Our November meeting is three weeks (November 14), so we still have time to create photographs for the special topic, wabi-sabi. The following is Russ Dohrmann’s explanation of wabi-sabi.

Wabi-sabi is the Japanese esthetic of finding beauty in imperfection, of accepting the natural cycles of growth, decay, and death.

Examples of the “wabi” concept can be found in rustic beauty, age, simplicity, stillness either man-made or natural, or an object with a unique one of a kind flaw.

The concept of “sabi” is represented by objects which are irregular, imperfect or broken, unpretentious or ambiguous.

Design elements of “wabi-sabi” photographs can include cracks and crevices, stains and spots, texture (either inherent or added), or frayed edges.

Frequent materials of “wabi-sabi” images are aged wood, crumpled or man-made paper, patina that comes with age, grungy surfaces, rust, warped or antique glass.

Wabi-sabi photographic subjects can be found at flea markets, cities with an ancient heritage, ghost towns or deserted areas, or junk yards.

Wabi-sabi is a quiet art in which we learn to embrace liver spots, frayed edges, decay, and the march of time.

References:

Wabi-sabi for Artsts, Poets, and Philosophers – book, Normal Koren,1994.

Wabi-sabi, PhotoLife Magazine, Richard Martin, Nov. 2007.

Wabi-sabi, Wikipedia Discussion.

Flatirons Photo Club Presentation, Thursday November 14th

Charles Steinberg M.D. is an HIV/AIDS specialist from Boulder Colorado. After being in practice 30 years, Charles began teaching physicians and nurses how to treat HIV/AIDS internationally. Charles has done medical consulting and training in Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Nepal, Mexico, Peru, Honduras, Romania and the Ukraine. He has spent most of the last 10 years in East Africa, and a month each year for 3 years doing similar work in Myanmar (Burma).
Charles is also a professional photographer, who teaches photography and is wildly published. He uses his images in his medical teaching to bring in the “human” aspects of medical care. He is the photographer for his wife’s poverty eradication project in Uganda, BeadforLife. His images fill the BeadforLife website (www.beadforlife.org) with potent colorful images from Uganda, and his work can also be seen at charlessteinbergphotography.com

Our 2013 FPC Member Show has been rescheduled from last month to Thursday, October 10. We will meet in the hall that we have been using for the previous several months. The presentation will be an exciting evening providing a glimpse into the various approaches that our members display to photography. Each of 10 members will have 10 minutes to present a slide show of their recent work and answer a few questions. We look forward to the following presentations:
Here is the list of member presenters who are having slide shows in September:
•Russ & Gail Dohrmann
•Maria Rosa Fuste
•Dan Joder
•Jim Downes
•Cary Wolfson (probably)
•Dana Bove
•Bruce Henderson
•Thomas Walsh
. Peter Baudurian

Due to the weather emergency tonight’s (September 12, 2013) Flatirons Photo Club meeting has been postponed. A new date will for the meeting will be announced as soon as one is selected.

Thomas Walsh
Flatirons Photo Club President

Description:
Russ Burden will present “Nature’s Gifts.” The show is a mixture of scenic and wildlife photos from his travels. Wildlife and landscape images are interspersed and vary in subject matter from macro shots of butterflies to grand scenics along the Oregon coast. Included are panoramas, large mammals, birds, landscapes from the South West along with many other of Russ’s favorites. The show is a twenty minute escape into the visual world of nature.

Bio:
Russ is the owner of Russ Burden Nature Photo Tours and runs workshops around the country to the best locations at the times they appear in their utmost glory. His stock work is sold through Getty Images and often shows up in magazines and advertisements around the world.
Russ writes The Tip of the Week for the Outdoor Photographer website. He also writes a weekly Photo Tip and a monthly Photoshop column for Take Great Pictures.com. Russ teaches classes of all levels for the Digital Photo Academy in addition to writing all the curriculums for the national program. Russ has been published numerous times in Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, and Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic. He has two books to his credit. Russ is a multiple time winner of the prestigious Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice Award in the Art In Nature category in addition to the Backyard Habitat category. He also won Highly Commended honors in a number of other categories. As a result, his images have appeared in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

Mark Alison’s presentation will focus on the ways in which artists discover the various genres of photography and how they find the right fit based on purpose and happiness. There will be an open discussion segment with the presentation as well.

Mark is a portrait photographer from the Denver area. He has built his business from the ground up and achieved success in the industry. He teaches workshops and mentors growing photographers. “I enjoy expressing myself in different styles and skills. The joy I get from serving the client is where the real passion lies.”
www.markalisonphotography.com

James Hager is a freelance nature photographer who lives full-time in an
RV so that his office can be near great shooting locations throughout
western North America. His work has appeared in Nature’s Best
Photography Magazine and has been displayed in the Smithsonian. He leads photo safaris to Africa and recently returned from leading a two-week
safari to Tanzania followed by a month and a half on his own in South
Africa.

In his program, Autumn From Alaska To Zion, James will show us that
there is more to nature photography in the fall than the Maroon Bells
and yellow aspen in late September. Using landscape and wildlife images,
he will take us from Alaska in late August to Zion in early November and
provide information on where and when to capture great fall color. www.JamesHagerPhoto.com

When Mark S. Johnson thinks about sharing Impressionistic Photoshop techniques, he feels giddy. During the March 14 meeting, Mark will show how to create breathtaking kaleidoscopes from photographs, and he’ll explain why Filter Forge and Photoshop make a perfect pair for the creative photographer.

Mark S. Johnson is an Adobe Photoshop luminary, a photographer, an author, and one of the most passionate instructors you will ever encounter. Through the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, The Radiant Vista, and Boulder Digital Arts, Mark has lectured in front of and worked side-by-side with countless individuals, including Adobe’s Chief Executive Officers, Jane Goodall, the U.S. Ambassador to Finland, and Academy Award winning director, Louie Psihoyos. His tutorials appear regularly on the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and Planet Photoshop websites, and his imagery and articles have been featured in Photo Techniques, Nature’s Best, and After Capture magazines. Watch hundreds of Mark’s free and entertaining Photoshop tutorials at www.msjphotography.com

We have had a minor change of venue for our monthly meetings for February and March 2013. For these next two meetings, we will gather at Har Hashem’s north building, where we held our January 2013 meeting. If you enter Har Hashem from Baseline, the north building is immediately on your left, 3950 Baseline Rd. Anyone who goes to our regular location will be redirected to the correct location.

This month’s meeting of the Flatirons Photo Club will be held on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM. We will be meeting at 391 Pinon (the red brick building behind Har Hashem Synagogue which is at 3950 Baseline Road).

February’s topic will be “Using an iPhone Camera to Create Composite Images” by Karen Divine . See more at: https://flatironsphotoclub.org/category/blog/monthly-programs and at her web site, www.karendivinephotography.com.

This month’s Special Topic for the member competition is: Faces.