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.
Mark your calendars and register using link below to join us for a great day to enjoy and photograph The Woodlands Waterway. **Idea to make you day fun….using the link provided below and find/photograph as many art benches as you can find……
Time: 9:00am Meet-up: For carpool/caravan- Kroger parking lot across from McDonalds – Northpark/59 Return Time: 3:00pm Lunch– Plan for group to discuss location along The Waterway
Anyone who plans to meet us at The Waterway, park in the parking structure on Lake Robbins Dr. (Market Street Outdoor Mall). Cross over to Town Green Park and meet up on the bridge where you will find a bright red Love bench.
Additional Waterway details: If you are not familiar with all The Waterway offers, please use these two links to see information about the areas and the great Art Bench project. The Waterway has so many beautiful photography opportunities, including water fountains, and the unique Art Benches.
Turn them into gifts, such as puzzles, jewelry, cases, wrapping paper
Make them into art, such as wall-size prints
Design party t-shirts with your photos
And so many more ideas!
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.
Want to know what is going on in our club? Did you attend the meeting but want to review what we talked about? Good news, you can click on the April Agenda and review all the updates for all committees, special activities, and future dates to keep you informed.
Chris said membership is doing great, we are on track to equal last year but he’d like to encourage everyone to help sell our club. Talk to people with cameras about our club, neighbors, and online friends. Doing Zoom meetings adds additional costs that we want to continue to provide. And we can, as long as we keep adding new members. We have a great resource page and they get so much for the minimal fee of $20. Help sell the club, as every member is a plus for us.
Activities calendar is a work in progress and there have been some changes so check it out. For a 5 day out-of-town activity Chris Summers is leading a group to Bosque del Apache, NM the first week in Dec to photograph the Sand Hill Cranes. Contact Chris at Membership@kwphotoclub.com
Jim Schepens will reserve a day in October for a 10 am boat embark for Caddo Lake. Friday is the only day available. More TBD.
The Great American Eclipse has ended and so ends the last of the three eclipses that traversed America since 2017. It is hard to believe that they are completed. I’ve included a few photos from our April Eclipse setup in Johnson City TX. Not total cooperation with the clouds but not a total washout either plus we had wine (Sidoney Cellers), food, and a great location. There are no future solar eclipses for Texas! However, there is a Lunar Eclipse on March 3, 2026, that can be viewed from Houston, and don’t forget the Perseids meteor shower, peaking on August 13th.
Review the agenda and mark your calendars for future events. We’ll see you in May.
Lots of great photos in this month’s Share and Learn. Locations were local, US, and worldwide. Thanks to all our members who shared with our group. Check out the Gallery for some inspiration for your photos.
We had a wonderful speaker this month, Silvana Della.
On our Facebook page, we have had several members (Chuck Dugand and Chris Summers) who have shared many infrared photos and it has gotten my attention. Silvana’s presentation gave me something more to think about. When she said you could take photos of the Milky Way in less-than-desirable skies! Wow, I’m always looking for night photography tips and tricks. So now I’m seriously considering converting a camera I don’t use but is still usable. Chuck has uploaded the video from the meeting, if you didn’t get a chance to hear it on Tuesday, check it out.
Our meetings are now on the 3rd floor where we started several years ago. The church has remodeled the room and it looks great.
The header photos have also been updated. I hope you enjoy them but check out the gallery for all the photos shared. Ronda Meuwissen participated in the Art Car Parade activities and uploaded some very artsy cars! Jim Telljohann showed a mural he found in Scotland. Take a good look at the building and read what it says, “Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time”. That should be a photographer’s motto!
Our meeting video is available for viewing. Please sign in to the website, click on “members only/resources/monthly speakers. Enjoy the talk. It was another great speaker. I suggest you watch it in YouTube (click YouTube on the video thumbnail) because I’ve added a timeline in the description below the video to allow you to skip to topic you are interested in.
Infrared photography is a journey into a wondrous land of photography where what you see is transformed into another dimension with your camera.
Infrared, or IR photography, offers photographers the opportunity to explore the world of the unseen. Infrared photography creates unique images capable of portraying things not normally visible to the human eye.
Learn how infrared photography can give another dimension to your vision of the world.
Hi everyone! Just a quick FYI regarding our April meeting that is coming up on Tuesday and you only have a few days left to upload your photos. This month the assignment is “Street Art”. For some suggestions to upload: the Art Car Parade would be awesome and some of Houston’s murals or murals from any other location. The attached photo was taken in Prague on the St Charles Bridge. Music artists play for the tourists trying to sell their CDs.
So far three members have uploaded photos: Chuck Dugand, Chris Summers, and John Gray. For all who would like to share please have them uploaded by 3 pm on Tuesday, April 16th.
Your photos will be added to the agenda this month.
Look for the upload button on the weekly e-blast from Chuck or on the members-only page after you log in. I’m hoping to see more photos in the shared folder before Tuesday!
We’re encouraging all of you who have been on one of our club outings to upload your best event pictures to our dropbox account. We’d like to share them with the group and use them at year end to create a video of the year’s activities. The process is simple…
Rename your pictures to include the event name
Sign into our website
Look for a button on the sign-in page that says Event Pictures
Do you think you’re photographing in the right dimension? Well, consider this if you dare…
Infrared photography is a journey into a wondrous land of photography where what you see is transformed into another dimension with your camera.
Infrared, or IR photography, offers photographers the opportunity to explore the world of the unseen. Infrared photography creates unique images capable of portraying things not normally visible to the human eye.
Learn how infrared photography can give another dimension to your vision of the world.
Silvana Della, our April speaker, is a software engineer by trade. She began her fascination with photography as a very small child. The early fascination turned into a lifelong obsession. Decades later her passion never faltered, but her view of the world evolved. Photographing what the eye can’t perceive is what she loves best to capture.
Past President of the Stony Brook Camera Club in Franklin, Massachusetts, she is the recipient of many photography awards. Her images have appeared in Lighthouse Digest, Yankee Magazine, and the Boston Globe, and were featured in Nikon’s 100th birthday celebration. She has presented and judged at camera club councils, camera clubs, and art associations throughout the US.
Silvana helps others expand their own photographic vision through her photography workshops, photo walks, photo tours, private instruction, and club presentations on various photography topics including infrared, Milky Way, black & white, nightscapes, deep space photography, and time-lapse. She challenges photographers to consider that there is much more in a scene than what is visible to the human eye and to tap into the power of their cameras to discover it.
To her, life is best summarized by the quote “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.” – from the 1958 film “Auntie Mame”.
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