Robert Thoresen Quail Creek Photography Club members spent the morning of October 25 taking a photo shoot of the raptor flight demonstration at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in the Tucson Mountains southwest of downtown Tucson. The weather was perfect for the morning demonstration although the hawks decided to limit their performance and not take the…
Robert Thoresen A photo shoot to Mount Lemmon this past July generated the theme for the August photo contest Wildflowers. None of the winning photos were derived from the photo shoot. Helen Phillips’ first place picture of Mount Gardner’s Wildflowers in eastern Washington was taken from Sun Mountain Lodge. The flowers around the lodge were…
Robert Thoresen A rather large number of entries for the month resulted in an overtaxed jury. Lines was the theme for September and was effectively utilized by this month’s winners. John Strandquist returned to the first place winner’s platform with his entry of the inside of the U S Air Force Academy Chapel taken during…
Robert Thoresen The Photography Club of Quail Creek held its first fall photo shoot at the Cienega Creek Llama and Alpaca Farm just east of Benson on October 12. Nine members of the club made the Saturday morning caravan to the farm’s location about five miles west of Benson just north of I-10 at the…
Pat Thoresen On Monday, October 21, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. the Photography Club of Quail Creek and the Quail Creek Education Committee are sponsoring a free presentation of the Borderlands Photographer Murray Bolesta. Mr. Bolesta is an art and heritage photographer selling his fine wall art and other products to thousands of customers in southern…
Robert Thoresen July’s photography contest theme was “Let’s Have a Celebration,” appropriately tied to the Fourth of July. Two of the three winners were shot locally at Quail Creek and the third somewhere off the Alaskan coast line. Ken Haley won First Place with a picture taken during last month’s Quail Creek Fourth of July…
Robert Thoresen A spartan group of members of the PCQC took in a morning on July 23 to make a photo shoot along the path of the Catalina Highway. The 24 mile trip up the highway made its first stop at the Molina Canyon Overview, elevation 4,370 feet, and made five additional stops before…
Robert Thoresen Ken Haley’s first place picture of a Dead Saguaro at Sundown was taken on a June evening on Quail Creek’s RoadRunner Golf Course’s fifth hole. Ken periodically goes out towards early evening looking for sunsets, animals or whatever else he can find to photograph. This particular evening Ken did intend to photograph this…
Robert Thoresen John Hockemeier’s winning first place picture of Janelle’s Cutest Kids was taken at the home of Quail Creek resident Janelle Hyslop at Christmas several years ago. The kids are Cinnamon and Sugar Bear and they see Santa stuffing their Christmas stockings with treats. May’s contest theme was cutest pets and animals.…