The Lake Houston Area Photographers Club
Be sure and join in next week for an interesting, educational evening about the fascinating world of macro photography.
Mike Moats is an international award-winning full time pro macro photographer from Michigan. He is a Tamron Image Master, Vanguard Pro, and his articles and images have been published in many photo magazines for over 16 years. He has a Macro Photo Club online with over 2,400 members, from 27 countries. Mike teaches workshops and speaks at photo conference throughout the US.
Being a properly equipped macro photographer is not just about the equipment, but also equipping yourself with the how-to knowledge of macro photography. Mike will cover the most important equipment for macro photography, how to control depth of field, composition, and finding character in your subjects.
Mike Moats is an international award-winning full time pro macro photographer from Michigan. He is a Tamron Image Master, Vanguard Pro, and his articles and images have been published in many photo magazines for over 16 years. He has a Macro Photo Club online with over 2,400 members, from 27 countries. Mike teaches workshops and speaks at photo conference throughout the US.
July 19 Program: Photographing Birds in Costa Rica with Ruth Hoyt
Please sit back and take a virtual trip with Ruth as she shows photos and talks about the birds and wildlife she has seen and photographed on trips to Costa Rica. She plans to include stories of how some images came to be and how some subjects escaped being captured.
Ruth’s passion is sharing her love of nature and photography with everyone she meets, especially youth. She has years of experience as a professional photo contest director, youth photo workshop leader, professional coach for contest photographers, and consultant for farm and ranch owners. She claims, “When you love your work, it isn’t work!”
Ruth Hoyt is not only a professional photographer and guide but a photography teacher for 30+ years and Texas Master Naturalist and Certified Interpretive Guide for 10+ years. An active Outdoor Writers’ Association of America member, she writes her “Set Up for Success” column for the Journal of Wildlife Photography.
by Ruth Hoyt
Professional photographer, instructor, guide, and consultant Ruth Hoyt presents her original program, “Photographing Birds in Costa Rica,” for the Kingwood Photo Club on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.
Ruth Hoyt is not only a professional photographer and guide but a photography teacher for 30+ years and Texas Master Naturalist and Certified Interpretive Guide for 10+ years. An active Outdoor Writers’ Association of America member, she writes her “Set Up for Success” column for the Journal of Wildlife Photography.
Professional photographer, instructor, guide, and consultant Ruth Hoyt presents her original program, “Photographing Birds in Costa Rica,” for the Kingwood Photo Club on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.
Ruth Hoyt is not only a professional photographer and guide but a photography teacher for 30+ years and Texas Master Naturalist and Certified Interpretive Guide for 10+ years. An active Outdoor Writers’ Association of America member, she writes her “Set Up for Success” column for the Journal of Wildlife Photography.
During last Tuesday’s program, our speaker, Sarah Seeser with Fracture, said she would share a couple of videos about Fracture in case anyone was interested in learning more.
Here are the links:
In addition, Sarah consulted with a Customer Support Teammate and sent the following response to a question asked by Dianne Binnie.
I hope this helps your group. If anyone has other detailed questions or would like more information about this answer, they can contact our support team directly via support@fractureme.com.
Sarah Seeser, Executive Business Partner
Fracture is an Internet-based photo finishing service. Fracture’s main service is printing photos directly onto glass. The company is based in Gainesville, Florida.
Today, we take hundreds of photos that never see the light of day. Everything about the way that we capture and share our digital photos has changed over the past two decades. With the explosion of smartphone usage, suddenly everyone has a high-quality digital camera on them virtually at all times. As a result, we’re taking more photos than ever—nearly 1.5 trillion every year and counting. So maybe it is time to print a few!
A Fracture glass print is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Unlike traditional printing methods, printing digital images directly onto glass ensures that they go from the moment itself, to your camera roll, to your wall without losing a single detail.
Sarah Seeser, Executive Business Partner at Fracture, will walk us through how Fracture’s sustainable and environmentally-friendly printing process has changed the way we think about displaying our stunning photos in our homes, businesses, and anywhere in between.
Are you afraid of spiders? Then you might not want to attend this week’s meeting. But these are cute little ones, and you don’t want to miss some amazing photography!
Our speaker, Thomas Shahan, is passionate about jumping spiders and teaching the important role spiders play in ecosystems all over the world. In this presentation, he will go over his approach to finding and photographing them, how they see, how they hunt, and more!
Not only will the presentation be about his work with salticids, it will be full of macro-photography advice applicable to anyone interested in close-up photography!
Salticidae, the family of jumping spiders, is the most species-rich family of spiders. Their extreme diversity and beauty can serve as an effective gateway to arachnid-acceptance and teaching the important role spiders play in ecosystems all over the world. In this presentation, our speaker will go over their approach to finding and photographing them, how they see, how they hunt, and more! Not only will the presentation be about his work with salticids, it’ll be full of macro-photography advice applicable to anyone interested in close-up photography in the field!
Our speaker, Thomas Shahan, is an artist and photographer based out of Oklahoma, United States, who utilizes his background in printmaking to bring a creative approach to high-magnification macrophotography. He has worked as an imaging specialist for the Oregon Department of Agriculture, a video game artist, and a book illustrator.
With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art from the University of Oklahoma, his photographs have appeared in National Geographic, national television programs, and museums throughout the world. Despite an interest in all fields of entomology, his passion lies with arachnids, specifically salticids.
Mike Mezeul II is an extreme nature and landscape photographer based out of Dallas, Texas. His work focuses on documenting the power and beauty within the world’s most powerful natural events, focusing primarily on severe weather and volcanoes. When he is not on a project or assignment, he spends his time leading workshops around the world in which he shares his passion for photography through inspiring and educating individuals of all ages and skill levels. To view his portfolio and most recent work, please visit www.mikemezphotography.com.
In this presentation, come join Mike as he shares the stories behind the
images from the past 20 years of documenting some of nature’s most powerful thunderstorms. He will discuss how he safely approaches storms, photographic techniques, and why he travels over 10,000 miles each year documenting storms.
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