Field Trips
In addition to hanging out with a group of passionate photographers, you’ll have the opportunity to review and receive positive critique and relax with food, drinks and fun.
Cottonwood Festival
March 31 - April 1March: COTTONWOOD FESTIVAL March 31 and April 1st Join us in Palestine, Texas for the Cottonwood Festival. We will make lunch reservations on an old steam engine train. More details to follow.
Find out more »The Tall Ships – Galveston
April: THE TALL SHIPS The Tall Ships return to Galveston April 13-16th! Just do an internet search such as this one. The ships that are coming in are simply magnificent. We are currently working on details for a HIP event. Let us know if you have any ideas!
Find out more »Big Bend
March: BIG BEND March 20-24th Travel March 20th and return March 24th. This will be peak season in the park so please get
Find out more »Action shots at the Skate Park
February 25th Event: Action Shots at the Skate Park! HIP’s February event involves action shots building on Owen Fisher’s presentation on skate boarding at our meeting last week. Please join us
Find out more »The Painted Churches
September 20th Photo Event: The Painted Churches Come join a really fun group of photographers as we adventure off to Schulenburg, TX to visit the world famous “Painted Churches.” The
Find out more »Buffalo Bayou Cistern
On Saturday, August 13th the club will visit the Cistern in Buffalo Bayou park. About the Cistern The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern is a former drinking water reservoir built in
Find out more »Great Texas Balloon Race – Longview Texas
Where: Join us in Longview, Texas for the Great Texas Balloon Race. When: June 17, 18 and 19. What: The Great Texas Balloon Race will have almost 60 world-class pilots competing for various titles
Find out more »Smith Oaks Rookery – High Island
On Saturday April 16 we will travel to High Island to visit Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary. Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary is 177 acres of fields, woods, wetlands and ponds. Sixty-four
Find out more »The Mission of Yahweh Photography Project
When: Saturday, April 9, 2022, 8AM to 5PM The Mission of Yahweh is a facility in NW Houston for homeless families and battered women, https://missionofyahweh.org/. My neighbor has been involved
Find out more »Audubon Raptor Education Center
Join us at the Audubon Raptor and Education Center at 7:30 a.m. on February 12, 2022 where we will take a Photo Tour of the sanctuary for rehabilitated birds of
Find out more »Blacksmith demonstration in Bellville
Join us in Bellville, TX at 9:00 a.m. at Phenix Knives where “Cowboy” Szmanski will fire up the forges and give a demonstration and a bit of history on the
Find out more »Fort Hood Family Portrait Project – 2021
With our Fort Hood head shot session completed, we are now focusing on portrait weekend. We are going to Fort Hood November 4-7 for making family portraits, so please keep those
Find out more »Family Portrait Posing Workshop with Buzz Marvins
On Oct 9, 2021 Buzz Marvins provided a great lesson in posing for family portraits at the Trini Mendenhall Community Center. This was a training session in preparation for the
Find out more »Fort Hood Headshots Day – 2021
On June 16th, 10 of us went to Fort Hood to make head shots for servicemembers. We ran three studios and had over 100 sittings for servicemembers. In addition, headshots
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