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Hill Country Photography Club

Helping Texas Hill Country photographers improve their creative and technical skills

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September 2018

Hill Country Photography Club

Learning Creativity

We are excited about our guest speaker this month, on Thursday, September 20th.

Nancy Cavender-Garcia will teach us how we can be more creative – that it is something that can actually be learned.

Naturescapes: Please join us on Saturday, Sept. 8th at the San Marcos Activity Center Walker’s Gallery for the Naturescapes Contest Awards Reception. It is also a time to recognize our members who have their work featured in our club’s exhibition.Both look fantastic! The reception will run from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, with the program beginning at 6:00. Please come support your club, get to know others who entered our club sponsored contest. Bring your family and friends!

Agenda:

7:00 – 7:20  Welcome and 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 – 8:25  Program: Learning Creativity – Nancy Cavender-Garcia

8:30 – 9:00  Critiques: Before and Edit

Program: Learning Creativity with Nancy Cavender-Garcia

Learning Creativity!

Many believe that creativity is a gift bestowed to the geniuses of the world, but in reality, creativity is available to all. It simply needs to be nursed, cultivated and practiced. In a study by George Land and Beth Jarman it was found that non-creative behavior is learned. Nancy Cavender Garcia will highlight practices that will spark your creativity and help you develop the right muscles to intensify your creative skills.

Nancy Cavender-Garcia earned her BFA and MFA degrees in photography at the University of New Mexico. She has been practicing photography since 1984 and has extensive experience in traditional black/white photography, digital photography, non-silver processes, hand coloring photographs, pinhole photography and more.

Cavender-Garcia has been teaching since 1998 at various venues and now she aspires to help individuals achieve their goals in photography and add creativity to their lives through the workshops at The Creative Light.

Critiques: Before and Edit.

Please resize your 2 sets of “before and edit” images to 2000 pixels on the long side, and resolution of 72 ppi. Rename files as follows: 1FirstName_LastName_before.jpg, 1FirstName_LastName_EDIT.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, September 18th. Please put “August Critiques” in the subject line.

Dues for 2018 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.

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.

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Naturescapes 2026

The Contest started accepting entries on March 30th.
The entry deadline is June 22nd.

Please visit the contest web page for complete details.

You may see the 2025 contest winners here.

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