The Lake Houston Area Photographers Club
Our speaker this month, Lori Lankford, will cover shooting styles using your camera to capture the world in a creative way. Methods like Intentional camera movement and multiple exposure will be shared. Lori will also answer and share any editing questions related to these techniques.
Mark your calendars…….Take a look at the awesome Monthly activity events below. Great photography opportunities for 2025. Please note that each months dates are subject to change based on weather, but as each month event approaches a sign up will be created, which will include all the event details.
January 7th: Completed-Pop-up trip to the POST, downtown Houston
February 11th: Event created to Huntsville, Texas-Historic sites
(Photography Focus-Local history, small town life)
March 14th-16th: Texas Photography Festival at Georgetown, Texas-Overnight Trip
(Photography Focus- Education, street photography, small town architecture)
April 10th: Shoveler Pond in Anahuac NWR and Smith Oaks Rookery near High Island
(Photography Focus-Landscape, nature, wildlife, wildflowers)
May 3rd: George HW Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas
(Photography Focus- Museum, exhibits, interior and outside architecture, landscape)
June 5th: Galveston Historical Photo Tour-day trip
(Photography Focus-Historical, interior and exterior architecture, street photography)
July 10th: Club Bowling Social Event and Max Bowl in Humble
(Photography Focus- Candid photos of members enjoying themselves, colorful arcade game area)
August 14th: Houston Museum of Fine Arts
(Photography Focus- Interior and exterior architecture, statures, exhibits)
September 7th: “Coffee and Cars” classic car show in The Woodlands-Early Morning event 6:30am-10:00am.
(Photography Focus- Beautiful antique cars, automotive details, street photography)
October 3rd: The Houston Original Greek Festival, Houston and Montrose area.
(Photography Focus- Performers, costumes, cultural heritage, street photography)
November: TBD-Possible multi-day trip to San Antonio, Texas
(Photography Focus- Architecture, street photography, churches, courthouses, city scape)
December: Annual Club Christmas Social
Pop-Up Trips-Committee encourages club members to organize pop-up events. Since there is no planned activity for July and August, that would be a great time to plan as well.
Houston Mural Hunt
Seismique Art Museum in Katy
TGR Exotic Wildlife Park in Spring
Elinor Tinsley Park-Skyline photography
Happy New Year everyone! We had a cold start to our new year but the Zoom meeting was well attended. Kathy Adams Clark narrated a stunning program featuring her marvelous photos. Good advice for everyone on finding that creative inspiration. Chuck has already uploaded the recording of the meeting on our Website. Kathy offers many classes, workshops, and tours and can be contacted at www.kathyadamsclark.com. Kathy stated she has been conducting international tours for over 20 years! If you did not attend the Zoom meeting check out her website for more information.
(Photo by Jim Telljohann)
For our Share and Learn subject, “Smart Phone Captures” we enjoyed all the uploaded photos. There were lots of comments, a few laughs, and many interesting details. These photos are an excellent way for members to get to know each other. We follow children, grandchildren, trips, and all those special occasions that you photograph. We hope you enjoy the gallery with the travel photos, portraits, landscapes, pets, and a few way back-when photos. Chris Summers (the new president of the club) has put together a year of Share and Learn topics. Check out the monthly topics for future share submissions. Next month “Your First Digital Pictures”! Mike already has his picked out from a camera that he gave me that was lightly used as I upgraded to a Leica! We looked at some of the photos and we looked so young, sigh! The passage of time, what can I say 🙂
You can copy these topics where you can reference them during the year and they will be part of each monthly agenda.
This was the first meeting after we elected the new officer slate in January. Congratulations to Chris Summers, as you’ll notice Chris is now President and I’m Vice-President. I enjoyed my years as President and I thank you for the opportunity to lead the club for those years. It was nice to sit back and enjoy a meeting – no stress :). Chris did an excellent job and I’m looking forward to the coming year.
I’d also like to congratulate Mona Bowman for taking on the Activities Committee Chair after Jim Schepens needed to resign for personal reasons. And to Jim Evrard our Treasurer and Randi Munsey our Secretary and welcome Jim Telljohann to the board replacing Tim Sullivan. Tim was an excellent IT backup at meetings for Chuck and promised he would continue to help him. And thanks to all our other Chairpersons; Connie Emerson, Programs; Chuck Dugand, Webmaster, Workshops; Ron Fovargue, Hospitality. If you would like to join our team contact the chairperson for the committee that interests you. We appreciate that more hands make the work lighter.
Look for future posts with the list of activities, workshops, and programs. Remember that we upload to the Web site but also on our Facebook page. We have a full schedule for the year but welcome any pop-ups you may want to organize.
Stay warm for the next few days, soon the memory of this historic snowfall will be melted away. (Blackland Gully sledding). See you in a month!
We recorded our meeting last night. Our speaker did a great job that will definitely light a fire in your love of photography. Chris also did great as his first meeting as club President. While our meeting on Zoom our attendance was almost 40 online.
To find the video just log in to the members area then look for resources.
This will be a night to find inspirations and creativity together!
A fire begins with a tiny spark. The same can be said for creativity. In photography, a tiny addition can lead to a completely different finished picture. Join Kathy Adams Clark for this program discussing tiny changes that can yield different photos. This program is designed for photographers of all levels. The emphasis will be on photographers who know basic camera operation but are looking for ways to enhance the look of these images. Participants will understand that tiny elements can enhance a photograph. Participants will be exposed to processing ideas that can bring out details in a photograph.
Information for our ‘birder’ club members. While not a sponsored event, it is a yearly event where members have attended and taken beautiful photographs.
FYI-Registration is a requirement and now open. Due to the limitation of trips based on the number of participants, it is recommended if interested you use this link as soon as possible to register https://www.galvestonfeatherfest.com . Here you will find all of the important details related to registration, birding guide, events, workshops and lodging.
About Feather Fest from their website…
“If you’re a serious or casual bird-watcher or nature photographer…..an experienced or new outdoor enthusiast…..or someone who wants some exercise, fresh air and sunshine and something different to do…..you’ll want to join us at FeatherFest. There’s no need to be shy – the majority of our guests are not birding or nature photography experts!
Thousands of birds take wing to our island each spring during an arduous northward migration across the Gulf from Central and South America. And hundreds of tourists and neighbors follow suit to see more than 200 species of brightly-colored birds strut their stuff around our hometown – a prime location along the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail.
FeatherFest is a fun four days of excellent birding and nature photography field trips. Make plans to enjoy spring migration on Galveston Island at FeatherFest 2025– April 24– 27!”
For those of you who plan to attend, we will look forward to seeing your beautiful photography.
Create fun and engaging videos from your photo collections…RSVP HERE
The workshop will teach you how to create engaging and memorable videos using your photos from trips, family gatherings and other events
About free, easy to use software available to create the videos
How to select and order your pictures to create a powerful story and move the story forward
How to edit your pictures to fit the video format
How to find, download and add the perfect music
How pick the right length of the video for your audience
How to render the final video for posting to social media
Our board met on Thursday to elect the new slate of officers for 2025. First we must give Kathie Muhle a big thank you for her service over these past years leading our club. Thank you Kathie. She stays on now as Vice President to assist our new fearless leader, Chris Summers. Thanks Chris for stepping up for this role.
Chris and Kathie will be assisted by Jim Evrard, our Treasurer; Randi Munsi, Secretary; and Jim Telljohann.
Congratulations all! Let’s have a great 2025.
Humble Cookoff and Rodeo is looking for a couple of photographers for the Cookoff weekend (January 31 – February 1, 2025). This is a great way to get onto the list for future years once you’ve dipped your toes in the water. The cookoff is a ton of fun as you will get full access to the private party tents to take pics – and you should get a bunch of “samples“ of the food they are cooking (especially on Friday night…Saturday is the competition and things get more serious)…just be outgoing and ask to take pics of the BBQ crews and get them in action.
The photography coordinator is Brooke Arnold – have folks contact her directly at brooke.arnold94@gmail.com
We just went through and cleaned up our website. Got rid of a lot of old content and images as well as compressed many of the images on the site…that in addition to improving site cache and databases. Hopefully you will see an improvement in performance as a result. If you’ve been an intensive user of the website you might notice some things missing. We looked at site traffic and removed pages and area that were getting almost zero traffic. Merry Christmas. Our move to the newer website is being delayed until sometime later in January.
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