This month, for the first time ever, we are very lucky to have an attorney as our presenter, Justin Konrad, who specializes in copyright and contract law for artists. According to his bio:

“His practice emphasizes general-counsel representation of emerging and growing business formation, contracts and operation, mergers and acquisitions, and employment and consulting arrangements. Justin’s practice also focuses on the intellectual property aspects of business law including trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, domain names, and licensing agreements. As a professional musician and recording engineer, Justin has a special interest in entertainment law and represents musicians, filmmakers, writers, and others in the entertainment industry.”

I have already sent him the list of topics of interest to us as photographers that I received from several of you. I am sure a lot of other questions will come up as the evening goes on. This should be tremendously interesting and informative and will likely take up most of the two hours. Thanks, Preston, for giving us the lead on Justin! And a big thanks to Justin for taking time out to do this for us!

IMPORTANT NOTE: New venue! The Mike’s Camera location is no longer available to us (they will be renting it out), so we will now be meeting at the Boulder Digital Arts (BDA) classroom. BDA is located on the northeast corner of Range and Arapahoe, at 1600 Range St,. Boulder, CO 80304. Our times and dates will remain the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9p.m. Also, this meeting is open to all with an interest in things photographic–no membership required, no experience required–just enthusiasm. Come out and join us!

Karen Divine, an internationally recognized artist with more than a dozen prestigious awards for her photography and iPhone art, will be the featured photographer at the monthly meeting of the Flatirons Photography Club at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, at Har HaShem Synagogue, 3950 Baseline Road.
Divine, who was first introduced to photography in the early 1970s, shoots, composites and manipulates her pieces on an iPhone.
A Boulder resident who also offers a variety of workshops, Divine also has won awards in the international Eyephoneography photography competition. Her Eyephoneography 3 exhibit toured Spain for a year in 2011.

Eli Vega, a highly published award-winning photographer and author, will give a presentation entitled “Abstracts, Close-Ups, & Special Effects,” at the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting at 7 p.m. this Thursday, June 11.
He has just finished writing his second photography book, “Right Brain Photography (Be an Artist First).”
Vega teaches photography at Arapahoe
Community College, the Arvada Center for the Arts, and Boulder Digital Arts. He also teaches three-day workshops in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Vega was born in a railroad boxcar, spent most of his formative years in west Texas, majored in art for three years, and moved to Colorado 11 years ago from Dallas.
His former life was in the Learning and Development field, where he was certified as a workshop facilitator. Those credentials, coupled with his extensive photography teaching, provides students with a down-to-earth, laid back, learning experience – with a touch of home-spun humor.
Samples of Eli’s artistic photography are at http://www.elivega.net.

Kevin Moloney will be the featured speaker and competition judge for the May 14 meeting of the Flatirons Photography Club.
Kevin is a Denver-based freelance photojournalist, media researcher and consultant who for more than 19 years has been a regular contributor to the New York Times covering the Rocky Mountain region. His images have appeared on the Times front page more than 45 times, and on section fronts hundreds more. He has photographed nearly 900 stories for the U.S. newspaper of record. Kevin’s work has also appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, Life, Time, Stern, The Chicago Tribune, The Independent, USA Today, Elle, Marie Claire, Business Week, the Christian Science Monitor, and National Geographic publications. He was one of two journalists selected as inaugural recipients of the Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowship. For more than 18 years Kevin has been an instructor of photojournalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. Kevin also has extensive international journalism training experience having taught photojournalism workshops in Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and most recently in Myanmar. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado’s ATLAS Institute.

Julie Cardinal, a photographer and owner of the DARKROOM gallery, 515 Main St., Longmont, will be the featured speaker and competition judge for the Flatirons Photo Club monthly meeting on Thursday, April 9.
As a photographer, her specialties include black and white photography, fine art photography and hand-coloring of photographs.
Julie has a degree in photography from the Art Institute of Denver and grew up working in a darkroom and on photo shoots with her father. After operating her own studio for several years, Julie opened up the DARKROOM gallery last fall. The gallery also offers photography courses and workshops.

Entry Deadline for Solo Show at DARKROOM is April 15: The deadline for submitting entries for a solo show at the DARKROOM, 515 Main St., Longmont, is April 15. The theme of the competition is “The Interpretive Landscape.” First place in the competition has a monetary award of $300 plus a solo show at the gallery; the second-place award is $200; the third-place award is $100.
More information is available at http://thedarkroomlongmont.com.