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Texas Photographic Society (TPS) publishes and exhibits members’ photographs in print, online and in photography exhibits thoughout the U.S. and Europe. TPS membership includes photographers ranging from students to dedicated professionals. Together, they share an enthusiasm and dedication to fine photography.

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Website updated January 6, 2009
14 competitions listed, 1 with a deadline of January 12, members' workshops and exhibits.

88 amateur and professional photographers sumbitted 496 images for the Texas Photographic Society's (TPS), for the group’s Alternative Processes Traveling Exhibition. The Exhibition will travel throughout Texas for 2 years and be available for national exhibition sites. Accepted entries will be announced on October 31.

Competitions – Alternative Process accepted entrants
50 images accepted
Fine art photographer, author and teacher Christopher James has selected 50 images for TPS's Alternative Processes: A Traveling Exhibition, 2008. 85 artists submit a total of 596 images, 439 digital and 57 slides, for the show. more

Competitions – TPS 17: The National Competition
56 images selected from 52 artists.
The Lisa Sutcliffe has selected 56 images for TPS 17: The National Competion. The Exhibition will open at the Dougherty Art Center in Austin, TX on September 4th and then tour the state of Texas for one year. An artist’s reception will be held September 20, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm with an Awards Presentation at 6:00pm. For a listing of accepted artists and print requirements click here.

23rd Annual Members' Only Show
61 images selected by 61 artist
Internationally recognized Texas artist Keith Carter has selected 62 images for TPS's 23rd Annual Members' Only Show. A total of 1,122 entered images, 1,077 digital files and 56 slides, came from 27 states and France. more

What about HDR Photography?
Have questions, we have answers
Dan Burkholder, TPS board member, author and teacher extols the virtues of HDR photography. "It’s the latest and hottest technique, made possible only through digital. High Dynamic Range photography is the process of taking several pictures of a scene at various exposures, then merging them into one file... more

Featured Gallery I
Oswald Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
165 N. Center St. 83001. Tu-Sa 9a-5p; Su & Mo 9a-2p. 888-898-0077. jackson@oswaldgallery.com. Tom Chambers [Richmond, VA]: thru Oct 30.

Featured Workshops
PHOTOTexas weekend in Austin, TX sponsored by TPS, Oct 18 & 19.
Steve Goff [Odessa] has again put together a complete range of photography courses from darkroom processes to digital techniques. For more information

Featured Book
Robb Kendrick [Laredo, TX]

Kendrick, Robb. Still: Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-first Century. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008. Book may also be purchased from TPS. Roy Flukinger, Senior Curator at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin has written as eloquent review of Still. To read Mr. Flukinger's review...


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© Kate Breakey, Auction XIV image.

© Dan Burkholder, Auction XIV image.
© Dan Burkholder – Boat and Shore, HDR image.
© Colleen Mullins from Minneapolis, MN, was awared Second Place in TPS 17: The National Competition by juror Lisa
Sutcilff, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Davis Gallery will again graciously host TPS's Auction XIV on Friday, October 17 from 6:00pm-8:15. A live auction of a few select images will take place at 7:30pm.
© Tom Chambers [Richmond, VA] Photographs is at the Oswald Gallery in Jackson Hole, WY.
© "In Still, Robb Kendrick presents an eloquent collection of tintype cowboy photographs taken on ranches across fourteen states of the American West, as well as in British Columbia, Canada, and Coahuila, Mexico. The photographs reveal the rich variety of people who are drawn to the cowboying life, women as well as men; Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and African Americans as well as Anglos."