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Photo Activities and Galleries

Topic of the Week Photo Activity - Week 14

Photo Edit Activity - Project 4

7:00 PM - Program by Jeremy Woodhouse: Life on the Road - Wild, Land, City, Life

As the owner of Pixelchrome, Inc., Jeremy has enjoyed a roller coaster ride pursuing the American Dream.

Since his early days as a graphic designer, his dream was to become a stock photographer. Riding the wave of the internet revolution in the mid-1990s, he got involved with Getty Images and went on to build a successful business traveling the world and taking stock pictures. By 2005, he started setting up frequent international trips to Italy and to Mexico. He went on to lead trips to Guatemala and Costa Rica.

Jeremy Woodhouse

Since 2011 Jeremy has completed more than 100 international Photo Tours to such destinations as Colombia, the Balkans, Burma, the Stans, India, Sri Lanka, Iceland, Cuba, Iran, Yemen, the Baltic States, Morocco, Sicily, South Africa, Sardinia, Romania, Vietnam, Nepal, Spain, Portugal … the list goes on.

Jeremy used to describe himself as a nature and outdoor photographer, but over the years he has re-branded himself several times. He has traveled widely, photographing many of the world’s most important city skylines. In 2006 he became part-owner of a lifestyle stock photography company (Blend Images), and now he is indulging his new passion of photographing people in developing nations. At least once or twice a year he plans a nature photo tour which might find his group photographing wildlife in the wintery wilds of Japan, leopards in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, or the world’s tallest dunes in Namibia.

Jeremy’s photos have appeared in print all over the world. He has received numerous international awards in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, winning the Wild Places Category in 2000, and he was overall winner of the 2002 Nature’s Best International Photography Awards. His images have been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, the Dallas Museum of Natural History, and the Natural History Museum in London.

Jeremy's images have also been selected in the final judging stage for the prestigious, UK-based Travel Photographer of the Year Award (TPOTY) every year since 2011. In 2016 he was the Winner of the TPOTY Best Single Image in a Mankind Portfolio, and his image was Highly Commended in the One Shot "SHAPED BY LIGHT."

Jeremy’s Photo Tours website is pixelchromephototours.com and his image archive is at www.pixelchrome.com/-/galleries.

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Examples of Jeremy's Recent Work

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The July 2020 contest topic is Transportation (Electronic).

Each club member may submit one photo to the competition. Remember that images that have placed in any earlier PPC contest are ineligible.

The maximum dimensions for images submitted to the contest website are 4096 x 2160 pixels.

Your submission must be uploaded to the PPC Competition Site before midnight CT Thursday, July 16, 2020.

For more detail on the July 2020 contest requirements please visit Competitions | Competition Topics.

Winning Images From the May 2020 Competition
Topic: Open

Winners of the May 2020 Plano Photography Club photo competition were announced on Thursday, June 18 (judge's commentary here), at the conclusion of the June 2020 club meeting.

Award recipients for the latest contest - whose work is seen in the slideshow at right - are as follows:

Congratulations to all those listed above and thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. See you next month.

Girls Who Click is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower teen girls to enter the male-dominated field of nature photography and use their work to further conservation efforts around the world. They run free photography workshops throughout the year, led by professional female photographers who donate their time to help.

They are looking for digital cameras and other photography gear to support their free online workshops and new online resources.

If you have a camera or camera gear at home that you're no longer using, please consider donating it to Girls Who Click.

Donating your gear is easy and tax-deductible. You can donate your used gear at https://girlswhoclick.org/home/get-involved/cameradonation/.

NOTE: Girls Who Click is supported by the Plano Photography Club as well as other local photo clubs.

Join us on Thursday August 13, 2020 at 7 PM for a virtual presentation about close-up photography from Fujifilm representative Matt Weintritt. In this base-level conversation Matt will lead you through the various ways to achieve detailed images of your subjects.

He will discuss the various tools and methods available for close-up picture taking and will get you ready to look at your surroundings from a new perspective.

Matthew Weintritt is a FUJIFILM Product Technical Specialist and a passionate member of the photography community. With more than 15 years of multi-disciplinary experience, Matt has traveled throughout North America sharing his knowledge and technical expertise in classrooms and through hands-on workshops.

Connection instructions for the August 13 Zoom presentation are available here.

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Examples of Fujifilm Close-up Images

The Plano Photography Club has received a second-place award (Large Clubs category - 74 members or more) in the 2020 Photographic Society of America (PSA) Website Contest.

The annual contest provides an opportunity for PSA Clubs and Councils to receive feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of their sites from a panel of knowledgeable judges.

Award recognition was given to those sites the judges rated most successful based on the following criteria: first impressions, design, content, site effectiveness, and professionalism.

As a second-place finisher in the competition, later this year our club will receive an engraved award and a commemorative logo to be added to the website.

Congratulations to our webmaster team - David Swinney, Parvin Stiles and Jerry Schlesinger - for this acknowledgment of their efforts and thanks to all club members who have contributed content.

If you're interested, you can discover who beat us out for first place and review the contest judges' individual contest scoresheets.

Congratulations to John and Lois Lehman, two of our master photographer members, for their recognition as the Farmers Branch Historical Park's Volunteers of the Year for 2019!

From an announcement released by the park on June 22:

Take a moment to congratulate John and Lois Lehman on being named the Historical Park's Volunteers of the Year for 2019!

Long time friends of the park, the Lehmans' photography captures the beauty of the park and all of the fun of our events.

Thank you for all of the hard work and countless hours you both dedicate to the Historical Park!

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