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.

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.

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 mophotoartist@gmail.com to register.

The topic for the monthly competition is Mannequins.

Max Seigal, a nature photographer based in Boulder, will be the featured speaker/competition judge at the monthly Flatiron Photo Club meeting from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at Har HaShem Synagogue, 3950 West Baseline Road.
Seigal works on conservation biology jobs around the world and takes his camera wherever he goes.
“With degrees in biology and environmental science, I’ve spent the last four years travelling the world working on a number of conservation ecology projects promoting sustainability,” Seigal writes on his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MaxSeigalPhotography. “Fortunately for me, this work often takes me to some of the most beautiful and remote locations imaginable, providing an excellent opportunity for me to pursue my passion in nature photography.”
Seigal prints on a variety of media, including aluminum. Part of his presentation will include information about his metal prints.
Seigal has won numerous awards, including a National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest award and several National Geographic Photo of the Day contests, the Shoot The Land International Photography  contest, and he won fourteen awards in the 2013 International Photography Awards (IPA) contest.
“I’ve had some of the best times of my life with my camera by my side, whether it be studying marine mammals off the coast of Alaska, tracking rhinos in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, or developing a more eco-friendly lobster farming mechanism in South East Asia. While these destinations truly are a dream come true for any wildlife photographer, I consider myself especially privileged to work on conservation efforts and contribute to research projects that aim to preserve some of our planets great remaining wilderness areas.”
More information about Seigal and galleries of his works is at http://www.maxwilderness.com.