Come by and join the friendly folks of the Plano Photography Club. Spend an evening with people who share your passion for photography. You are welcome to just visit to see what the club is all about, or to become a member to participate in club activities and contests.

The Plano Photography Club meets at West Plano Presbyterian Church, 2709 Custer Road, Plano, Texas on the third Thursday of each month (except December).

Club Meeting, September 21

6:00 pm: Training - Study Groups

The Club meets for Training at 6 pm before the regular meeting at 7:15 pm. Several study groups exist to cover various topics. Please join us and choose a group to study with!

7:15 pm: Main Program - Guy Huntley: Photo Safari Adventures

“My father was an amateur photographer with some interesting cameras. I didn’t get into photography until I started working in Viet Nam as a contractor. The scenes in Ban Me Thuot, Dalat, and Nha Trang were so vivid and incredible! I used Kodachrome slide film exclusively. The slide shows for friends and family back home were a big event. I purchased several SLRs and finally settled on a Canon F-1. At that time, Nikon ruled the roost with professional photographers. But the 30% premium was more than I wanted to spend.”

“After Viet Nam, my photography interest languished for thirty years until digital kicked in. Wow! No film! No developing! I could do it all! After I purchased a Canon PowerShot G1 in 2001, I was hooked! I started learning Photoshop so I could make collages, publications, works of art, and create video slide shows. It was a LOT of work bending Photoshop to do what Lightroom now makes so easy! When I found Photoshop Actions couldn’t do all the things I needed to do, I learned JavaScript. All this to make slide shows, galleries, and images in various shapes and sizes.”

“In 2006 I was one of the Lightroom early adopters. Lightroom made everything so much easier! All my old Photoshop JavaScripts are still available. But there is no reason to use them, Lightroom does it all. In addition, the Lightroom catalogue makes locating images ever so much easier. Without a global catalogue, Bridge simply can’t compete.”

“Currently I am using phones, tablets, a Canon G15, 7D Mark ii, and a 5D Mark iv.”

Guy's program will cover photo safaris in south Texas, Utah, Italy, Spain, Cuba, Myanmar and Greece with Jeremy Woodhouse, Allen Rokach, and Scott Williams.

Monthly Contest

The September contest is open for submissions. The theme for the September contest is “Geometric.” Entries must be uploaded to the PPC Competition Site before midnight September 21. For help in understanding the contest theme, please download this PDF document: Description of Competition Subjects. Each club member may submit one image.

Image Sizing

The maximum width for images submitted to the contest web site is 1920 pixels. The limit on the height of the image is 1080 pixels.

Recent Changes

Changes to contests for the 2017-2018 contest year:

  • The annual themes of “Photojournalism” for January and “People Photography” for November have been dropped. New themes for the November 2017 and January 2018 contests have been announced by the PPC board.
  • There will be ten monthly contests that contribute to the end-of-year competition: May through November and January through March. All ten contests will count toward the end-of-year award; we are no longer dropping each member’s lowest score.
  • The April contest will be replaced by a special contest with two or more categories, which will include Photojournalism and Portrait photography. There will be prizes (such as trophies or ribbons) for the special categories but they will not contribute to end-of-year scoring.
  • Dropping April from end-of-year scoring will allow us to hold the end-of-year awards ceremony during our normal May meeting time, rather than having it as an extra meeting on a Saturday in June.
  • In the competition web site, each of the digital contests for the 2017-2018 year has been opened for entries, and will stay open until the contest deadline. This change will allow club members who are going to be traveling to submit their entries before they go out of town. Print contests will open about two months ahead of the date of the contest.

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