Tag: photography

Camera Club Photo of the Month

Lynn Warren Each month, the Camera Club selects a picture as Photo of the Month and for June, the club chose Roger Bunting’s impressive night picture of a lighted cactus. Have you ever asked what camera is best? A photographer will likely tell you that it is the camera you have with you. Roger’s photo…

Camera Club Photo of the Month

Lynn Warren Each month the Camera Club selects a picture as Photo of the Month, and for May, chose Adriana Greisman’s impressive picture of a grebe preparing to have breakfast. This picture provides an excellent example of how well modern cameras can handle higher ISO settings and still provide high resolution images. In this case,…

Ceramics Club Profile: Gena Wikstrom

Ardell Roberts In December of 2020, Gena Wikstrom and her husband, Bob, moved to PebbleCreek from Washington. They had been winter visitors to Scottsdale in previous years. When COVID hit, they stayed in Arizona for 7 months. After going back to Washington, they looked at the weather and each other, and on-the-spot made the decision…

Camera Club Photo of the Month

Lynn Warren Each month the Camera Club selects a picture as Photo of the Month and, for April, chose Suzy Skolnik’s dramatic Isis Descending photo showing stormy conditions at the Grand Canyon. Suzy had taken the Grand Canyon Railroad train to the South Rim with grandkids during their spring break last year. It had been overcast…

April Camera Club Meeting Looks at Basic Composition

Lynn Warren Omicron has not totally gone away, so Camera Club meetings will continue via Zoom until conditions appropriate for in-person meetings are available. In March, members learned about stock photography. Join us April 18 at 6:30 p.m. and learn how to improve your pictures with better composition by employing techniques suggested by Adriana Greisman,…

Camera Club Photo of the Month

Lynn Warren Each month, the Camera Club selects a picture as Photo of the Month and for February chose Larry Matney’s out-of-this-world example of astrophotography. The Rosette Nebula is an area of the Milky Way (our galaxy), rich in dust and gas, where new stars are formed. These stars emit radiation that causes hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur…

Camera Club Photo of the Month

Lynn Warren Each month, the Camera Club selects a picture as Photo of the Month, and, for January, I was fortunate enough to have one of my photos selected. Several members of the PebbleCreek Hiking Club enjoyed a great vacation trip to Jackson Hole in early July and experienced some great scenery and hikes. Of…

Camera Club Picture of the Month

Lynn Warren When you think of birds in Arizona, pelicans are probably not the first to come to mind. As it turns out, the Glendale Recharge Ponds are one of the best birding areas in Maricopa County. These six large basins may appear dull, but the birds that show up make this place one of…