Highlands Ranch Photo Club Meeting
August 14, 2007
DeDe welcomed everyone to the August meeting. Meetings are held at the Highlands Ranch Library the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
A field trip has been scheduled for September 29 to Victor, Colorado, for a gold mine tour and fall color. DeDe has been on this tour of a working gold mine before and highly recommends the tour. The tour starts at 10:00 and takes about half a day. There is no fee, but bring a bag lunch. Car pools will leave Highlands Ranch at around 7:00 a.m.
In addition to the mine tour, it should also be a good time of year to see aspens in fall color. The town of Victor is also interesting and has a nice old Victorian hotel called the Victor Hotel in case anyone is interested in staying for the weekend.
Contact DeDe if you would like to be part of the field trip and tour.
DeDe also mentioned a photo contest for amateur photographers sponsored by National Geographic. See more details at the Where's Your Nature Valley photo contest page.
Show-and-Tell
By Club Members
This month's meeting was one where club members selected favorite photographs to share. Thanks are in order for the following club members who shared their photos. It was a lively mix of many different subjects and treatments.
- Jim brought a number of outdoor and wildlife photos, including a heron, bald eagle, pelican eating a fish and bird landing on water from Chatfield State Park. He also showed mountain goats at Mt. Evans, balloons, lightning, shots from a train field trip, a fox with lilacs, tulips and lupine from Roxborough.
- Nancy brought pictures from a recent trip to Chicago showing architectural details and buildings.
- Bill brought photos from Paris, London, San Francisco and Mesa Verde. Several of the photos were shot in early evening light.
- Deb shared photos showing wild flowers from Diamond Lake, Holy Cross wilderness area, Guinella Pass and Crested Butte. She also had some outdoor scenes from Balanced Rock in Arches National Park and a Summit Lake panorama. We also saw mountain goats and a rabbit in pictures.
- Richard had photographed goats at Mt. Evans.
- Charlie brought pictures from around the world including an African woman in her tribal costume, Monet's garden, the Sphinx and a house reflected in very calm water.
- Rick showed boat pictures shot from a helicopter as well as dogs and Yosemite with climbers. Closer to home, he showed Red Rocks, Denver at dusk, kayakers in Golden and a boy with his fish.
Notes for Upcoming Meetings
September 11 - Debbie will give a presentation on nature photography.
October 9 - Zach will talk about black and white photography.
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