to 2,000 pixels on the long side, with a resolution of 72, and name them 1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_LastName.jpg. Remember, when showing your images, you may ask for a critique or suggestions for improvement from members, or simply “show and tell” your image.
Please email them to hcphotoclub@gmail.com by Tuesday, May 16th, so Jørgen will have time to prepare them for the meeting.
Reminders
- If you have a Facebook account, you may join our club’s Closed Group page and keep up with current member news as well as postings of Calls for Entry that you may wish to enter, or share other important or interesting information with our group. Go to HCPC Members. You must be a paid member to post and use this account. It is the easiest and best way to keep current on photo opps and member news. Carolyn Whiteside is the administrator of this page – thank you Carolyn!
- You may also send a write-up of Accomplishments and Awards information that you would like to share on our website by submitting your information in a concise manner, and email to Art Arizpe at webmaster@hcphotoclub.org.
In Charlie’s words: “It was an assignment quite different from the norm. I was asked to build with Photoshop three large (3 ft x 3 ft) panels depicting different aspects of Native Americans from the Iroquois Nation. The panels focused on: 1) the paintings, sketches, photographs of the people from the 1600’s to the present, 2) treaties and documents of the tribes and 3) the totems of their ancestors. Within each panel, individual images were cut and pasted and blended with different degrees of transparency so that images grow out of one another and give an integrated look to each panel. The tenor of the panels was to be ‘artistic’ and not historical or literal in interpretation. I worked with several museums that provided digital access to historic paintings and historic photographs, living artists, and Native Americans. The panels were reviewed by a representative of the Mohawk tribe to make sure they were accurate.”
I was their publications editor, doing the writing, photography, and graphic design for three publications. I had originally been drawn into Journalism because of writing, but as I worked I discovered that my interests and talents were more in photography and graphic design. My Journalism training still influences me today. I am less of an “artistic” photographer, and more of an “event” photographer.
teaching and doing research at the following universities: Texas A & M, Kansas State University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and currently at Texas State University. She has 24 years of experience in Public Horticulture at the following gardens: Norfolk Botanical Garden as Landscape designer & Taxonomist; Planting Fields Arboretum, as Horticultural Taxonomist; at Zilker Botanical Garden as Education Coordinator; at KSU Gardens as Acting Director; and The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, as Director of Education.
