Announcing the end-of-the-year member competition featuring a three judge panel. The following artists will be participating in this year’s event: Dan Baumbach, Glenn Randall, Kari Treadwell. Please join us for this annual celebration.

James Frank will talk about The Art of Photography – Learning to See. He will discuss his journey about learning to see as a photographer and visual artist, including watersheds in understanding the process and what makes photography unique as an art form.

James Frank is an interpreter of nature and a creator of simple and dynamic images. His photographs display a thoughtful understanding of the nuances of light and atmosphere and their effect upon tone, color and the expression of a subject. Practicing keen observation of our natural world, he combines an extraordinary eye for design with patience and determination when making photographs. For more than 35 years, Frank has lived near Rocky Mountain National Park, photographing the unique beauty of this wild place in all its moods and seasons.

Frank’s photographs have been published world-wide in numerous books and magazines. His commercial credits include such clients as DuPont, L.L. Bean, and American Express. Nature and landscape photographs of his work are displayed for sale at his gallery, Aspen and Evergreen, in Estes Park, Colorado. He and his wife, Tamara, are the gallery owners. Earthwood Gallery on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder also displays his fine art prints. Frank’s publishing company, Our Natural Heritage Publishing, now publishes his books and annual scenic calendar of Rocky Mountain National Park, released each spring.

Five books about Colorado places have been published featuring the photographs of James Frank. Magic in the Mountains: Estes Park, Colorado, was published by Our Natural Heritage Publishing and is a regional best-seller. Three previous titles – James Frank’s Colorado, A Portrait of Rocky Mountain National Park, and A Portrait of Pikes Peak Country, quickly became Colorado best-sellers upon their releases.

Frank’s calendar, books and fine art prints are available on-line at JamesFrank.com and in many bookstores along Colorado’s Front Range and Estes Park.

For the last twenty-plus years or so, I’ve taught ancient Greek and Roman history at a university in Denver. From that long perspective, there’s not much new under the sun. But I also take photographs—-and I’m as passionate about those as I am the ancient Romans. My company, Wild Basin Photography and Gallery, is located in the North Boulder Art District. My portfolio is filled with images of Boulder, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountain West. But it also includes images from Rome, Florence and Northern New Mexico (Santa Fe, Abiquiu, and Ghost Ranch—-Georgia O’Keefe’s landscape).
For me, the best thing about photography is being out taking photographs. You are immediately surrounded by a pulsing, 360-degree-multi-sensory environment. The art of photography is reducing this mind’s- eye sensory experience into an aesthetically pleasing, two-dimensional image by blending technology with deliberate, intentional, and personal artistic seeing.
So on many levels, the process of making photographs is more complicated than it appears. The beauty and/or interest of a scene pulls the photographer in; but memorable photographs come from within the photographer—quite literally from the inside out as a kind of self-portraiture. This transcends the personal style a photographer may have and becomes the first level of “meaning” a photograph may have.
In this presentation, we will look at a series of images and raise some of the many issues related to this artistic and personal side of the photographic process.
Lastly, the next best thing to taking photographs is to talk about them. This should be an interesting evening and I invite you to join the discussion!

Dear FPC Friends,
         This is your friendly Program Chair asking for your contributions to the September 11 Member Slide Show meeting.  We plan to devote the entire September meeting to in-house artists by offering each volunteer member a 10 minute slot to present recent work to the club.
        The format is simple: short introduction, 5 minute slide show, short time for Q & A.  This is your chance to show and discuss your recent work, themed work or best of 2014 (or any other connected set of photos) It is always exciting to see the variety of artistic approaches represented by our folks.
       I’m counting on 9 or 10 club members to respond to this request so that I can reserve your 10 minute slots. I have a feeling they will go fast, so first come, first serve; so far 7 people have said they will give presentations.  Please send an email to [email protected] very soon to reserve your time slot.  
      Thanks for being willing to share your creativity and skills with FPC members.
      Hope you are having a terrific summer,
      Ginger Zukowski
      Program Chair