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 Charrería 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.