May 2014 Competition Results

May 8, 2014 Program — Thomas Walsh on Videography

On Thursday, May 8, Flatirons Photo Club President, Thomas Walsh, will give a presentation on the basics of videography. The talk will cover equipment, shooting, and post-processing. Software to be discussed will include Photoshop, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro as well as other major programs that can be used to create a finalized video. While the talk will include several points discussed by Thomas in his presentation to the Photographic Frontiers Study Group last January, it will cover additional matters regarding effective videography and will include two of Thomas’ videos.

Photographic Frontiers Study Group: Daniel Joder and Russ Dohrmann on Matting and Framing Your Prints

On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Daniel Joder and Russ Dohrmann will give a presentation to the Photographic Frontiers Study Group on matting and framing your prints. The meeting will begin at 7 pm at Mike’s Camera on Pearl Street in Boulder. In case you’ve never been to one of these meetings, the entrance to use is about 40 feet to the left of Mike’s Camera’s main entrance. Take the elevator to the third floor. After exiting, walk to the right until you enter our meeting room.

April 2014 Competition Results

April 10, 2014-Program: John Weller

This month John Weller will give a presentation based on his recent publication, The Last Ocean: Antarctica’s Ross Sea Project: Saving the Most Pristine Ecosystem on Earth.

John’s Bio: John Weller is a critically acclaimed photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Boulder, Colorado. Nature photography has been his passion since childhood, and after graduation from Stanford University with a degree in Economics, John began pursuing media full time. John’s first book of photography and essays, Great Sand Dunes National Park: Between Light and Shadow won national and international attention and engendered a greater appreciation for the delicate dune ecosystem. For the last ten years, John has worked on conserving the Ross Sea, Antarctica, a region deemed to be the last pristine marine ecosystem on Earth. John has made four photography trips to the Ross Sea, compiling a vast library of photographs along the way, all of which have been used in the international fight to protect the Ross Sea. John’s new book, The Last Ocean, offers a rare glimpse into life at the edge of the world – from Emperor and Adelie penguins to silverfish, seals and minke whales – Weller takes the reader on an unprecedented journey above and below the ocean surface. The Last Ocean is more than stunningly beautiful photography. It is a story central to our own: our struggle to sustain a population in a changing climate and with exponentially increasing pressures on world resources.

Summary of issue: The Ross Sea is under attack – unsustainable fishing is already spreading observable ripples of depletion through the entire system. But we still have a chance to act before it is too late. And we must. The Ross Sea story is not just that of a fish, or of the incredible creatures that live at the edge of the world. It is our story – the story of our struggle to become sustainable.

On the book (with links to press): Since its release, the book has received rave reviews in the NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/southern-light-and-the-last-ocean.html?_r=1&), The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/national/health-science/the-last-ocean/2013/12/05/53ee3cc0-5e05-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_gallery.html#item0), Outside Magazine (http://www.outsideonline.com/photo-galleries/adventure-travel/antarctica/The-Last-Ocean.html), Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/book-review-the-last-ocean/) and many others. He was recently featured on NPR’s national program, Science Friday (http://www.sciencefriday.com/guests/john-weller-.html#page/full-width-list/1).
“The Last Ocean uses images as the hook to pull us more deeply into the science, lore and heroic history of [Antarctica]. The world is a careless place. We fish far from home. We pollute in ways we cannot see, hear or feel. This book will open your eyes, first to the beauty of a world that lies beyond your sight. And more important, to the possibility of sustaining that far-off world that, in turn, sustains us.” – The New York Times

March 2014 Competition Results

February 2014 Competition Results

Monthly Meeting Change of Venue

Gary Fifer, Flatirons Photo Club’s primary contact at Har Hashem, has changed our meeting venue back to the location where we met for a number of months after we started to gather at Har Hashem. Rather than going to the building closest to Baseline, continue south through the parking lot (you’re headed south when you turn off of Baseline). We will meet in the building that you will see on your right in a couple hundred feet or so. Use the parking lot just beyond and adjacent to this building and enter through the door on the right side.