Here's the agenda for our upcoming meeting on Thursday, June 18, 2009
7:00 - 7:15 : Announcements, Introduction of new members/guests, Member News
7:15 - 7:30 : Web Sites of the Month - we'll visit member-recommended web site resources. Don't forget to recommend your favorite website!
7:00 - 7:15 : Announcements, Introduction of new members/guests, Member News
7:15 - 7:30 : Web Sites of the Month - we'll visit member-recommended web site resources. Don't forget to recommend your favorite website!
7:30- 8:15: Guest Speakers - Amanda Stahl and Glynda Hatfield
8:15 - 9:15: Formal critiques. Topic: Before and After pairs. Don't forget to send your 2 pairs of critique images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, June 16 via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com. View the new critique process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-critique-process.html
Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.
About our Speakers:
Amanda Stahl writes "When it came time to choose a major for college, much to my parents delight, I decided on accounting. After graduating for Lamar University in Beaumont, I sat for and passed the examination to become a Certified Public Accountant. Photography was always a part of my life, but only for vacation and family pictures. It was not until some twenty or so years later, that I felt the need to take photography more seriously. As a result of this love for photography and making images, I have entered many juried photographic exhibits over the past ten years. During that time, I have been accepted into more than fifty juried exhibits in Oklahoma, New Mexico, New York, Florida and numerous locations in Texas. Jurors such as Roy Flukinger, Clint Willour, Bill Witliff, Christoper James, Harvery Stein, Stephen Perloff, Wendy Watriss and D.J. Stout are among those who have chosen my work. Images in these exhibits have earned numerous awards, grants and inclusion in private and institutional collections. My images have also appeared in many group exhibits around Central Texas and one solo exhibit in Austin. Portions of several of my bodies of work have been printed in Borderland: Texas Poetry Review, Shots Magazine, AVAANTI 10 and Black and White Photography magazine."
Glynda Hatfield's series, A Time Left Behind, captures our abandoned childhoods. The images were taken in an overgrown, deserted playground between Ruidoso and Cloudcroft, N.M. In her biographical statement, Hatfield writes that "what an individual sees of the world comes from our own background, experiences, taste, and attitude. What we really see is defined by our feelings, memories, emotions, and intuitive senses. Hi Ho Silver, Away, 2003, is a perfect example of why, despite having a Holga, an incredible handmade pinhole, and a half-dozen Polaroid cameras, I am not a photographer". Mature technique, experience, and altered view are the only way to create such a captivating image.
