Category: Organizations on Seabrook

Get Creative with Photographic Textures

Date: October 19, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Location: Lake House- Live Oak Hall
Guest Lecturer: Kate Silvia
Cost: Members – Free; Non-Club Members Welcome ($10.00 fee)

Get ready to throw your creativity into hyper drive! Working with photographic textures has become all the “rage” in the photo editing world. Kate Silvia will walk you through the process of choosing the images you’ll want to try textures on, where to find textures on-line, how to make them yourselves, and finally, how to process the images. She will be demonstrating these techniques in Photoshop CC, Topaz Texture Effects, and the new program by MacPhun called Luminar! You can even use textures in Lightroom! It’s sure to be a fun and informative presentation. Links to Topaz and Macphun can be found on the bottom of any page of Kate’s website www.katesilviaphotography.com

Kate Silvia is a professional landscape photographer based in Charleston, South Carolina. Her intense passion for the natural world is matched only by the desire to share that passion with her students. Kate is a natural teacher and is often requested to speak at camera clubs and photo organizations in the Southeastern U.S.

Her images and articles can be seen in numerous publications including Landscape Photographer, Nature Photographers Network, Aquarium Fish, Nature Photographer, Camera Ianthe Wild, and NANPA’s Expressions.

She maintains an educational blog with tips for aspiring photographers as well as a YouTube Channel with photo editing tutorials. She is the author of the E-Book, “Composition for the Landscape Photographer” and has downloadable video workshops for NIK Software. She leads field and classroom workshops throughout the year and is also available for individual tutoring in the Charleston are. Soon to be added, educational webinars you can watch from home!

-Submitted by Valerie Doane

Meet Beautsie Zahrn, Turtle Mama

For those of us who have lived in more northern areas, October marks the beginning of “leaf peeping” season. For Seabrookers, October is important for a different reason, for it marks the end of turtle season. This year it also marks the end of the tenure of a remarkable woman who has been described previously as “the voice of the turtles.” After 24 years of service, Beautsie Zahrn is retiring from her official role with the Turtle Patrol.

On October 3, more than 90 people filled Live Oak Hall at the Lake House to honor Beautsie with a potluck supper. Mayor Ron Ciancio presented Beautsie with an official proclamation from the Town of Seabrook Island declaring October 3, 2017, as “Beautsie Zahrn Day.” Then a heartfelt tribute was delivered to Beautsie detailing her 24 years of dedicated service to the turtles.

Take a moment to look back over the years and to learn about Beautsie as we acknowledge her outstanding contribution not only to the turtles but also to the legacy of Seabrook Island. Since moving to Seabrook in 1993, Beautsie Zahrn has been committed to the care of the turtles who nest on our shores each year between May and October. She was one of seven people in the first patrol who walked the beach daily in the 1990s, long before the current well-organized and well-defined Turtle Patrol was formed. Turtle Patrol has grown from those seven hardy folks who patrolled the beach every single day, to the more than 150 volunteers today who are scheduled to work specific days and perform specific tasks. Continue reading “Meet Beautsie Zahrn, Turtle Mama”

SI Garden and Home Club Meets Oct 13

Seabrook Island Garden and Home Club
2017-18 Season

Friday, October 13, 2017
NEW TIME: 9:00 am
Seabrook Island Lake House

Ryan Watkins, Guest Speaker
The Seabrook Island Garden and Home Club is excited to welcome back Ryan Watkins, General Manager at Brownswood Nursery. Ryan’s landscape design and installation work has been featured on WCSC Channel 5, The DIY Network, and HGTV. He was also nominated and selected as a top 3 finalist in the Young Retailer Award by Green Profit Magazine in 2014. Ryan Watkins will present Island Inspired Fall Landscape. Continue reading “SI Garden and Home Club Meets Oct 13”

COVAR Corner Oct Newsletter

Under ordinary circumstances, this article would have been the minutes of the September 9, 2017, COVAR Meeting. However, out of an abundance of caution, the COVAR Board decided to cancel the meeting. Although it now appears that it would have been feasible to have held the meeting, so many potential attendees chose to evacuate on the preceding Friday and on the day of the meeting, that attendance would have been minimal, at best. The Board trusts that you understand its decision.

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As I am writing this article, Seabrook Island is experiencing high winds, heavy rain and significant tidal events, as well as Tornado Watches, all of which serve as a reminder that while the Island “dodged the bullet,” it did not escape its “side effects.” This should prompt occupants of Seabrook Island to recognize that during the Atlantic Hurricane Season, they must remain ever vigilant and prepared –preferably, to evacuate even when only collateral damage is threatened, due to catastrophic flooding, loss of utilities and absence of first responders. In that vein, I strongly recommend that you review, among others, relevant Town of Seabrook Island and Seabrook Island Property Owners Association (SIPOA) publications, the June 2017 “COVAR Corner” article on Emergency Preparedness and the continuing series of Tidelines posts on Hurricane Preparedness to ensure that you are fully informed and prepared to deal with hurricanes, in particular.

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After Green Day Comes “Afterglow”

Are your friends talking about their Green Day adventure on Saturday? Are you sorry you missed the celebration of our 25 Green Space Conservancy properties that the people of Seabrook Island own?

A special courtesy permit is allowing the Conservancy to continue to display signs until Tuesday, September 26. Stop by the Lake House to pick up a Green Day map of our Green Spaces and travel the island in search of them all. You may be surprised with the number of preserved properties you pass every day without knowing it.

The Conservancy was designed to accept individual properties from donors as well as to raise funds to purchase specific sites that are part of the organization’s strategic plan. The overall goal is to protect Seabrook Island’s unique natural environment by targeting undeveloped land with high visibility, wildlife corridors and scenic vistas.

Remember to look for SIGSC’s special logo designed by Mary Whyte on each of the signs through September 26. Enjoy a little Green Day afterglow and, as always, please refer to our website at www.sigsc.org for more information.

-Submitted by Lisa Hillman

Dr. Sidney Gauthreaux at SIB’s Evening Program on Wed., Sept. 27

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 –Sidney Gauthreaux: New Ways of Studying Bird Migration

Registration & Social: 7:00 pm
Program Starts: 7:30 pm
Location: Live Oak Hall at the Lake House

Members FREE and Guests $5 Donation to SIB
Purchase raffle tickets to win a new bird feeder for your home!

To help us plan for the number of chairs, snacks and wine, please register now!

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“New Technology for Studying Bird Migration”

Satellite tracking of large migratory birds has been around for a few decades, but within the last decade new technological advancements have enabled the tracking of small migratory birds. In this presentation I will review results of migration studies using the new technology to track individual birds (miniature GIS devices, light measuring geolocators, Avian NanoTags and the MOTUS network) as well as the detection of large scale movements of migrating birds with recent technological upgrades to Doppler weather surveillance radar.

About Dr. Gauthreaux …

Dr. Gauthreaux retired from Clemson University where he was a faculty member from 1970-2006 and taught ornithology, animal behavior, and behavioral ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences. He still maintains a research presence at Clemson. He was a part-time employee of GeoMarine, Inc. (Plano, Texas) as Senior Scientist in the area of Remote Sensing and Technology from 2006-2012, and currently works as an independent consultant. He is also a part-time faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where he works on the assessment of avian radars with Dr. Edwin E. Herricks’s group.

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