Monthly Meeting

Date:     Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Time:     6:30 pm Please Note the Time!
Place:    Quail Creek Kino Center, Ocotillo Room
 
Folsom, California was founded during the Gold Rush and still maintains its old western culture, including cattle ranches and the rodeo.   

​Mark Cohen was given unrestricted access to take photos at the rodeo grounds for about twenty years.  He will share many facets of the rodeo that he captured during those years at our May meeting.

Future meeting topics can be found here

Education

No meeting this month

Field Trips

Tohono Chul  ( https://tohonochul.org/)
Fri, April 11
Leave QC at 8:30, arrive, enter, and start taking photos by 9:30

Sr Admission (62+) - $15

Lunch outside at their Garden Bistro at 12:00.

Jim will need a commitment for lunch by Tuesday evening, April 8  (jimmsp at outlook.com).

Jim

​​Photos from field trips can be seen on our Flickr site.

May Photos of the Month

Photos submitted by club members are shown above as well as on our Flickr web site. Send to mlqcpom AT gmail dot com at the first of the month.

Photography Cheat Sheets 

As Jeff presented in the June meeting, here are links to the two cheat sheets.

Exposure Cheat Sheet

Histogram Cheat Sheet

May Photo Contest

You can enter the May Photo Contest now!  The theme is Plants in Bloom.  Any club member can submit 3 photos. A photo has to be 13 months old or less.

​​Please rename each file with the title of the image. Size your image to 12”x 18” and then send all (large) jpg images to pcqccontest AT gmail.com

Entry Deadline is midnight - May 31, 2025.

Detailed Rules and Guidelines are here. 

If you like to plan ahead, themes for future months can be found here.

April Photo Contest Winners

First Place :       Shari Rodgers “Mellow Yellow” 
Second Place:  Steve Piepmeier “Always Watch Where You Step”
Third Place:      Lois Haglund “Fantop"​    

Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to everyone who entered the April photo contest.  All of the images submitted will soon be found on our Flicker photo gallery. 

The subject was Texture.

Judge's comments can be found here.
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You can see all Contests on the club Flickr site.  You can also see contest winners back to 2017 via the CONTESTS tab above.  

Membership

You can join the Photography Club of Quail Creek any time during the year. Club Dues are $20.00 per household for 2025.

Current Members can renew at any time.

Print the PCQC Membership Form- fill out- bring to a meeting.

Q2 2025 Photo Challenge

The member’s Quarterly Photo Challenge runs from April  1 to June 30, 2025.
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The new Q2 2025 Member's Challenge topic is Nature.  

Guidelines: Any photograph from the natural world, from the Milky Way to the face of an insect.  You can have man-made objects in the photo but the subject should be nature.  

Have fun,

Denny


Send up to 3 photos taken during the quarter to QuarterlyChallenge at gmail dot com.

Remember, any post processing is allowed.  If you add elements from another photo (like sky replacement) those elements must have been photographed by you within the quarter. 

Use of AI is limited to removing unwanted objects (like people) from your photo.  For example the Remove Tool in Photoshop.  But please do not use AI to add anything (say, a dragon flying across the sky!)

​Topics for the next challenges are also listed here. 

Q1 2025 Photo Challenge Winners

First Place :           Paul Lischeid “On the Hunt”
Second Place:      Lon Richardson ”Stoic Sentinals”
Third Place:          Tom Cadwalader "Cowboy and Dog"

The topic was Black and White.

All of the challenge photos can be seen on our Flickr site on this page. 

​Past Challenge winners can be seen via the CONTESTS tab above.