Last Updated: 25 October 2019 25 October 2019

Membership

You may become a member of the Thousand Oak Photo Group. Membership fees are $36 annually for the first member of a household. Additional household memberships are available for $10 per year. Membership fees are due and renewable on the anniversary month of your initial membership. TOPG members enjoy all club benefits including our monthly meetings, outings, programs, presentations and technical assistance. Also, as a member of the TOPG, you become a member of the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs, and you have an opportunity to submit images for their monthly photo contests. For more details, see our complete Membership Information page.

Last Updated: 25 March 2020 25 March 2020

April Digital Photo Competition
 -  in lieu of the critique at our April meeting

Print Competition (without prints)
Challenge Topic: Abandoned
Judge: Donna Granata (Donna Granata's Bio)
    Website at https://focusonthemasters.com/
    Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/donnagranata/
    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/donna.granata

As you all know by now, we have suspended all community TOPG meetings for the time being. But, that does not mean we have to suspend all our normal activities. One of them, the monthly photo competition, can continue if we alter to process just a bit. While this month would be a “Print Competition,” we are going to try a digital photo submission. Our April judge, Donna Granata, has agreed to judge photos remotely and provide written comments back to the group. We will provide link information later where you can view the judge’s comments and score. For now, you may prepare images for submission using the rules for the Print Competition.

• Print Competition: Assigned and Open Categories
• Assigned Theme: Abandoned
• Entry Closing Date: Submit your images by April 1, 2020, no later than 10 PM.*

Judging will take place during the week of April 6. When completed, we will inform you where you can find the judge’s comments and scores.
Thank you for your understanding. If this works well, we will continue our monthly competitions in this fashion until we can once again meet in the conventional fashion. Print Competition rules are at: Print_Contest_Rules_Rev_03-2020.pdf.

*The entry closing date has been pushed back one week to allow us time to get the revised judging process together. Note, beginning with the competition, the digital submissions must be submitted before 10 PM on the Wednesday before the competition.

Last Updated: 10 March 2020 10 March 2020

Meeting Cancelled. See Home Page for details.
Photo Group General Meeting
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 (in lieu of early April meeting)

Print Competition
Challenge Topic: Abandoned
Judge: TBD
    Website at TBD
    Instagram at TBD
    Facebook at TBD
Meeting Host: Steve Friedman
Scheduled Presentation: TBD

Digital photo entries must be received by MIDNIGHT, on the immediate Wednesday before the meeting. Digital images must be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. To ensure that your entry is eligible, review the Rules and Guidelines for submitting entries for the Print Competition night, which can be found in “Contests and Challenges.” Files must be labeled according to Print Competition rules. Prints should be brought in at least 15-minutes before the meeting to ensure they are properly registered and posted on the display wall.

Note: The maximum digital image resolution for competitions is 1400 x 1280 pixels (width x height).

Thousand Oaks Library
6:00 PM

Last Updated: 10 March 2020 10 March 2020

Field Trip Cancelled. See Home Page for details.
Descanso Gardens
Friday, April 3 at 8:45 AM

To avoid large crowds on the weekend, the photography club will go on Friday, April 3, 2020 to the Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge. Descanso Gardens was once a private estate which became a public botanical garden which includes a Camelia Forest, a Lilac Forest, Japanese Gardens, a 5-acre Rose Garden, an Oak Woodland which is a restored 7-acre habitat for native plants and animals, an Ancient Forest, an Oak Grove, and a Mulberry Pond. We expect to see the lovely tulips, which will still be in season.

You can download a map of Descanso Gardens if you go online to https://www.descansogardens.org/. The Gardens are located at the intersection of the 210 and 2 Freeways at 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge, CA 910ll. There is limited free parking so plan to get there by 8:45 even though the Gardens do not open until 9. You line up to buy tickets and lines can be long. Descanso Gardens has fairly lenient photography rules. If you want to review them see https://www.descansogardens.org/visit/garden-etiquette-and-practices/ and https://www.descansogardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Photography-Policy-1.pdf.

Tickets are $9 for adults and $6 for seniors. If you go online to https://www.descansogardens.org/tickets/ you can buy tickets online and avoid the lines to buy tickets when you get there.

To participate in this or any TOPG sponsored field trip, you must be an active TOPG member and register for each sponsored event. Find out more about specific field trips at our Meetup page or contact our Field Trip Coordinator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Last Updated: 11 March 2020 11 March 2020

Landscape Photography Special Interest Group
April 8, 2020
Meeting Cancelled - See home page for details.

The Landscape Photography Special Interest Group (SIG) meets monthly on the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM in the Goebel Adult Community Center. For more details about this group, refer to the Landscape Photography SIG description article.

Scheduled Topics:

• How I Made this Image: TBD

Goebel Adult Community Center
6:30 PM