The March meeting is cancelled!
Due to the on-going health emergency, and with confirmed cases in the Austin area and social distancing being recommended, and with much of our membership in the hazardous age group, and the fact that we would have a very sparse turnout anyway for our guest speaker, let’s all stay home and post our pictures on the Facebook site instead.
Our next meeting is Thursday, March 19th at 7:00 pm.
Our program is “Landscape/Nature/Wildlife Photography in the Colorado Rockies” by Kevin Gourley.
Due to the health situation, Brookdale has canceled all outside group meetings for March and April. As always, Carol Serur has been on the job and has found us a meeting place at Price Center for both months. We will have to pay a very reasonable $25/hour.
March and April meeting location:
Price Center
222 West San Antonio Street
San Marcos, TX 78666
Here is a map showing the location of Price Center
We hope to see you there!
Agenda
- 7:00 – 7:10
- Welcome and Introduction of New Members and Guests
- 7:10 – 7:25
- Member Share (if you have news to share and want to show an image with it, please submit by Tuesday before the meeting. Put SHARE in the subject heading, please.
- 7:25 – 9:00
- Program – Landscape/Nature/Wildlife Photography in the Colorado Rockies – Kevin Gourley
Program: Landscape/Nature/Wildlife Photography in the Colorado Rockies
In this presentation, Kevin Gourley will focus on photography in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, but he will provide practical tips and techniques you can use to create better landscape, nature, and wildlife shots in other similar locales.
Kevin is a full time professional photographer with a studio in NW Austin. Additionally, he has many years of experience teaching the art and science of photography to people at all skill levels from beginner to professional. Kevin has led many workshops in the Austin and Central Texas area as well as destination workshops in Colorado and Oklahoma. His Summer and Fall Rocky Mountain Photography Workshops are fabulous adventures for any photographer.
Special Discount offer for the Hill Country Photo Club members!
Special savings on our Summer (July) or Fall (September) Rocky Mountain Photography Workshop
Club members can receive a $150 discount on top of the $200 Early Registration Discount (which ends soon) for the 4 Day option. For the 9 Day option, members can receive a $300 discount on top of the $400 Early Registration Discounts. So they could save up to $700 if they take advantage of this offer and register by April 1st.
Inquire at kevin@kgphotoworkshops.com to obtain the discount. Warning, spaces are filling up. Some options are already sold out or are almost full!
Critiques or Show & Tell: Solitary
This month the theme is solitary. Simply solitary. (If you don’t have anything that fits this topic, feel free to share any image(s) on any subject.) You may ask for a critique on your images or do a show-and-tell. You can send up to two images.
Beginning this month, you’ll send your photos to a new email address, submissions@hcphotoclub.org!
Send your two images to submissions@hcphotoclub.org by Tuesday, March 17th, at 6 pm, and put “March Critique — Solitary” in the Subject line.
To prepare your images, resize the long side to 2000 pixels, resolution of 72 ppi, and rename them 1FirstName_LastName.jpg, 2FirstName_LastName.jpg.
Membership Dues
Annual membership dues are $12.00. Dues for new members are reduced to $6.00 after July 1st 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. 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.