MEMBERS ONLY ZOOM EVENT: 2022 SEASONS OF OUR MOUNTAINS CALENDAR IMAGE VOTING

Yes, it’s that time again, our camera club will be sorting through all the submissions we’ve received for this year’s calendar to select 25 finalists to be voted on by the general public. Only camera club members may participate in this preselection phase, so only camera club members will see all those beautiful photos! Complete details are on our website at https://evergreencameraclub.com/index.php/2021/06/27/july-14th-general-meeting-seasons-of-our-mountains-2022-calendar-voting/

If you haven’t entered your photos yet, be sure to go to our website at https://evergreencameraclub.com/index.php/mount-evans-calendar-entry/ to submit them – submitting photos is open to EVERYONE.

“Let’s talk Macro and Wildlife image capture & creation,” Bob Coates writes, “[I want to offer] something a little different for you in this program. We’ll talk about things that can help you better create macro and wildlife images. I’ll share some gear suggestions to make your life easier and add in some techniques and a few file processing tips and tricks.” Bob is sure to inform and entertain with this presentation that should have something for every level of photographer.

Coates is a Lens Based Artist and has had the honor and privilege to author books and articles on photography and has presented seminars and programs from Hawaii to the Caribbean. He is a successful commercial and fine art photographer based in Sedona, Arizona with his wonderful wife who makes it possible for him to do all he does in the photography industry.

Evergreen Camera Club is continuing with the Zoom meeting format, so join ECC on Wednesday, September 9th for social time at 6:30 pm and announcements at 7:00 pm in the Zoom meeting room. See the ECC website and future ECC emails for the Zoom link.

Special Web Meeting Using ZOOM – NOT AT Evergreen Fire and Rescue
Wednesday, April 8 at 7:00 pm ( – aka social time)

Keep shooting! Even though we are all quarantined, we can still continue to keep busy with our cameras. Take this unusual downtime to grow and enhance your skills. Professional photographer Ellen Nelson will offer some strategies and suggestions to photograph wildlife and nature in your own backyard, wherever your location. She will also offer tips for reviewing your past images to understand what makes a good wildlife photo and separate the zeroes from the heroes. Join Ellen Nelson for Evergreen Camera Club’s first remote meeting via zoom on April 8th at 7:00 pm (join early to socialize).

If you haven’t Zoomed yet, it is free and easy from any phone, tablet or computer. We recommend you start signing on at 6:30 to work out kinks unless you’ve zoomed on your platform. The link to get you started will be in an email sent to all paid members of record. If you didn’t get the invite or want to join as a visitor, please sent a request email to webmaster@evergreencameraclub.com

Stephanie McCollister Cox is a Colorado landscape photographer who also enjoys street photography, astrophotography and fine art photography. In her presentation, she will introduce us to drone photography. She has held a Part 107 pilot certification from the FAA for three years, and, after a little background on how she became interested in capturing aerial images, she will introduce us to her two drones. She’ll talk through some of the considerations for purchasing a drone for photography and discuss regulations and ethics around flying. Her presentation will include examples of the types of images and videos you can capture with a drone and will also introduce some of the challenges of composing and capturing a compelling image from 400 feet in the air.

Her work can be viewed at www.stephclickx.com

Doors open at 6:30 pm for socializing. Members, guests and students welcome!

Join us for dinner with the speaker and other ECC members. Details and sign up on a separate Meetup posting.

The Lives and Habits of Owls in the Wild and How to Find and Photograph Them.
Deanna Beutler has spent the past 16 years hiking and photographing wildlife. She found her first owl nest in 2004 and the love of owls and photographing them has grown from there, along with her knowledge of owls.
She worked for “Wild Wings Environmental Education” from 2013 to 2018, where she worked with owls, hawks and falcons. While there, she manned informational booths, taught at schools, libraries, retirement centers, camps, special events, fundraisers and photo shoots. The organization’s goal was to teach the public how to protect these birds, their environment and raise money for the care of injured birds of prey.
She has taught classes at nature centers and Audubon Society events on the lives of owls and how to find them.
She has served as a wildlife and owl guide for people throughout Colorado and as far away as Japan.
Her photos were selected in the “Top 250” in Denver Audubon Society’s “Share the View International” photography contest 5 years in a row and she spoke at the Share the View International Gala. She has won 1st and 2nd place in several local photo contests. She has had 10 of her photos displayed on park signs and others published in magazines and books.
She also helps with the rescue of birds and animals.
Doors open at 6:30 for socializing. Members, guests and students welcome!
Join us for dinner at 5:15 with Deanna (by RSVP only)–see separate Meetup.

Kenneth Wajda
URBAN DOCUMENTATION (Street Photography)
Street photography is a unique genre in photography. “There’s something satisfying about going out with no photograph in mind, and just seeking the stories of the street, to make these images,” professional photographer Kenneth Wajda explained. Kenneth with cover the history of street photography and suggest techniques to document on the street, ways to overcome fear of photographing strangers, and how to build a body of work as a documentary photographer.

Doors open at 6:30 pm for social time. Presentation begins at 7:00 pm. Members, guests, and students welcome!

And join us at 5:30 at Beau Thai for dinner with the speaker and other ECC members. Sign up on a separate Meetup posting.

Are you a PSA member? PSA, or Photographic Society of America (not to be confused with public service announcement, or prostate specific antigen), has numerous member benefits for clubs and individuals.

Evergreen Camera Club has an organizational membership. PSA Colorado Membership Director Tammy Hammond will untangle and examine all of the invaluable details needed to utilize the ECC membership or join PSA as an individual at our April 10th meeting at 7:00 pm (come early to socialize.

Sign up for the pre-meeting dinner with our speaker in a separate Meetup.

Lightroom Classic Basics with Tom Goldberg
This course will be for beginner and intermediate Lightroom users and will attempt to cover the following:

> Organizing your Photos
– where to put them
– how to use the LR library
– picking and rating
– collections

> Adjusting your Photos
– basics
– adding pop
– corrections in LR

> Open Discussion

This will be a lecture and demo, no hands-on.
Doors open 6:30 pm for social time.

Evergreen Camera Club is kicking off the new year with a sure-to-be-impressive presentation, “The Creative Edge” by Jeff Johnson. Jeff promises to infuse his over-40-years’ experience as a working professional on image enhancements with easy and awesome Lightroom and Photoshop tips, tricks and surefire, easy-to-do techniques. Including intimate color and tone adjustments, texture overlays, image blending, luminosity masks, burning and dodging, all in a non-destructive process . . . and all easy to repeat from image-to-image!

Join us for the January 9th Evergreen Camera Club meeting, at 7:00 pm (come early to socialize or see Meetup for dinner details) at the Evergreen Fire & Rescue Building, 1802 Bergen Parkway, Evergreen. Visitors, guests and students are encouraged to attend. And if you like the presentation, come to Jeff’s all day, hands-on workshop on February 2 for a deeper dive into these techniques.

Visitors, guests and students are encouraged to attend. Doors open 6:30.

Members, remember to submit photos for the monthly critique and contest by Monday before the meeting. NOTE: IMAGES ARE NOW ABLE TO BE UPLOADED ON THE WEBSITE. DUES MUST BE PAID BEFORE UPLOADS ARE ACCEPTED. Details are at www.evergreencameraclub.com

We will have a pre-dinner meeting at Beau Thai in Evergreen at 5:30 pm. RSVP separately on Meetup.