The Lake Houston Area Photographers Club
What do you do with your digital photos? Maybe you are thinking about Christmas gift ideas or something to celebrate an occasion? Come enjoy an evening with fellow Photo Club Members sharing what they have done with their photos.
Tuesday, August 20 6:30 PM Kingwood First Baptist
Join us for a fun evening with Pam Walton sharing many different ways you can use your digital photos for personal items or gifts. Pam has gathered information from several members and will share the items and vendor or vendors they have used or that she has personal experience with. Maybe you will be inspired to do more with your digital photos!
And so much more!
We might know how to compose elements in an image and how to produce the colors and tones we want, but how do we raise our photography above simply producing well-exposed, well-edited, well-arranged, 2-dimensional visual sentences? When does the photograph go from descriptive to lyrical? How do we express the reason we took the photo? How do we help the viewer feel what we felt and thought when we decided to press the shutter at that moment?
Our speaker, Ian McVea’s, time with us is designed to discuss concepts we can bring to any of the dozens of the photo disciplines (landscape, portraits, abandoned buildings/cars, birds, architectural, bugs on flowers, etc.) that can elevate our photos and communicate our vision. To write poems with light.
Ian McVea is a Irish-born, Texas-based photojournalist and photography educator. Growing up in Ireland, India, South Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Ethiopia, and Algeria, he developed a love for photographing the world around him. He joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper in 1989 as a staff photographer, later becoming a photo editor and then Director of Photography.
During that time, he photographed six Cowboys head coaches, five U.S. presidents, four Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions, three governors of Texas, two supermodels, one queen of England, and countless Friday night football games, ribbon-cuttings, and restaurant reviews. He covered the Oklahoma City bombing, the Shuttle Columbia disaster, and hurricanes Katrina and Rita for international wire services.
While on staff at the Star-Telegram, Ian taught photojournalism classes as an adjunct professor at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism, and, on leaving the paper in 2012, he began a full-time career teaching Commercial Photography in the Arlington ISD.
His images have been part of recent exhibits at a number of Texas galleries and art museums, and have received honors from the Dallas Press Club, National Headliners, Houston Press Club, The Texas APME, and the Texas Photographic Society.
He is an accredited member of the Royal Photographic Society, the NPPA, ASMP, and the Association of Texas Photography Instructors.
Ian has two married daughters who share his passion for analogue photography.
Our speaker, David Valdez, was the Chief White House Photographer to George H.W. Bush 1989 – 1993. He will join us via Zoom and share his photos, stories and his part in USA History.
Our speaker, David Valdez, was the Chief White House Photographer to George H. W. Bush 1989-1993. He will share his photos, stories and his part in USA History.
David Valdez was born in Alice, Texas. After graduating from high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Valdez enlisted in the U. S. Air Force, where he was trained as a photographer. He served with the 836th Combat Support Group for four years, and then earned a BA in journalism from the University of Maryland in College Park. While he was a student there, Valdez was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a photographer. He left the federal government to become Chief Photographer for the United States Chamber of Commerce. In 1983, he became personal photographer to Vice President George H. W. Bush. In 1988, President Bush appointed Valdez Director of the White House Photo Office and his Personal Photographer. During this administration, Valdez traveled to 75 countries and all 50 states with the President. In 1997, Valdez published George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile. David Valdez has had many photos published in Life, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, National Geographic Traveler, People, Sports Illustrated, Paris Match, New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post and countless other books and publications around the world.
Hope you see you!
Composition for Landscape Photography
Speaker: Bryan Hansel
https://www.bryanhansel.com
The fundamental underpinnings of a well-composed landscape shot takes into account three concepts: simplicity, flow and relationships. Within those concepts, the landscape photographer explores space, lines, color theory, balance, how a viewer’s eye moves through the shot, and how the different parts of a photo echo, contrast or expand upon each other. Combine those ideas with lens choices, tripod heights and the ideas of how to approach a composition as a painting instead of a photo and you get Bryan Hansel , our May 21 guest speaker’s methods for landscape composition.
Bryan Hansel is an award-winning professional landscape photographer and outdoor educator. He has over 30 years of photography experience with 100s of publication credits from publications such as National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Lake Superior Magazine, Ocean Paddler, Canoe and Kayak Magazine, Backpacker Magazine and many more.
In 2018, he received Lake Times Magazine’s Best Photographer in Minnesota award. An outdoor educator and guide at heart, Bryan decided to share his passion for outdoor photography and started a photography workshop program in 2006. His programs take students to the best and often unknown locations in the northland and across the nation to many National Parks. He lives in Grand Marais, Minnesota.
Speaker: Bryan Hansel
www.bryanhansel.com
Bryan Hansel is an award-winning professional landscape photographer and outdoor educator. He has over 30 years of photography experience with 100s of publication credits from publications such as National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Lake Superior Magazine, Ocean Paddler, Canoe and Kayak Magazine, Backpacker Magazine and many more. In 2018, he received Lake Times Magazine’s Best Photographer in Minnesota award. An outdoor educator and guide at heart, Bryan decided to share his passion for outdoor photography and started a photography workshop program in 2006. His programs take students to the best and often unknown locations in the northland and across the nation to many National Parks. He lives in Grand Marais, Minnesota.
What to do with your digital photos?
TONS OF FANTASTIC IDEAS – – WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
Our August 20th meeting program will be presented by Pam Walton. She would love to hear from any member that has used their photos in projects such as books, mugs, and/or other media. Pam is seeking your assistance to prepare a special program to include club members personal projects, experiences, and vendors. To share your project/projects information, please email, or call, Pam Walton 281-358-6449, pj1976@embarqmail.com.
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