Wednesday, November 23, 2011

December Field Trip & Dinner/Social

As we discussed at the last meeting,

our December meeting will be a Field Trip & Dinner/Social, on Saturday, December 3rd.

Please join us for a fantastic wrap-up to a fantastic year!

We'll start at the Wittliff Collections at 2:30 pm, on the 7th floor of Alkek Library on Texas State campus. Free admission.


NOTE: Garages No. 1 and 2 are free on weekends  

From there we'll go down the street to Palmers Restaurant, http://www.palmerstexas.com/

After dinner, we'll go to Sights and Sounds of Christmas, http://www.sights-n-sounds.org/ for some night time shooting!

Sight and Sounds parking: http://www.sights-n-sounds.org/transportation/   ($4 admission per person)

Please RSVP to hcphotoclub@gmail.com by Thursday, December 1st, so we know how many to expect at Palmers.

I hope to see you there!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Agenda for meeting on November 17, 2011

Our next meeting is on Thursday, November 17th. Please mark your calendars!

7:00 - 7:30: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News.
7:30 - 8:15: Guest Speaker - Barbra Riley
8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Recent Work.
Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, November 15th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.


Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.

About our Speaker: Barbra Riley
Barbra Riley was born in Brooklyn, and raised outside of New York City in White Plains, New York. She studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and California State University, Sacramento where she received her BA and MA in Art.
 
For four years after graduation, Barbra ran her own art and design studio in New York City. She designed, photographed, and worked with printers and bookbinders on commercial projects while she continued to produce and exhibit her own water-media paintings, hand-colored photographs and works on paper.

In 1978 she accepted a teaching position at what was then Corpus Christi State University, now Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. While teaching at A&M-CC, she continued with graduate study at the University of Texas-Austin in the department of Photojournalism. In addition to teaching classes in photography, design and watercolor painting at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Barbra developed the digital curriculum in photography and commercial design for the Art Department, curated exhibitions for the Weil Gallery, conducted workshops in historical photographic processes, bookbinding and watercolor painting and led classes and workshops abroad. She has also contributed to articles about teaching photography for Photo*Letter, published by the Texas Photographic Society and Wildlife in Focus III, Coastal Bend Wildlife Habitat Education Program.


Barbra's photographs and paintings have been widely exhibited for more than 30 years. She has been included in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California. In Texas, she has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Houston Center for Photography, Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, and The Art Museum of South Texas as well as dozens of universities, art galleries and alternative art exhibition spaces. Currently, 18 large painted photographs by Barbra are featured in the new AT&T Center Collection of Art in San Antonio.


Locally, art work by Barbra is in the permanent collections of the Art Museum of South Texas, Matthews & Branscomb, 1st Community Bank, Bank of America and the Bell Library at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Her black and white photographs of Europe line the walls in Jason’s Deli at five locations in South Texas. Elsewhere in Texas, her work resides in numerous permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art, the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, Goldman Sachs and Southwestern Bell in Dallas, Merrill Lynch and Texas Instruments in Houston, and the AT&T Center and Republic National Bank, San Antonio. Nationally, she is represented in the corporate collections of Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City and Price Waterhouse, Los Angeles.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Agenda for meeting on October 20, 2011

Our next meeting is on Thursday, October 20th. Please mark your calendars!


7:00 - 7:30: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News.
7:30 - 8:15: Guest Speaker - Laurence Parent

8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Blue. What does that mean? Well, blue is a color, a mood, a musical note, at least. Be creative! What is your interpretation of blue? Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, October 18th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.
Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.

About our Speaker: Laurence Parent


Laurence Parent was born in New Mexico and raised in several southwestern states, primarily New Mexico. After receiving a petroleum engineering degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1981, he practiced engineering for six years before becoming a full-time freelance photographer and writer specializing in landscape, travel, and nature subjects. His love of the outdoors was inspired by his parents, Hiram and Annette Parent, who took him on numerous hiking and camping trips when he was young. Because his father was a National Park Service ranger, he grew up in some of America's most beautiful places. Among other tasks, Laurence's father did photo work for the National Park Service and occasional freelance jobs on the side. His mother periodically wrote magazine articles, often on travel subjects. Although Laurence had no conscious desire to photograph and write until he was already a practicing engineer, as he grew older he was drawn to the photographic profession by his love of the outdoors and a desire to work for himself.


Laurence travels all over the United States and to other countries in pursuit of exceptional images. He has gathered stock from 52 states and provinces and several other countries. He typically spends up to half of the year on the road. Through patience and planning, he tries to capture his photographic subjects at the perfect moment of light and weather. He hopes that the photographs produced by his efforts will inspire people to protect our world's beautiful natural and historical heritage.
To get the best possible image quality, Laurence specializes in large-format 4x5 images of the natural and human landscape. He also uses a 35mm camera to capture images that are impossible to get with a 4x5, such as outdoor sports. In recent years he has begun to collaborate with his wife, Patricia Caperton Parent, on book and magazine projects. Laurence and Patricia make their home in the Austin, Texas area.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Agenda for meeting on September 15, 2011

Our next meeting is on Thursday, September 15th. Please mark your calendars!

7:00 - 7:30: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News. 

7:30 - 8:15: Member Share - Topic: "Photo Books" - Here's a chance to show off your photo books and share your experience making them with the club. Please bring one or two of your books and tell us what publisher you used and what you liked or disliked about the process. If you're interested in making your own book, this is one meeting you don't want to miss!

8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Recent Work. Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, September 13th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Agenda for meeting on July 21 2011

Our next meeting is on Thursday, July 21st. Please mark your calendars!

Please note - we are NOT meeting at our regular time or location. Due to time constraints we will not have a critique session.

6:00 - 6:20: Gather and mingle time.

6:20 - 6:30: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News.

6:30 - 8:00: Guest Speakers - Jann Alexander & Thomas Hilton will put on a great program for photographers with their Epson Pro 9900 printing on demand and their fabulous presentation space with the Vanishing Austin photography series on exhibit and several Macs, an iPad and our wall-mounted 58" HDTV that's Mac-driven and internet-connected for slideshows, keynotes and portfolio reviews.
Meeting Location: Austin Details Art + Photo, 106 East 8th (at Congress) in Austin. Parking is limited, so carpooling is strongly encouraged.

About our Speakers: Jann Alexander & Thomas Hamilton

Jann Alexander, founder and director of Austin Details Art + Photo and CoCreate, is a fine artist with a photography emphasis. A former award-winning art director for international advertising and editorial accounts, she’s found inspiration since moving to Austin in 2004 with her Vanishing Austin photography series.

Thomas Jack Hilton is an artist, photographer, technology enthusiast and teacher. He holds a BFA from Texas State University and an MFA from the University at Albany, both in studio art.
About Austin Details Art + Photo
 
We’re a unique visual arts events space and gallery in downtown Austin where art meets tech. And art enthusiasts and art creators connect. Where fine artists, photographers, art supporters, art collectors, designers and anyone with a passion for creativity can meet, mingle, learn, share, buy, sell, collect, connect. In addition to bridging the gap between collectors and creators, we offer a variety of services for Central Texas art makers, photographers and designers.

Call For Entries - HCPC Members-Only Exhibit - "Round & Round"

Here are the details for submitting entries for the Hill Country Photography Club Member's Exhibit - Round & Round, which will run alongside the Naturescapes exhibit in the Walkers' Gallery at the San Marcos Marcos Activity Center. This Call for Entries is limited to current Hill Country Photography Club paying members. The Juror will be Art Arizpe.

The exhibit will run from September 10th to November 4th, 2011. We will need approximately 30 images for the exhibit. We may use more, depending on the sizes of the images selected.

Deadline to submit images: Monday, August 8th at midnight!

Theme:
Round & Round:  This exhibition will feature images that feature the concept of "round" - circles, circular motion, round objects, cycles, spinning, loops. Literal or metaphorical! Be creative! Images must be family-friendly.

Process for Participation:
  • Select up to 5 images for submission. Images chosen should be consistent with the theme.
  • Digital images must be high quality jpeg measuring 800 pixels on the longest dimension at resolution of 72 ppi.
  • Digital files should be named with the last name, underscore, first name, underscore image number (e.g., jones_john_1.jpeg)
  • Email image titles, frame size, sale price and files to hcphotoclub@gmail.com by Monday, August 8th, midnight. Make sure that the image numbers correspond with the image information in your email.
            Sample of image information:
            1 - Blue Window, 20x16 (horizontal), $125
            2 - Orange Gate, 16x20 (vertical), $125
  • Let me know how many images you are willing to place in the exhibit. This will be considered as a commitment on your part to provide the images. For example you submit 4 images for consideration, but you want to only exhibit 2, then no more than 2 images may be selected from your group of images.
  • You will be notified by August 15th as to which images have been accepted for the exhibit. Specific information regarding the images will be requested at that time.
I look forward to seeing your images! Good luck!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Our next meeting is on Thursday, June 16th. Please mark your calendars!

7:00 - 7:30: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News.

7:30 - 8:15: Guest Speaker - D. Clarke Evans, "Game Day with D. Clarke Evans," photographer for the San Antonio Spurs. Clarke's presentation will cover shooting a game, the setup required and camera positions for getting certain shots. He will share some of his favorite images from each setup.

8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Recent Work. Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, June 14th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.

About our Speaker: D. Clarke Evans

D. Clarke Evans, a commercial photographer living in San Antonio, Texas, is recognized for his architectural, sports, and corporate photography. He is the official photographer of the San Antonio Spurs and is also President of the Texas Photographic Society (TPS), a non-profit national photographic organization of over 1,200 members from 48 states and 11 countries. Among its programs, TPS sponsors workshops, lectures, juried competitions, and a collectors print program.

Clarke has a Master of Arts degree from Texas Tech University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooks Institute School of Photographic Arts and Science located in Santa Barbara, California.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Agenda for meeting on May 19, 2011

Our next meeting is on Thursday, May 19th. Please mark your calendars!
7:00 - 7:30: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News.

7:30 - 8:15: Guest Speaker - Carolyn Whiteside, Topic:  "Carolyn's African Photo Safari"-- presentation will include tips on planning, equipment used, and photos from 4 wildlife preserves.

8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Before and After. Don't forget to send your 2 pairs of review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, May 17th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.

About our Speaker: Carolyn Whiteside
 
Carolyn grew up in rural Oklahoma with 3 older brothers and lots of farm animals, including a pet Brahma bull. She always had a special interest in animals and their behavior.

She studied education at Oklahoma State University, and taught at the high school level for 20 years before retiring. Carolyn and her husband, Bobby, both enjoy camping and traveling. Carolyn renewed her interest in photography as a way to entertain herself in retirement. After seeing her wildlife and nature images, local wildlife artist Wade Butler encouraged her to show and sell her work.

Carolyn is now a regular exhibitor at Gruene Market Days, Oysterfest in Fulton, The Official Texas Arts and Crafts Fair in Kerrville, and The Annual 4th of July Rockport Art Festival. She has won numerous awards, and has images published in Texas Parks and Wildlife and Hill Country Magazine. She also has images in an Embassy Suites in San Antonio, and the Gruene River Restaurant in Gruene.

Carolyn recently took a trip of a lifetime to Africa and will share the preparation for the safari and some of the special images that she captured in Kenya and Tanzania for the May meeting.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Agenda for meeting on April 21, 2011

7:00 - 7:30 : Announcements, Introduction of new members/guests, Member News

7:30 - 8:15: Guest Speaker - Quest Couch, CEO and Co-founder of LumiQuest

8:15 - 9:00:
Image Reviews - Topic: Nature. Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, April 19th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:

  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.

About our Speaker: Quest Couch
While in graduate school Quest served as assistant to, and was inspired by Rod Whitaker (pen name Trevanian), Radio, Television and Film Departmental Chair and author. Whitaker also introduced Quest to then CBS anchor Walter Cronkite. Later, Quest would write a script for Cronkite documenting the Lower Pecos Indians of Texas. The presentation was narrated by KENS TV anchor Chris Marrou. Over two decades, Quest Productions would produce and Marrou would narrate over 30 films/videos/presentations for a long list of clients. Subjects ranged from children with Muscular Dystrophy to captains of industry, including three presidents of the United States, photographed for political advertising legend Lionel Sosa.

Quest’s career in photography and related activities has spanned nearly four decades. The varied projects and assignments included work for an eclectic clientele. The challenges of moving quickly and setting up fast while making quality images resulted in the his development of the LumiQuest line of photographic accessories. He continues to shoot and develop new accessories for today’s digital photographer.

Quest co-founded Lumiquest in 1987. The company is headquartered in New Braunfels and produces a line of light modifiers and other photographic accessories.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Agenda for meeting on March 17, 2011

Here's the agenda for the meeting:

7:00 - 7:30 : Announcements, Introduction of new members/guests, Member News

7:30 - 8:15: Software Demonstration - Carol Serur & Art Arizpe will demonstrate tools from the onOne Perfect Photo Suite.

8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Recent Work. Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, March 15th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Note: At the February meeting, Steve Hix suggested the "Parking Lot Challenge" as our critique topic, but since I didn't get the reminder out with enough time for everyone to try the Challenge, I decided to critique recent work at this meeting instead. If you do have Challenge images, then please send them in, but feel free to submit your recent work also.

Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.
 
REMINDER: Annual club membership fees are due: $12 annual dues plus add an additional donation to the equipment fund (recommendation is at least $10) to purchase an LCD projector for the club.

Carol Watson will be drawing the winner of her Holga camera from the set of people who donate to our equipment fund. You'll have one last chance to donate and participate in the drawing at the meeting!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Agenda for meeting on February 10, 2011

As we discussed at our last meeting, we need to reschedule our regular monthly meeting because two of our members, Carol Serur and Winifred Simon, have an opening reception at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum for Arte en la CharrerĂ­a on our regular meeting night. Congratulations to Carol and Winifred!

Here's the agenda for the meeting:

7:00 - 7:30 : Announcements, Introduction of new members/guests, Member News

7:30 - 8:15: Guest Speaker - Steve Hix
8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Recent Work. Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, February 8th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:

  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.
 
About our Speaker: Steve Hix

Steve Hix had his first one-man show in 1974 and went on to show in galleries in Carmel, Albuquerque, New York, London and Paris during that decade.  He worked in motion film and finally commercial still photography starting in 1981.  He continued producing fine art photography parallel to his commercial career since then. 

For three decades Steve has produced advertising campaigns taking him to over seventy countries while working with the top ad agencies in the world and nearly 400 of the Fortune 500.  He has changed specialties four times in his career including, special effects, landscapes, lifestyle and stock.  In 2004 he started the stock agency, Somos, and soon partnered with Veer and then Corbis before selling his half to Corbis in 2009.

His photography has been showcased in Photo District News, Graphis, Print and Archive.  Communication Arts Magazine published a twelve-page article about Steve in 1993 showcasing much of his fine art photography. He has won dozens of international awards for his work, most recently a Lucie Award in 2010.

Over the past four decades Steve has lived and worked in Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and now resides in Austin.  He currently serves on the board of advisors of the Austin Art Institute photography department and is producing a book on the Great Sand Dunes National Park, where he now sells posters and note cards.

REMINDER: Annual club membership fees are due: $12 annual dues plus add an additional donation to the equipment fund (recommendation is at least $10) to purchase an LCD projector for the club.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Kate Breakey Exhibit, Painted Light

The club has arranged a tour of the Kate Breakey exhibit, Painted Light, at the Wittliff Collections Gallery at Texas State University. The tour is scheduled for Wednesday, February 2nd, at 7pm.

You may find more info here. Beverley Fondren, the development officer for the Gallery, as well as Carla Ellard, the Photography Gallery Curator, will meet with us.

Here are directions to the gallery, and the 3 parking lots...however, only the first one, LBJSC (LBJ Student Center) parking lot will be available for us to park that night. If you're on IH-35, you will take exit 206 and head west. I strongly suggest you carpool because there is a charge and parking is always tricky on campus.

I hope to see you there!

Also, please remember that our February monthly meeting will be a week early, on the 10th. Please watch your email for more info.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Agenda for meeting on January 20, 2011

Here's the agenda for our upcoming meeting on Thursday, January 20, 2011:

7:00 - 7:30 : Announcements, Introduction of new members/guests, Member News

7:30- 8:00: Business Meeting - Election of 2011 Club Executives

8:00 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Before and After. Don't forget to send your 2 pairs of review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, January 18th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

NOTE: We have a new image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
  1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
  2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.