April Meeting

Our next meeting is on Thursday, April 18th. Please mark your calendars!

7:00 - 7:15: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News

7:15 - 8:15: Presentation - "Flight of the Bumblebee - High-speed Flash Photography" - John & Kendra Abbott

8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Recent Work.

Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, April 16th 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 our 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 Program

John is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin and Kendra is a Professor at St. Edwards University in Austin. John has focused on dragonflies and damselflies throughout much of his career and has two books on these beautiful subjects that contain much of their photography. Among the many projects John and Kendra are currently working on, they are revising the Peterson Field Guide to Insects of North America. They have had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout Latin America, Africa and other parts of the world where they enjoy taking photos of pretty much anything in the natural world. They feel lucky enough to be able to teach and excite students about the amazing biodiversity they have been able to observe through their travels and photography together.

Their talk, Flight of the Bumblebee: The Art of High-speed Flash Photography, will be a peek into the natural world using high-speed flash to capture behaviors and actions that pass to quickly for the human eye to see. We'll talk about the techniques used for this type of photography as well as some of the scientific questions we are using the technique to answer.