July 2024
Club Meeting
When: Tuesday 7/9, 2024 @6:00pm
Topic: Summer Picnic
Meeting Slides - Member Slideshow Submissions
Where: in person, North West pavillion at Fossil Creek Park
Club Outings
2024-07-16&17 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Slack
Dates: Tuesday 2024-07-16 (Steer Wrestling and Women's Breakaway)
and Wednesday 2024-07-17 (Women's Breakaway and Barrel Racing)
Time: Leave Fort Collins at 6:00; Arrive CFD Rodeo Grounds parking lot at 6:50; Slack starts at 7:00am
Lunch: Bring your lunch; I do not know if the food vendors will be open for business
Location: Cheyenne Frontier Days, 4610 Carey Avenue, 1210 W 8th Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001
Dress Code: Western wear is suggested but not required; long pants, hat and sunscreen are recommended;
Bring water to drink, and lunch
Cost: Free
Carpool meeting location: TBD, I will email everyone who contacts me on Monday with our meeting location
Mike Barry will be leading this outing to Cheyenne Frontier Days for the Rodeo Slack Events. Cowboys and Cowgirls compete in the slack events to qualify for the main rodeo events. Slack will give us lots of experience shooting these events. We can shoot in the "behind the chutes" area, the media pit, the stands, and around the arena. CFD slack is very photographer friendly, but there will be professional photographers shooting and they don't want to hear that you are giving pictures away to the competitors for free. Colleen and I will be attending both Tuesday and Wednesday, leaving at 6am for slack and returning when slack is over, which may take all day.
Our Schedule
6:00am - Leave Fort Collins for Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Slack
Eat lunch when you want to take a break
Return to Fort Collins when the slack event is over, which may be 5pm
(If you drive yourself you can leave anytime)
Directions
Follow I-25 N to Hynds Blvd in Laramie County.
Take exit 11 for Randall Ave toward Pershing Blvd
Continue onto Hynds Blvd
Continue as the road turns right and becomes Kennedy Rd
Turn right on Carey Ave
Turn right into the parking lot for CFD Rodeo Slack and CFD Old West Museum
Please contact Mike Barry if you plan to carpool with us, and specify if you want to drive, and which day you are going. We will be leaving at 6:00am, so plan to get there a bit early to arrange the carpool.
Mike Barry
Mike@FortCollinsWebWorks.com
Coffee Meeting
Tue 7/16 @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 7/16 @6pm - ONLINE using ZOOM
Landscape SIG - TBD
Macro SIG - TBD
Mobile SIG - TBD
Night Sky SIG - TBD
Photography 101 SIG - TBD
Portrait SIG - Sun 7/7 @1pm-5pm WHERE "THEME"
Post Processing SIG -TBD
Video SIG - TBD
Wildlife SIG - TBD
Challenge Topics
Email your challenge topic images to Jim Limburg for the July meeting slideshow
1. "Summer"
2. Best Image Taken/Processed Since the Last Meeting
Interesting Links Found by our Members
Fazal Sheikh at the Denver Art Museum
This is a limited time photographic exhibit which runs through 10/20. The photos were taken throughout the Southwest to try to show the effects of mining and climate change, and are a combination of landscapes (including aerial photos) and portraits.
Contributed by Albert Wang on 7/12.
There will be two meteor showers peaking around July 30.
However, they are toward the south and I think they are somewhat low in the sky.
Contributed by Joan Sayre.
Photographic Events
Mon 7/1 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Opening of the 9/11 Memorial at Spring Park
Spring Park at or near Poudre Fire Authority Station 3, 2000 Matthews St, Fort Collins
Thu 7/4, 7:30 am to 10:00 pm Fort Collins Independence Day Community Celebration
City Park (except parade on Mountain Ave), Fort Collins
See web site for full list of events and times
Thu 7/4 11:00 am to 10:00 pm Loveland July 4th Festival
North Shore Park, Loveland
See web site for full list of events and times (find the Schedule of Events tab)
Thu 7/4, 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Timnath 4th of July Celebration
Timnath Reservoir
Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Slack
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Sat 7/13 @7am - Steer Roping
- Sun 7/14 @7am - Team Roping
- Mon 7/15 @7am - Tie Down Roping
- Tue 7/16 @7am - Steer Wrestling, and Women's Breakaway Roping
- Wed 7/16 @7am - Women's Breakaway Roping, and Barrel Racing
Cheyenne Frontier Days Fri 7/19 to Sun 7/28
- Sat 7/20 to Sun 7/28 -PRCA ProRodeo
- Fri 7/19 to Sun 7/28 - Carnival Midway
- Tue 7/23 12pm to 8pm- Fiesta Day
- Fri 7/19 to
Sun 7/21 - Fort Russell Days
- Sat 7/20, Tue 7/23, Thu 7/25, Sat 7/27 @9am - Grand Parade
- Fri 7/19 to Sun 7/28 @10am to 7:30pm - Indian Village
- Fri 7/19 to Sun 7/28 @10am to 7:30pm - Old Frontier Town
Sat 7/20 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Fort Collins Trolley 40th Season Celebration
Old Town (City Park will be at the other end of of the trolley)
https://www.fortcollinstrolley.org (this link may pop up a message the first time about the celebration, but it might disappear if you revisit the site) https://www.facebook.com/events/8470613172966534/ Trolleys and crew will be dressed up as if from the Roaring ‘20s, with vintage cars and a vintage band also present. See web sites for description.
Sat 7/20 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm Loveland Cherry Celebration
(lecture in the museum starts at 4:00 pm)
Loveland Museum https://www.thelovelandmuseum.org/loveland-cherry-celebration/
Tue 7/23 to Fri 7/26 Union Pacific “Big Boy” No. 4014 locomotive Westward Bound Tour
- return leg Crosses back into Wyoming (coming back from California) on 7/23 at Kemmerer and arrives back at Cheyenne on 7/26
Consult website for dates and stops
Wed 7/24 Wings Over Warren Airshow
6:30 am (parking opens) to 9:30 am (parking closed off), 10:00 am to 11:00 am
(actual airshow) FE Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne
https://www.cheyenne.org/event/wings-over-warren-airshow/23278/ https://www.warren.af.mil/Base-Information/Wings-over-Wyoming-Air-Show/
The Thunderbirds demonstration team will fly at the show
Sat 7/27 - 7/28 Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
Sat 7/27 8:00 am (races start) or 10:00 am (rest of festival opens) to 7:00 pm
Sun 7/28 8:00 am (races start) or 10:00 am (rest of festival opens) to 5:00 pm
Sloan’s Lake Park, Denver
There is NO general parking on site (limited ADA parking may be available). However the parking shuttle has been revived this year after not being available last year. This year’s parking is at Aurora Campus.
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