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.

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