- Last Updated: 28 September 2021 28 September 2021
Dues Payments 2021-2022
Annual membership fees for the Thousand Oaks Photo Group’s (TOPG) are due annually in September. Individual dues are $36.00, and additional members in the same family unit are $10.00 per person, the same as last year. Please see our article about annual dues payments.
- Last Updated: 05 October 2021 05 October 2021
September Photo Challenge Recap
New 2021 Photo Challenge Rules (Assigned and Open classes)
Assigned Topic: Slow Shutter
Judge: Joanne Stolte (https://pbase.com/joannestolte)
For those of you who did not attend the meeting and want to view the video, please select the following link:
All past photo competition galleries can be found at our Competition Winning Images page.
- Last Updated: 12 October 2021 12 October 2021
October Photo Challenge Recap
New 2021 Photo Challenge Rules (Assigned and Open classes)
Assigned Topic: Technology
Judge: Christopher Zsarnay (http://www.zstudios.com/)
For those of you who did not attend the meeting and want to view the video, please select the following link:
All past photo competition galleries can be found at our Competition Winning Images page.
- Last Updated: 03 October 2021 03 October 2021
November Photo Challenge
Monday November 1 at 7:30 PM
New 2021 Photo Challenge Rules (Assigned and Open classes)
Assigned Topic: Repetition
Judge: Van Webster (Van's Bio)
Website at https://www.vanwebster.com/
Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/vanwebster/
Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/van.webster.10
For November, our topic is "Repetition." If I say this once, I have said it again, and again, and again … Things repeat. This is a compositional component that can be found in both the natural world and in the manmade environment. Repetition can be found in everything from macro to large panoramas.
- Competition Rules: Thousand Oaks Photo Group Photo Challenge Guidelines for 2021
- Entry Closing Date: Submit your images by October 27, no later than 10 PM.
Critique and Judging will take place on November 1 via Zoom at 7:30 PM. See our calendar for details.
This is the last of our photo challenges for 2021. Standby for next year. Challenge tpics published soon.
- Last Updated: 10 September 2021 10 September 2021
Field Trip to Death Valley
January 8-10, 2022
Once again, the Thousand Oaks Photo Group is going to Death Valley! Pete Scifres will be handling the primary planning and guiding of this trip. As with all field trips, you must be a paid up TOPG club member with a waiver on file to participate.
We strongly suggest you make refundable reservations… it is always possible that the club would have to cancel this field trip on short notice due to illness, COVID restrictions, weather or other unforeseen events.
Our “group” motel is Stovepipe Wells Village, reservations 760-786-7090 https://deathvalleyhotels.com/. We urge you to make reservations there asap, for the nights of Saturday, January 8 and Sunday, January 9, checking out on Monday, January 10. These will run about $200 per night with tax. Or, you may choose to camp at the local campground or select a different hotel. (See handout for details)
We will be photographing at sunrise and sunset daily and several picturesque locations.
Please read our full Death Valley Information Circular for details.
It is extremely important you RSVP for this field trip via TOPG's EventBrite portal. Various updates may be issued as we get closer to the departure date, and you won't receive these updates unless you have registered. To sign up:
Alos, see your TOPG Club emails for additional details.