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October 2018

Please see the Club Information page for general information
regarding meetings, outings, and slideshows.

Club Meeting

When: October 9, 2018 @6:30pm
Topic: "Bird Photography" by Andy Goris
Meeting Notes - meeting slides
Where: Aztlan Center, 112 E Willow Street, Fort Collins, CO 80524 (Room Eagle 3)

Club Outing

Swetsville Zoo Sat 10/13 @10am
4801 E Harmony Rd, Fort Collins, CO 80528
The Swetsville Zoo is a sculpture park on Bill Swets' farm. Bill has created exotic sculptures from parts of old cars, farm equipment and other metal items. Let's meet at 10am at the zoo. There is plenty of parking. Cost is free, but they ask for donations.

Alternate Club Outing

TBD

Coffee Meeting

Tue 10/23 @9am-11am, Fort Collins Coffee House on Mason

SIG Meetings/Outings

Drone SIG Meeting - Oct 25 @6pm at Stephanie's house. We will attempt to create the photo below. Still photographers are welcome. Drone and lights will be provided. Contact Stephanie Cox for address and more info.
Light Halo

Events SIG -

Sun 10/21 ROLLER DERBY: The Annual Black & Blue Ball is Sunday afternoon at the Bud Event Center, tickets are $10 advance and $15 at the door. Info is here: http://www.focorollerderby.org (I shot this last year, and really fun event!)

Sun 10/21 @7am-6pm, MOTOCROSS: State Championships are 10/21 in Dacono, tickets $12 to all events. Info is here: http://rmxa.org (I didn’t get a chance to shoot the last local event, sure am going to do my best to get there in the a.m.)

Other Sports: The CSU composite sports calendar found here: https://csurams.com/calendar.aspx (There are some women’s soccer and swim events in Oct.)

Hockey: It’s not the Avalanche or Eagles, but FC does have an adult hockey league. Some of the people I work with play in the leagues and they say no problem to come on over and photo any of the games. Calendar, divisions are here: http://www.fcaha.org/schedule.asp

Experimental SIG Meeting - TBD

Landscape SIG Outing - Fri 10/26 @5:30am, Boulder Flatirons, Meet at the west side of Front Range Community College parking lot along south Shields St. for carpooling to Boulder on Friday, Oct. 26 at 5:30 a.m. Drive to Chautauqua Trailhead in Boulder, arriving about 6:40 a.m. If weather is horrible on Friday, October 26 our backup day is Tuesday, October 30. I will notify you if we change the date because of inclement weather. Walk a portion of the Chautauqua Trail and set up for photographing the flatirons as the sun rises (about 7:23 a.m.). After photographing the flatirons, we can hike a bit for additional photographs of the Chautauqua area before going for breakfast at the Chautauqua Dinning Hall or another local breakfast place nearby. The plan is to return to Fort Collins by about noon. Please email Frank Ethridge at franke129@msn.com if you plan on attending this Landscape SIG so we will know who to expect at the carpool site at Front Range Community College or if you have any questions. Some suggested web sites that discuss photographing the flatirons and the Chautauqua area are: https://www.thomasmangan.com/blog/suggestions-for-photographing-boulder-and-the-flatirons/
https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/on-location/favorite-places/boulders-flatirons-colorado/ https://www.arrowphotos.com/Colorado/Boulder/ https://bouldercolorado.gov/osmp/chautauqua-trailhead
A discussion of the geologic origin of the flatirons in one of these websites is incorrect. We will have a discussion of this after photographing the flatirons.

Photography 101 SIG Meeting - TBD

Portrait SIG Meeting - Oct 7 @1pm-5pm, theme: Action!!!

Wildlife SIG Outing - TBD

Fix-it-photo

Florida Gulf Coast by Kai Frawg
Florida Gulf Coast by Kai Frawg

Fix this picture and email it to Walt Lyons who will include it in the October meeting slideshow.

October Challenge Topic

TBD

Photographic events

First Friday Gallery Walk in Old Town Fort Collins
Fall color
Zombie crawls 10/21
Denver Gorilla Run
Tour de Corgi
World Hoop Day
Cross of the North