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Come and join the friendly people of the Plano Photography Club. Spend an evening with people who share your
passion for photography. You may become a member or just visit to see what the club is all about.
Nature Photography the GSCCC Way by Larry Petterborg
The May program will be presented by a long time member of the Plano Photography Club, Larry Petterborg.
Larry is a faculty member of the Texas Woman’s University School of Physical Therapy where he teaches human
anatomy. He joined the PPC prior to moving his family to Dallas from Columbia, Missouri in 1999. Originally
from Utah, Larry was in graduate school in San Antonio when he joined his first camera club in the late 70’s.
He has been actively involved in organized photography ever since.
In addition to the PPC, Larry is a member of the Heard Nature Photography Club (HNPC), where he serves
as the club’s Gulf States Camera Club Council (GSCCC) representative. Local Camera clubs such as
PPC and HNPC, as a condition of participating in monthly club competitions, must periodically forego competing
and judge a contest. Last September, the HNPC judged the bimonthly GSCCC Nature contest. The May program
will be a short overview of nature photography according to the rules of GSCCC nature photography competition
and then a show of the images submitted from the various GSCCC member clubs, culminating in the choosing of
an overall winner of the competition.
One of the last in the PPC to give up film and move to digital photography, Larry has come to fully
embrace the joys of digital capture and processing. He is one of the very few people that utilizes Olympus
equipment. For more examples of his work, please visit his Flickr
gallery.
Pre-Meeting Training Session by Ernie Tacsik
Come early to the meeting for a training session at 6:15pm in the Music Room. Ernie will present
“Photography 101: Understanding Color and Light”, a brief introduction to the science of light and
color as applicable to photography and photographers. The session targets the essential elements of light and
their contribution and effect on your images. Various light sources, the observer’s perspective (whether an eye
or camera sensor) as well as various digital color representations such as RGB will be examined. The session is
neither a Photoshop workshop, nor an art school class on color psychology. While primarily a visual presentation,
no specific photographs will be examined.
The door to the Music Room is just a few steps away from the door to the large room where the PPC meets,
up the main hallway to the north.
Click this link to watch and listen to a slideshow with the judge’s commentary from the
March Black and White Print contest.
The May competition is not yet open for entering images, pending notification to the membership of changes in the
competition groupings. The theme for the May competition is “Night & Low-Light Photography.” Each club member may
submit up to two images.
The 2011-2012 contest cycle ended on April 30, 2012. We are planning an end-of-year party tentatively scheduled
for June 30. Additional details will be posted here as they become available.
Click here to view the current online edition of The Flash!
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