Tag: Photography Club

What was that in Jim Burkstrand’s backyard?

Second Place: Bob Johnson - Cactus Rabbit

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…

Doug Adams ascends to the top in Stairs and Ladders

Second Place: Pete Murphy - Taos Pueblo

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…

The Photography Club of Quail Creek shoots it up at Mescal Studios

Bob Johnson: Stress sale!

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…

Photography Club ventures out for two photo shoots

Jim Burkstrand: Philabaum Gallery

Robert Thoresen PCQC members completed two photo shoots recently. On January 29 the group ascended up to the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun to take photographs of the 10 acre historical site in the Santa Catalina foothills. Ettore (Ted) DeGrazia completed his second Tucson gallery, Gallery in the Sun, in 1952 and also built his…

Multiple ties in January photography open contest

Second Place: Loretta Klingenberg - Cairns Botanical Beauty

Robert Thoresen January’s contest was open to all Quail Creek residents. There were 88 entries. Gift certificates were awarded to top finishers. Eleanor Houts, who just joined the club last November, garnered a first place tie with a recent portrait of an Arizona Puma while on a visit to the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum. The sleek…

Photography Club posts November farm animal results

First Place: Bob Johnson - End of the Trail

Robert Thoresen Bob Johnson’s End of the Trail, winning first place, picture was taken at the Triangle T Guest Ranch in Texas Canyon, Arizona, during a PCQC photo shoot two years ago. The Triangle T was a filming location for the original 3:10 to Yuma western movie and was featured two years ago on the Travel Channel’s…

Photography Club October Blues Contest

Second place - Patricia Thoresen

Robert Thoresen Helen Phillips garnered the judges’ first place votes of a picture taken on the club’s first “Doors of Tucson” field trip to Barrio Viejo in fall 2010. October’s contest theme was “The Color Blue”. The door is at the Elysian Grove Market which was vacant at the time. Helen likes to make her…

Photographers Stop, Snap and Shop at the Celtic Festival

What a day for bagpipes! (Photo taken by Ken Haley)

Robert Thoresen PCQC members took on the Tucson Celtic Festival on October 1. The gathering is a celebration of Celtic culture, traditions, piping, drumming and all other things conceived to be Celtic. Clans set up their own tents to illustrate and preserve their history. Village Shoppes sell Celtic merchandise. Dining and relaxation can be provided…