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September 2024

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

Club Meeting

When: Tuesday 9/10, 2024 @6:00pm
Topic: "Heart of the Photograph" by David Duchemin
Meeting Slides - Member Slideshow Submissions
Where: ONLINE using ZOOM - Link to Join our meeting

Club Outings

Details for each outing

Coffee Meeting

Thu 9/19 @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 9/17 @6pm - ONLINE using ZOOM
Landscape SIG - TBD
Macro SIG - TBD
Mobile SIG - TBD
Night Sky SIG - TBD
Photography 101 SIG - TBD
Portrait SIG - Sun 9/1 @1pm-5pm Old Town F.C. "Summer Evening in O.T."
Post Processing SIG -TBD
Synthetic Photography SIG - Tue 9/3 @6pm, Discuss Leonardo - ONLINE using ZOOM
Video SIG - TBD
Wildlife SIG - TBD

Challenge Topics

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

Interesting Links Found by our Members

Predicted start of fall color this year.
I will note that for central and southern Colorado, Rick Dunnahoo said he’d target about 1 week earlier than what’s mentioned in this article for those areas. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2024/08/28/colorado-fall-colors-2024-what-to-expect-for-timing-fall-foliage-per-mr-aspen-dan-west/74966021007/
- contributed by Joan Sayre

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS visible September and October
https://www.universetoday.com/168058/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-set-to-perform-this-fall/ Provided by Guy Turenne on the club Facebook page. This article is about Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which will be in the sky during September and October and will hopefully get brighter. How good will it look? We’ll have to wait and see, but Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero managed to get a glimpse and posted it to the club Facebook page on September 28.

Photographic Events

Fri 9/6 to Sat 9/7, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; Sun 9/8, 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Good Guys 26th Colorado Nationals (hot rod car show)
The Ranch Events Complex, Loveland

Fri 9/6 to Sun 9/8, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Festival
Estes Park Events Complex (1209 Manford Ave), Estes Park

Fri 9/13 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Sat 9/14 11:00 am to 9:00 pm Loveland Oktoberfest Fairgrounds Park (700 S Railroad Ave), Loveland

Sat 9/14, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Pastels on 5th Street
Adjacent to the Loveland Museum
This is a sidewalk chalk art festival.

Sat 9/14 7:00 am to 5:00 pm (airshow starts at 11:00 am) Longmont Airshow & Expo
Vance Brand Airport, Longmont

Sat 9/14 to Sun 9/15 (see middle of event’s web page for schedule) Roar of the Rockies
(F1 power boat racing)
Water Valley Marina (445 Baja Dr), Windsor

Tue 9/17-Sat 9/21 Weldwalls Mural Festival
Weldwerks Brewing Co. in Greeley, CO

Sun 9/22 FC Mural Project Fort Collins Mural Painting Project unveiling party
213 Jefferson St., Fort Collins, CO

Sat 9/28, 6:30 am to 8:00 am Great Aardvark Balloon Launch
Aims Community College, athletic field north of Cornerstone Bldg. (5401 W. 20th St), Greeley