November 2022 – Hill Country Photography Club

Can you believe it’s already November?

For this month’s program Warren Capps and Tom Hausler will team up to tell us about their trip to Newfoundland. Get ready for some great photography!

Then next January Mike Davis, an excellent bird photographer, will present a program on hummingbirds. That will be something to look forward to.

Just a reminder that Naturescapes and Bridges photo pickup is this coming Saturday, November 5th, between noon and 4:30.

Our next meeting will be Thursday, November 17^th, 7 pm, at First Lutheran Church of San Marcos, 130 West Holland Street in San Marcos.

On the agenda

Welcome
Member News Share and Discussion
2023 Club Officers – please think about becoming involved as an officer!
Program
Photo Share

Program

Newfoundland — Seabird Capital of North America, presented by Warren Capps and Tom Hausler. They discovered that Newfoundland offers a wide variety of photo opportunities, enough to satisfy any specialist. It’s home to 35 million seabirds, including 25,000 gannets, 500,000 puffins, and many others — too many to list.

Photo Share

You may send up to two images to share with the group. (You can send in any photos taken with any camera. It doesn’t have to be the monthly theme.) Tom Delaney has given us the following photo theme.

The topic this month is Aged to Perfection. What I mean by this is not just old, decaying, fallen-down subjects, but aged to perfection means it’s old but just as beautiful or even more so than when new. Think aged wine, aged cheese. You know, regal and has stood the test of time. Portraits of people, as well as objects are fine.

For the Photo Share, send one or two images to photos@jerrysargent.com by the end of Monday, November 14^th, and put November Photo Share – Aged to Perfection in the Subject line.

To prepare your images, we no longer have to resize our photos! Save them with the color space sRGB, and name them 1FirstName_LastName and 2FirstName_LastName. For example, 1Linda_Avitt.

Member News

Jerry Sargent has been interviewed by LVnTheLife. He’ll post a link to the video on our Facebook page as soon as it’s available. If you’d like to know more about LVnTheLife, here are a few links.

https://www.youtube.com/c/LVnthelife
https://www.instagram.com/lvnthelife/
https://www.tiktok.com/@lvnthelife?lang=en
https://www.lvnthelife.com/

Social Media

We have two Facebook Pages — Public and Members Only. Since we don’t currently meet in person, the Members Only page is the best way for our club to stay in touch, interact, and share photos, It’s an active page, and you can post your photos and ask for advice, feedback, or a critique. (If you’re a new member, you’ll need to request access to the group.)

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

Membership Dues

Annual membership dues are $12.00. Dues for new members are reduced to $6.00 after July 1^st each year.

You may pay by check at the next meeting, pay with Paypal here, or mail to our treasurer, Winifred Simon, at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX 78676, or pay using PayPal.

Paid membership is required for participation in exhibitions, fieldtrips and most workshops, as well as listings in Member News and Member Links on hcphotoclub.org. If you are on our email list, you will continue to receive our emails and be welcome at meetings whether or not you have paid dues.

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.