Andy Long, a professional wildlife and nature photographer based in Lakewood who has been doing photography for more than 35 years and owns First Light Photo Workshops (http://www.firstlighttours.com), will be the featured speaker and competition judge during the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at Har HaShem Synagogue, 3950 West Baseline Road.
As a leader of workshops internationally since 1994, Andy likes to help people explore new areas and to go home with a memorable experience as well as great images in addition to having learned a good bit about photography. Andy tries to emphasize a unique eye in capturing images of the world and to pass this on to those who go on his workshops.
With more than 300,000 stock images, his work has appeared in more than 40 publications and books as well as in National Geographic and Animal Planet television shows. Among the places his work has
appeared include Birder’s World, Bugle, Outdoor Life, View (Germany), Colorado Outdoors, Alaska Magazine, Audubon field guides, National Wildlife Federation note cards, Texas Parks & Wildlife, regional AAA magazines, Montana Magazine, Montana Outdoors, Outdoor Photographer, Outdoor and Nature Photographer and in ads for Audubon and Rollei cameras.
He has been a winner in the Audubon Top 100 Images of the Year, Audubon Share the View contest (four images) and the Nature’s Best Wilderness Forever Photo Competition and is a previous winner of the national RoseWater Network Photographer of the Year award. Andy’s work is currently represented by the following stock agencies Alamy, Imagefinders, AKM and PhotoAgora.
As a writer, articles appear in every issue of Nature Photographer magazine, of which he’s an assistant editor and featured columnist. Many articles can be found at www.apogeephoto.com, where he has been a featured writer for 15 years. In addition to this work, he presented programs around the country as part of the Nature First Photography Seminars sponsored by Nature Photographer magazine. He also has been a featured speaker at the Colorado Photography Festival and the New England Camera Club Council Annual Conference.

This month, for the first time ever, we are very lucky to have an attorney as our presenter, Justin Konrad, who specializes in copyright and contract law for artists. According to his bio:

“His practice emphasizes general-counsel representation of emerging and growing business formation, contracts and operation, mergers and acquisitions, and employment and consulting arrangements. Justin’s practice also focuses on the intellectual property aspects of business law including trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, domain names, and licensing agreements. As a professional musician and recording engineer, Justin has a special interest in entertainment law and represents musicians, filmmakers, writers, and others in the entertainment industry.”

I have already sent him the list of topics of interest to us as photographers that I received from several of you. I am sure a lot of other questions will come up as the evening goes on. This should be tremendously interesting and informative and will likely take up most of the two hours. Thanks, Preston, for giving us the lead on Justin! And a big thanks to Justin for taking time out to do this for us!

IMPORTANT NOTE: New venue! The Mike’s Camera location is no longer available to us (they will be renting it out), so we will now be meeting at the Boulder Digital Arts (BDA) classroom. BDA is located on the northeast corner of Range and Arapahoe, at 1600 Range St,. Boulder, CO 80304. Our times and dates will remain the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9p.m. Also, this meeting is open to all with an interest in things photographic–no membership required, no experience required–just enthusiasm. Come out and join us!

Karen Divine, an internationally recognized artist with more than a dozen prestigious awards for her photography and iPhone art, will be the featured photographer at the monthly meeting of the Flatirons Photography Club at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, at Har HaShem Synagogue, 3950 Baseline Road.
Divine, who was first introduced to photography in the early 1970s, shoots, composites and manipulates her pieces on an iPhone.
A Boulder resident who also offers a variety of workshops, Divine also has won awards in the international Eyephoneography photography competition. Her Eyephoneography 3 exhibit toured Spain for a year in 2011.

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.