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Upload your Share and Learn before Tuesday Sept 17

August is behind us and we are almost to the final quarter of 2024! Our goal is to make each meeting an event you don’t want to miss! An important part of our club is the Share and Learn activity. This gives members a chance to share an experience, a trip, or a club event that they enjoyed. This month the theme is “Texas Travel Guide”. If you have done any travel in Texas I bet you have a photograph or two that you could upload to share for our meeting.

The attached photo came from a club trip in April of 2016, We visited the area around Fort Stockton, The McDonald Observatory, and Big Bend. That was the first trip for me to photograph the night sky. Below are some of the group: Rob Murphy (husband of Emily Murphy), Dale Barrack, and Helen Dugand (wife of Chuck Dugand) enjoying the beautiful sunset at the Painted Window.

Photos will be added to the PowerPoint so they need to be uploaded by 2 PM Tuesday. As of today, Jim Schepens is the only member in the Share and Learn folder. Looking forward to seeing your Texas Guide Photos! Your photos could be the inspiration for a club road trip!

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The April Agenda is now Available

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.

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PROGRAM: May 21

Everyday Life of Houston’s Fourth Ward – the traditions, the families, the architecture

Earlie Hudnall, Jr.

Our speaker Earlie Hudnall, Jr. will present his photos of the transition of Houston’s Fourth Ward over the past two and half decades. 

The photographic story of the community — the traditions, the families, the architecture, the everyday life of Fourth Ward.  It is a glimpse of one of Houston’s older neighborhoods, remembering who they were and what they did and how they lived and how changes affect our communities.

Mr. Hudnall has been a University Photographer at Texas Southern University since 1990.  He is a former board member for the Houston Center for Photography and served as an Executive Board member in the Texas Photographic Society.  His photographs are in many notable public and private collections across America, including the Smithsonian, Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

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August 21 Program: Baker Project

Darrell Hancock

“Baker Project” presented by Darrell Hancock, a fellow member of the Photo Club.   He will speak about his work the last couple of years in curating a small collection of photographs shot in 1953 by a prominent Houstonian — James A. Baker, III. 

Darrell will talk about his involvement in selecting several photos for inclusion in Mr.  Baker’s memoirs.  He will tell us more about how Mr. Baker — then a 23-year-old Marine
Corps second lieutenant — came to be traveling through Europe that year with a 35mm camera and several rolls of Kodachrome.

Last October, acting on behalf of Mr. Baker, Darrell and his wife, Diana, delivered 27 prints from the collection to The Public Historical Library of Zakynthos, an island off the west coast of Greece.

Please join us for what will surely be a very special evening.

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copyright @ James A. Baker III

 

 

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July Program – From a Pilot’s Viewpoint

Travel with Lou Vest, an avid photographer as he shares photos and stories from his years as a ship’s captain and pilot on the Houston ship channel. Lou will describe the port, what pilots do, and entertain you with amusing anecdotes about ships and sailors.

Lou Vest is a retired ship’s captain and pilot on the Houston ship channel.  He is now a full-time artist and photographer whose work is held in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He has exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography, Williams Tower, Allen Center, City Hall, Artopia, the Art Car Museum and the Houston Public Library; and he has held solo shows at the Houston Arts Alliance Gallery and Aker Gallery. Vest’s work was also featured accompanying performances of the Houston Symphony in Jones Hall, in performances by the Houston Grand Opera, and he is featured in maritime offices, publications and schools all over the world. Vest was selected by the Houston Press as one of the top 100 Creatives in Houston in 2013. He has a studio/workshop at #223 Spring Street Galleries located in Houston at 1824 Spring Street and welcomes visitors.

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April 17 Program: Standing in Front of Interesting Stuff

Rescheduled from January

We all strive to become better photographers.  We attend workshops, read articles, watch instructional videos, and possibly attempt to copy the best work of others we admire. Some even enter contests and seek out critical comments from other expert photographers. Over time all that hard work can begin to wear thin and your interest in photography wane unless you find and recognize interesting subjects for your art.

This month’s program is about the need to find and stand in front of interesting stuff, if you want to take interesting photos. We will talk about what our club has offered and plans to offer to help you in this area. Bring your popcorn, because the talk is capped off with a 20 minute video on the club’s trip to Yellowstone last January. Brrrr…. A fitting look at cold weather photography during this time of the year.

Chuck Dugand: Standing In Front Of Interesting Stuff

 

Our speaker is well known to us, Chuck Dugand is our Webmaster and is our most recent past club president.  He’s been an avid amateur photographer for many years and travels extensively with his wife, Helen, looking for “Interesting Stuff”.

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March Program – Father Joseph Barbieri and Astrophotography

Everyone who attended our March Program “Astrophotography – Photographing the Heavens” enjoyed this heavenly journey.  Father Joseph Barbieri was a fantastic speaker and engaged the audience with his banter and common sense approach to this topic.  He brought up the condition called “Photon Starved”.   In summary the condition occurs when clear night skies needed for photographing the stars is measured in hours – not nights.  Symptoms are many including frequent checking for weather conditions, grumpy from lack of SD or CF cards filled with photos waiting to be processed and general disappointment in everything weather related.  My husband liked his down-to-earth approach with a moderate budget (I already squashed the idea of the 12-inch telescope) and advise to contact a local astronomy club.  I found one for Kingwood – North Houston Astronomy Club.  Connie Emerson, our Program Chair,  stated it was a suggestion from a club member recommending we contact Fr. Joe for a talk.  It took almost a year but that suggestion started the ball rolling.  So, anyone that sees or hears of a potentially good speaker for our monthly programs – contact Connie with the contact information!   Many of the photos were taken at the Dark Site in west Houston that the Astronomy Clubs own so you don’t have to travel far just clear skies (winter months are best though cold).  Father kindly allowed us to post his Powerpoint, so enjoy the Heavenly show and be amazed!  Astrophoto presentation

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November Meeting Topic – Protecting your files is as easy as 1-2-3

As photographers we all have the same nightmare in the back of our minds.  Something happens to all those precious pictures we’ve taken over the years and we can’t recover them, or we go on a trip, take a lot of pictures only to get home and find the memory card in the camera got corrupted and we loose those images.  There are hundreds of scenarios, and all of them have happened to several of us, and will happen to you unless you have a plan to protect your files.

Our speaker this month is Ross Davis from Kingwood PC repair, located in Town Center.  Ross will take us through the ins and outs of protecting our files, both on the road and in our homes and offices.

Ross, graduated from Humble High School, and has a  BBA in Finance from University of Houston.  He is married to his high school sweetheart Nicole and has two kids and two dogs.  His business, Kingwood PC Repair is now celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year and carries a A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

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August 15 Program: Post-Production Editing Techniques That Will Change Your Photography

Post processing plays a big role in today’s photographic society. Whether it’s used subtlety or for major composites, it’s definitely an important skill to know.

Pat Guard , owner of Pat and Ray’s Studio in Kingwood, will be available to answer questions and offer tips for preparing photos to share with the world. In this digital age, all photographers need to be knowledgeable with Photoshop and/or other post-production techniques. Pat sees Photoshop as a tool, just as the darkroom was a tool to manipulate images in her early career. She will discuss and demonstrate just a few techniques that help get the most out of your images.

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