Monthly Meeting

Date:     Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Time:     6:30 pm
Place:    Quail Creek Kino Center, Ocotillo Room
 
Tom Cadwalader will give members and guests a look into the exciting world of editing digital images.  Many photographers are editing (post processing) their images today, all sorts of images.  Not just RAW images but even those shot in JPEG or HEIF with a phone camera.  Tom will be talking about and demonstrating what all of this is about. He will present a structured approach to post processing: One where a few basic changes to the image give powerful results.  He will demonstrate editing JPEG and RAW images using both free software and Adobe Lightroom. 
 
Tom grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania and started working for Procter & Gamble there. He later transferred to Cincinnati, Ohio to work on converting equipment development and retired from there in 1999.  His interest in photography became much more involved once he and his wife started traveling by RV and visiting so many exciting places.  
 

Future meeting topics can be found here

Education

No meeting this month

Field Trips

​​Photos from field trips can be seen on our Flickr site.

March Photos of the Month

Photos submitted by club members are shown above as well as on our Flickr web site. Send to mlqcpom AT gmail dot com at the first of the month.

Photography Cheat Sheets 

As Jeff presented in the June meeting, here are links to the two cheat sheets.

Exposure Cheat Sheet

Histogram Cheat Sheet

2025 Photo of the Year

Shari Rodgers
April Contest - Texture
​"Mellow Yellow"
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March Photo Contest

You can enter the March Photo Contest now!  The theme is Unusual Vehicle.  Any club member can submit 3 photos. A photo has to be 13 months old or less.

​​Please rename each file with the title of the image. Size your image to 12”x 18” and then send all (large) jpg images to pcqccontest AT gmail.com

Entry Deadline is midnight - March 31, 2026.

Detailed Rules and Guidelines are here. 

If you like to plan ahead, themes for future months can be found here.

February Photo Contest Winners

First Place :       Jeff Krueger “Dick & Charlie's Tearoom” 
Second Place:  Jim Burkstrand “Saguaro Lightning Strike”
Third Place:      Monte Hudson “Weathered Saguaro"​    

Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to everyone who entered the February photo contest.  All of the images submitted will soon be found on our Flicker photo gallery. 

The subject was Weathered Objects.

Judge's comments can be found here.  Sorry, no judge's comments this month.
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You can see all Contests on the club Flickr site.  You can also see contest winners back to 2017 via the CONTESTS tab above.  

Membership

You can join the Photography Club of Quail Creek any time during the year. Club Dues are $20.00 per household for 2026.

Current Members can renew at any time.

Print the PCQC Membership Form- fill out- bring to a meeting.

Q2 2026 Photo Challenge

The member’s Quarterly Photo Challenge runs from Apr 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026.
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The Q2 2026 Member's Challenge topic is Color.  

Guidelines:  The new challenge is … COLOR.

This topic is as broad as a photo topic can get so to give you some context, here are some example themes:

Monochromatic images - not black and white but most of the colors come from a small segment of the color wheel

Complimentary Colors - colors are mainly from opposite ends of the color wheel.  You can see a color wheel in the example photo.

Primary Colors -  usually this means Red, Green and Blue

Nature's Palette - colors you see in nature

Pastel vs Vibrant - pastels are soothing; vibrants are high energy.

Portraits Using Color - people can be colorful too if they dress that way

City Lights- street scenes at night are especially vibrant after a rain

Abstract Colors - some photos are naturally abstract or you can use software to add colors where you would not expect them

Dominant Color - we've had the topic of dominant color in the past (25 Q3, 22 Q2 - you can look in the Contest tab above).  Basically, it is a single color that jumps out at the viewer.  You can enhance this by saturating the dominant color and desaturating the rest.

Color Chaos - a cacophony of colors concentrating on the chaotic

​Look at the slideshow above for some examples.

Have fun,

Denny


Send up to 3 photos taken during the quarter to QuarterlyChallenge at gmail dot com.

Remember, any post processing is allowed.  If you add elements from another photo (like sky replacement) those elements must have been photographed by you within the quarter. 

Use of AI is limited to removing unwanted objects (like people) from your photo.  For example the Remove Tool in Photoshop.  But please do not use AI to add anything (say, a dragon flying across the sky!)

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Q4 2025 Photo Challenge Winners

First Place :           Mark Cohen “Chairs at Hostage Square”
Second Place:      Monte Hudson ”Ceiling Light”
Third Place:          Shari Rodgers "Seeing Spots"

The topic was Textures and Patterns.

All of the challenge photos can be seen on our Flickr site on this page. 

​Past Challenge winners can be seen via the CONTESTS tab above.