Who doesn’t have hundreds of photos featuring Texas flowers! Driving the roads in spring we are treated to a kaleidoscope of colors from the bluebonnets to the red Indian paintbrush and Indian blankets to the pinks of Pink evening primrose to name a few. Yellow Sunflowers and Mexican hats flower after the spring flowers have been seeded for next year.
The number of Texas flowers is way too numerous to mention here so I’d encourage you to take a walk outside or through your photo catalog and share your stunning Texas flowers and maybe surprise us with some that are rarely seen.
The meeting is on May 17th in person and on zoom. Photos need to be in the club dropbox by the morning of the 17th. The weekly e-blast has the link for the “Share and Learn” on the right-hand side. Please resize your photos for the Gallery and Header upload. Chuck has posted resizing instructions on our web. Get out while the weather is nice or take some time with your photo catalog. But most of all enjoy this assignment! We’ll see you next month 🙂
With the last pop-up a downtown walk I decided to follow that theme with the next assignment, “Street Captures”!
This can be anything that captures your interest in the city; people, buildings, statuary, animals, signs, etc. This should be an easy assignment and I hope to see some photos from the last club activity.
Below is an article that gives you some tips that you might find helpful.
Our next meeting is on Feb 15th. Photos will be due in our dropbox by Monday, Feb 14th, Valentine’s Day! Please follow directions to reduce the size of your photos, instructions by Chuck on our website. My next update will have more information regarding the meeting venue, in-person or virtual.
Looking forward to seeing your favorite street captures!
From comments I’ve heard we were all ready to see the tail lights of 2021. Whatever your thoughts a new year brings us new goals, resolutions, and back to normal schedules after the holidays. So what is in store in 2022 for the photo club?
After our successful Christmas Social, I see us moving slowly back to in-person meetings. January will be zoom as our speaker is zoom. Connie Emerson will be posting an announcement on that shortly. After January our speaker’s preference will determine if the meeting is zoom or in person.
Anne Mullins has sketched out monthly activities for the first quarter and Jim Schepens and John Gray are putting details together for an overnight trip to New Mexico in October. One of the highlights for this trip will be hot air balloon ascents, an item on my bucket list that I’d love to cross off. We are also planning a closer-to-home overnight in Fredricksburg at the beginning of April for Bluebonnets and night photography. This is dependent on weather and spring flower blooms.
Workshops are coming with Chuck kicking off the year, getting to know your camera. I gave my grandson a camera for Christmas and he could definitely use this course. I’m planning a Night Photography Workshop the last Saturday in February in anticipation of the night photography trip in April. I also want to talk about using star trackers and hope to have some input via my husband Mike.
Finally, January Share and Learn assignments are coming up soon. Your assignment, if you choose to accept, Starbursts. It just so happens that I was featured in the Photo Bootcamp Magazine for a starburst photo that I entered. I was also the featured photographer in the magazine. I got an e-mail from Steve Hansen congratulating me on the article, with the holidays and all I’d not really thought about it. So thank you Steve for bringing it to my attention. I’ve linked the magazine below. I joined several years ago and it gives you the opportunity to have your photos reviewed in a nice way. You might want to look into the magazine for a way to grow your photography experience with monthly assignments and positive feedback for photos that you post. I was very honored that they chose me for this spread.
January meeting is zoom, please look for Chuck’s e-mail and reply to have him send you the meeting link. Assignments are due by Monday, January 17th.
Wishing you all a very prosperous and exciting New Year. May you record the wonderful world that we live in and the beautiful people and animals that make up our world. Make someone’s day by focusing on them. Happy New Year and hope to see you on the 18th.
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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