Tag: Monthly Meeting

Getting all my uploads done early this month. I’m uploading this months agenda to share the information from the meeting to you who could not join us. Chuck will also upload a video of the meeting.

Check the Agenda for the Workshops, SIG groups and the weekly Photographers Zoom lunch.

Potential pop-up trips for August include the AIA Sandcastle Competition in Galveston on August 20-21 (weather permitting). Anne Mullins will not be available to coordinate this so if anyone is interested if you could contact Anne to coordinate the trip, Anne recommended an early day with lunch on the Strand.

The second surprise popup for August is a return visit of Union Pacific’s Big Boy on August 17th. This is the last working steam engine and the last time it was in Houston Mike and I visited it. What we noticed were all the pads under the engine to collect the dripping oil. So any opportunity to see this train running on the tracks has to be a must photo opportunity. Last time Connie and David caught some awesome photos close to their farm. More information from Chris Summers to come or you could search for the Union Pacific Big Boy announcement.

The Blue Angels are back for the 2021 Wings over Houston Airshow on October 9-10! Wings over Houston is selling early tickets at a discount and if you love to see these planes in action, have a new long lens to check out, this is a great event to attend. Chuck Dugand has already bought his Photo Pit ticket so if interested check with him for the date if you want company. Highly recommend it.

The August meeting was missing a program and speaker which gives the club the opportunity to have an open discussion regarding the upcoming trip to Rapid City SD. Lots to discuss and this will be followed up with a zoom meeting with the Rapid City Photo Club in early September. Steve Hansen and Jim Schepens are organizing this trip and it looks like we’ll have over a dozen members coming. Besides talking about SD we’ll also discuss the types of photography that are available (Landscape, waterfalls, sunrise, sunset, street photography) and answer any questions you might have. So all members should find this meeting interesting.

There will be no formal September meeting as most of the board will be in SD. Jim Evrard, our treasurer, is willing to host the meeting and we’ll try and see if any members can zoom in from SD.

July Mini-Contest “Heat” has brought the sun the last few days! Looking at the radar for today – mostly sunny Woo Hoo! Chris Summers was the winner with one of his two photos of the Namib desert. Steve Hansen thought out of the box with his “Hot Chillie” along with his “Spitting Fire” from Hawaii. Chuck Dugand’ chose his”Myanmar Evening” and “Arizona Sunset” to display heat. and I added a photo from the 2014 Wings over Houston “Shockwave – the only jet-powered truck”. Look closely, you can see the heat waves behind the truck, it was loud and it was hot! The last was also from Hawaii – Fire Dancer. Next month’s theme – “Blue”!

Thanks for all the support we have from our members. This club is here due to your support and participation. The board encourages any member to contact us who would like to volunteer to keep this club going! Thanks for reading this entire post and remember “Let your words be few and your exposures many”. Go out and enjoy the sun!

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An excellent start for the club’s 2021 meetings with a fantastic presentation by Chris Summers and a review of activities to start the year off. If you didn’t attend the meeting you should listen to the program video Chuck made. The photos alone are worth a look.

January we had a board meeting to elect the current slate of officers for our club. We re-elected everyone to the same position as last year:

Congratulations to the officers. And, I’d like to thank each of them for all the work that they do.

Additionally, I’d like to thank all the members that serve as committee chairs and volunteers:

We are a social club and having members volunteer their time is a vital need to a successful club. My thanks to all of you for the great job that you do. We always have room for more volunteers so anyone interested in joining our team let me know at president@kwphotoclub.com. or check out slide 6 for the committee chair emails to contact them directly.

Memberships, a quick word about renewing. Chuck has posted several reminders and I’ll briefly mention that it is time to renew your membership. Without you the club does not exist so I hope you take a few minutes to go on line and either print a membership form and mail it in or pay on line via PayPal. Either one will work as we are not currently having in person meetings. Pam Walton is watching over this area and if you have a question about your membership please contact her at Membership@kwphotoclub.com.

Chuck has posted a video of the business portion of our meeting so you can hear the discussions regarding all the club activities coming up. The next Pop-up trip is Friday Jan 29th, at the Memorial Park Glades in Houston. This is a drive yourself event, meeting in the park parking lot at 10AM. The area has lots of picnic locations so bring your lunch for a socially distanced event. You can contact Anne at Activities@kwphotoclub.com for information.

Our next zoom meeting is February 16th, You will need to signup for the meeting to receive a zoom invite from Chuck. Hope you can all make the next meeting with a presentation by a Storm Chaser. More information to come. Take advantage of the pop-up on Friday, looks like a beautiful day.

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Good job everyone who participated in our June meeting and sent in Share and Learn. I was traveling and not able to zoom in but thanks to Chuck he recorded Ken and Jimmy’s presentation for us to watch. The link below will take you to the youtube video.

Chuck Dugand is doing the next two zoom workshops which are a continuation of his “Know your Camera”. On July 11th ( July 4th is a holiday so we opted for the next Saturday) Chuck will present “Creating Art – Rules of Composition”. Chuck will challenge you to think more critically about your photography using the elements of composition. What are they and how do they help engage your audience with your photo. Hint, one of these rules “Unique Angle or Perspective” is your assignment for the July meeting. So signup for a link for this workshop on our webpage. His last workshop will be August 1 “Re-envisioning your Image”

Chuck could use some help with these workshops as he still needs workshop leaders for September 5 and November 7. If you are brave enough to volunteer please contact Chuck at Admin@kwphotoclub.com and share your photography passion with the club.

The club started two Special Interest Groups this year. Post Processing SIG led by Chuck Dugand and James Himanga is using Zoom to continue these workshops. They just held a workshop on June 18th covering plug-ins and /or stand-alone editors. Look for the next PP-SIG monthly meeting announcement for July on our website.

The Portraiture SIG led by Jim Evrard and Kathy Muhle meetings are postponed due to the COVID-19 closure of the Kings Point Community Center. Jim is planning on sending out portraiture information via e-mail, News articles, and Facebook in the meantime.

Activities are slowly coming back. Texas is still not totally open so there is a tentative painted Church day trip planned for the 27th of June. If interested please contact Anne Mullins at Activities@kwphotoclub.com for more information and signup. Our last club activity was a day trip to the Cockrell Butterfly Center which everyone that went totally enjoyed. Anne said that the group included: Aurea Melendez, Margaret Molloy, Ellen Taylor Randi, Munsey, Anne Mullins and newcomer Aelyne de la Torre and Elaine Taylor. Bill Beard created a video of their photos which I will ask him to upload for you.

Finally, after our presentation and Share and Learn, next month’s meeting was announced for Tuesday, July 21. Jim Schepens has arranged for Joe Aker, owner of Aker Photography to present a program on “Architectural Photography”. Our Share and Learn assignment for July “Unique Angle or Perspective”! Check out the post on that assignment for some tips on getting unique photos or click the link below.

https://www.mybluprint.com/article/unique-perspective-photography

I’ve also attached the monthly agenda for your review. I hope you are all doing well and staying healthy and hope to see your faces on our next zoom meeting on July 21! Happy Father’s Day to all our fathers!

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The shutdown can’t keep a good club down and new members from joining us. This month Pam Walton welcomed three new members: Marnpimol Collins, Monica Ehrmann and Joan and Thorro Jones. Very happy to welcome these newest members to our group.

In this month’s agenda you’ll find a refresher for our upcoming workshop, SIGs, and club activities. There is also a reminder that between meetings stay connected to our club by checking your Monday e-blasts, our Website, and our Facebook page. Many members have posted photos on our Facebook page, courses to take, locations to visit basically anything photography related. Let us know what you discover as you wander down the road.

Club sponsored activities are still focused on using Zoom for virtual meetings and workshops. Group activities are beginning with the first official group activity to the Cockrell Butterfly Center on June 8th. This is a members-only activity with each participant purchasing their own $10 ticket purchased online prior to June 8th. Look for information and signup on our Web site.

The next Library Zoom Virtual Workshop will be June 6th on Macro Photography. If you have an interest in macro photography this workshop could give you some guidance for your first step or your next step. Whether you are looking for an inexpensive way to begin or thinking about some macro lenses I try to cover the basics and beyond. How-to topics include creating a timelapse with your macro shots, focus stacking to get maximum sharpness, and setting up a studio by Michelle Pakron. Lots of information for you. You do need to sign up on our website so you can receive the Zoom meeting link. Due to the virtual nature this is also for members only.

Chuck Dugand’s Post Processing SIG is again virtual. His May 21st SIG is past but look for information regarding his June meeting. For Portraiture SIG, Jim Evrard is looking at June 27th for the next meetings if Texas continues to open. With portraiture it does not lend it’s self to virtual meetings. More information on that meeting shortly.

I mentioned the June 8th visit to the Cockrell Butterfly Center. Anne Mullins will also schedule a meeting of the Activities Committee in mid-June. Look for an e-mail from Anne and if you would like to join her committee you can contact her at Activities@kwphotoclub.com

Our meeting also included two videos. Chuck Dugand created one with all the Front Step photographs, and really fun to watch. I had no idea so many creative people live around us. Chuck stated that Bill Beard gets the award for the most photographs. Bill created the second video with pictures from the Blue Angels flyover. Chris Summers stated this was a very popular event for us and we all set up at different places in the hopes of getting our shots of them flying over. I looked at my first shot time and last shot time and I had less than a minute to photograph them. We were staggered from the Los Cucos on I-59 to the Target in Humble and some over their houses. Great shots. I hope Chuck will put the videos on our Web site so you can all enjoy them. An interesting side note for the Blue Angels, one of the pilots graduated from Kingwood High School His parents still live in Kingwood! Check out the article in our local Tribune.

Our Share and Learn is still a vital part of our meetings and with the virtual meeting, if you have a microphone you can tell us all about your photos. Our speaker, Kathy Adams Clark talked about how she has kept busy during this isolation period. Our Share and Learn topic last month let us show how we are coping so it was interesting to see her perspective. More on her talk in another post. I’ve included the Share and Learn photos as part of the agenda as I’ve added notes about the photos or the member sent in notes on their photos.

Finally, our next virtual meeting will be on June 16th. Jim Schepens said the church is just beginning to open up so more on when we’ll be welcomed back in the month to come. The program that Jim has arranged is by Ken Frederick. A frequent speaker with us and this program is titled “History of Photography”. Ken is an engaging speaker and will keep you all entertained. Just a reminder that you will need the link to join the meeting, I think the link is going out to all members so watch for it a day before the meeting.

Next month our Share and Learn topic: “All about Texas”! The subject matter is up to you as long as it is in our Lone State. Composition still matters so think about the shot and how you want to tell the story. As I will be traveling these will be due Sunday June 14th. I hope you find time to get out with your cameras or just to enjoy the outdoors.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams

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