Monthly Meeting

The December monthly meeting will be in the form of a pot luck dinner at Jeff Krueger's home.  You can find details here.

Notes from the two presentations from the November meeting can be found here
Topic #15 Capturing the Spirit of Wildlife
Topic #16 Animals in Action

Education

The next education session offered to the PCQC membership will be held on January 15th. 

Jim Burkstrand will focus on Local Edits to photos.

Field Trips

There is no field trip scheduled for December but the trip in January will make up for that so mark your calendars.

The next PCQC Field trip will be January 24, 2020. We will travel to the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson. We will leave the Madera Clubhouse parking lot at 9:00 am.  

We will have a program that will consist of a 30 min classroom presentation including some of our animal ambassadors which will allow us to get some good up close photos of some of the Zoo's smaller animals, such as an armadillo, snake, or tamandua. We then will go behind the scenes to the rhino habitat for an up close encounter there. The fee for this program is $14 per person, which includes admission to the zoo. This will provide some unique photo opportunities since most of the “animal ambassadors” only come out for special presentations.You will need to prepay to participate in this program.

Reservation and prepayment details will be available in January.

Photos from the November field trip to Tanque Verde Ranch can be seen here.

December 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

December Photo Contest

You can enter the member’s November Photo Contest now!  The theme is Open. 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”x 19” or 16”x 20”  and then send all (large) jpg images to (copy and paste address) pcqccontest AT gmail.com

Entry Deadline is midnight - Dec 31, 2019.

Detailed Rules and Guidelines are here. 

For members who like to plan ahead, you can find the list of topics for the 2020 contests here.

October Photo Contest Winners

First Place :       Thom Sharples “Looking Forward”  
Second Place:  Denny Huber "All American Bench"
Third Place:      Bob Auflick “Waiting”​           

Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to all Photo Club members who entered the October photo contest.  All of the entries can be seen on the club Flickr site.

And you can see the judges comments here.

You can see 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.

Q4 2019 Photo Challenge

The member’s Quarterly Photo Challenge  runs from Oct 1 to Dec 31, 2019.

The topic is Free Study. 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

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.