At the November 2021 meeting, the Club elected officers for 2022:

President – Donna Coleville
Vice-President/Program Chair – Chip Blach
Treasurer – Ilene Meyers
Secretary – Marianne Weingroff

The Club Steering Committee includes Officers and:

Vandy Vandervort
Mike Goss
Larry Trilling
Preston Newell
John Harmon (webmaster)
Peter Bandurian (projectionist)

Our next monthly meeting is on Thursday, November 11th, starting at 7 PM via Zoom. This will be a member critique. We will also have our annual meeting and officer elections.  Join a bit early to assure your connectivity and socialize.

A link to the meeting will be sent in advance via email to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons [at] [email protected] with the subject line ‘Mailing list’.

As a reminder, members may enter up to two images for the critique, in any of the categories outlined on the website. This link gives instructions on the categories and how to submit: https://flatironsphotoclub.org/monthly-members-competition . The Special Topic for the meeting is “motion”. 

Our next monthly meeting is on Thursday, October 11th, starting at 7 PM via Zoom. This will be a program meeting, not the print workshop we had hoped to do. Join a bit early to assure your connectivity and socialize. A link to the meeting will be sent in advance via email to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons [at] [email protected] with the subject line ‘Mailing list’.

Russ Burden https://www.russburdenphotography.com/ will be our presenter. He has just returned from Tanzania and we will see new images from his photo safari. Russ will judge a member competition. As a reminder, members may enter up to two images for the competition. The special topic is “yellow”. We encourage all members to participate. It’s a great opportunity to learn from our accomplished presenter. And as always, if you wish to share images, you must have paid your dues. 

Our last meeting before summer break is Thursday, June 10th at 7pm, meeting via Zoom. A link to the meeting will be sent in advance via email to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons [at] [email protected] with the subject line ‘Mailing list’. Join a bit early to assure your connectivity and socialize.

Brendan Davis, Photographer/Filmmaker will be presenting the program. Brendon is based in Boulder, but travels extensively and has a diverse photography portfolio. His projects focus on “stories of people and places that feel important.” You can view Brendan’s work at his website: brendanpdavis.com

After the program (hour 2), we will have a member competition. Our presenter will judge the competition. Each member may submit up to 2 images. Use the naming protocols outlined in our submittal guidelines at
https://flatironsphotoclub.org/monthly-members-competition. The deadline to submit your images is Monday, June 7 at noon.

This month the special topic is “focus on the story”. The images in this category can be in any style, but the photographs in this category will capture & freeze a moment in time while conveying an emotion, expressing a mood, sharing an idea and telling a story.

Here’s a link to our regular categories and additional information about the monthly competitions https://flatironsphotoclub.org/competitions.

We encourage all members to participate. It’s a great opportunity to show our work and learn from each other.

And as always, if you wish to share images, you must have paid your dues!

Our next monthly Zoom meeting is on Thursday, May 13th, starting at 7pm. Join a bit early to assure your connectivity and socialize. A link to the meeting will be sent in advance via email to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons [at] [email protected] with the subject line ‘Mailing list’.

Dana Bove will be our speaker. Dana is a long time Boulder, Colorado resident and is President and founder of Front Range Nesting Bald Eagle Studies (FRNBES). Dana traded his love for research as a career geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for studies on nesting and winter roosting Bald Eagles and other raptors in the northern Colorado Front Range. A passion for photography, raptors, environmental conservation, and scientific research provide the foundation for his current studies of Bald Eagle and other raptors.

Dana will discuss general characteristics of the region’s Bald Eagles with a focus on breeding populations. In addition, he will share how photography has become one of the foundational tools for his research and related conservation and advocacy work. In the northern Colorado Front Range there are now about eighteen Bald Eagle nests, significantly more than existed several decades ago. Yet nest density appears to be leveling off: since 2014 the number of successful nests in our study area has only grown by two or perhaps three nests. Nesting Bald Eagles face many challenges that will make it much more difficult for them to sustain their large near-nest territories, and which are already bringing Bald Eagles into more frequent conflict with agriculture, housing construction and oil and gas development.

The second half of the meeting will be a member critique. Members may submit up to 2 images. Use the naming protocols outlined on in our submittal guidelines: https://flatironsphotoclub.org/monthly-members-competition. This month the special topic is “animals in any environment”. Here is a link to our regular categories and additional information about the monthly competitions:  https://flatironsphotoclub.org/competitions

We encourage all members to participate. It’s a great opportunity to learn from our accomplished presenter. And as always, if you wish to share images, you must have paid your dues.  

Our monthly Zoom meeting is on Thursday, April 8th, starting at 7pm. Join a bit early to assure your connectivity and socialize. A link to the meeting will be sent in advance via email to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons [at] [email protected] with the subject line ‘Mailing list’.

Steve Zimmerman, a Front Range photographer https://www.stevezphoto.us/ who specializes in aerial and landscape photography, will be presenting on “The Aerial Perspective”. He will also judge our member competition.

The second half of the meeting will be a competition. Members may submit up to 2 images. Use the naming protocols outlined on in our submittal guidelines: https://flatironsphotoclub.org/monthly-members-competition. This month the special topic is “natural frame”. Natural framing is when an element within the image is used to frame the subject. This internal frame can be a multitude of things you’ll find anywhere – branches, archways, tunnels, door frames etc., as well as things that aren’t solid like light, shadows, rain, fog . . . – your choice. Here is a link to our regular categories and additional information about the monthly competitions:  https://flatironsphotoclub.org/competitions

We encourage all members to participate. It’s a great opportunity to learn from our accomplished presenter. And as always, if you wish to share images, you must have paid your dues.  

Our March Zoom meeting is on Thursday, the 11th, starting at 7pm. Join a bit early to assure your connectivity and socialize. A link to the meeting will be sent in advance via email to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons [at] [email protected] with the subject line ‘Mailing list’.

Dan Baumbach will present a program on his beautiful and unique photographs of our natural world.  Check out his online gallery: https://www.timelesslight.com/

The second half of the meeting will be a competition. Members may submit up to 2 images. Use the naming protocols outlined on in our submittal guidelines: https://flatironsphotoclub.org/monthly-members-competition This month the special topic is “outside”. It’s up to you on how to interpret that. Here is a link to our regular categories and additional information about the monthly competitions:  https://flatironsphotoclub.org/competitions

We encourage all members to participate. It’s a great opportunity to learn from our accomplished presenter. And as always, if you wish to share images, you must have paid your dues.  

Join us via Zoom for the February 11, 2021 7:00 PM meeting of the Flatirons Photo Club! A link to the meeting will be sent in advance via email to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons [at] [email protected] with the subject line ‘Mailing list’.

The special topic for member competition in November is ‘still life’. See below and https://flatironsphotoclub.org/competitions for more information on member competition submissions.

Flatirons Photo Club meetings are free and open to the public. To be eligible for critiques and competitions, you must be a member of the club. If you haven’t already, you can pay your dues online at https://flatironsphotoclub.org/flatirons-photo-club-dues-payments. Everyone else, just join in and enjoy the show.

Cary Wolfson will present a program on his special effects work. He will show before and after images and provide a general explanation of apps and techniques that he uses. Check out his online gallery: https://caryeb79.myportfolio.com/

The second half of the meeting will be a member critique. You may submit up to 2 images. These may be an original image and the processed image that you want to talk about, or 2 different images that you wish to get feedback on.

While you don’t need to use our usual file naming protocols, please make sure that your last name is in the file name for proper attribution. If you want to show the images in a specific order please number them, eg. lastname1.jpg, lastname2.jpg. Please submit the images as usual to flatironsphotoclub.org. Deadline is Monday, February 8 at noon.

Even though we are not having a competition, we still have a special topic to encourage your creativity. This month it is “still life”. Still life includes all kinds of man-made or natural objects, cut flowers, fruit, vegetables, fish, game, wine and so on. The subject of the photograph cannot move or if once alive, is now dead.

The list of Special Topics for 2021 is now available at https://flatironsphotoclub.org/competition-special-topics.

Join us via Zoom for the January 14, 2021 7:00 PM meeting of the Flatirons Photo Club! A link to the meeting will be sent in advance via email to members and interested non-members. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send an email to flatirons [at] flatironsphotoclub.org with the subject line ‘Mailing list’.

This meeting will be a Members’ Night, with a special topic of ‘People’. That means that a person or people will be the main focus of the image. The person/people can be engaged in an activity or the image can be a portrait. Each member may submit up to 2 images that you want to talk about and that you wish to get feedback on. This gives everyone a chance to talk about their images and their current photographic interest. We do encourage all members to participate.  We’ll need you to submit the images as usual to flatirons [at] flatironsphotoclub.org. Deadline is Monday, January 11 at noon.