February 2024

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

Club Meeting

When: Tuesday 2/13, 2024 @6:00pm
Topic: "Learning to See Creatively" by Greg Holden
Meeting Slides - Member Slideshow Submissions
Where: ONLINE using ZOOM - Link to Join our meeting

Selections From Greg's Bookshelf: For more inspiration on seeing creatively, check out these books:
• The Place No One Knew (Glen Canyon); Eliot Porter; 1963
• Art Forms in the Plant World; Karl Blossfeldt; 1985
• Pictorialism into Modernism, The Clarence H. White School of Photography; 1996
• Light & Shadow; Claire Yaffa; 1998
• Developing Vision & Style, A Landscape Photography Masterclass; Eddie Ephraums; 2007
• In Plane View / Abstractions of Flight; Carolyn Russo; 2007 (photos from Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum)
• Within the Frame, Journey of Photographic Vision; David DuChemin; 2009
• Embracing Creation; Freeman Patterson; 2013
• Manifestation of the Spirit; Minor White; 2014

Club Outings

Details for each outing

Coffee Meeting

Wed 2/21 @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 2/20 @6pm - ONLINE using ZOOM
Landscape SIG - TBD

Macro SIG - Sat 2/17 @10am - Butterfly House at the Gardens on Spring Creek
Day / Date: Saturday, February 17, 2024
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Butterfly House at the Gardens on Spring Creek
The Butterfly House features: 400–600 free-flying butterflies and moths, including Monarchs, Long Wings, Swallowtails and more than 100 varieties of tropical plants, specifically curated for butterflies and moths.
Hope to see you this Saturday.
Paul Marcoux

Mobile SIG - TBD
Night Sky SIG - TBD
Photography 101 SIG - TBD
Portrait SIG - Sun 2/4 @1pm-5pm "Starfest" in Mike's Studio
Post Processing SIG -TBD
Video SIG - Thu 2/27 @6:30pm - ONLINE using ZOOM
Wildlife SIG - TBD

Challenge Topics

Email your challenge topic images to Jim Limburg for the February meeting slideshow
1. Age/Wisdom
2. Best Image Taken/Processed Since the Last Meeting

Interesting Links Found by our Members

How To Get Started With Adobe Firefly
submitted by Richard Roberts

Adobe Creative Cloud Marketplace - Filter Machine - a fun plugin for Photoshop
submitted by Rich Ernst

Photographic Events

Fri 2/2 and Sat 2/3, 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Live Ice Carving Old Town Square, Fort Collins

Sat 2/10 New Moon

Sat 2/10, 10:00 am to 8:00 pm Loveland Sweetheart Festival in Downtown Loveland
(note: we are expecting snow. The web site says the event will happen “even if it snows!”)

Sat 2/10, 10:30 am to 1:30 pm Colorado Chinese New Year Celebration (Year Of The Dragon)
Washington High School, 655 S. Monaco Pkwy, Denver

Sat 2/24 Full Moon