Winn Robbins, formerly from Mike’s Camera and member of Flatirons Photo Club, has started a new photography Meetup group. It’s a free Meetup for photographers of all stripes and experience levels. He’s aiming it at many different contexts of photography, from portraits to wildlife, from landscape to macro. If club members have interest in particular topics, he would be happy to add more meetups to the upcoming list. You can contact Winn at his gmail address winslowrobbins.

Link to the meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/visually-speaking-photo-meetup/

We now accept payment of Flatirons Photo Club dues via PayPal (including credit card payments)! See https://flatironsphotoclub.org/flatirons-photo-club-dues-payments for more details. Dues payments will apply from now through 2021.

If you wish to pay your dues via check or other form of payment, please email us at flatirons[at]flatironsphotoclub.org.

We are saddened to report that one of our Flatirons Photo Club members, Kelly Bevilacqua, has passed away: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailycamera/obituary.aspx?n=kelly-elizabeth-bevilacqua&pid=196512586

These are some of the photos she shared with the Club.

All of Mike’s Camera Colorado locations are now open Monday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm. See their website for more details: https://mikescamera.com/.

Mike’s Camera is an Essential Business

We provide essential products and service equipment for working from home.

We also provide media services equipment for at-home video conferencing and education.

Although we decided to follow the broader guidelines and close our stores for the last six weeks, we are happy to be reopening with rigorous safety precautions.

For your safety, Mike’s Camera is requiring all customers and employees to wear a mask and maintain safe distances. Thank you for your cooperation and continued support!

Don’t feel comfortable walking in just yet?

FREE shipping on your online equipment purchases will be extended and curbside pick-up will continue to be available

‍We are urging our employees and customers to stay home if you are feeling ill.

At this time we have postponed all of our in store classes but have a full schedule of online learning opportunities for you to take advantage of. You can view them here: https://mikescamera.com/classes/classes-by-topic#online-learning

Those interested in architectural photography may find the results of the 2019 Denver Architecture Foundation photo contest of interest: https://denverarchitecture.org/y-our-denver-doors-open-denver-2018-photo-competition/

Denver Audubon has announced its ‘Share the View’ worldwide nature photo contest, with entries due by December 1, 2019. Details are available at http://denveraudubon.contestvenue.com/ .

For more details, see
https://www.bouldercounty.org/news/call-for-entries-2019-land-through-the-lens-photography-exhibit/ and
https://www.bouldercounty.org/open-space/activities/photography-show/

The Flatirons Photo Club would like your opinions and ideas about how to improve future meetings. Please help us by completing this short survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkMgd0GcIky7dvbaWFv6M_cAeINavfCI6t3BB7vGdMtMPjqg/viewform?usp=sf_link

(We won’t share your responses or email address with anyone outside the Club!)

Thanks for your help!

John Harmon asked me, Thomas Walsh, to post this blog on a photographic study group that I am forming. Personal group meetings will be private, but there will be an open Facebook extension. Though this will not formally be a part of Flatirons Photo Club, several club members have expressed interest in being involved. The following is the first paragraph of the blog on my website, thomaswalshimagery.com. If it interests you, please click on the link at the end of this post for further information.

About eight months ago I was wondering what I could do to grow as much as possible as a photographic artist over a short period of time—a year for example. The project I settled on is an immersion into the technique, methodology, and vision of one master photographer per month for a year, with each artist having their own, distinct spirit and artistic voice. I have decided to open the study to a small number of people who will meet at my house for two hours on the first Wednesday of each month from 7 to 9 p.m. In addition, the program will be open to all photographers through a Facebook group. This may prove to be an ongoing project for the rest of my photographic life; in words oft attributed to Michelangelo aged 83, “I’m still learning.”

For further information, see http://www.twalshimagery.com/Blog/Artist-study-series/Twelve-Months-Twelve-Photographic-Artists.

The Photographic Frontiers Study Group is going on hiatus. No meetings are scheduled for 2018.