Helen Avery The Photographers of SaddleBrooke Club has joined with the SaddleBrooke Photography Club to become one club in 2024. Mark Guinn, president of the SaddleBrooke Photography Club, looks forward to leading the club in 2024 as they merge their knowledge and expertise in all things related to photography and digital art in the newly…
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Clubs & Classes, January 2024
‘Mood of the Swamp’ Photography
Tom Costner In early November three members of the SaddleBrooke Photography Club, Bob Shea, Rodger Bivens, and Bruce Hale, along with former member Jeff Eighmy, traveled to Caddo Lake, Texas, for a photography and kayaking adventure. What? You’ve never heard of Caddo Lake? Well, you’re not the only one! Caddo Lake straddles the Texas/Louisiana border and…
Clubs & Classes, December 2023
SaddleBrooke Photo Groups Unite in 2024
Helen Avery The Photographers of SaddleBrooke Club has joined forces with the SaddleBrooke Photography Club to become one club in 2024. Mark Guinn, president of the SaddleBrooke Photography Club, and Jim Hagedon, president of the Photographers of SaddleBrooke Club, have joined forces to bring knowledge and expertise in all things related to photography and digital…
Clubs & Classes, March 2023
Photography—A Hobby You Can Take Anywhere!
Helen Avery SaddleBrooke Photography Club members enjoyed a recent field trip to Tombstone, Ariz., for Vigilante Days, held Feb. 18 and 19. Tombstone, a once rough and tumble silver-mining town made famous by the O.K. Corral gunfight, offers amazing photo opportunities! If you think this could be the hobby for you, we invite you to join…
Clubs & Classes, February 2023
Photography Club Lights Up
Helen Avery Members of the SaddleBrooke Photography Club attended a light painting workshop led by the club’s president Mark Guinn. Students practiced camera set-up and camera settings and experimented with various accessories that can be used to create and enhance the capture of light movement. The club is open to photographers at all skill levels…
Generals, November 2022
Photography Club to Host ‘Arizona Daily Star’ Photojournalist Kelly Presnell
Helen Avery SaddleBrooke residents are invited to join the SaddleBrooke Photography Club as they host award-winning photojournalist Kelly Presnell of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. The presentation will take place on Nov. 18 beginning at 1 p.m. in the Sonoran Room, located inside the SaddleBrooke TWO MountainView restaurant area. Presnell joined the Star in 2003, and…
Clubs & Classes, October 2022
Photography Club Presents ‘Storytelling for Photographers’
Mark Guinn, President The SaddleBrooke Photography Club invites all SaddleBrooke photographers to join us on Oct. 21 at 1 p.m. in the Catalina Room (next door to the Mesquite Grill in SaddleBrooke TWO) for a 90-minute Zoom presentation by JP Stones, who will discuss his technique for turning one photograph into a whole story with…
Features, March 2022
A Winter Wonderland Adventure to Yellowstone
Linda Nagy SaddleBrooke photographers Bernie Nagy and Joe Tomasello experienced a once-in-a-lifetime winter photo safari in Yellowstone, along with their spouses Linda Nagy and Mary Tomasello. The four flew from Tucson to Bozeman, Mont. and then traveled by rental car to Gardiner, Mont. They entered Yellowstone through the massive Roosevelt Arch, which was constructed in…
Features, August 2020
Photographing the Big Horn Wildfire
Barbara Wilder As of now, the end of June, the wildfires have ceased to threaten the SaddleBrooke community. It has progressed to the other side of the mountain, and this morning it is covering 107,000 acres and only 45 % contained. I am a member of the SaddleBrooke Photography Club and have seen many great…
Front Page, July 2020
What’s in a Name?
Jim Hagedon What is in a name? A lot! Consider for a moment, Walt Disney, Budweiser, Star Wars, or Tiffany. For over fifteen years, the Digital Imaging Group of Saddlebrook, or DIGS, has come to represent a group of SaddleBrooke residents with a passionate interest in photography and a keen interest in learning new photographic…