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Camera Club Roundup

Impressive Star Trail photo taken from the comfort of PebbleCreek by Camera Club member Gene Fioretti.

Lynn Warren Although in-person meetings of the Camera Club were discontinued because of the COVID-19 shutdown, the club has been actively conducting meetings, presentations, and photo challenges remotely via Zoom software. Prior month topics have included black and white processing (Ansel Adams style) and creating star trail photographs from your backyard. Several Zoom meetings are…

Camera Club Roundup

Lynn Warren The Camera Club, open to all PebbleCreekers with an interest in photography, offers presentations on a variety of interesting topics and frequently sponsors club outings. On a rotating basis, the club also gets to display its handiwork in the Creative Arts Center windows. The March general meeting featured a presentation on HDR (high…

Camera Club Roundup

Lynn Warren The Camera Club, open to all PebbleCreekers with an interest in photography, offers presentations on a variety of interesting topics and frequently sponsors club outings. On a rotating basis, the club also gets to display its handiwork in the Creative Arts Center windows and was a featured club for December and January. Join…

Camera Club Events

Left to right: Jim Frey, Susan Bernt, Adriana Greisman, Glenn Ishibashi, and Lynn Warren (photographer) pausing for a quick group photo in front of impressive fall colors along the West Fork Trail.

Lynn Warren The Camera Club, open to all PebbleCreekers with an interest in photography, offers presentations on a variety of interesting topics and frequently sponsors club outings. On Oct. 23, several club members drove north to Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon to enjoy a relatively flat hike on the popular West Fork Trail which featured…

Camera Club events

Left to right: Lynn Warren, Len Jeffery (London), Adriana Greisman, and Paddy Hoy paused at the Bear Tracks sculpture on an outing to the Scottsdale Museum of the West.

Lynn Warren The Camera Club PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club offers presentations on a variety of interesting topics. October’s general meeting featured a presentation on natural light portraits, and the club conducted an outing to Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona to photograph the fall colors. For the November general meeting, the topic will be plant photography, and…

Camera Club events

Lynn Warren You too can learn to take pictures like the one above. The Camera Club meets on the third Monday of each month and provides presentations on a variety of topics (with pictures, of course). At the August meeting, Adriana Greisman impressed attendees with photos of spectacular landscapes and wildlife from her recent marathon…

Camera Club events

Lynn Warren The July meeting featured a presentation by Lynn Warren on trekking to Machu Picchu. At the August meeting, Adriana Greisman impressed attendees with photos of spectacular landscapes and wildlife from her recent marathon journey throughout the American West. September’s general meeting on September 16 will include a presentation on creating a video from…

Camera Club events

Lynn Warren For the June meeting, members and guests enjoyed a change-of-pace pool party at the Oasis. Each member brought some favorite snacks and treats, and the group saw examples of how LAZERTRAN can be used to transfer images such as photographs onto surfaces like wood, ceramic or tile. The July meeting featured a presentation…

Upcoming Camera Club events

Lynn Warren At the May meeting, club members enjoyed an informative presentation on composition by PebbleCreek artist Diana Matney. The presentation covered ways to improve photos by using concepts as simple as “Rule of Thirds” to more exotic concepts such as “Fibonacci Spirals.” Even though we primarily think of these relative to photography, Diana pointed…

Camera Club visits Phoenix Art Museum

Lynn Warren Photographers can learn a lot by studying the work of others and on May 3, five PC Camera Club members toured the Mexican Photographer’s Exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum and enjoyed a few snacks afterward. The club’s General Meeting, open to all PebbleCreek residents, meets monthly at 6:30 p.m. on the third…