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…
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…
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…
Robert Thoresen December’s contest theme was Windows and again the judges voted for a tie for third place. There were 30 entries for the three outside judges to select from. There is no run-off for ties. Ken Haley’s first place picture was taken at Macy’s department store in Salt Lake City. The window was one…
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…