Photographic Frontiers Study Group Meeting December 6

The next Photographic Frontiers Study Group meeting will feature Flatirons Photo Club’s own Ning Mosberger-Tang. Titling her talk “Storytelling Through the Lens,” Ning says “in a single frame, it’s possible to capture a socially, culturally or historically significant moment. Sometimes our subconsciousness and instinct drove us to push the shutter but the meaning of what was captured wasn’t revealed to us until later. A photo can be much more complex than it looks on the surface and it’s up to us and the viewers to interpret it in context.” Ning will explore this idea with the audience through some photos she took from different corners of the world.

Ning is a Boulder-based event and documentary photographer (http://imagesbyning.com). She has photographed in many countries and has exhibited in Darkroom Gallery (Longmont) and Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Denver).

After Ning’s presentation, and subsequent question and answer period, club members will be able to present photos that they would like to discuss and, if they choose, have critiqued. The primary purpose of this group is education and mutual support.

The meeting will be held December 6 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder.

Year End Competition Reminder

The Flatirons Photo Club will meet at 7 PM on Thursday, December 14 at Har Hashem Synagogue for the year end meeting and competition. Only members can participate in the  competition. Information on entry rules is available at https://flatironsphotoclub.org/year-end-competition. Please send your digital files by Sunday, December 10th to: [email protected]

There will be a $100 prize for the Best Print and a $50 prize for Best of Show. 

It’s a Potluck, so please bring something to eat or drink to enhance the festivities.

November 9, 2017 Monthly Meeting and Competition

The Flatirons Photo Club will meet Thursday, November 9 at 7PM at Hashem Synagogue (our regular monthly meeting spot). The competition topic is Travel. See the Competition sidebar for submission details.

Beth Wald, a documentary photographer who creates compelling visual narratives that look at our relationship with the natural world — of which we are an integral and often destructive part — will be the featured speaker at the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting and competition from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at Har HaShem in Boulder.

Wald thrives when working far off the grid and immersing herself in a place and a culture. Her wide-ranging career has taken her to remote corners of the world for many publications, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New York Times, Outside and many others. Wald has also partnered with organizations such as the Wildlife Conservation Society, Panthera, Alaska Conservation Foundation, Conservación Patagónica and many others. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Rowell Award, POY among others.

Her presentation: Immersion – Journeys in Light and Time

Wald has explored the rich diversity of natural environments and cultures under threat around the world – from Afghanistan, to Alaska, to the Amazon. In this talk, she will show work and discuss how she got started in photography, her creative evolution and the work she has done documenting a range of places, peoples and issues, including:

  • mountain peoples, wildlife and their interaction in the Pamir Mountains and Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan and Tajikistan;
  • the traditional sustainable harvest of the wool of vicuña that has helped this endangered species recover, and the resurgence of ancient weaving and other indigenous traditions in Puno and Sacred Valley;
  • the creation of national parks in Chilean Patagonia that will protect a range of environments from temperate rainforest to steppe grasslands, and the wildlife that depends on these habitats;
  • the environmental and social impacts of large-scale metal mines being built in a remote region of the Ecuadorean Amazon;
  • groundbreaking work to restore the full range of species that once existed, in a vast wetlands region of Northern Argentina, which is the largest re-wilding project in the Americas.

Her work presents the beauty of pristine and undeveloped corners of the world, and tells visual stories about struggles to save ecosystems, species, ancient knowledge and ways of being and in her presentation, Beth Wald will look at the role that photography can play in these efforts by erasing boundaries between us and distant-endangered places and peoples.

Photographic Frontiers Study Group meeting November 1, 2017

Apologies that this announcement is a bit later than usual; scheduling considerations postponed matters a bit.

The next meeting of the Photographic Frontiers Study Group will be worth attending for a number of reasons. For starters, Matt Lit of mattlitphoto (http://www.mattlitphoto.com) will share with us his experience and insights as a professional photographer, photo journalist and photography educator. Matt began shooting for newspapers in 1977, while still in high school, and earned a degree in photojournalism and a reputation for news photography in Northern Arizona in the early 80’s. His work includes photojournalism, commercial and editorial photography, wedding photojournalism, dog photography, and fine art photography, some of which was created using a Holga Toy Plastic Camera. Matt’s workshops include private one-on-one courses; a summer class in Kremmling, CO and a new series with river guide Lauren Bond-Kovsky of The River’s Path.

After Matt’s presentation, and subsequent question and answer period, club members will be able to present photos that they would like to discuss and, if they choose, have critiqued. The primary purpose of this group is education and mutual support.

The meeting will end with a discussion of a possible direction for the Photographic Frontiers Study Group to take in 2018.

The meeting will be held November 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder.

October 2017 competition results

The judge was Dana Romanoff. The special topic was Autumn.

Photographic Frontiers Study Group meeting

Due to scheduling difficulties, there will be no Flatirons Photo Club Photographic Frontiers Study Group meeting next Wednesday. Repeat, the Photographic Frontiers Study Group meeting, previously scheduled for next Wednesday, Oct. 4, will not take place. We hope to pick up again with our regular meetings starting with the first Wednesday of November, November 1.