Robert Thoresen August’s theme was designed to provide a mood emphasizing a pervading quality of feeling or emotion without including the presence of a human being. August’s winners relied on landscapes, the summer monsoon and horses to generate that feeling. John Standquist’s first place photo, Lonely, was taken last summer about 30 miles from Grand Teton…
Robert Thoresen July’s photo contest apparently had a lot of PCQC club members out of town and on the road. Entries for July dropped nearly 50%. Jon Williams got back in time to submit his first place photo from the Arches National Park in Utah. Ancient deposited sandstone lies atop supporting underground salt bed that…
Robert Thoresen Accent in Red was the topic for June’s PCQC contest. Close to thirty images were entered and again the independent judging returned with a tie for first place. Helen Phillips’ first place Mime was a picture taken on a Rhine River cruise in 2011. The mime was performing in the front of the historic…
Robert Thoresen The well known phrase, “Those who pray together, stay together,” was invented by a professional commercial writer named Al Scaplone and was used as a symbol for Father Patrick Peyton’s Roman Catholic Family Rosary Campaign in 1948 (Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs). There have been a multitude of derivatives of the proverb over the…
Robert Thoresen White Stallion Ranch is a 3,000 acre working cattle ranch and number one guest/dude ranch north of Tucson which is owned and operated by the True family. At the time of the purchase in 1965 it was a modest guest ranch operation (17 rooms, 17 horses and 200 acres). Now greatly expanded since…
Patricia Thoresen After an active winter and spring, the Photography Club of Quail Creek heads into the summer with monthly meetings and photo workshops. This will be the second year of year round meetings and activities for the Photo Club. The evening of June 10 found the PCQC members gathering at the Thoresen’s home for…
Robert Thoresen Photography Club of Quail Creek’s April contest was themed In My Backyard. There were thirty two entries for the month and our independent, non-member judges came back with four winning pictures. Jim Burkstrand placed first with an image of a male wood duck that, with its mate, nested in a tree outside a…
Robert Thoresen The imaginative board of the Photography Club of Quail Creek (PCQC) did not create a new children’s board game but engineered a March photo contest theme to challenge club members to make expressive and interesting images of climbing devices. There were about thirty entries this month and, surprise, no ties! Doug Adams’ first…
Robert Thoresen Mescal Studios is the sister site to Old Tucson Studios but without the fake gunfights, simulated hangings, horse drawn stagecoaches and saloon dance girls. About twenty club members took an early morning walking tour on March 21 accompanied by Frank Brown, the studio’s gun slinging sheriff, caretaker and tour guide. Frank calls home…
Robert Thoresen In Photography, available light refers to any light that is not explicitly supplied by the photographer. The term refers to light already available naturally (sunlight) or artificially (a room’s table lamp). Use of available light is a challenge for the photographer; the brightness and direction of light is usually not adjustable except for…