Author: Charles Dugand

Avid amateur. Love travel and landscape photography, and working with images in post processing to create my vision.
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March Club Meeting Speaker

John Stacy
I’m a Texas Master Naturalist with over a decade monitoring local conservation preserves. This is a volunteer activity with the Bayou Land Conservancy, a local non-profit land trust,  protecting over 14,000 acres for flood control, wildlife, and water quality. I also lead a trail crew of sixty volunteers who built and maintain the Spring Creek Nature Trail. This is an unpaved wilderness trail system over fifteen miles in length with twenty-eight bridges and boardwalks. 
 
I’ll be presenting a short program discussing some of the plants and animals common to our area. It’s not possible to cover everything, but I’ll try to answer any questions. 

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Who We Are..

We are a collection of photographers and would-be photographers from the lake houston area near Houston, Texas. We are of different ages, demographics, and abilities, but share one common theme; we love photography as an art and wish to share that love with our neighbors.

Our Mission is to promote the art of photography in our community, and educate, inspire and motivate our neighbors to become better photographers.

We accomplish our mission by (a) holding monthly meetings (Normally the 3rd tuesday, 6:30pm, First Baptist church, 3500 Woodland hills, check our events calendar to confirm), (b) Conducting regular free public workshops, and (c) assisting various lake houston area organizations with their photographic needs.  We also arrange periodic local and out-of-town photographic field trips.

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Officers and Board Members

Term Expires Name Position Contact
2024-12 Kathy Muhle President President@kwphotoclub.com
Tim Sullivan VicePresident VP@kwphotoclub.com
2025-12 Randi Munsey Secretary Activities@kwphotoclub.com
Chris Summers Membership Membership@kwphotoclub.com
2026-12 Jim Evrard Treasurer Treasurer@kwphotoclub.com
Ron Fovargue Hospitality

Committees

Committee Members Contact
Activities Randi Munsey (Chair)
Jim Schepens		 Activities@kwphotoclub.com
Membership Chris Summers Membership@kwphotoclub.com
Programs Connie Emerson Programs@kwphotoclub.com
Workshops Chuck Dugand
Asst: Chris Summers		 Admin@kwphotoclub.com
Webmaster Chuck Dugand Admin@kwphotoclub.com
Post Processing SIG Chris Summers
Asst: Chuck Dugand		 Membership@kwphotoclub.com

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July Program – From a Pilot’s Viewpoint

Travel with Lou Vest, an avid photographer as he shares photos and stories from his years as a ship’s captain and pilot on the Houston ship channel. Lou will describe the port, what pilots do, and entertain you with amusing anecdotes about ships and sailors.

Lou Vest is a retired ship’s captain and pilot on the Houston ship channel.  He is now a full-time artist and photographer whose work is held in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He has exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography, Williams Tower, Allen Center, City Hall, Artopia, the Art Car Museum and the Houston Public Library; and he has held solo shows at the Houston Arts Alliance Gallery and Aker Gallery. Vest’s work was also featured accompanying performances of the Houston Symphony in Jones Hall, in performances by the Houston Grand Opera, and he is featured in maritime offices, publications and schools all over the world. Vest was selected by the Houston Press as one of the top 100 Creatives in Houston in 2013. He has a studio/workshop at #223 Spring Street Galleries located in Houston at 1824 Spring Street and welcomes visitors.

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November Meeting Topic – Protecting your files is as easy as 1-2-3

As photographers we all have the same nightmare in the back of our minds.  Something happens to all those precious pictures we’ve taken over the years and we can’t recover them, or we go on a trip, take a lot of pictures only to get home and find the memory card in the camera got corrupted and we loose those images.  There are hundreds of scenarios, and all of them have happened to several of us, and will happen to you unless you have a plan to protect your files.

Our speaker this month is Ross Davis from Kingwood PC repair, located in Town Center.  Ross will take us through the ins and outs of protecting our files, both on the road and in our homes and offices.

Ross, graduated from Humble High School, and has a  BBA in Finance from University of Houston.  He is married to his high school sweetheart Nicole and has two kids and two dogs.  His business, Kingwood PC Repair is now celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year and carries a A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

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What is Share and Learn?

We conduct a “share and learn” session at each of our meetings where members bring in photos they’ve shot.  In order to provide some incentive for our members to get out and use their cameras, as well as encourage some learning we issue a monthly photo assignment to serve as the subject for the Share and Learn.  While it is not strictly required to follow the assignment, members are encouraged to do so.

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Club Resources

We have quite a few documents attached here, so we made the table below searchable and sortable. Use the search box to enter any words you think might help you find what you are looking for. You can also sort by date posted, or title.

These documents are a collection of presentations and articles prepared by club members.   Clicking on the links will download them into your downloads folder, where you can find and open them.  Download whatever you need.

Additional resources:

Adding a Virtual Background for a Zoom Meeting

Adding Metadata to Share and Learn Photos (video)

Below is a YouTube Playlist of workshop videos (click the playlist icon – top right). For many of these videos, if you watch in YouTube, you can see a timeline in the video description area that will allow you to skip ahead.

YouTube Workshops Playlist

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Membership

Membership in our club provides you with access to our programs, outings our monthly meetings, and social events as well as “member’s only” resources on the website. Of course you will also have the opportunity to to meet like-minded photographers of all skill levels from this area. We have professional and semi-professional photographers that freely share their tips and knowledge with you.  For individualized help visit our Mentors Page (under resources)

Enjoy our website. Browse and find out more about us. You can even join our mailing list without being a member. That way you can get to know us better, if you are still unsure about joining.

OUR MEETINGS

BECOME A MEMBER

Photo Club meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 3500 Woodland Hills Drive, Kingwood, TX 77339 on the third floor. While meetings are held at the church and we are very grateful for their support we are not affiliated with any church and membership is open to everyone.  Meeting dates, photo assignments, special events, photo opportunities, and other items of interest are published via email and are posted on our website. 

Annual dues are $20 individual membership or $25 family membership. You may even gift a membership for $20. Dues are based on the calendar year beginning in January. New or renewing memberships received after Nov1 are extended and applied to the following year. This annual fee is the best deal in Kingwood!

You may use one of two ways of submitting and paying for your membership: 

MEMBERSHIP FORMS

HARD COPY:

Click on the link below to download a “hard copy” of our membership form, print it, fill it in, and bring it to our next meeting with a check…or mail the check to our address…see this page.

HARD COPY MEMBERSHIP FORM

 ONLINE FORM:

For your convenience we have an online form you can fill out and submit, which will take you automatically to PayPal, where you can pay either using your PayPal account or a credit card. 

ONLINE MEMBERHIP FORM AND PAYMENT

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