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June 2015 Competition Results

The judge was Eli Vega. The special topic was Butterflies.

: Award – Digital Realism – Charlie Anderson, “Ruby Range Ice”

: Award – Print Special Topic – Bruce Henderson, “Painted Lady”

: Award – Digital Realism – Cal Whitehall, “Cleavage”

: Award – Print Special Effects – Gail Dohrmann, “Venice Scene”

: Award – Digital Realism – Cary Wolfson, “Hermit”

: Award – Digital Special Effects – Cal Whitehall, “Aspen Abstract”

: Award – Digital Special Topic – Cal Whitehall, “Green Bird Wing”

: Award – Print Realism – Charlie Anderson, “Crystal Ceiling”

: Award – Digital Realism – Marianne Weingroff, “Train Car”

: Award – Digital Realism – Margie Robinson, “Torres Del Paine”

: Award – Digital Special Effects – Gail Dohrmann, “Painted Purple Iris”

: Award – Digital Special Topic – Vandy Vandervort, “Bethistled”

Eli Vega Featured Speaker June 11

vega Eli Vega, a highly published award-winning photographer and author, will give a presentation entitled “Abstracts, Close-Ups, & Special Effects,” at the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting at 7 p.m. this Thursday, June 11.
He has just finished writing his second photography book, “Right Brain Photography (Be an Artist First).”
Vega teaches photography at Arapahoe
Community College, the Arvada Center for the Arts, and Boulder Digital Arts. He also teaches three-day workshops in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Vega was born in a railroad boxcar, spent most of his formative years in west Texas, majored in art for three years, and moved to Colorado 11 years ago from Dallas.
His former life was in the Learning and Development field, where he was certified as a workshop facilitator. Those credentials, coupled with his extensive photography teaching, provides students with a down-to-earth, laid back, learning experience – with a touch of home-spun humor.
Samples of Eli’s artistic photography are at http://www.elivega.net.

May 2015 Competition Results

The judge and presenter was Kevin Moloney.

: Digital Special Effects, Evening Primrose, Margie Robinson

: Digital Realism, Kestrel on Mullen, Calvin Whitehall

: Print Realism, Balancing Act, Calvin Whitehall

: Digital Realism, Spanish Moss, Margie Robinson

: Digital Realism, Santa Rosalia Sushi, Todd Towell

Photojournalist Kevin Moloney is Speaker for May 14 Meeting

Kevin Moloney will be the featured speaker and competition judge for the May 14 meeting of the Flatirons Photography Club.
Kevin is a Denver-based freelance photojournalist, media researcher and consultant who for more than 19 years has been a regular contributor to the New York Times covering the Rocky Mountain region. His images have appeared on the Times front page more than 45 times, and on section fronts hundreds more. He has photographed nearly 900 stories for the U.S. newspaper of record. Kevin’s work has also appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, Life, Time, Stern, The Chicago Tribune, The Independent, USA Today, Elle, Marie Claire, Business Week, the Christian Science Monitor, and National Geographic publications. He was one of two journalists selected as inaugural recipients of the Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowship. For more than 18 years Kevin has been an instructor of photojournalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. Kevin also has extensive international journalism training experience having taught photojournalism workshops in Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and most recently in Myanmar. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado’s ATLAS Institute.

April 2015 Competition Results

The judge and presenter was Julie Cardinal. The special topic was any depiction of the color red.

: Award, Print Special Effects,”Marvelous Matrimony,” Daniel Joder

: Award, Digital Realism, “Steering Wall,” Todd Towell

: Award, Print Special Effects, “African Tree,” Bruce Henderson

: Award, Digital Realism, “Horns of Paine,” Vandy Vandervort

: Award, Special Topic, Red Surround, Charlie Anderson

: Honorable Mention, Special Topic, Synchrony in Red and Black, Charlie Anderson

: Award, Print Special Effects, “Mother Giraffe,” María Fusté

: Award, Digital Realism, “Orion Express,” Peter Bandurian

: Award, Print Special Effects, “Olivia,” María Fusté

: Award, Digital Realism, “Long, Cool Drink,” Peter Bandurian

: Award, Print Special Effects, “Urban Night,” María Fusté

: Award, Digital Special Effects, Spanish Dancer Wheel, Cary Wolfson

: Award, Digital Realism, “Byodo-In Temple,” John Harmon

: Award, Digital Realism, “Kit Fox,” Jeff Ferreira

: Award, Print Realism, “Monte Vista Migrating Cranes at Sunrise,” Bruce Henderson

: Award, Digital Realism, “King Penguin Pair,” Marguirite Robinson

Gallery Owner is Featured Speaker April 9

Julie Cardinal, a photographer and owner of the DARKROOM gallery, 515 Main St., Longmont, will be the featured speaker and competition judge for the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting on Thursday, April 9.
As a photographer, her specialties include black and white photography, fine art photography and hand-coloring of photographs.
Julie has a degree in photography from the Art Institute of Denver and grew up working in a darkroom and on photo shoots with her father. After operating her own studio for several years, Julie opened up the DARKROOM gallery last fall. The gallery also offers photography courses and workshops.

Entry Deadline for Solo Show at DARKROOM is April 15: The deadline for submitting entries for a solo show at the DARKROOM, 515 Main St., Longmont, is April 15. The theme of the competition is “The Interpretive Landscape.” First place in the competition has a monetary award of $300 plus a solo show at the gallery; the second-place award is $200; the third-place award is $100.
More information is available at http://thedarkroomlongmont.com.

Photo Frontiers Study Group Meeting April 1

The next meeting of the Photographic Frontiers Study Group will be from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, April 1st (No, this isn’t a joke!). The meeting will be held on the third floor of Mike’s Camera at Folsom and Pearl in Boulder. Take the elevator in back to get to the meeting room. There is no requirement for dues or membership–all you need is a passion for photography. So, hope to see you there!

Part 1: Emerging Technologies in Imaging – Presented by Marc, the Sony rep for our area

Last month Brian Rabin from Mike’s Camera was kind enough to give us some background on the state of mirrorless cameras these days, along with some basic tech background.

This month we will follow that up with a presentation by Marc Morris, the Rocky Mountain Region Sony rep. He will discuss the technical changes and innovations currently taking place in imaging hardware–changes that are bringing about a very rapid evolution of the modern camera and lens, taking our gear (and ourselves) into the bold new future of photo/videography. He’ll be using a 4K panel for the presentation–a prime example of these emerging technologies. Come on out with your questions for Marc and join the discussion! (I plan on asking when we will be getting 50mp and 20 stops of dynamic range in our pocket point-and-shoots!)

Part 2: Image Feedback, Discussion (Time permitting…depends on how much we pester Marc with our questions.)

If time allows, we will spend some time with your images during the second hour. On a thumb drive or as prints, bring a couple of photographs for which you would like feedback from the group. You might want opinions on how to fix a problem in a photo editing program, how to improve the composition or lighting, how to print the image, or anything else that strikes your fancy. In the past, this has been a fun, educational, and very positive round table session done in the spirit of improving all of us as photographers.

March 2015 Competition Results

The judge and presenter was Maureen Ruddy Burkhart. The special topic was mannequins.

: Award, Digital Realism, Peter Bandurian, “Chinese Lily”

: Award, Print Special Effects, Maria Rosa Fuste, “Old Dreams”

: Award, Digital Realism, Mia Mestdagh, “In Chefchaouen”

: Award, Digital Realism, Peter Bandurian, “Watchtower and the R

: Award, Digital Realism, Vandy Vandervoot, “Art Girl”

: Award, Digital Realism, Marguerite Robinson, “King Penguin”

: Award, Digital Realism, Mia Mestdagh, “Sahara”

: Award, Print Special Topic, Bruce Henderson, “Still Selling on the Street”

: Award, Print Special Effects, B. Jellick, “Singer”

: Award, Digital Realism, Marguerite Robinson, “Elephant Seal Bellow”

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “CBD Mannequin”

: ward, Print Special Effects, Maria Rosa Fuste, “Human, All Too Human”

: Award, Print Special Effects, Maria Rosa Fuste, “Anger Explosion”

: Award, Print Special Effects, Maria Rosa Fuste, “La Mediterranea”

Documentary, iPhone Photographer Maureen Ruddy Burkhart is Presenter March 12

Maureen Ruddy Burkhart, an internationally acclaimed documentary photographer, will be the featured speaker at the Flatirons Photo Club meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at Har HaShem synagogue, 3950 West Baseline Road, Boulder.
Burkhart’s recent work has been with Power of Hope Kibera, a non-profit organization in the Nairobi slum of Kibera, Kenya. The resulting photographic series is called Kibera: a Slice of Heaven (http://maureenruddyburkhart.com/kibera/). Prints are available at Hamburg Kennedy Photo- graphs in New York.
Her work has been in exhibits internationally and is in collections in Beijing, the Asia Society Museum in New York and MIT’s Islamic Architecture Library.
An award-winning artist for 35 years, Burkhart received her BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked as a portrait and commercial/
stock photographer, filmmaker, videographer and a conceptual fine artist.
“Often, especially with my landscape work, I embrace what I refer to as the ‘intimate landscape.’ I’m interested in the worldly as well as the ‘spirit’ landscape,” she says on her website (http://maureenruddyburkhart.com).
Burkhart, who lives in Longmont, has worked in a variety of photographic formats, including the iPhone. Her iPhone Hipstamatic series, Capricho Espańol (Whimsical Spain), can be viewed at http://hipstography.com/combos/combo-307-maureen-ruddy-burkhart.html.
Burkhart also offers iPhonography tours of Spain and iPhone photography courses in Longmont. Her next iPhone class is from 9:30 a.m. on two Saturdays, Feb. 28 and March 7, at the DARKROOM Gallery, 515 Main St., Longmont. Email her at [email protected] to register.

The topic for the monthly competition is Mannequins.