This triptyhc was my entry in last Tuesday night’s Bay Area Photo Club Honor’s Night program under the assignment of “TEXTURE”.  This is the abandoned Charles Boldt Paper Mill in New Iberia, La and you can see a YouTube video about it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv898Gvp6LY.  The judges liked it enough to score it as a Gold Award. 

BUG PAINTING PARTY

This was my other shot submitted for the BAPC assignment of "AMERICANA".  Interestingly enough this was what I considered to be my "A" shot for the night, but it turned out to be the lowest scoring photo of the night.  Meanwhile "The Pie Lady", see previous post, was the highest scoring.  Judges didn't like the effect, which started as and in-camera Olympus "art filter" and went on from there.  I guess what I liked the most about it is that it's exactly what I intended the shot to be from the time I took it.  An over-the-top representation of an over-the-top event, hence the early selection of the fish eye lens.

THE PIE LADY

This was one of my shots entered at the Bay Area Photo Club under the August Honor's Night assignment of "AMERICANA".  Dianne and I built the set and she posed as the "The Pie Lady."  The judges liked the shot and awarded it with a Gold award and enough points to make it high for the night.  I shot it with my tripod mounted OMD-EM1 and a 12-60 f2.8 lens in mostly late evening light.  I did add a little light from the lower right of the shot to help brighten Dianne in the shot.

SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK

This gater was swimming in the waters on the outer edge of the Anahuac Wildlife Refuge when I snapped this shot.  I entered it in the last BAPC Honors Night program and was awarded a "Gold" award.

SCATTERED STORMS POSSIBLE

I entered this composite image in the "open" category of the Bay Area Photo Club of Clear Lake's "Honors Night" program and was awarded a "Gold" award by the three judge panel.  It's a two shot composite, basically one shot with the "rain" and flower and one shot with the cloud in another, that have been blended together in Photoshop.  The "cloud" is a ball of poly filler available in the fabric section of Hobby Lobby.

THE MYSTIC

This was one of my shots for the Bay Area Photo Club of Clear Lake October Honor's Night assignment of "HANDS".  It's a composite of two images that I combined in Photoshop.  The base image is a shot of my hands that I warped slightly using a Topaz Lens Effects filter preset for a fish eye lens effect and then added the colors in Topaz Adjust 5/Stylized/Solarized Dreams preset.  The second image was a shot of the full moon with some fog effect added from Topaz Lens Effects.  The judges awarded the image a Silver award and 153 points, which was the second highest score for the night.

ONE CHAIR TIME CAPSULE

This was my second shot submitted under the "Missing" assignment at the BAPC's "Honors Night" on Thursday.  The "Missing" connection I was going for was a "time gone by".  Dianne and I were walking down the street in Bryson City, NC when we came to this old single chair barber shop.  It was closed and I took this shot through the plate glass window in front.

CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY

 

This is a seven shot composite, six stitched together for the background, taken on a cloudy early morning at the Chattanooga National Cemetery in Tennessee.  I entered it in the BAPC "Honor's Night" competition under the assignment of "Missing" and received a bronze award.

BUSY BEE

This shot was taken at the Baytown Nature Center and was recently awarded "Gold" by the judges at June's Bay Area Photo Club in the "Open" category.  This shot was taken with my Olympus OM-D camera fitted with a 60MM macro lens.

GRANNY #1

This shot was entered in last night's Bay Area Photo Club Honor's Night under the assignment of "One Light Portrait."  It was lit with a flash reflected from a white umbrella and received a Bronze award from the judges.

FIRESIDE FUN

This shot of Dianne and Kale was my second entry into the Honor's Night assignment of "Night Photography".

BLUE AND ORANGE

This was my second BAPC Honor's Night entry under the assignment of "Complementary Colors".

PEPPER TRIO

This was one of my entries in last nights Bay Area Photo Club Honors Night program under the assignment of "complementary colors".  I like the shot as a pop art graphic abstract but the judges considered it as "too busy" and "poorly framed" - no award.  Such is the subjective nature of art and one of the difficulties of succeeding in contest.

"A WALK IN THE PARK"

This was my second shot entered at the last Bay Area Photo Club Honor's Night under the assignment topic of "Composite."  This composite was created from portions of the stainless "scales" that cover the "EMP Museum" in Seattle and a shot from the Olympic National Forest in Washington.

FUTURE FIREFIGHTER KALE

We stopped by the Pink Heals firetruck tour when it was in Baytown the other day and took this picture of our grandson Kale.  I submitted it in last night's Bay Area Photo Club Honors Night Program under the November assignment of "People" and was give a gold award by the 3 judge panel.  The Pin Heals tour is a traveling group of pink firetrucks used to raise breast cancer awareness and raise funds for the effort to eliminate it.  Cancer survivors are invited to sign the trucks, which I think added to the applicability of the shot in the "People" assignment.  Learn more about "Pink Heals" at http://www.pinkfiretrucks.org/.

Med Center Metro

This was my second entry last Thursday night for the BAPC Honor's Night assignment "Houstonian".

Texas Pipe Truck_2

Another shot from Saturdays BAPC field trip.

Texas Pipe Truck

Saturday morning the Bay Area Photo Club took a quick field trip to the sculpture field located outside of Texas Pipe on HWY 288 just south of the south 610 loop. This half-truck shot was one of my favorite shots from the trip.

High Paint

This shot is part of a paint crew working on painting the concrete highway structure at the intersection of 290 and Beltway 8 west. Judges at the Bay Area Photo Club of Clear Lake recognized this shot Tuesday night with a Bronze award.

Target Practice

This was the assignment shot for "Diptych" my twin brother Barry and I entered at last nights BAPC Honors Night. The photo scored the most points on the evening and was generally well received by the three person panel of judges.