Category: Club Outings

Hi everyone, I hope you have all been out photographing our great fall color this weekend. Next Saturday, Oct 8, I am planning a club outing to the upper Piedra/ Williams Creek Reservoir area, depending on where the leaves look good. Continue reading “Fall Color Photography Outing”

We are planning a photo club field trip to the Summitville ghost town for Saturday, August 13. Meet at the Tractor Supply parking lot on the east end of Pagosa for an 8 AM departure. It will take us about 90 min to reach the Summitville ghost town. Continue reading “Field Trip to Summitville”

Happy Fourth of July! I am planning a photo club outing to shoot waterfalls, wildflowers and mountain scenery this Saturday, July 9. Continue reading “Waterfalls and Wildflowers Outing”

On Saturday, Jan 30, I am doing an outing to the Piedra Ice Flow. This is an area where water seeps down from the cliffs above the Piedra River to form a free-standing column of ice perhaps 30 ft tall and 6 ft or more in diameter flowing from the overhanging cliff to the river itself. Continue reading “Snowshoe to the Piedra Ice Flow”

Save the Dates, for these two Photo Club outings.

On Oct 30, we are doing a gallery walk in Durango. We plan to meet for coffee in Durango around 9 AM, and then visit several photography galleries in down town Durango, including Open Shutter, Durango Arts Center (including PSPC member Linda Pampinella’s Fifth Corner gallery), Wildshots, and perhaps one or two more depending on time. Some of us are likely to gather for lunch afterwards. Let me know if you are interested by email to abutler@mac.com, more details to follow.

The next outing is more adventurous. On November 5, we will visit Bisti Badlands, south of Farmington, weather permitting. In Laurent Martrés’ book on Photographing the Southwest, he calls Bisti’s hoodoos and rock formations “wonderful, whimsical”. I will go down there in the morning, and spend some time hiking (up to 5-6 miles, relatively easy off-trail hiking). I have hiked there before and have GPS coordinates for some interesting rock formations, including the “egg factory”. The date was selected because it is the day before the full moon, so should permit interesting moonrise landscape opportunities (moonrise is around 4:40 PM; sunset 5:10 PM). I plan to camp near the parking area that evening (totally primitive camping, no facilities), but it’s also possible to photograph at Bisti, then make the hour drive back to Farmington and spend the night in a motel there. The following morning, one could either make the drive back to Bisti for sunrise, or explore Aztec ruins or other attractions in the Farmington area before returning to Pagosa Springs. Again, if you are interested in this outing, send me an email (abutler@mac.com) to stay informed as we work out the details.

—Andy Butler