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.
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
Photo Club August Meeting
The Pagosa Springs Photography Club will hold its August meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 9, at the Community United Methodist Church on Lewis Street.
Join us for socializing at 6 p.m., followed by a brief business meeting at 6:30 p.m.
The August Photography Club program will be presented by June Russell. She will show and discuss pictures taken during a three-month cruise from Tokyo to London. Continue reading “Photo Club August Meeting”
Summer in the Mountains Outing
We will have a “summer in the mountains” photography outing on July 22 at 8 AM. There will be at least two stops, just across Wolf Creek Pass. First will be the Big Meadows Reservoir area, a mile or two off the highway on a gravel road. We can spend some time exploring the area around the reservoir, for some summer wildflowers, and perhaps reflections on the reservoir. It’s a popular fishing lake, but we should be there before it gets too crowded. We can then go back out to the highway, and drive a little over half a mile further towards South Fork to the Lake Fork pullout. There is a good trail here that we can follow along Lake Fork Creek. There are some good wildflowers, as well as nice scenes of the water flowing in the creek, and a small waterfall. Plan on half a mile or so of walking at each site. Bring water to drink, a lunch or snack, and dress for the weather. We should be back to Pagosa by 2 PM or so. Please let me know if you plan to attend.
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