Greetings! The club will hold its next meeting on Thursday, March 12 from 7-9 PM. As a reminder, we are doing virtual zoom meetings each month, which are focused mainly on member critiques. This month will be a little different. Cary Wolfson, iPhone photographer extraordinaire, will present work from his recent workshop in Venice plus some cool black and white images made with the Tintype app.

Cary’s one-hour talk will be followed by the member critique session. During this hour, paid members can share several images; the number will depend on the number of people wanting to present. Members can share their images for posting to the club website (https://flatironsphotoclub.org).

If you’re not yet a member and would like to join, dues are $30 for individuals and $35 for families, payable via Paypal at https://flatironsphotoclub.org/flatirons-photo-club-dues-payments. To get the Zoom meeting link, please email flatirons[at]flatironsphotoclub.org.

Greetings! The next Flatirons Photo Club zoom meeting will be Thursday, Feb 12 from 7-9 pm.

This will be our second month in the club’s new virtual-only format. We only meet on zoom and the meetings consist of member critique sessions. (No presenters, at this point anyway.) Only paid members can share images. If you’re not yet a member and would like to join, dues are $30 for individuals and $35 for families, payable via Paypal at https://flatironsphotoclub.org/flatirons-photo-club-dues-payments.

If you’d like a Zoom link to the meeting, please email flatirons[at]flatironsphotoclub.org.

The meeting moderator will determine how much time each member gets based on the number of members wanting to present.

We’re excited about the club’s new format and hope that it serves us all well! If you have any questions, please email flatirons[at]flatironsphotoclub.org.

Important news: In 2026, the Flatirons Photo Club will be meeting only via Zoom. Please see https://flatironsphotoclub.org/about-2 for more information about this change.

Our January meeting will be on January 8 at 7:00 PM. This meeting will follow our new format:

If you would like a Zoom link to the meeting, email flatirons@flatironsphotoclub.org.

There’s no speaker at this meeting, so we’ll devote the whole two hours to member sharing. At the start we’ll count the number who want to share and calculate the time for each member.

If you haven’t yet paid your dues for 2026, please do so by clicking on this link:
https://flatironsphotoclub.org/flatirons-photo-club-dues-payments

The Flatirons Photo Club will be holding our annual year-end competition at the December meeting on Thursday, December 12th, at 7:00 PM. As is usual, we will hold the meeting in person at the Frasier Retirement Community Theater at 350 Ponca Place in Boulder and via Zoom.

Clyde Berger will serve as our judge. Clyde first became interested in Photography as a preteen taking photos of family and friends with a Brownie Camera and later a Kodak Instamatic. Always ready for the photos that are now part of the many photos in the family photo albums. Keeping that interest into his teen years and college, Clyde was always ready to photograph the silliness on college campus or be present for the seriousness of a group assembled after the Kent State Shooting in 1970. Clyde first studied engineering and moved on to a Business Degree, but always wished he had pursued a career as a Photojournalist. During college Clyde learned Darkroom skills and was happy to disappear in the darkroom for hours at a time.

Clyde has had many wonderful photographic opportunities in his life: having a portrait studio on Long Island near his home in Huntington, doing wedding photography, beauty pageants, teaching photography to Veterans (which culminated in an amazing gallery show of these mostly Viet Nam Veterans), teaching and running a photography program for children impacted by (or having ) cancer, taking photos for and managing a program of photography of the summer stage performances of the Huntington Arts Council, traveling extensively for both pleasure and work and doing photography in cities both internationally and domestically, 7 time president of the Huntington Camera Club (joined the group in 1983), having many of his images on the covers of musicians CD’s and doing publicity photographs for emerging and established musicians, doing photography for a very special project (the John Lennon Real Love Project) (check it out on line) ,establishing a high school photo contest decades ago and continue running and judging this contest, and having a general love for sharing both his images and his exuberance for this art form.

He also runs his club’s community outreach programs that happily include a vast array of volunteer efforts by his energetic and giving club members.

His personal photographic mantra is ‘photograph everything.’ That said his main interests include landscape / travel photography, sunrises and sunsets, ocean scenes, lighthouses, candid portrait work, moody / dramatic scenes and documenting local events. But if something interests him in front of his lens ,,, there will photos taken. He uses both Nikon and Fuji cameras and is not a huge user of post processing. He tries very hard to get the image right in the camera.
His most recent cherished photographic experience includes teaching photography to two twin 8-year-old boys. He says that their unabashed unafraid enthusiasm has rekindled his photographic passion and reminds him of when he first got interested in this art form.

He says that “I am very happy to view your work and look forward to providing my comments about your photographs. Keeping in mind that all of us sought out this hobby for different reasons and each of us may have a particular specialty; I am appreciative of all photographic styles and virtually all topics. See you on the 11th of December. “

A Zoom link to the meeting will be emailed in advance to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons[at]flatironsphotoclub.org with the subject line ‘Mailing list’.

We will have only digital entries in the following categories:
C: Open: traditional style images without obvious creative filters.
B: Nature/Wildlife: also traditional style, but no human or human made content
D: Creative Special Effects: images that begin with the maker’s photograph, but have special effects applied in digital post-processing. For example, they may look painterly, abstracted, or non-photographic. It is photographic based digital art.
E: Black & White: traditional style images that are rendered in black & white

We will have 1st, 2nd, 3rd and honorable mention(s) awards in each category.
Plus one overall “best in show” winner. There are no physical awards or ribbons, but of course the winners will be posted on our website.

Please come early to socialize!

The November meeting of the FPC will take place on Thursday, November 11th at 7 PM. As is usual, we will hold the meeting in person at the Frasier Retirement Community Theater at 350 Ponca Place in Boulder and via Zoom. Brandon Hodges (brandonhodgesphotography.com), our featured presenter for the meeting, has shared the following details about his upcoming presentation:

My presentation, Souvenirs of Light, will explore my creative process and showcasing both my wildlife and landscape photography.

Following Brandon’s presentation, he will provide a critique of images submitted by members for the November meeting.

As is usual, member images can be submitted in the Nature, Open, Special Effect categories and in October’s Special Topic of “Shadow Play”. See https://flatironsphotoclub.org/monthly-members-competition for details on submissions.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting or via Zoom.