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A thing or two with the

Nature Photography SIG

PHOTO BY ALICE BURGHART

Fields of bluebonnets on a dry river bed, from the drought of a few years ago.

N By Carlos Rio And this year, our club president has are from a faraway location.
ature. Everyone loves it. Or, at made it his goal to design new courses
least, it’s quite a popular subject, for beginning photographers. Check out We, in the Photo Club’s Nature SIG, like
particularly among retirees. the website and sign up! to make it a little more challenging. We
Maybe it’s because we have spent most try to take images that show “no hand
of our lives inside buildings, dealing with How about places to take nature photos? of man.” That means avoiding signs of
the peculiarities of people and machines. Look at the water lilies behind the civilization, like cups and fences and
6RPHKRZWKHVLPSOLFLW\DQGWKHHIÀFLHQF\ EDOOURRP7DNHDIHZVKRWVRIWKRVHÁRZHUV roads; even domesticated animal and
of how nature works seems appealing. and viewers might think you’re at Monet’s plants. Just nature. No fancy processing
7KHUHLVDSODFHIRUQDWXUHDÀFLRQDGRVWR garden. Or take a walk around Legacy or special effects. Just keep it looking
show and discuss their love of nature and Hills Park. There is a tree that turns a natural.
the beautiful pictures they take of it: the gorgeous shade of orange during a certain
Photo Club’s Nature SIG. time of the year. If you shoot photos of Every fourth Friday at 1 p.m. we meet
the bridge over the water as the moon is in Game Rooms 1 and 2 in the Activities
In the Photo Club there are 240 or so rising, you have something you can hang Center.
people, almost all of whom take nature on your wall! How about the water birds
photos. Why do they do it? Some to and the waterfalls throughout the area? We begin with an educational presentation
document, others to “capture the light,” Each provides a photo opportunity. and then show photos on a predetermined
some for the challenge of momentarily theme or subject. So look at the schedule
seizing a scene or freezing the motion of Do you like sunsets? You can get a good on the Photo Club’s website and bring up
a living organism. Whatever the reason, picture of one over the golf course or at to three of your favorite photos on a thumb
they all want to show a beautiful thing Cowan Creek Fishing Pond. Or you could disk on that month’s theme. Come about
and to perhaps show more detail than can take a stroll through a nature area and 15 minutes before the meeting. We’ll load
be seen with the naked eye. The Nature catch a deer and its fawn or perhaps a Rio them on the computer and look at them
Photography Special Interest Group Grande turkey framed by the trees. How on the large screen monitor.
combines these passions. DERXWVRPHSUHWW\ÁRZHUVRUYHJHWDWLRQ
without any sign of human activity around We’ll ooh and ah over those great shots,
There are lots of opportunities near Sun it? You can photograph exotic places, or and since some of the most experienced
City Texas to accomplish what we want. you can take your photos right here in photographers come to this SIG, you can
Sun City and make them look like they get some great tips as to what could be
done to bring out a photo’s full beauty.

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