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March 2024

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Please join us Thursday, March 21st, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church!

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – Welcome and Member News

7:15 – Program: Capturing Soul: The Art of Storytelling Through Photography with Yvonne Palkowitsh

8:15 – Member Photo Share, Theme: Weather

Program:  Capturing Soul: The Art of Storytelling Through Photography with Yvonne Palkowitsh

©Yvonne Palkowitsh

Yvonne Palkowitsh, born in a small Kansas town and currently residing in Austin, TX, is an award-winning artist with a Master of Arts from MidAmerica Nazarene University.

Yvonne is a self-taught photographer and storyteller whose work merges carefully planned photographs with digital composite techniques to transform traditional photographs into soulful, imaginative tales.  Her work, deeply inspired by the resilience of women, employs dark, richly colored scenes to convey both strength and vulnerability. Each piece invites viewers to explore the layers of meaning and emotion that lie beneath the surface of the surreal, evocative world, blending story with visual poetry.

©Yvonne Palkowitsh
©Yvonne Palkowitsh

Exhibited in galleries and museums across the U.S. and internationally, Yvonne’s art is a part of prestigious collections, showcasing her unique ability to narrate through the lens.

www.yvonnepalkowitsh.com
IG:  @yvonnepalkowitshphoto
FB: @Yvonnepalkowitshphotography

Procedure when arriving

Please find your name tag at the table when you walk in, then locate the attendance sheet on the table and check off your name. You can also see if you are up to date on your dues. If not, you can pay Winifred Simon at the meeting, or other options below.

Member Photo Share Theme:  Weather

“March is when we turn on our weather radios.  In Texas we expect wind, hail, rain, lightning, storm clouds, tornados, freezing rain. It occurs to me that there should be some photo ops there. So gather up your images of weather…its visuals, its drama, its effects, its aftermath…for our March PhotoShare.  Wet umbrellas, storm clouds building over mountains, foggy cityscapes, lightening…all could be possibilities.”   Bill Galloway 

Please name your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg. No need to resize – just make sure it is a jpeg file. Send them by email to photos@jerrysargent.com by Tuesday, March 19th to insure they will be shown at the meeting (Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.)

Upcoming Field Trips & Events

Here is an updated list of events you should consider. The ones in bold are happening before our next meeting!

  • March 9 – State Capitol tour – contact Charlie Kreitler ASAP – limited to 7 (512-799-5693)
  • March 13 – George Krause Studio Tour – Wimberley  9:30 at his home 
  • 291 E Summit Dr, Wimberley, TX 78676  (Sfumato nudes and other art and sculptures)  Lunch to follow in Wimberley
  • March 16 – Model T Olympics – Pioneer Flight Museum (see Events on HCPC Members Facebook page for details.)
  • March 16 – Texas Photography Festival – Georgetown https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetownTexasPhotographyFestival/
  • April 6-7   – The Great Texas Air Show  (see Events on Members page – this is a “on your own” event)

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.

Reminders

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.

February 2024

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Please join us Thursday, February 15th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church!

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – Welcome and Member News

7:15 – Program: An Evening with George Krause

8:15 – Member Photo Share, Theme: Black and White

Program:  An Evening with George Krause

George Krause was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1937 and received his training at the Philadelphia College of Art. He received the first Prix de Rome and the first Fulbright/Hays grant ever awarded to a photographer, two Guggenheim fellowships and 3 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

His photographs are in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. In 1993 he was honored as Texas Artist of the Year. He retired in 1999 from the University of Houston where in 1975 he created the photography program, and now lives in Wimberley, Texas.

New Procedure when arriving

Please find your name tag at the table when you walk in, then locate the attendance sheet on the table and check off your name. You can also see if you are up to date on your dues. If not, you can pay Winifred Simon at the meeting, or other options below.

Member Photo Share Theme:  Black and White

“Austin winters can be a bit drab. Gray, cloudy days, low sun angle, dead herbage and (some) bare trees. A good time to think in shades of gray.  So find or create a few pictures that remind us of the visual power black and white photography.  Reprocess a color shot into B&W.  Find a subject that is already B&W (a zebra, sea gull or the right species of duck).  Photograph on a gray, foggy morning.  After all, B&W is where it all began.” (Bill Galloway)

Please name your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg. No need to resize – just make sure it is a jpeg file. Send them by email to hcphotoclub@gmail.com by Tuesday, February 13th to insure they will be shown at the meeting. Do NOT send to Jerry – he will be in Costa Rica! (Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.)

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.

Reminders

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.

January 2024

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Please join us Thursday, January 18th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church  for our first meeting of the year!

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – Welcome and Member News

7:15 – Club Business

1. Election of officers – still time to throw your hat into the ring for  vice-president!!. Janet Wallace has agreed to take over the secretary job from Rose Epps. Thank you Janet! Please let me know ASAP if you are interested and willing to help your club as VP. It is not a requirement that you move into the role of president if you do.

2. Dues for 2024 are now payable, ($12) either in person with check or cash (correct change appreciated) at the meeting, or by going to paypal in this link:  https://hcphotoclub.org/membership/   You may also pay by check to HCPC and mail to our treasurer, Winifred Simon, 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX 78676.

3. Sign up to help on Committees:  Field trips – research and organize field trips. David Olson can use your help!  I would like to add one or two more people to this committee.  You don’t have to have a big group to have a successful field trip – as they say sometimes, Less is More.

7:30 – Program: A New Year Invites Us to Reflect presented by members of the Lightroom Classic Collaboration

8:15 – Member Photo Share, Theme – Theme: Sun Shots

Program:  A New Year Invites Us to Reflect

This month’s program is all about “reflection photography.”

It is a safe bet to say you have taken photos using water, a mirror, or some shiny surface to capture the reflection of yourself or some other subject. The January presentation will introduce you to the many ways we find reflections all around us and give you ideas for future photo projects.  Several of our club members are participants in a Tuesday morning Zoom meeting dedicated to learning about the Lightroom Classic editing program. These members of the Lightroom Classic Collaboration will lead the program.

Member Photo Share:  Theme this month is Holidays

“The holidays are upon us: Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year. So take the camera along and capture some of the visual sights of the season. The possibilities range from holiday lights, decorations, festivals, people, parties, to parades and performances. Or be creative in your interpretations.” – Bill Galloway

Please name your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg. No need to resize – just make sure it is a jpeg file. Send them by email to photos@jerrysargent.com by Tuesday, January 16th to insure they will be shown at the meeting.(Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.)

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.

Reminders

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.

November 2023

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Please join us Thursday, November 16th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church  for our next meeting.

Our program will be of interest to many of you who want to learn more about Astrophotography, and those like me who like to see what people do with the cameras after I go to bed! Darrell Carder will give you tips for making some special images so you can “wow” your friends.

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – Welcome and Member News

7:25 – Program: Ins and Outs of Astrophotography: A Short Introduction with Darrell Carder

8:15 – Member Photo Share, Theme – Theme: Sun Shots

Program:  Ins and Outs of Astrophotography: A Short Introduction

About Darrell:

“My photography journey started when watching my Dad taking pictures. The process of measuring the light with a light meter and determining the correct settings amazed me. As I grew older, I was allowed to use the light meter and his Canon camera to take my own pictures. After graduating from college and starting work I bought my first camera, a Pentax K1000. For many years I would describe my photography as ‘drive by shooting’. It seemed that I was always holding up the rest of the group trying to get a good composition and having to hurry through it.

Working for Motorola Semiconductors as an electrical engineer gave me an opportunity to take the family to Israel for 4 months for work.  I then bought a Nikon FE2 SLR and I’ve stayed with Nikon since then with my latest being the D850.

Over the last 5 or so years I’ve been able to focus and learn more on composition and my family has learned to accept my photo op adventures.

I’ve always been intrigued looking at the night sky. A discussion with a co-worker on photography, and seeing some star trail pictures he took, got me started on astrophotography. While doing some searching on the web, I came across Richard Tatti’s Nightscape Images on YouTube and started following some of his tutorials. Between different YouTube tutorials and lots of Trial and error I’ve developed my own form of nightscape photography.“

© Darrell Carder

Member Photo Share:  Theme this month is Sun Shots

“If you pointed a camera at the sun on October 14th, this topic is for you. If you didn’t, there are a lot of photographic moments when the sun plays a critical role: rainbows, shadows, moonlight, sunsets and sunrises. So work up those eclipse shots or scour your files for images that really “shine”. – Bill Galloway

Please name your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg. No need to resize – just make sure it is a jpeg file. Send them by email to photos@jerrysargent.com by November 14th to insure they will be shown at the meeting.(Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.)

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.

Reminders

Pioneer Flight Museum Fly-in – Saturday, November 11th, 9:00, https://pioneerflightmuseum.org/

New Braunfels Renaissance Faire  – December 8th – 10th, https://www.nbrenfaire.com/

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. Charlie Kreitler is the administrator of this page – thank you Charlie!

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.

2023 Naturescapes Exhibition

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These are the 60 photographs and Award Winners, chosen by the 2023 Naturescapes Photography Contest Juror, Michael Lustbader. You can see the exhibition at the San Marcos Activity Center, Walkers’ Gallery, through October 27th.

We hope you enjoy the beautiful images from Hays and surrounding counties.

Congratulations to all!

October 2023

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Please join us Thursday, October 19th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church  for our next meeting.

You won’t want to miss it! It will be a visual treat to sit back and be inspired by the beautiful imagery of the natural world by Michael Lustbader.

Our Naturescapes Reception and Awards Presentation was well attended last Saturday.  If you haven’t seen the shows – Naturescapes and Companions – try to get to San Marcos early and take a look before the meeting, San Marcos Activity Center, 501 E. Hopkins St.

Hopefully we will have a slideshow of it for our meeting, but it’s always better to see it in person.

Congratulations to these club members who took home awards:

  • Tom Hausler, Best in Show
  • Mike Davis – Award of Merit and Award of Excellence
  • Mike Zarella – Award of Excellence,
  • Alice Le Duc – Award of Excellence and NPSOT Best Adult
  • Winifred Simon – SMGA  Award
  • Carol Serur – Award of Excellence

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – Welcome and Member News

7:25 – Program: Through My Lens with Michael Lustbader

8:30 – Member Photo Share, Theme – Theme: Wheels (or I’ve Been Around)

Program:  Through My Lens

Over the past 30+ years, Michael Lustbader’s images of the natural world have been published by National Geographic Publications, Audubon, Sierra Club, Eastman Kodak, Oxford Scientific Films, and literally hundreds of other book, calendar, and paper product companies, world-wide.

Michael has co-authored “Close-up Photography–Capturing Nature’s Intimate Landscapes” and “How to Photograph Close-ups in Nature” in addition to “Butterfly Dreams—The Seasons through Haiku and Photographs”, a compilation of his images with original translations of traditional Japanese haiku by William J. Higginson.

© Michael Lustbader
© Michael Lustbader

Member Photo Share:  Theme this month is Wheels (or I’ve Been Around)

“All vehicles have ‘em.  Then there’s the Great Mandala = the wheel of life.”   Bill Galloway

Please resize and rename your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg, and resize to 2000 pixels on the long side.  NOTE: Send them by email to photos@jerrysargent.com by October 17th to insure they will be shown at the meeting.(Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.)

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.

Reminders

Naturescapes & Companions Exhibitions at the San Marcos Activity Center’s Walkers’ Gallery through October 27th.

Sacred Springs Powwow this weekend, Oct. 7 – 8 at the Meadows Center (formerly Aquarena Springs)  Saturday 10 – 5, and Sunday  11-5. Here’s a link: https://www.sspowwow.com/

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. Charlie Kreitler is the administrator of this page – thank you Charlie!

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.

September 2023

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Please join us Thursday, September 21st, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church  for our next meeting.

Is it really almost FALL?  It’s hard to believe it – maybe by the time our meeting comes around we will have slightly cooler weather. How’s that for being optimistic?

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – Welcome and Member News

7:25 – Program: No Walking, let the birds come to you with Alice Le Duc

8:30 – Member Photo Share, Theme – Theme: Skyscapes

Program:  No Walking, let the birds come to you

Longtime club member Dr. Alice Le Duc came to our club knowing more than any of us about plants and horticulture. She has shared that knowledge with us in meetings over the years, as well as hosting field trips to the Texas State Greenhouse. Since coming to San Marcos, Alice developed a passion for birding and bird photography. She has visited many Texas bird hotspots on numerous occasions, and has some great tips to share with you at our next meeting.

© Alice Le Duc
© Alice Le Duc

Member Photo Share:  Theme this month is Skyscapes

“The sky may be the object of the photo (I maintain a folder named “Skyscapes”) but the sky might also be the background element that elevated a photo of another object or scene into your Favorites Collection. Other ideas: astrophotography, night skies, skyscrapers, a brewsky (remember Cheers? And I do know that’s not quite the correct spelling) , or vintage aircraft.”   Bill Galloway

Please resize and rename your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg, and resize to 2000 pixels on the long side.  NOTE: Send them by email to photos@jerrysargent.com by September 19th to insure they will be shown at the meeting.(Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.)

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.

Reminders

Naturescapes Photography Contest Awards Reception  Saturday, September 30th  5:00 – 7:00   We will be honoring Linda Kelsey-Jones about 5:45 for her  26 years of being director and curator of The Walkers Gallery. We hope to have a nice turnout for this, along with recognizing our exhibiting artists and award winners.

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. Charlie Kreitler is the administrator of this page – thank you Charlie!

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.

August 2023

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Please join us Thursday, August 17th, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church  for our next meeting.

We need your input to make our program successful.

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – Welcome and Member News

7:30 – Program: A Camera with a Story with Jim Philpott

8:15 – Member Photo Share, Theme – Theme: Hot Stuff

Program:  A Camera with a Story

Do you have an old camera? Can you show it and share a memory from it or tell a story about it? Did you use it or was it used by someone else? The goal of the program is to provide a short history of the camera and talk about why the old equipment deserves respect and appreciation.

We have several members who have agreed to bring a camera, old photographs, and participate, but we have room for more. Please email Jim at:  j.philpottwoodturner@gmail.com to let him know if you want to join in the presentation. He will try to include “your” camera in the PowerPoint slide show.

Member Photo Share:  Theme this month is Hot Stuff

“We know this topic is pretty self explanatory.  Just open your door, take a picture of your yard, and you have a suitable entry. However, if you are feeling more creative, the topic includes all sorts of possibilities: cooking food, a solar eclipse, desert landscapes, that cool outfit you were wearing back in the day, fast cars, etc. So go for the obvious or dig through your files for the perfect entries.”  Bill Galloway

Please resize and rename your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg, and resize to 2000 pixels on the long side.  NOTE: Send them by email to photos@jerrysargent.com by August 15th to insure they will be shown at the meeting.(Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.)

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.

Reminders

Naturescapes and Companion Show drop-off is Saturday, August 26th, 10:30 am -4:30 m.

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. Charlie Kreitler is the administrator of this page – thank you Charlie!

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.

July 2023

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Please join us Thursday, July 20, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church  for our next meeting.

You don’t want to miss this month’s meeting with Art Arizpe sharing his trip to Mexico City to see the Monarch butterflies. We had to cancel his original date due to the threat of bad weather.

Reminders:   July 10 is the deadline for the Companion Show – please review your email for details. Paid members only for this – it’s not too late to renew your dues, or join the club. PayPal link is below.

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – 7:20 Welcome and Announcements

7:25 – Naturescapes and Companion Show updates

7:30 – 8:15 Program: Kingdom of the Monarchs with Art Arizpe

8:15 – end Member Photo Share, Theme – Theme: Butterflies

Program:  Kingdom of the Monarchs with Art Arizpe. “Photos from our visit to the El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.”

About Art: Art is employed full-time as an electrical engineer doing chip design. He joined the Hill Country Photography Club in 2007 because he saw a newspaper article about the Naturescapes Photography Contest. He has served as President of the club and is currently the club’s webmaster. He became the Naturescapes Photography Contest Coordinator in 2011. He became a Texas Master Naturalist in 2007 and served as President of the Hays County Chapter from 2013 through 2015.  Art enjoys the art of photography because he finds it challenging, creative, and lets him exercise the right side of his brain.

Out on a Limb © Art Arizpe

Member Photo Share:  Theme this month is “Butterflies.

From Bill Galloway,  “In honor of our speaker’s topic, the July PhotoShare theme is Butterflies. This is a bit more specific than our recent themes, but could include anything from a macro of wing scales to a butterfly swarm. Butterflies in motion or posing quietly on a flower. Butterfly signs, posters, sculptures, or gardens. Butterflies are everywhere. They are beautiful. They are challenging.” (As always, if you prefer to share something other than the theme for the month, you may do so.)

Please resize and rename your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg, and resize to 2000 pixels on the long side.  NOTE: Send them by email to hcphotoclub@gmail.com by July 18 to insure they will be shown at the meeting.(Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.) Note: Do not send them to Jerry – he will not be at this meeting.

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.

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. Charlie Kreitler is the administrator of this page – thank you Charlie!

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.

May 2023

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I hope you are enjoying the spring weather and are making lots of beautiful pictures. I am sorry we had to cancel last month’s meeting, but the safety of our members is most important to us. I’m happy to announce that Art Arizpe’s program about the Monarch butterflies migration to Mexico has been rescheduled for the July 20 meeting.  

I’m excited about this month’s program with photographer and filmmaker John Langmore. We had scheduled John to come during 2020, but that had to be put on hold. In his “spare” time, he made a documentary film!  He will share his journey and images with you on May 18.

Please join us Thursday, May 18, 7:00 pm, at First Lutheran Church  for our next meeting.

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 Set up for the meeting. Visitation time for early arrivals

7:00 – Welcome and Announcements

7:25 – Naturescapes Overview

7:35 – 8:15 Program: “Why Photography?”  with John Langmore

8:15 – end Member Photo Share, Theme – Theme: My Favorite Things.

Program

After studying extensively under Mary Ellen Mark, John began pursuing his own documentary projects. His first project, Fault Lines, documenting a rapidly gentrifying community in his hometown of Austin was published by Trinity University Press (2019). His second long-term project, Open Range: America’s Big-Outfit Cowboy, was published by Twin Palms Publishers (2018).

© John Langmore
© John Langmore

Over the course of six years, John photographed fourteen of the country’s largest ranches, including several where he previously worked. John photographed the entire project on film and displays only gelatin silver prints. John’s work on the cowboy has been extensively published and exhibited in galleries and museums. John also co-directed/produced, Cowboys, a feature-length documentary film on contemporary working cowboys which premiered at the Austin Film Festival where it won the Documentary Feature Audience Award (2019). It also won Cowboys & Indians Magazine’s inaugural Best Feature Documentary. The film was broadcast internationally by ArteFrance.

Member Photo Share:  “My Favorite Things.

“Spring is here; a season that brings lots of favorite things like bluebonnets, cool mornings, migrating birds, and road trips.  For the May PhotoShare, select two photos that are favorites of yours.  It may be a favorite subject (birds, sunsets, cityscapes), a photograph that always makes you happy, a place that inspires your photography (your hometown or backyard, a park, a travel destination).  Odds are that your favorites will be enjoyed by all.” – Bill Galloway

Please resize and rename your 2  images as follows:  1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_Last Name.jpg, and resize to at least 1000 pixels on the long side.  NOTE: Send them by email to photos@jerrysargent.com  by May 16 to insure they will be shown at the meeting.(Note: As always, if you prefer to submit something other than the theme topic, you may do so.)

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

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Reminders

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