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Houston Photochrome Club Volume MMXVIII No. 6 June 2018

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June Meeting

The competition and critique meeting will be

7:00 PM June 14 at Tracy Gee Community

Center, 3599 Westcenter Drive, which is one

block inside Beltway 8 between Westpark and

Richmond.

Deadline for digital submission…

All digital entries must be sent

to

Philip Tan

ptchromer@gmail.com

by June 9

Entries received after that will not be

eligible for June Competition

FYI… the deadline is always the

Saturday before the

competition meeting.

Program for June

The perfect topic for summer in Hou-ston…

ICELAND

Charleen Baugh, a former member of our Club, will be presenting a program on her recent photography trip. Charleen says” I’m looking forward to coming and visiting and telling about Iceland. It is a pretty amazing place. It was a great trip, but it was really, real-

ly hard physically. I should have been

about 30 years younger to do this

one. I will tell more at the meeting

about the shooting conditions and the

challenges of dealing with it all, but in

the end I am happy that I captured

some images I like. I learned some new

shooting techniques and I returned with

many great memories. See you in

June. Charleen “

She will show her photographs and dis-

cuss where and how shots were taken

as well as any issues involved. Logistics

and tour leader information will also be

discussed. Do not miss this one.

Thursday June 28 at 7:00 PM at the

Tracy Gee Center

Iceland Image by Charleen Baugh

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from the President...

Greetings! We're almost half way through the year now. Time is flying by, as usual. I want to thank Mike Simmons for leading a wonderful field trip to the coast to pho-tograph the Milky Way in May-a great time was had by all who attended. Field trips are an important adjunct to what we learn and share in our Club meetings. It gives us more time to practice new techniques, enjoy time with our fellow members and share/learn from each other. We are working on several more opportunities for this year. Please let us know if you have ideas for a good field trip. We also have been distributing Photo-chrome cards at local camera shops to reach new members who may not be aware of us. Please remember to spread the word about our Club to peo-ple who have an interest in photog-raphy and improving their skills. The larger our Club becomes, the more we can offer members. Stephanie

May Field Trip Report

Seven intrepid photographers trouped behind Mike Simmons, red head lamps aglow, down a gravel trail, to a board walk and beyond, down to the shore. Off the Blue Water Highway at midnight, it was very dark, but gradually ,we got our night vision and set up our gear. There was some light pollution from the offshore rigs but it was not enough to deter our determination to shoot the thick mass of stars that is the Milky Way. The night was warm and the breeze just stiff enough to deter the insects. We stayed until 2 AM when the clouds be-gan to thicken and our eyelids became heavy. All together it was a grand field trip. See a sample of our efforts below. We were fortunate to have Mike to lead us and we give him a huge thanks for all of his work. (Editorial comment: We would all go

again in a minute.) Carmen

The Milky Way As seen by some of the field trip participants.

Clockwise from

upper left: Janet

Chung, Stephanie

Rudd, Carmen

Sewell and Philip

Tan.

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Cookies for June

Jane Ashley

Inter Club News

The 4 images sent out for the May GSCCC Na-ture Projected Competition judged by the Dal-las Camera Club and scores were: Bath Time – Tim Bimler – 13 – 2nd Place Dogs at Play – Scott Meyer – 12- 2nd HM Dragon Swing by Wind-Janet Chung - 12 Perfect Posing-Julie Cheng – 12- 2nd ALT The May Pictorial Projected images for PSA were judged by the St. Louis Camera Club. Our entries and results were: Mandrill Portrait-Julie Cheng –13- Award Mt. Golgotha Replica-Donnie Walton-11-HM Harlem Dance-Janet Chung – 9 Bee on Texas Squaw Weed – Carmen Sewell – 8 Tulip Tree Bloom – Jane Ashley – 7 Congratulations to Tim, Scott, Julie. & Donnie. Jane Ashley Interclub Chair

Bath Time Tim Bimler Second Place GSCCC Nature Projected

Dogs at Play Scott Meyer 2nd HM

GSCCC Nature Projected

Perfect Posing Julie Cheng 2nd Alt

GSCCC nature Projected

PSA Pictorial Projected Images

Mandrill Portrait By Julie Cheng Award Mt Golgotha Replica By Donnie Walton HM

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May 2018 Competition

Judges James Gamble, Stephanie Rudd, Carmen Sewell

Assignment Symmetry Open Category

Unique Light Fixture Janet Tan 22 Magical Winter Light Janet Chung 22

Flying in Symmetry Philip Tan 22 Brown Pelican Flying Joe Smith 21

Building Hallway Julie Cheng 21 Carolina Wren Chicks F. Joe Schmitt 21

Kaleidoscope Carmen Sewell 21 Gyr-Peregrine Falcon Carmen Sewell 21

Symmetry, Baden Church Organ Jane Ashley 21 Hill County Courthouse Donny Walton 21

Dragonfly Symmetry Janet Chung 20 Orchid Philip Tan 21

Fulvous Whistling Ducks Joe Smith 19 Plumeria Portrait Carmen Sewell 21

Freestone County Courthouse Donnie Walton 18 Riding in Style Donnie Walton 21

Peacock Blue Stephanie Rudd 18 Spoonbills Mating Julie Cheng 21

Railroad Tracks F. Joe Schmitt 18 Three is Too Many Janet Chung 21

White Angel Tim Bimler 18 West Houston Sunset Julie Cheng 21

Windows and Doors C.T. Edwards 18 Boy in Red Stephanie Rudd 20

12 images Happy to be Here Stephanie Rudd 20

In the Swamp Tim Bimler 20

Monochrome Twisted Bean Janet Tan 20

Welcome Back Janet Chung 22 Watching the Photographer Jane Ashley 20

Bumboo Bee Julie Cheng 21 Alaskan Antelope F. Joe Schmitt 19

Abandoned Lighthouse Stephanie Rudd 20 Brown Pelican in Flight Joe Smith 19

Houston Skywalk Jane Ashley 20 Common Gallinule Jane Ashley 19

Old Streets of Malaga, Spain F. Joe Schmitt 20 Buddha Philip Tan 18

Bosque County Courthouse Donnie Walton 19 Zion Tall Rocks C.T. Edwards 18

Great Egrets Being Fed Joe Smith 19 Texas Old Tree C.T. Edwards 17

Church, Shelby, TX Carmen Sewell 17 22 images

Magnolia Blossom C.T. Edwards 17

9 images

Total Entries - 43

Average Score - 20.3

Photographers - 13

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ATTENTION:

All Competition Participants Images must be submitted according to club guidelines or your image may not be included in the monthly competition Please follow the sizing instructions carefully: A horizontal image cannot be longer than 1280 pixels along the horizontal side; A vertical image cannot be longer than 800 pixels along the vertical side. ( Vertical images cannot be sized 1280 pixels along the vertical side!) The size of the JPEG image is not to exceed 1MB.( See above for pixel size.)

NEW INFORMATION 4/1/2016

Rename the image according to the guidelines below. For example: An Assignment image by John Brown would appear as AS_Assignment_BrownJ.jpg (Use “M” for Monochrome and “O” for Open categories.) DO NOT use first names, nicknames or ini-tials only, for identification. Also, the size of the title is limited to 35 characters when naming images. It is important that the guidelines for naming files be followed when submitting images for the monthly competitions otherwise you run the risk of not being credited with your entries.

Images that are not easily identi-fied will be discarded.

Assignment Categories 2018-2019 The Assignment list is:

June 2018 Music to my Eyes ( Musical

Instruments or Performer / Band)

July 2018 Patriotism

August 2018 Winged Creatures

September 2018 ABC’s (Images with an ob-

ject shaped like a letter of the alphabet )

October 2018 Beautiful Bokeh

November 2018 What’s Cooking? (Images

of prepared meals)

December 2018 Autumn Colors

January 2019 Night view

February 2019 Wildflowers

March 2019 City scape

April 2019 TBA

May 2019 TBA

June 2019 Your Favorite Color ( the color is

to be the dominate theme of the image)

July 2019 Leading line/S curves

August 2019 Tell a Story

Remember that assignment images must

have been shot within 12 months, prior to

competition meeting for that assignment .

Because of this restriction, we will now choose the categories a year in advance of the category date ,for your convenience. NOTE: Images may not be submitted more than once regardless of the category. Color images may not be submitted as mono-chrome if they have been used in another category and vice versa.

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Houston Photochrome Club is a mem-ber of the Photographic Society of America and the Gulf States Camera Club Council

Wildlife Photographer

of the Year exhibition opened Friday,

May 4th at the Houston Natural Museum of History. This is the fifty third year of the com-petition developed and produced by the Nat-ural History Museum, London. Additionally, there will be a Photographer's Night on Wednesday, June 20th at 6:00 p.m. Following a viewing of the Photographer of the Year exhibition, photographers can set out on a photo safari in the Museum's Texas and African wildlife exhibition halls while the Museum is closed to the public. http://store.hmns.org/DateSelection.aspx?item=2571