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October, 2017 Program: Bringing your photos to life in a video with music

Andes Mountain scene
The Andes and Lago Nahuel Huapi from the top of the Cerro Catedral ski area, near Bariloche, Argentina. Photo Courtesy of John E.Farley

The Pagosa Springs Photography Club will hold Its October meeting on Wednesday the 11th, at The Community United Methodist Church, 434 Lewis Street.

Join us for socializing at 6 p.m., followed by a brief business meeting at 6:30 p.m. The Photography Club normally meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the fellowship room of the Methodist Church.

The October Photography Club Meeting will feature long time member, John Farley as our speaker. John will give a talk and demonstration on how to bring photos to life in a video with music. He will begin with a video compilation set to music of his weather photos from 2014 through 2016. He will then demonstrate how to make a video of your photos set to music with the free Microsoft Photo Story 3 software. He will finish with a walk through the process of getting your pictures into Photo Story and setting them to music using photos he took last year on a trip to Argentina.

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Fall Color Outing

A few photos from the September 29 Club outing, to the Plumtaw Road and Williams Creek area. Variable weather gave us some interesting skies!

John Farley photographing the lovely fall scenery
Looking for just the right Aspen groves
Club members photographing horses with snow-capped peaks
The horses would like some apples for their efforts

Fall Color Outings

We are planning three “fall color” Photo Club outings for members to take advanatage of the spectacular fall foliage. The first will be September 29. We’ll do a drive and shoot outing, with only very short walks. The destination will probably be Plumtaw road and/or the Upper Piedra/Williams Creek area, depending on what looks good. This outing will begin at 1 PM. There are typically some good back-lit aspens in the mid afternoon. If you are interested in this outing, let me know (abutler@mac.com) and I’ll confirm final details of destination and meeting place.

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Program Change for September Meeting

Our scheduled speaker for September, Randy McCormick, will be unable to give us his presentation this month, due to hurricane Irma. We all hope Randy and Deborah are spared the worst of the storm in Florida.

In his place, we will have a program on “Photographing Winter Wildlife” by National Geographic photographer Tim Laman. Laman will discuss preparation for winter photography, strategies for exposure and focusing on moving animals, and use of composition and lighting to give wildlife photos more impact. He will be using examples from winter shoots in northern Japan. This is a DVD-based video tutorial, and quite informative.

Join us at the Community United Methodist Church, 434 Lewis St., on Wednesday Sept 13 for this month’s Pagosa Springs Photography Club meeting. Come for socializing at 6 p.m., followed by a very brief business meeting at 6:30 p.m.

September Photo Club Program

The Pagosa Springs Photography Club will hold its September meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 13, at the Community United Methodist Church, 434 Lewis St. Join us for socializing at 6 p.m., followed by a brief business meeting at 6:30 p.m. The Photography Club normally meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the fellowship room of the Methodist Church.
Our September meeting will feature Randy McCormick. He has a master’s in environmental education, along with a lifelong gift of curiosity. Now semiretired, he works six months a year as an interpretive naturalist, boat captain and backcountry tour guide at Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Naples, Fla. The rest of the time he calls the “greater metropolitan Pagosa Springs area” his home range.

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Fall 2017 Meeting Schedule

For your planning purposes, here is a calendar of the planned presentations at the fall 2017 meetings of the Pagosa Springs Photo Club:

Sept 13: Randy McCormick will be giving a presentation on using your photos to give viewers a sense of place: “Sea to Summit – We’re All Connected”, which will feature his photography from the Everglades to the Continental Divide.

Oct 11: John Farley will demonstrate how to use your still photographs to create a video with musical background, using Photo Story. He’ll illustrate using some of his own photos from various travels.

Nov 8: Andy Butler will lead a discussion of ways in which we can make our photos stand out from the billions of other images being created in today’s digital world. This will include the creation of your photographs from visualization, camera technique, to post-processing.

We don’t plan to have a meeting in December. If anyone would like to help plan a group get together/holiday party, please contact me (abutler@mac.com).

We are also beginning to put together a club program schedule for 2018. If you have a subject you’d like to hear about (or present), or know someone outside our club that we might ask for a presentation, let me know. I am hoping that the majority of our programs will continue to contain information/techniques/ideas that will help us all become better photographers, as well as beautiful images to inspire our own creativity.

—Thanks! Andy Butler