Category: Club Meetings

Feb 14: Spain & Portugal’s Greatest Hits

Flemenco (left), Equestrian School (right)
Flamenco, Granada, Spain (left); Royal Equestrian School, Jerez, Spain (right), photograph ©Robert B. Green

The Pagosa Springs Photography Club will meet on Wednesday, February 14, 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. before our program. Long time photographers and those just starting out are welcome to attend.

Our program this month will be an encore presentation by Bob Green. In the fall of 2016 and 2017, Bob and his wife spent a month total traveling through Spain and Portugal: beginning in Barcelona, traveling through northern Spain via the Pyrenees and along the Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela, then south to Porto and Lisbon. From there, they proceeded east to Evora, Portugal and Seville, Spain. Then, they traveled south to Gibraltar (a British territory) and finally through Granada, Cordoba and Toledo, finishing their journey in Madrid, in the heart of Spain.

Bob took over 3000 photos on these trips. His talk will examine six widely-accepted principles whose exercise will lead to noteworthy, compelling images. “Spain & Portugal: Greatest Hits” will include the top 50 photos from his travels and he will point out how various “rules” come into play as we view the images.

Members may bring up to 10 images on a flash drive to share with the club after the presentation. Given the program date, members are encouraged to include some images which speak to the theme of “romance”.

January 2018 Program: Get it Right in Camera!, with Bob Green

Desert Dawn
Desert dawn captured in Arches National Park near Moab, UT. This image will be used as an example of the advantages of RAW processing. ©Robert B Green

The Pagosa Springs Photography Club will meet on Wednesday, January  10, 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. before our program. Tonight’s speaker will be club member Bob Green, presenting a program entitled Get it Right in Camera!

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December Photo Club Update

Just a reminder that we will NOT be having a December Photoclub meeting this year. We will next meet on January 10, 2018. Club member Bob Green will give a presentation on “Getting it Right in the Camera”. Stay tuned for more details, and have a great holiday!

November, 2017 Program: “Beyond the Pretty Picture”

Glacier Peak and clouds reflecting on Glacier Lake.
Glacier Peak and early morning reflections on Glacier Lake, in Oregon’s Eagle Cap Wilderness, ©Andy Butler

The Pagosa Springs Photography Club will meet on Wednesday, November 8, 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. before our program. For our program this month, Club president Andy Butler will lead a group discussion on “Beyond the Pretty Picture”,  exploring various ways that photographers can make their images stand out. Continue reading “November, 2017 Program: “Beyond the Pretty Picture””

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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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.