TRAVELOGUE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

This Travelogue show offers a chance to share images from 1 or 2 of your travel destinations.

For this year's Travelogue show, we would like to hear about your photographic experience for your trip or holiday.  These do not have to be major tours.  The trip can be anything from a major foreign tour to a day spent in the Tucson area photographing.  It is your photography that is important.

What prompted you to take the photo?  If you used some interesting photographic technique, please tell us about it. 

For the current show, you can upload up to a total of 10 photographs combining photos from one or two trips. Of course you can submit fewer photos if you prefer.

Trips from the last 12 month are strongly preferred, but if you haven’t traveled within the last year, or if you have great photos not previously shared with the group from a prior year, that is also acceptable.

 Follow these steps for your Travelogue:

1) Pick up to 10 photos, either for one Travelogue or split into two with up to 5 photos each (or fewer photos if you prefer).

2) Name your photos as follows:

(First Name) (Last Name) – (Trip Name) (Photo Number)

For example: Joe Smith - Grand Canyon1. Each photo needs to be numbered in case we have so many entries that we have to cut a few.

Submit Your Photos:

Please submit your photos by no later than November 1 to allow time to create the show.

Upload your photos:
https://saddlebrookedigs.smugmug.com/upload/WBF77x/Travel25

Once you are logged in, you can view your photos at:

https://saddlebrookedigs.smugmug.com/Field-Trips/2025-2026/Travelogue-2025-26

The assignment for this month is Repeating things or Patterns.  The repetition does not need to be perfect.  You can show a pattern and purposefully break it. Crop carefully so the viewers eye is drawn to the area you want.  Many genres of photography can be used in this assignment.  Nature repeats it's self in many ways.  Or find something manmade that fits the bill. As always we will have a slideshow of your images the end of the month on the 28th.

Facilitated by Mark Guinn

Join Zoom Meeting

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Passcode: 582244

SADDLEBROOKE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB Field Trip to Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area 12/9/2025

Whitewater Draw, located near McNeal, Arizona is managed by Arizona Game and Fish Department primarily as a wintering area for both Greater and Lesser Sandhill Cranes.  Huge numbers of cranes join Snow and Ross’s Geese, other winter migrants, and resident SE Arizona birds in a mixed native grasslands and riparian habitat.

The Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area is about a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Saddlebrooke. We will meet there around 3PM on the 9th to photograph cranes returning from local grain fields.  Some photographers may want to be back at Whitewater at dawn on the 10th to capture the birds lifting off, while a perhaps saner option is to return mid-morning to photograph other birds before the Sandhills start arriving back around 11AM. There are several photography and “birding” options for the afternoon trip back to Saddlebrooke.

Arrange travel and lodging in Bisbee or Douglas the evening of Dec 9th on your own. Both about 25 minutes from the Draw. The Gadsden Hotel in Douglas is a good choice as is The Bisbee Grand Hotel in Bisbee. Both historic old hotels. thegadsdenhotel.com bisbeegrandhotel.com. 

Questions: Jim Smith  jmslopez99@yahoo.com

Speaker info to be added

Death Valley National Park, straddling the California–Nevada border east of the Sierra Nevada mountains is a land of extremes. Stark in appearance and haunting in name, Death Valley is a very-much-alive desert set between high, snow-capped mountains. The name does not do justice to the vibrancy of Death Valley—the mysteries in this arid and isolated landscape capture the attention of adventurers…and photographers.

Join the club for an opportunity to photograph an amazing variety of landscapes, from snowcapped mountains to desert canyons, sand dunes to salt flats. Very few places on earth offer as many textures, intense colors, and extreme conditions to capture. The trip is being co-led by Susan Dinga and Bob Shea, both accomplished photographers with a great deal of experience photographing Death Valley.

We plan to leave Saddlebrooke on Saturday January 31st for the 8-hour drive to Death Valley.  We can discuss ride sharing when we know who is planning to join us. Another option would be to fly to Las Vegas and rent a car for the 2-hour drive to the park.  Lodging is available at The Ranch and Stovepipe Village, several other locations in the park, and in Beatty (45 minutes away). You should make reservations ASAP as rooms in these lodges are limited.

Questions?  Jim Smith  jmslopez99@yahoo.com