Welcome to the Photography Club of Quail Creek Web Site!

WELCOME TO THE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB OF QUAIL CREEK WEBSITE

First Place : Rod Jarmin “Untitled” Second Place: Nick Pulcinella - “Arco Iris” Third Place: Sheri Rogers- “Aussie Bridge” Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to all Photo Club members who entered the September photo contest. All of the entries can be seen on the club Flickr site. You can see larger photos of the Sept 2019 Contest Winners here and all Contests on the club Flickr site.

Membership You can join the Photography Club of Quail Creek any time during the year. Club Dues are $25.00 per household for the remainder of 2019 and all of 2020. Current Members can renew at any time. Print the PCQC Membership Form- fill out- bring to a meeting.

Photography Club of Quail Creek 2019

October Photo Contest You can enter the member’s September Photo Contest now! The theme is Benches. Any PCQC member can submit up to 3 photos. A photo has to be 3 years old or less. Please rename each file with the title of the image. Size your image to either 13”X19” or 16”X20” and then send all (large) jpg images to (copy and paste address) pcqccontest@gmail.com Entry Deadline is midnight - Oct 31, 2019. NEW: Detailed Rules and Guidelnes are here.

Education

The next education session offered to the PCQC membership will be held on October 16th. The topic will be a Photography Help session. We will cover some basic questions about composition and cropping. We will demonstrate by example using different software applications.

September Photo Contest Winners :

November Monthly Meeting The November meeting of the Photography Club of QC will be held Weds, Nov 5, 2019. The meeting will start at 7:00 pm in the Kino Center. We will continue the National Geographic Travel Video series. . Notes from the two presentations from the October meeting can be found here Topic no 13 Capturing the Spirit of Landscapes Topic no 14 : Special Techniques for Creative Photos .

November 2019 Field Trip

The November club field trip will be Friday Nov 15, 2019. We will travel to Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson. Tanque Verde Ranch is known world wide as an outstanding “dude ranch” with many photo opportunities. We will need to sign a waiver to photograph on site. The lunch is in their cottonwood grove location from 12:00pm -1:30pm and is priced at $26.95+tax per person. Tanque Verde Ranch is located at: 14301 East Speedway Tucson, Arizona 85748 Plan to leave from the Madera Clubhouse west parking lot at 9:00 am. Reservations required. Please notify Jim Dixon at dixonsat AT aol.com by Tuesday, Nov 12.

October Club Photos of the Month

Photos submitted by club members are shown above as well as on our Flickr web site. Send to jimmsp AT AOL.com

Q4 2019 Photo Challenge The member’s Quarterly Photo Challenge runs from Oct 1 to Dec 31, 2019. The topic is Open. Members may submit any photo on any topic or with any subject - as long as it is taken during the current quarter. See this page for a description and rules. Topics for the next challenges are also listed. Submit all photos to jimmsp AT outlook.com

For members who like to plan ahead, you can find the list of topics for the 2019 contests here.

Q3 2019 Photo Challenge Winners

First Place : Janet Wegner - “Fork on the H2O” Second Place: Jim Burkstrand - ”Expired Thistle” Third Place: Helen Phillips - “Musical Bouquet” Third Place: Lois Haglund - “Antique Hay Rake”

Larger photos of the Q3 Challenge Winners can be seen on this page along with a summary of the voting. All of the challenge photos can be seen on our Flickr site on this page.