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| • The Annual FHPC Members Photo Exhibition will be on display in the FH Community Center for the month of March 2019 : As in the past 9 years, at our Annual FHPC Members Photo Exhibition will fill the walls of the FH Community Center with approximately 70 photographs taken by our members. The exhibition will be on display from Friday afternoon, March 1 through Saturday, March 30. This exhibition is the best opportunity of the year to see what the club is doing, and to see the level of achievement of the members in expressing their artistic talent through their photographs. So come walk the halls of the Community Center during normal open hours - no appointment or reservation needed! Members, please click on the Events & Information Page link above under the About Us heading to get to the instructions and application forms. |
| • Fountain Hills Dark Sky Festival : Last year, Fountain Hills was certified as an International Dark Sky Community, and to celebrate the first anniversary of FH’s new status, the Fountain Hills Dark Sky Association will be holding a Dark Sky Festival on March 30 at the FH Community Center. As part of the activities being planned for that celebration, there will be an Astronomical Photography Exhibition at the FHCC for the last week in March leading up to the March 30 Festival, and an Astrophoto Image Photography Contest with 2 highly experienced astrophotographer judges who will select winning images from the images in the Exhibition. The FHPC has been invited, along with the participation of the Fountain Hills Astronomy Club, to manage the exhibit and the contest for the FH Dark Sky Association. Please note that for the last week in March, the Dark Sky Exhibition and the Photo Club Exhibition will be sharing the walls of the Community Center. |
| • February Meeting : Our speaker for February is Ron Niebrugge. In Ron’s youth, his family moved from San Diego to interior Alaska. That move to a vast wilderness developed into two passions for Ron that have stayed with him to this day, his love of the outdoors and his desire to capture the beauty of the natural world in photographs. Taking the ordinary and using beautiful natural light to create the extraordinary has been a passion of Ron’s for many years, and his love for Alaska is readily apparent in his stunning images.
Ron is pleased to have among his clients such businesses as National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Walt Disney World, Smithsonian, National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service. Ron’s images have appeared in many books and publications, and he has formed his own stock photo agency, Niebrugge Images. Currently, Ron leads many photo tours, both in his home state of Alaska and throughout the US and Antarctica. When not shooting stock or leading photo tours, Ron keeps busy with a wide range of assignment work. Click Here to go to his website.
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| • Bring Prints And Image Files : At the February meeting, we will continue the display and discussion of members' fine prints; please bring up to a MAXIMUM of 4 of your best prints for that meeting segment, along with a MAXIMUM of 6 jpegs of other images for the video projection segment of the meeting. The theme for the February jpeg image show is "Past Meetups", so look back at your files and send in your best images! If you don't have any meetup pictures, please feel free to show anything that is legal and in good taste. We will have a list of themes for the rest of the year at the February meeting. Please send your files (jpegs, 1200 pixels in the smaller dimension, sRGB color space) for digital projection to the club email address by attaching named image files to the email (put your name first, then the picture title, in the jpeg filenames). The deadline for submittal of your images is noon of the day of the meeting. |
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