At last Thursday’s meeting, we discussed a time/date conflict between the Sandhill Crane Festival and the Denver Month of Photograpy opening at Boulder Digital Arts, featuring the work of several members of Flatirons Photo Club. The Denver Month of Photography organization has already announced the opening as taking place on the evening of Friday, March 10, so it is too late to change that date. I hope anyone interested in attending both is able to juggle their schedule. In any case, enjoy whatever you choose to do.

The next meeting of the Photographic Frontiers Study Group will be held in two weeks, Wednesday, February 1. John Kieffer will give a presentation on night photography. The meeting will be held at Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, from 7 to 9 p.m.
John states that he has “fallen in love with night photography of all kinds, not just stars and moons. It’s one subject that often looks much better on your camera’s display or computer screen than to your eye. That’s a pleasant surprise. Today’s cameras make it pretty easy with some basic knowledge — preparation is more like it. Be warned . . . I’m still enthusiastically learning.”
In addition to being Flatirons Photo Club President, John says that he “is a photographer and travel guide here in Boulder. For the past 25 years, his photo career has ranged from commercial and editorial assignments to website design and photo tours. He is the author of 5 books on photography and is under contract to photograph his sixth. This one on Boulder. What fun.”
Remember to bring any photos that you’d like to discuss and/or have critiqued. The purpose of this group is education and mutual support.

Due to the forecast for up to a foot of snow through tomorrow night, Ilene Meyers and Thomas Walsh, co-directors of the Photographic Frontiers Study Group, have decided to cancel the meeting scheduled for tomorrow night, Wednesday, January 4, 2017. First Wednesday of the month meetings will resume on Wednesday, February 1.

This Wednesday, January 4, John Kieffer will give a presentation on night photography. The meeting will be held at Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, from 7 to 9 p.m.
John has “fallen in love with night photography of all kinds, not just stars and moons. It’s one subject that often looks much better on your camera’s display or computer screen that to your eye. That’s a pleasant surprise. Today’s cameras make it pretty easy with some basic knowledge — preparation is more like it. Be warned . . . I’m still enthusiastically learning.”
In addition to being Flatirons Photo Club President, John states that he “is a photographer and travel guide here in Boulder. For the past 25 years, his photo career has ranged from commercial and editorial assignments to website design and photo tours. He is the author of 5 books on photography and is under contract to photograph his sixth. This one on Boulder. What fun.”

The Flatirons Photo Club’s annual year-end competition will be held during the club’s monthly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 8.
Each member of the club can enter up to five images among the competition categories in any way they desire. Images entered in the year-end competition may have been shown in the current year’s monthly competitions, or may be new work as long as it was created in the past two years; also acceptable is work more than two years old that has never been shown in a competitive venue.
Ribbons will be awarded for first, second and third place and honorable mention.
In addition, there will be a Best of Show award in honor of long-time Flatirons Photo Club member Russell Dohrmann, who passed away April 10, 2015. There will be a $100 cash prize for Best of Show. Russell’s wife, Gail, also a long-time member of the club, will be the judge.
Contest details are here: https://flatironsphotoclub.org/year-end-competition.

There will be no meeting of the Photographic Frontiers Study Group this month (no meeting this Wednesday, December 7, 2016). The group’s directors, Ilene Meyers and Thomas Walsh, are considering a revamp of the group.

As part of its ongoing series of art displays, Boulder Digital Arts will host an opening and reception for “Realism, Surrealism, and Atmosphere” on Friday, November 4 from 5-8 p.m. The exhibition features the photography of three members of Flatirons Photo Club: Donna Colville, Preston Newell and Ginger Zukowski. Please join us for the Gallery Opening & Reception on Friday, November 4th from 5-8 pm.

Donna Colville has been primarily influenced by the Impressionist painters Degas and Cezanne, and the California Impressionists. She has studied with a number of artists and photographers including John Fielder and Mark Johnson. Her formal art education includes college instruction in art history, theater set and costume design. In photography, she generally works with simple compositions and strong color. Recently, Donna has begun to focus on black and white photography by revisiting earlier images as well as creating new images using only black and white development. Donna displays both her black and white and her color artistry in this show.

Preston Newell is a producer of documentaries for Longmont’s Public Access TV Station, Channel 8. He is currently creating a film series called “Behind Closed Doors” which features artists in their studios. Preston began his photography with a Kodak Brownie and later with a Polaroid in high school. He graduated to Canon and Minolta SLR cameras in college, and began to use DSLR Nikons soon after they became available. Since his retirement from the IT world he has passionately pursued photography and has won 1st & 2nd place awards at the Colorado State Fair. Preston is currently a member of NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals), PPA (Professional Photographers of America), and the Nikonians.

Ginger Zukowski’s background includes training in Modern Dance (University of Illinois, Champaign), which provides a vital framework for her more recent venture into the visual arts. She strives to use the key elements of space, light, color, pattern and movement to highlight the unexpected within the ordinary. Through photography, she is able to show the viewer something that eyes cannot see or often overlook, but imaginations can ponder. Over the years, Ginger has learned a great deal from teachers like Nevada Wier and Chris Brown as well as her friends in Flatirons Photo Club.

The opening reception will be held at Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range Street, Boulder, CO 80301.

Murth Murthy, Photoshop guru and long time member of Flatirons Photo Group, will deliver the group’s next presentation this Wednesday, November 2.  Murth will focus on questions asked by the meeting’s attendees. If you are wondering how to accomplish anything in Photoshop, Murth is the person to ask, so bring photos and questions. Murth’s presentations are always extremely educational.

The purpose of these meetings is to support each other, so if you have any photos you’d like to present for general, open discussion, please bring one or two on a thumb drive for presentation.

The meeting will be held at Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, from 7 to 9 p.m. this Wednesday, November 2, 2016.

Bob Maynard, an award-winning nature photographer whose work is carried by several galleries throughout Colorado and Utah, will talk about his new book, “Ancient Skies Through Ancient Eyes,” during the Flatirons Photo Club’s monthly meeting and competition at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at Har HaShem synagogue, 3950 Baseline Road, Boulder.
His website is called Colorado Plateau Photo Tours and it is located at http:// www.coloradoplateauphototours.com.

The Special Topic is Bicycles.

Thomas Walsh, Photographic Frontiers Study Group co-director, will deliver the group’s next presentation this Wednesday, October 5. The talk will focus on recently released post-processing software that provided critical assistance on one difficult shoot and frankly saved Thomas’s butt on another. If you are into portraiture, are considering getting into portraiture, or just want to learn a bit about portraiture, you don’t want to miss this presentation.

The purpose of these meetings is to support each other, so if you have any photos you’d like to present for discussion, please bring one or two on a thumb drive for presentation. And if you have an unprocessed portrait that you’d like developed…

The meeting will be held at Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, from 7 to 9 p.m. this Wednesday, October 5.