August 2024
Club Meeting
When: Tuesday 8/13, 2024 @6:00pm
Topic: "Photographing Smoke" by Glen Hush
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Club Outings
Thursday August 22 @4:00 PM Sunflower Fields
Anderson Farms, 6728 County Road 3 1/4, Erie, CO 80516
(note: it may be easier to find this address on car navigation systems as “Terror in the Corn”, which is the farm's haunted house during Halloween season)
Carpool from the Harmony Transfer Station at 3:00 PM
There is a cost to members (see details below).
This is a very large field reportedly containing 70 species of sunflowers. There should be macro opportunities both with sunflowers and insects on them. There may also be a number of birds in the fields, although they will tend to flee as a group when people approach. https://andersonfarms.com/sunflowers/
It costs $10 to enter the sunflower fields and I recommend to buy tickets at the door. This is a discount from their normal price due to hailstorm damage on July 20 — I am uncertain how much different the fields would look had there been no hailstorm. While you can buy a ticket online, there is an additional online purchase surcharge and also I don’t think you would be able to get a refund if we need to cancel at the last second for very bad weather (see below).
You are welcome to bring others along to pick sunflowers or to pick them yourself after shooting, but note that the $10 above does NOT include the right to pick sunflowers. You would have to buy a container if you want to pick sunflowers (see prices online, but at least another $10 for the smallest container, and I believe they would provide clippers).
Be prepared for sun or possibly rain, and maybe insects if one wanted to stay into the golden hour (sunset is estimated at 7:46 PM).
In the event of heavy rain or thunderstorms, a decision will be made on canceling at 4:00 PM AT THE SITE.
Although I would have preferred a different date, August has a lot of photographic activities which could conflict with an outing, and the farm is not open every day and will close for sunflower viewing/picking at the end of August.
Please reply to info@fcdcc.com if you intend to go and whether you want to carpool.
Thanks, Albert
Coffee Meeting
Wed 8/21 @9:00am - Meet at Panera Bread Co in Front Range Village
SIG Meetings/Outings
Drone SIG - TBD
Events SIG - TBD
Infrared SIG - TBD
Fine Art Photography SIG - Tue 8/20 @6pm - images taken or processed since the last meeting - ONLINE using ZOOM
Landscape SIG - TBD
Macro SIG - TBD
Mobile SIG - TBD
Night Sky SIG - TBD
Photography 101 SIG - TBD
Portrait SIG - Sat 8/3 @7:30pm Larimer County Fair "Carnival"
Post Processing SIG -TBD
Synthetic Photography SIG -
Tue 8/6 @6pm, Discuss DALLE-3 results, Learn Leonardo - ONLINE using ZOOM
Video SIG - TBD
Wildlife SIG - TBD
Challenge Topics
Email your challenge topic images to Jim Limburg for the August meeting slideshow
1. "Summer"
2. Best Image Taken/Processed Since the Last Meeting
Interesting Links Found by our Members
Perseid meteor shower is expected to happen sometime between Sunday and Tuesday (8/11 to 8/13). The current weather prediction says it will be partly cloudy but it is at least not predicting rain like today.
https://denvergazette.com/outtherecolorado/news/up-to-100-meteors-an-hour-to-fly-above-colorado-as-best-show-of-year/article_7d949dac-5346-11ef-bcab-6b84b9ddb98f.html
- submitted by Joan and Jim Sayre
Focusing in on the microscopic world of nanophotography – in pictures
- submitted by Joan and Jim Sayre
Photographic Events
Fri 8/2 to Tue 8/6 (schedule not yet posted) Larimer County Fair
at The Ranch, Loveland
Junior Rodeo (organized by the County Sheriff’s Office ) is on 8/3 and appears to be at an outdoor arena and it may be possible to photograph this (disclaimer: one of our members is listed as a sponsor).
PRCA (professional) events are on 8/4-6, but many of these might be held in the indoor Blue Arena (formerly the Budweiser Arena). This building has much more restrictive policies on both cameras (any detachable lens camera or any camera lens longer than 3 inches when extended, see https://www.treventscomplex.com/plan-your-visit/prohibited-items) as well as camera bags (actually almost all bags except clear ones, see https://www.treventscomplex.com/plan-your-visit/clear-bag-policy)
Wed 8/14 to Sun 8/18, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm CAF Air Power History Tour
Cheyenne Regional Airport
Planes present will be the B-29 Superfortress “Fifi” (flies during the weekend, cockpit tours on all days), AT-6 Texan, and RC-45 (Beechcraft Model 18) Expediter
Sat 8/17, 12 noon to 6:00 pm Monster Day Greeley
Downtown Greeley
This is advertised on the web site as “a family-friendly celebration of all things ‘monster’!”
Sat 8/18 Fort Collins Peach Festival
11:00 am to 8:00 pm Civic Center Park, Fort Collins
Fri 8/16, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm; Sat 8/17 and Sun 8/18, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm (to 8:00 pm for afterparty) Fort Collins Comic Con
Fort Collins Senior Center (note new location)
Fri 8/16 to Sun 8/19 Tom Horn Days
Prarie rodeo, 6-9 chutes, 3 panels each side and then it's wide open onto the prairie (tail gate style watching, pickup beds, canopy awnings, lawn chairs, standing.....
It's a ticketed event. Prices vary. Saturday alone (single person) $51.80, if you do 3 day event $77.60 (Individual only) includes free camping. That means you can go in Friday pm (not much going on on Friday) but you skip the very long line trying to get in on Saturday ($52.80 individual) so....
Sat 8/17 and Sun 8/18, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Pikes Peak Airshow
A/DAGC (Military Terminal) on the south end of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport
Note: tickets are now SOLD OUT.
Mon 8/19 (any time) Global Photo Project
One of our members (Bob Barley) is participating in the Global Photo Project. This is a project to assemble photos from all over the world taken on August 19. If you are thinking of participating by taking photos and submitting them, please read the FAQ and other relevant parts of the web site. (If you’re wondering about the choice of date: the web site describes August 19 as “the birthday of photography” for the choice of this date. Per Wikipedia, on this date in 1839, the French Academy of Sciences and Académie des Beaux-Arts met jointly and first publicly discussed the photographic process now commonly known as daguerrotype.)
Wed 8/21 to Sun 8/25, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Mon 8/26 8:00 am (ride flight for B-29 and then departure) CAF Air Power History Tour
Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Broomfield Planes present will be the B-29 Superfortress “Fifi” (flies during the weekend, cockpit tours on all days), AT-6 Texan, and RC-45 (Beechcraft Model 18) Expediter
Fri 8/23 - Sat 8/24 Realities Ride & Rally
Fri 8/23 (rally, starts 5:00 pm), Sat 8/24 (ride, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Forge Campus (old Hewlett-Packard/Agilent campus), Loveland
This claims a Guinness world record as the world’s largest motorcycle poker run.
Some of the ride on 8/24 may be off-site
Sat 8/24 Tour de Fat
9:30 am to 11:30 am (parade), 12 noon (entertainment)
City Park and Mountain Avenue (parade)/New Belgium Brewery (entertainment), Fort Collins
Sat 8/31 to Mon 9/2 (see web site for schedule) Windsor Harvest Festival
Windsor (multiple locations)
Some possible photographable events on the schedule: Saturday has a car show and fireworks, Sunday has a balloon launch, Monday has a parade
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