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Giving Lens founder Colby Brown speaker June 9

Colby Brown, a photographer, photo educator and author based in Boulder, will be the featured speaker at the Flatirons Photo Club meeting June 9.
Brown is a Sony Artisan of Imagery who has led workshops for National Geographic. He specializes in landscape, travel and humanitarian photography.
In 2011, he founded The Giving Lens, an organization that blends photo education with support for various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and causes around the world. The Giving Lens helps fight for child education, clean drinking water projects, species preservation, women’s rights and more.
Brown creates and helps run social influencer marketing campaigns for some of the biggest companies and destinations in the world, including Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, Iceland Naturally, Jordan Tourism Board, Australia.com, Travel Alberta, and Visit California. He also is a Wacom Ambassador, an X-Rite Coloratti, a G-Technology G-Team Ambassador. His website is at http://www.colbybrownphotography.com

May 2016 Competition Results

The judge was Glenn Asakawa. The special topic was trains.

: Award, Digital Realism, “1964 Italian Grand Prix,” Richard Smith

: Award, Digital Realism, “Kalaupapa Overlook,” Ilene Meyers

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Whirrled Affairs,” Gail Dohrman

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Water Pattern,” Cal Whitehall

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Ternate Moluccas Street Market,” Jim Downs

: Award, Digital Realism, “Ranch Gate,” Kent Copeland

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Amsterdam Train,” John Kieffer

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Luminous Iris on Black,” Cary Wolfson

: Award, Print Realism, “Cow Man,” Vandy Vandervort

: Award, Digital Realism, “Fire Breather,” Vandy Vandervort

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Patina,” Donna Colville

: Award, Digital Realism, “Terrorist,” John Harmon

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Autumn,” Ning Mosberger-Tang

: Award, Print Realism, “Fan Dancer,” Cal Whitehall

: Award, Digital Realism, “Reflection, Neon Canyon,” Peter Bandurian

: Award, Digital Realism, “Mallorca Beach,” Ning Mosberger Tang

: Award, Digital Realism, “Indian Kitchen,” Vandy Vandervort

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Dining Car,” Bruce Henderson

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Eiger Train,” John Kieffer

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Rio Grande,” Bruce Henderson

: Award, Digital Realism, “Budding Hair Stylist,” Jim Downs

: Award, Digital Special Topic, Kmakura Tracks, Cary Wolfson

: Award, Digital Realism, “Nesting,” Jan Otto

: Award, Digital Realism, “Gate to Nowhere,” Mia Mestdagh

: Award, Digital Realism, “Molokai Milky Way,” Ilene Meyers

: Award, Print Special Topic, “Caboose,” Bruce Henderson

: Award, Print Special Effects, “Arnett Fullen House,” Cary Wolfson

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Swiss Train,” Ning Mosberger-Tang

: Award, Print Realism, “Paradis Divide,” Donna Colville

: Award, Digital Realism, “Desert Art,” Mia Mestdagh

: Award, Digital Realism, “No Easy Way Out,” Mia Mestdagh

: Award, Digital Realism, “Indonesian Siesta,” Jim Downs

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Savanah Central,” John Harmon

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Paris Train,” John Kieffer

: Award, Digital Realism, “Business Sucks,” Vandy Vandervort

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Train Graffiti,” Gail Dohrmann

: Award, Digital Realism, “Kestrel in Flight,” Cal Whitehall

: Award, Digital Realism, “Arno at Daybreak,” Richard Smith

: Award, Digital Realism, “Wasp,” John Harmon

: Award, Print Special Effects, “Red Paua Patterns,” Cal Whitehall

: Award, Digital Realism, “Reflections,” Jan Otto

CU photographer, Pulitzer winner Glenn Asakawa speaker May 12

Glenn Asakawa, a pulitzer-prize winning photographer who is associate director of photography for the University of Colorado, will be the featured speaker at the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting at 7 p.m. this Thursday, May 12, in the south building at Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Road in Boulder.
Asakawa oversees the marketing and public relations multimedia at CU, his alma mater, where he has been working since 2008 taking a variety of high quality campus life, scenic, laboratory and field assignments as well as managing a staff of four.
He has more than 25 years experience as a newspaper photojournalist working at the Denver Post and, before that, on the staff of the Rocky Mountain News, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize with the photography staff for coverage of the Columbine tragedy in 2000.
Asakawa started his career here in Boulder at the Daily Camera. He has traveled the world and covered events such as presidential inaugurations, Vatican Consistory, the Super Bowl and the aftermath of 9/11.
He has also led photo tours to Cuba through the Road Scholars program (http://roadscholar.org). His main interest is finding the extraordinary in stories of ordinary people and places and presenting them in a compelling and dignified way.

April 2016 Competition Results

The judge was Robert Castellino. The special topic was Macro.

: Honorable mention, Digital Realism, “Cranes,” Chris Gimbel

: Honorable mention, Print Special Topic, “Mushroom Row,” Kirk Fry

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Encased,” Charlie Anderson

: Honorable mention, Digital Special Effects, “Firedancer,” Chris Gimbel

: Award, Digital Realism, “Early Morning,” Ning Mosberger-Tang

: Award, Print Special Topic, “Ammonite Galaxy,” Bruce Henderson

: Honorable mention, Print Realism, “The Wave,” Kirk Fry

: Honorable mention, Digital Special Effects, “Skogafoss Falls,” Kirk Fry

: Honorable mention, Print Special Topic, “Sky Drop,” Kirk Fry

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Girl Jumping,” Ning Mosberger-Tang

: Honorable mention, Digital Special Effects, “Wild Pantry,” Gail Dohrmann

: Honorable mention, Special Topic, “Red,” Kelly Bevilacqua

: Honorable mention, Digital Realism, “Hawaii Wave,” Ning Mosberger-Tang

: Award, Print Special Effects, “Nouveaux Honky,” Vandy Vandervort

: Honorable mention, Digital Realism, “Kimono Gals,” Cary Wolfson

: Honorable mention, Digital Special Effects, “Pink,” Kelly Bevilacqua

: Award, Digital Realism, “Peeping Billy,” Cary Wolfson

Robert Castellino featured speaker April 14

Robert Castellino, a Lafayette photographer known for portraits, weddings, events, architectural, fine art and golf course photography and who is the author of five photography books, will be the featured speaker at the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting at 7 p.m. this Thursday, April 14, in the south building at Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Road, Boulder

His topic is entitled “The Making of Extraordinary Images, Projects and Excursions,” and will include information about the process for making photos.

His books include The Colorado Roadside Photography Guide; Boulder: Heart & Soul, People & Place; Colorado: Heart & Soul; Denver: Gateway to the Rockies; and Boulder: Yesterday and Today-A Photographic Retrospective. The Colorado Roadside Photography Guide includes photos as well as maps and directions to each scenic location.

He has taught photography at the Music and Arts Conservatory of Santa Barbara, Boulder Digital Arts, Mike’s Camera, and through his own photographic workshops. Castellino also is the founder and CEO of Climate Colorado, which is an attempt to build a movement to move the state away from burning fossil fuels and reduce the state’s water footprint by half by the year 2020.

March 2016 Competition Results

Robert Morrissey was the featured speaker and competition judge. The special topic was the Flatirons.

: Award, Digital Realism, “Touch and Go,” Cal Whitehall

: Award, Digital Realism, “Analog Fashion,” Tricia Rubio

: Award, Print Special Effects, “Water is the Domain of Ducks,” Bruce Henderson

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “Flatirons,” Richard Smith

: Award, Digital Realism, “Italian Pasta,” Vandy Vandervort

: Award, Digital Realism, “Close Encounter,” Mia Mestdagh

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Dinosaur Among Us,” Mia Mestdagh

: Award, Print Realism, “Good Grass,” Cal Whitehall

: Award, Digital Realism, “Artichoke Sun Bather,” Kent Copeland

: Award, Print Special Effects, “Chinatown Vendor,” Cary Wolfson

: Award, Print Special Topic, “The Formation of the Flatirons,” Bruce Henderson

: Award, Digital Realism, “Whatcom Park Bridge,” Cary Wolfson

: Award, Print Special Effects, “A Peeling Abstraction,” Vandy VAndervort

: Award, Digital Special Topic, “April Snowfall in the Flatirons,” John Harmon

: Award, Digital Realism, “Kauai Sunrise,” Ilene Meyers

: Award, Digital Special Effects, “Aspens and Waves,” Cal Whitehall

: Award, Digital Realism, “Prairie Smoke Portrait,” Kent Copeland

: Award, Digital Realism, “Crooked Doors to the Past,” Kent Copeland

Robert Morrissey speaker March 10

Robert Morrissey, director and executive photographer of Morrissey and Associates, a Longmont-based commercial photography organization, will be the featured speaker at the Flatirons Photo Club meeting and competition at 7 p.m. this Thursday, March 10, at Har HaShem Synagogue in Boulder.
Morrissey is the recipient of numerous awards from Canon and Kodak and is a Phase One featured photographer. Published internationally more than 100,000 times, he holds a degree in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute and has more than 25 years experience in the field. He has been published in almost every photographic genre and style there is.
Morrissey also is the author of iPhoneography Pro: Techniques for Taking Your iPhone Photography to the Next Level; Commercial Photographer’s Master Lighting Guide; and Master Lighting Guide for Commercial Photographers.
His company specializes in product photography, medical photography, 4K video production, portrait photography, fashion photography, catalog photography, advertising photography and food photography. His national clients include: FDC Chassis, Golite, Albertsons, Kraft Foods, Horizon Dairy, Pearl Izumi, Celestial Seasonings, Case Logic, Devilbiss Medical, Novocol, Sunrise Medical, Longmont Dairy, Ultimate Electronics, Sony, Olympus Cameras, Chimera Lighting, Schneider Optics, GE, Disney, Kyocera, AJA, University of Colorado-Denver, University Colorado-Boulder, University of Missouri, KACI, and more.
His company website is at http://www.morrisseyphoto.com and his Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/Robert-Morrissey-Collection-62327716796/.

February 2016 Competition Results

The judge was Bob Maynard. The special topic was snow.

: Award, Digital Special Topic, Winter is Here, Mia Mesdagh

: Award, Digital Special Topic, Lone Pine and Aspen, John Kieffer

: Award, Digital Special Topic, Snow Mountain, Ning Mosberger-Tang

: Award, Digital Special Topic, Snow on the Thumb, Vandy Vandervort

: Award, Digital Special Effects, Guanajuato, Gail Dohrmann

: Award, Digital Realism, Blissful Dream, Chris Gimbel

: Award, Digital Realism, Dive!, Peter Bandurian

: Award, Digital Realism, Foreign Horns, Vandy Vandervort

: Award, Digital Realism, Beartooth Falls, Kent Copeland

: Award, Print Special Effects, St. Francis of Assisi Cloister, Vandy Vanervort

: Award, Digital Realism, Gliding, Cal Whitehall

Bob Maynard to talk about new book Thursday, Feb. 11

Bob Maynard, an award-winning nature photographer who has chaired the Louisville National Juried Photography Show for a number of years, will talk about his new book, “A Photographer’s Guide to Colorado’s National Parks and Monuments,” at the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting and competition at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, at Har HaShem synagogue.
Maynard offers photo tours, photography workshops and corporate wall art services in Colorado, the Everglades and Utah.
His book offers help to photographers who want to do their own exploring of scenic Colorado locations without the help of a tour guide.
More information is at http://www.coloradoplateauphototours.com/