Now we seem to be meeting on Wedsnesdays at 4pm. Most recent meeting was Oct 12, 2011
the discussion focused on monochrome photo work. We discussed Photoshop tweaks for this, and several low cost photo programs you may want to google:
Photo colorizer  --colorize BW photos with no layers - just a paintbrush, easily ..free trial, $15 to buy
Recolor - do the same, but using automatic fills instead of a paintbrush free trial $30 to buy
Akvis coloriage  - also automatic fills ..(and there are other good tools here too - including a focus adjuster for your blurry pics). explore here : http://akvis.com/en/products-photo-editing-software.php

The club will continue meeting during the spring and summer. next meeting in May, third Wednesday. Watch for the Agenda

thanks to Judy Wilson and Frank Goudy you'll see announcement of the 2011 contest in the Oct-Nov 2010 Highlander
The next contest will run Jan 2011-Feb 2011 and any HH resident, not only photo club members, are free to submit photos and win.

No reason you can't get started taking pictures anytime from now on, so here are the particulars:

CATEGORIES:
Within the Borders of Arizona
Action
Landscape
People- under 18 years of age
People- 18 years of age and over
Architecture
Macro photo- closer than 2 feet
Wildlife

CONTEST WINNERS:
Winner and 2 honorable mentions in each category.
Winners are chosen by any and all residents voting on their top choice in each category.
Honorable mentions will be those photos receiving 2nd and 3rd most votes.

OTHER (IMPORTANT):
You must submit photos printed 5x7 and matted on cardboard (no frames) so they can be hung up in the hallway for residents to vote.
Hand them in at the desk. Your name and category on the back. Photo titles optional.

Wildflower photos are now moved to the archive folder. Please go look at them there.
Thanks for visiting, and look forward to our next contest

Here is where we can put the time and date of the next trip or meeting -usually on the 3rd Wednesday at 4pm?
notice that each comment (like from Tom) identifies who put it there by their fotki userid

if you would like to have this on your own pc desktop, so you can just click to see it whenever, then just copy the following link onto your desktop. (point to the underlined link below, press down the left mouse button, and while holding it down, drag onto your desktop. A shortcut should appear.)
http://public.fotki.com/hhpc/next-club-meeting/scheduled-time/schedulebanner.html
or to see both the time and agenda together then use:
http://public.fotki.com/hhpc/next-club-meeting/
once it is there feel free to right click and rename it to something short and memorable.

before next meeting Wednesday, April 21 at 4 pm in the Catalina Room - submit one to four photos of a wildflower - taken in Arizona and recently

These are some of the photos taken last year by our members.
Try the 'widgets' tab for interesting ways to view our photos

Apr 15 -Our “project” for that day is Wild flowers. Between not and the meeting, your assignment is go out a take photos of wild flowers. By April 11 you are to submit or email me your best shots (maximum of 4 photos.)

All photos must have been shot Mar 15-Apr 15 and submitted beforehand. Read album Current Contest for how to do this

HHPC contest details are only viewable to hhpc member 'friends'

Our next meeting is this Wednesday, March 17 at 4:00 in the Catalina Room.

On the agenda:

Guidelines for better photo composition. The is a presentation from Kodak

ideas for HH photo club web page

Wild Flowers photo assignment for April Meeting.

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The next meeting will explore and present the features of fotki that the club plans to use; the test group will give their experiences, and we'll hand out a cheat sheet to all members. -Don