Upcoming Club Programs

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April 18, 2024 - Shane Ware: What Is A Photo?

Shane Ware

Bio: Shane Ware is a cityscape and landscape photographer based in Austin, Texas. He has been practicing photography for the past seven (7) years with a prior focus on film production.

His current expertise is on capturing cinematic moments and scenes and further enhancing them through creative post-processing techniques.

Program Description: Shane's lecture will explore the intersection of photography, style, and digital art in today’s world. He will discuss the evolution of digital photography and post-processing and examine what the concept of photography still means in an age of social media, smartphones, Photoshop, and AI.

Through his images, this presentation will challenge you to think about the entire photography workflow when you're in the field before you even press the shutter.

It will equip you with editing and post-processing techniques to utilize in your images and hopefully get you to think outside the box on creating a meaningful style.

Samples of Shane's Photography

June 20, 2024 - Larry Petterborg: Back to Africa

Larry Petterborg

Bio: Like many others involved with photography today, Larry started his journey with a Kodak Brownie in the 1950s. Growing up in Utah, he developed a keen interest in the natural world and a love for being outdoors. After earning degrees in Biology at the University of Utah, Larry moved to Texas in pursuit of a doctoral degree.

During his studies, he found the Woodlawn Camera Club in San Antonio (now the Greater San Antonio Camera Club) and has been a member of one or more photography clubs ever since. Larry joined the Plano Photography Club in 1998 prior to moving to Dallas to take a faculty position at Texas Woman’s University. He is presently a member of the Heard Nature Photographers Club and the Dallas Camera Club.

Following retirement in 2016, Larry and his wife Mary have been able to travel more and pursue photography in many new locations. In March 2020, they went to Africa for the first time. It was a wonderful experience that unfortunately cut short by the global COVID pandemic. So they were eager to return and the opportunity to do so presented itself this past July. As the Field Trip Director for the Dallas Camera Club, Larry asked another member, Mike Hill (a frequent Africa visitor), to put together a group trip to Kenya.

Program Description: Larry’s program will present highlights of visits to three different national parks and reserves in Kenya. If you like elephants, lions, monkeys, and brightly colored birds, you are sure to enjoy his show.

Samples of Larry's Photography

August 15, 2024 - Janet Cunningham: Enhance Your Creativity With Lensbaby

Janet Cunningham

Bio: Janet’s photography journey started by documenting family events and children’s activities – this was before everyone carried around a smartphone!

She owned various film cameras and eventually several early point and shoot digital cameras. Her interest in photography as a hobby and artistic outlet started ten years ago when taking an intro to photography class. She started with a Canon G12, then a Canon 70D, now she shoots with a mirrorless Canon R6.

Janet has enjoyed the intensity and fun at Texas School of Professional Photography three times and participates in several online photography learning groups. She has been a member of the Trinity Arts Photo Club since 2013. Janet was Photographer of the Year for the club's Beginner group in 2014 and earned Photographer of the Year for their Advanced group in 2019, 2020 & 2021.

Janet can be found happily photographing flowers and butterflies in her back yard

Program Description: Lensbaby is a line of camera lenses for use in special effects photography. The various models offer different creative possibilities.

Janet will bring her collection of Lensbaby lenses and accessories to show club members.

Her PowerPoint presentation will include descriptions of all the Lensbaby lenses.

Janet will also share her own images shot with various lenses highlighting the artistic effects achieved with Lensbaby.

Samples of Janet's Photography

Future PPC Programs

Until formally announced, this program schedule is subject to change.