Fort Worth Camera Club
These images are winners in monthly club member competitions.
Images are identified by title; award (1st, 2nd, 3rd, honorable mention, Best in Show); category (B = Beginner, A = Advanced, M= Master); followed by photographer’s name, date.
Enjoy, but remember: all are copyrighted by the photographer. Contact us on Facebook or by email if you want more information. Or, do an online search for “stock photos.”
We meet at 7 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month in the Fort Worth Cultural District, at the UNT Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd. Our meeting room is in the Research and Education Building at the corner of Clifton Street and Camp Bowie. Enter the free parking lot and go to the lower level to Room 100, Everett Hall.
Come to a meeting, attend a workshop or an outing and join like-minded photography enthusiasts.
The 2019 Bird competition will be Oct. 29 in Dallas; information will be available at club meetings beginning in August. The Fort Worth Camera Club retained The Bird trophy in 2018 by earning a total of 345 points from independent judges at the annual contest. The Dallas club received a total of 338 points. Learn more about the 2018 winners.
The contest is an opportunity to see judges in action and gain insight into their thought process as images are viewed and scored.
The 2019 competition will be at 7 p.m., at the meeting location of the Dallas Camera Club, Congregation Shearith Israel, 9401 Douglas Ave., Dallas. Find a map.
Fort Worth Camera Club was the competition winner in 2018 (and every year since 2007). The contest is alternately hosted by each club, and has been held since 1964, except 1975 and 2016. The Competition Committee selects and manages Fort Worth entries. (Competition is open only to club members.)
The Bird competition began when Emily Guthrie Smith suggested that an annual contest would be fun for both clubs. Smith was a Fort Worth native and nationally known artist and teacher. Her works are in private collections, museums and the Archives of American Artists in the Smithsonian Institution.
She donated and carved the trophy, a wood sculpture engraved with the winning club’s name, but the reason she chose a bird is not known. The trophy is perched on the podium at our club meetings.
Bird image courtesy of Dallas Camera Club; history courtesy of Becky Scott and Robert Chura.
The club will not hold a first Thursday meeting in July, which falls on Independence Day, but competition will be held as usual.
Fireworks displays are scheduled throughout north Texas July 4 and during the weekend. Learn how to make fireworks photos:
Join us for our third Thursday entry review and awards on July 18 and our regularly scheduled meeting Aug. 1.
Above, fireworks over Possum Kingdom Lake, by David Roberts.
Learn travel tips and enjoy images from Jeremy Woodhouse, founder of Pixelchrome stock photography and tours, at our first Thursday meeting.
Jeremy has been an international stock photographer affiliated with Getty Images since 1995, and has been leading photo tours full-time since 2011. He has photographed city skylines around the world, landscapes and nature subjects. He was a co-owner of Blend Images, a lifestyle stock photography.
Over the years, Jeremy has traveled to more than 80 countries and since 2011, he has led and/or coordinated more than 100 international photo tours. His current passion is photographing people in developing countries.
Jeremy has received numerous awards and recognition in Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Nature’s Best International Photography competitions. He has been a regular finalist in the United Kingdom-based Travel Photographer of the Year Award and was winner of its Best Single Image in a portfolio titled “MANKIND” in 2016. His images have been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution, Dallas Museum of Natural History and Natural History Museum, London.
Note that May is a closed topic month for all competition. Entries may be of any subject, but the entry (print or digital) must have been made in calendar year 2019. Entries are due at this meeting, May 2, and will be reviewed at our second Thursday meeting May 16.
