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July 2014 Volume 38, No.7www.mhwpc.org
MHWPC News
MHWPC Meeting located at The Wildlife Experience • 10035 Peoria St., Parker, CO
Mile High Wildlife
Photography Club
WORLDWIDE TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY
Blaine Harrington I I I
Wednesday, July 9, at 7:00 PM photographer, Blaine Harrington, comes to MHWPC via Africa Adventure Consultants and The Wildlife Experience, TWE will be exhibiting
Harrington’s African safari images, “Capturing the Wild”, from July 9th to September 14th. Club members and the public are invited to attend a reception the evening of July 9th.
The MHWPC meeting will include a presentation by Blaine Harrington showing images from all over the world, not just Africa, giving anecdotes of the “stories behind the photos” and talking about the amazing events and experiences that have happened in his travels on six continents. The presentation will include people, landscape, cityscape, wildlife and action images.
Harrington, based in Denver for the last twenty years, began his career in New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Zurich; shooting motorcycle racing in the U.S. and Europe and then fashion photography in Europe. He has worked on assignment for major magazines including Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Business Week and Forbes and photographed books on Scandinavia for Time-Life Books and ancient architecture for National Geographic. To learn more about Harrington’s work visit http://blaineharrington.com
Club members, and guests, planning to attend will need to RSVP for this meeting. Please send your RSVP to [email protected] (preferrably no later than July 2nd), include a subject heading of “RSVP/MHWPC/July9thMeeting.
Guest Speaker© Blaine Harrington III
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Club Meeting
Club Field Trip
Club Digital Meeting
Board MeetingXNewsletter Input Deadline
Club Competition Submission Deadline
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Digital Training Meeting7:00 to 9:30 PM at TWEMeeting located in The Wildlife Experience Great Hall or Classroom / Open to paid members only.
July 23, 2014 James HagerJames Hager will present a program explaining his workflow which involves Phase One Media Pro, Phase One Capture One Pro, Photoshop, NIK Silver Efex (for color images) and sometimes Lightroom for realistic HDR images.
MHWPC Upcoming Programs7:00 to 10:00 PM at TWE
July 9, 2014 Blaine Harrington III, Travel PhotographerSee previous page for program information.
Please RSVP by July 2nd, address your RSVP e-mail to either: [email protected] or [email protected] “RSVP/MHWPC/July9thMeeting” as the subject title of your e-mail. In your message give your first and last name and the names of your guests.
August 13, 2014 Club Picnic Potluck
September 10, 2014 Bruce Gill, Wildlife PhotographerTitle: Beastly Behavior and Photo Ops
This program will provide insight into animal behavior and capturing the behaviors. Bruce Gill worked 35 years for the Colorado Division of Wildlife/Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 29 of which he was the Mammals Research Leader focusing on species such as mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, pronghorn, swift and kit fox, and lynx. Since 2001 his writing and photographs have been featured regularly in Colorado Outdoors magazine.
TWE Exhibit: H2 Ohhh!Exhibit dates: May 10 – July 6
The Wildlife Experience museum “H2 Ohhh!” exhibit, a collection of twenty-six photographs competitively selected by MHWPC members, will be exhibited through July 6th. The exhibit may be viewed in the hallway near the TWE movie theatre.
Snacks and BeveragesJuly Meeting: Chuck Winter
August Meeting: Barbara Fleming, Chuck Winter
Library NewsLibrary items will not be available to browse at the July meeting due to the evening’s special programming held in collaboration with The Wildlife Experience.
Karen Fiant, Librarian
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June Meeting Announcements and Program SummaryAnnouncements at the club meeting, June 11, 2014, include: Club Vice-President, Chris Frazier, resigns therefore leaving a vacancy for the position of MHWPC Vice-President and Judging Coordinator. A wildflower field trip, to be led by Chuck Winter on July 12th, is on the schedule for MHWPC field trips. Werner Baumgartner informed members that Roger Clark has organized a trip to Africa for the dates around February 10 to March 1st of 2015. There is one opening available, the trip is not in association with a workshop or tour group that employs a group leader and is instead an expense sharing trip. James Hager provided an overview of his upcoming digital training workflow presentation to be held on July 21st. Russ Burden announced the upcoming Colorado Photography Festival over Labor Day weekend. Chuck Summers informed the club about current projector technicalities and image sizing issues. Bruce Norman offered his knowledge of Lightroom to assist Chuck in resolving the image projection problem.
Our guest speaker featured freelance writer and landscape photographer, Colleen Miniuk-Sperry. Miniuk-Sperry delivered an interesting program that opened with how she became introduced to photography, and transitioned from a software engineering career to that of full time photographer. She talked about when, where and how to photograph wildflowers in Arizona, and how to apply the same approach to locations outside of Arizona. To understand “when” to photograph wildflowers Colleen defined four distinct bloom seasons for the Arizona flowers and also categorized regions exposing the “where” to photograph flowers. Coveringthe “how” of wildflower photography, Miniuk-Sperry showed us her preferred equipment while offering “ten tips” for taking better photographs, showing beautiful images with in-depth descriptions of her process.
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June Club Field Trip to Mt. Evans
Six club members ventured out early in the morning to participate in the Mt. Evans field trip on June 21st, including members that live outside of Metro Denver and have lengthy commutes to attend monthly meetings. As hoped for, Mountain Goat kids were spotted and became the primary subjects of interest for early morning to mid-morning shooting.
Thanks to members Bob Cross, Butch Mazzuca, Shirley Murrow, Karen Fiant, Rich Seeley and Chuck Winter for making yet another wonderful MHWPC field trip.
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Photo courtesy of Chuck Winter
Photo courtesy of Chuck Winter
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Upcoming MHWPC Field Trips
Saturday, July 12, 2014 Wildflowers on Shrine PassField Trip contact: Chuck Winter [email protected]
Club members interested in getting together to photograph wildflowers will meet at 6:00AM sharp. Our objective will be Shrine Pass. However, based on scouting trips the previous week we may photograph around Silverthorne, Keystone, or Loveland Pass instead. The group will carpool from the RTD Park-n-Ride – Woolly Mammoth Lot, located at the northwest corner of I-70 and Hogback road (Exit 259 – Highway 93/40). Directions: Exit 259 and go north on Highway 93. Turn left (west) on US 40. Take the first left into the RTD Park-n-Ride. Turn left into the Wooly Mammoth Lot.
Please register for this field trip by emailing Chuck Winter [email protected].
MHWPC members are invited to participate in club field trips. Field trips are wonderful opportunities for taking the club experience to the field and sharing knowledge that may help you expand your photography skills. This is a good way to meet other club members, set up mentoring goals or just share the moment photographing with others that have a common interest.
Woolly Mammoth Park-n-Ride Lot
GOOGLE MAPS
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Bisti Badlands / De-Na-Zin WildernessFall Trip to New Mexico
by Colin McKenna
For any MHWPC members scheduling a fall photo trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico for the Balloon Festival or the 2014 PSA Conference I would like to offer another
photogenic site, Bisti Badlands / De-Na-Zin Wilderness. This site can be covered in a few hours and has the potential to provide you with an array of interesting landscape images. The walking is not strenuous and the site is relatively easy to access.
The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management. This amazing wilderness area is thirty-six miles south of Farmington, New Mexico or ninety miles north of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It consists of 45,000 acres of heavily eroded landscape. I have heard these eroded shapes referred to as hoodoos, spires, bat wings, cracked eggs, and/or mushrooms. Whatever you call them, they are truly fun to photograph. You may cover much of the area in just two or three hours, the walking is easy on a good weather day. As this is a designated Wilderness Area there is no mechanized travel, including bicycles, and trail signs are nonexistent. You should be able to find enough well worn paths to get around the eroded wash areas.The geology of the area is very different from the east to the west. In the west you have “layer cake geology,” different layers of sandstone, shale, coal and silt which have eroded in various ways to create the unusual shaped structures. In the eastern section the geology falls more into the shale beds category and you have oxidized colors of orange and pink all mounded in very unique ways.
Neither section is difficult to hike, but since the entire area is serviced by gravel roads that could be challenging in wet weather — the western section has only a three mile gravel road and the eastern section has a ten mile gravel road. The elevation for this area is near 5,800 feet.
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I found a wide variety of eroded features within thirty and forty-five minutes from either parking lot, easy access, so if you can fit this area into your schedule around a fall New Mexico photo shoot you will certainly enjoy the high desert solitude and be removed from a thicket of tripods that may be found in more popular, iconic settings.
Helpful Info: Maps and Guides, Lodging and Directions.
BLM Surface Management Maps: “Chaco Mesa” and “Toadlena” 30x60 minute color coded topographical maps. Public Lands Interpretive Association-Northwest Travel Guide. There are six of these travel guides covering the state of New Mexico. The maps have labelling on the margins to use with a GPS (NAD83 datum).
LODGING: closest lodging found at Farmington, Bloomfield or Cuba, New Mexico.
DIRECTIONS: Bisti can be reached from Farmington, NM. Travel south (approx. 36 miles) on NM Highway 371, just north of mile marker 70 turn east on County Road 7297 follow the gravel road 3 miles east to the parking lot. (Western section of Bisti/De-Na-Zin).
From Albuquerque – travel north on I-25 hooking up to US Highway 550 (approx. 90 miles). Exit west from US Highway 550 between mile markers 127 and 128 on to County Road 7500. Follow this gravel road for 10 miles to reach the parking lot (Eastern section of Bisti/De-Na-Zin).
There are two parking areas, a west lot and an east lot. You may gain access from the west lot to the east lot by driving about two miles south on NM 371 and intersecting with County Road 7500 and driving about five miles east to the east section parking lot.
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Night Photography: Useful Tipsby Neal Fedora
August of 2013, photographer and planetary scientist, Dr. Roger Clark, delivered a presentation about night photography to the Mile High Wildlife Photography Club. Having a particular interest in the subject I had several exchanges with Dr. Clark afterwards, his insight has been vital for improving my understanding and learning of nighttime photography. Successful night photography is comprised of preparation, execution and post-processing, here are a few useful tips to consider.
Although you can’t always predict Mother Nature, good preparation can increase your chances that she’ll help you get that perfect shot. Some useful sources are: • The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) photoephemeris.com• ClearDarkSky.com (predicting cloud cover, transparency, seeing and darkness)• Stellarium Planetarium desktop software (stellarium.org)• Unites States Navel Observatory (searchable moon and sun database)• NOAA Predicted Geomagnetic Index (aurora probability check) • POES Aurora Satellite Image Check (position of current aurora oval).
Not surprisingly, to capture a desired image a fast lens of F2.8 or less is ideal for enabling more flexibility with ISO and exposure. A fast lens is especially helpful to effectively capture meteors, where you only have a fraction of a second worth of light available.
Full frame DSLRs are inherently better at minimizing the noise at high ISO’s because of their large pixel and sensor sizes, however, advances of noise reduction software, such as Lightroom, Topaz DeNoise or Nik Dfine, allow photographers to increasingly push their ISO settings. A built-in-camera long exposure compensation can be useful for reducing noise as well. With too short of exposure you’ll be unable to acquire enough light to effectively capture all of the stars, stellar dust, airglow, etc. Long exposures will cause star trails, if this is desired be aware that star trails that are too short will make the stars look blurry, making stars appear larger than they should be. An example of this is shown below.
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Milky Way 36 sec @ f3.5, ISO 3200 Milky Way zoomed 100%36 sec @ f3.5, ISO 3200
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Make Simplicity Part Of Your Photography By Russ Burden
Monday, November 8, 2010
Make Simplicity Part Of Your Photography By Russ Burden
While discussing recommended exposures with Dr. Clark, he clarified that the real limiting factors are the focal length, exposure and camera sensor pixel size (pixel pitch). During long exposures, for example, the light received on the sensor from a star will transition from one pixel to the next as Earth rotates relative to the stars. The following table captures the estimated exposure times with respect to pixel pitch and focal lengths for a few common Canon and Nikon cameras.
Using mirror lock-up, a remote shutter release and a sturdy tripod are essential tools to help mitigate against camera movement impacting the recorded image. Because of the limited light, manual focus on a bright object in the distance is recommended. If longer exposures are desired, but star trails are not, then additional equipment such as the AstroTrac may be used. Alternatively, star trails can be a very creative lighting technique making for wonderful photos. Long star trail photographs are usually stitched together using hundreds of 30-second exposures with software like Adobe Photoshop, Startrails.exe or Image Stacker. Post-processing can be subjective, but be mindful of the white balance because the sky is really warm from the dust in the atmosphere, green airglow, etc. Some great examples can be found on Dr. Clark’s website, clarkvision.com.
Regardless of the photography equipment you have, you can still take exciting nighttime photos. So go out there, try to capture the night and have fun with it!
Camera Model Pixel Pitch (µm)Exposure
@10 mm (sec)Exposure
@14 mm (sec)Exposure
@18 mm (sec)Exposure
@22 mm (sec)
Canon 70D 4.1 16.91373 12.08123571 9.396516667 7.688059091Canon 7D 4.3 17.73879 12.67056429 9.854883333 8.063086364Canon 5D MkII 6.4 26.40192 18.85851429 14.66773333 12.00087273Canon 5d MKIII 6.25 25.783125 18.41651786 14.32395833 11.71960227Canon 1D MkIII 7.4 30.52722 21.80515714 16.95956667 13.87600909Nikon D7100 3.9 16.08867 11.49190714 8.93815 7.313031818Nikon D300s 5.5 22.68915 16.20653571 12.60508333 10.31325Nikon D3X 5.9 24.33927 17.38519286 13.52181667 11.06330455Nikon D600 5.9 24.33927 17.38519286 13.52181667 11.06330455Nikon D3 8.4 34.65252 24.7518 19.2514 15.75114545
Equations1) Size of 1-Pixel (arc-sec) = 206265 (arc-sec) * Pixel Pitch (microns) / (1000*Focal Length (mm))
206265 (arc-sec) = 360*60*60 / (2*pi)2) Time for 1-Pixel Star Travel (sec) = Size of 1-Pixel (arc-sec) / 15 arc-sec per time second3) Estimated Time (sec) = 3 * Time for 1-Pixel Star Travel (sec)
Visit Neal Fedora’s blog at: http://nealfedora.com/wp/blog/category/photography/t
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Scenic — Club1st Steve Harbula Strength Amid Turbulence2nd Werner Baumgartner Bristlecone Pine Sunrise3rd Jeanne Frasse Momentary Calm in the SerengetiHM Steve Harbula Sylvan BeautyHM Ken Winner The crack...
Wildlife — Club1st Sandy Walden Suncatchers2nd Steve Harbula Curious Critters3rd Thomas Redd May I have This Dance?HM Werner Baumgartner Elk Family out for a Sunday StrollHM Todd Christensen Mom & Baby Share Loving LookHM Jeanne Frasse AgamaHM Gary Lawrence Bath TimeHM Bob Stocker Sibling RivalsHM Nancy Stocker Great Blue Heron Mating Ritual
June Competition ResultsJudge: Colleen Miniuk-Sperry
To view all winning images please visit the beautiful galleries on the MHWPC website.
© Steve Harbula
© Sandy Walden1st Place
1st Place
Art Wolfe Lecture Seminar: “The Art of Composition”July 13, 2014 • 10AM – 3PM
History Colorado Center Auditorium • Denver Camera club 15% discount code DCC2014
For more details phone 206-332-0993 and visit www.artwolfeworkshops.com
2014 PSA Annual International ConferenceSeptember 27 – October 3, 2014
Albuquerque Marriot • Albuquerque, New MexicoRegister before July 1st, 2014, to avoid additional late fees
www.psa-photo.org/index.php?2014-psa-conference
Photography Events
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Wildlife: Captive or Controlled — Club 1st Richard Seeley Desert Phantom2nd Karen Frame Cheetehs - Male Bonding3rd Steve Goodman Two Finger PickingHM Todd Christensen Whachoo Lookin’ at Willis?
Wildlife — Masters1st Charlie Summers Icelandic Gull Arguement2nd Russ Burden Preening Pelican Reflection3rd Rob Palmer Male American Kestrel with MouseHM Russ Burden Snarling MommaHM Barbara Fleming Stepping High
© Charlie Summers
© Richard Seeley1st Place
1st Place
Wildlife: Captive or Controlled — Masters1st Mary Paetow Feather Fandango2nd Rob Palmer Goshawk & Sharptailed Grouse3rd Fi Rust Harris’ Hawk Coming in for Landing
Scenic — Masters1st James Hager Triple Wings2nd Bob Karcz Perfect Morning3rd Charlie Summers Grounded Ice Block
© James Hager
© Mary Paetow
1st Place
1st Place
June competition results continued...
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Mentors for MHWPC Members
The objective of a club mentoring program is to encourage interaction between members, on a more personal level, with the intent of sharing expertise for improving photography skills.
To build the mentoring process we need members to volunteer as mentors and members who wish to have a mentor. The process for mentors can be as simple as looking over images and helping decide which images look best, to helping shoot images in the field and/or helping with editing skills. We want to make mentoring as simple and as interactive as the participants want, therefore, each case will be different.
Who should sign up to be a Mentor? Anyone who has a heart to help others improve. We all have something to offer and it will be a very rewarding experience.
Who should sign up to be mentored? Anyone who desires to get become a better photographer.
Contact Bob Cross if you are a member that is interested in being mentored or mentoring – just email a quick note to [email protected]. Include a simple list of your strengths and/or weaknesses and any contact information you wish to share. This way we can begin to start setting up and encouraging mentorship groups. Those groups can be one on one or small groups depending on what works best for the mentors.
Flickr Group The club has set up a Flickr group that can be used by any member that would like to get comments or critiques on images. This is set up as a public group
so anyone with a Flickr account can post to it, if you do not have a Flickr account you can set one up for free at http://www.flickr.com. Once you have a Flicker ac-count find the group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/mhwpc/, then, join the group and feel free to post constructive comments and/or add photos you wish to have comments on. Since this is a public site, as a safe guard we have moderators to check for any content not consistent with appropriate club postings. We do ask that images that may be submitted for a future club competition entry not be put on the group site, this is to protect the anonymity of the photographer. Feedback on the Flickr site is welcomed.
If you are a Facebook user please consider ‘liking’ our page, www.facebook.com/MHWPC. The more ‘likes’ the club’s page receives the better known
we will become. Spread the enthusiasm by sharing this page with your friends and family that appreciate great wildlife and nature photography!
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Image Size for Competition Submissions
The club will start taking full advantage of the Canon digital projector by using larger image files for competitions beginning with the May 2014 competition. Images shall be prepared according to the following specifications:• Image Size: up to 1400 pixels wide by 1050 pixels high• ColorProfile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 – make sure to check “Embed Color Profile” in the file
Save As dialogue box• File Format: JPEG with embedded color profile• JPEG Image Quality: 10 or less for Photoshop (Save As...) or 80% or less for other methodsJPEG Image Quality is being used to create reasonably-sized files instead of a KB limit so that images with a different number of pixels (portrait versus landscape) and images that compress differently (relatively smooth or uniform versus extremely detailed) will have similar image quality. Active club members may view the effect of JPEG image quality on some sample images at www.mhwpc.org/members/jpeg_samps.php.
Competition Schedule www.mhwpc.org/info/competition.php
Month Type Submissions
July Wildlife, Scenic, Scenic WMW June 12 through July 5August Wildlife, Scenic, Creative July 10 through August 9Sept. Wildlife, Scenic, Wildlife CC August 14 through September 6Oct. Wildlife, Scenic, Scenic WMW September 11 through October 4Nov. Wildlife, Scenic, Creative October 9 through November 8
Monthly Competition Guidelines
Monthly competitions are open to all club members and are divided into two levels:• Club for the general membership• Masters for veteran club members whose past history of competition entries has demonstrated
their photographic abilities at an extremely high level.The Wildlife and Scenic categories are part of each competition. The Wildlife CC (Wildlife Captive or Controlled), Scenic WMW (Scenic With Minimal Wildlife) and Creative categories alternate.
Competition Rules
Images submitted in categories other than Creative may be enhanced or changed using any of the tools available in a post processing graphics editing program, except one cannot copy or significantly alter the primary subject or primary parts of the image in any way, nor can one import items from another image. The intent of the original image must be maintained. Images may be color, black-and-white, or toned (i.e., sepia). There are no post processing restrictions for the Creative category. Creativity is encouraged.
Up to three images may be entered by each member, with a maximum of two in any one category. If in doubt about the suitability of an image for a particular category, bring the image to someone on the competition committee for their recommendation prior to entering it. If approved, it may be entered into a subsequent competition. Contact the competition committee. Entries that do not receive an award (1st, 2nd, 3rd, or HM) may be re-entered in future club competitions.
Entries must be submitted according to the Digital Image Submission Guidelines.
Monthly MHWPC Competition InformationREFER TO www.mhwpc.org/info/competition.php FOR COMPETITION CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS.
Important Notice from MHWPC Newsletter EditorFinal Publication – Volunteer Needed
The MHWPC 2014 newsletter issue, December - Volume 38, No. 12, will be the final club newsletter until another club member(s) volunteers to take over the newsletter editor task of providing month by month news relative to the club and its membership.
If you are a MHWPC member interested in volunteering as the club newsletter editor understand that newsletter content can be as simple and creative as you choose, providing it adequately targets our membership.
Here are a few guidelines I have followed as your newsletter editor. Perhaps this will help you decide if volunteering as editor is right for you:
• Write monthly meeting summaries and include upcoming program descriptions.• Write previews of monthly programs, separate from summaries found on the club
website, and obtain permission for use of images.• Contact guest speakers when program information is not readily available.• Acquire and edit articles submitted by club members and non-members.• Understand the critical nature of plagiarism and copyright infringement.• Provide a calendar of club events that includes both the main meeting and digital
meeting, club competition deadlines, newsletter input deadlines, field trips and board meeting dates when available.
• Collect and include bragging rights and other club information such as dues, treasury reports, refreshment volunteers, library news, links to club social media web pages, monthly competition results, field trips, etc.
• Routinely update workshop and tour advertising requests from club members and advertising submittals from guest speakers when presented.
• Include news of local photography events and exhibits, of interest to nature/wildlife photographers.
• Work within a professional publishing software program and convert each document to a usable PDF format.
• Downsize image files as necessary to adhere to overall PDF file size limitations.• Update repetitive information as required, i.e. competition category definitions.• Upload newsletters in a timely fashion and send out relative announcements.• Attend officer and board meetings, when possible, and offer input.
If you’d like to volunteer as the club Newsletter Editor contact any one of the Officers or Board members listed on the “Contact Information” page of this July newsletter.
Thank you to all members of MHWPC, as well as readers that are non-members, that have expressed appreciation and graciously contributed to the content of past newsletters. If you would like to assist with the newsletter for the remainder of 2014 please send a message to [email protected].
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Guest Speaker Promotion
Guest Speaker Promotion
MUSIC MEADOWS RANCH PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPDan Ballard Photography September 5 - 7, 2014
http://danballardphotography.com/ranches-wet-mountain-valley-colorado-photography-workshopView all Dan Ballard workshops at http://danballardphotography.com/Photography-Workshops
Two award-winning guidebooks by professional outdoor photographer and writer, Colleen Miniuk-Sperry, help you create your own treasured photographs in Arizona and Arcadia no matter your camera or skill level.
Books may be purchased at the MHWPC June meeting, cash or charge only (no checks).
eBooks and autographed books may by ordered at: www.analemmapress.com
Russ Burden’s Photography Tours [email protected] phone 303-791-9997 2014 Schedule• Colorado Wildflowers & Alpine Scenery, July 12 - 18• Glacier National Park Tour #1, July 24 - 30• Glacier National Park Tour #1, July 31 - Aug. 6• Mt Evans and Garden of the Gods, Aug. 23 - 29• Tetons and Yellowstone NP, Sept. 24 - Oct. 3• Hunts Mesa (Monument Valley) and Capital Reef• National Park, Oct. 14 - 19• Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks, Nov. 1 - 7• Bosque Del Apache / White Sands Natl. Monument (Full moon on Dec. 6), Dec. 6 - 12
2015 Schedule• Florida Birds: Everglades / Fort Myers / West Palm, Feb. 21 - 25• Tanzania African Safari, Mar 31 - Apr 11, 2015• Tanzania African Safari, Apr 14 - Apr 25, 2015Expert photo instruction from two professional photographers. Two vehicles with highly experienced drivers, doubling our chances of spotting animal action and interaction. Critiques daily so you’ll have tips and hints how to photograph all subsequent sessions. Expert Photoshop and Nik instruction will be provided. I provide in depth instruction using flash when we’re in the field in addition to some camps where we’ll make close ups of birds.• Monument Valley / Slot Canyons, May 9 - 15, 2015• Oregon Coast - 10 day trip, May 24 - June 2, 2015 • Arches + Canyonlands National Parks (To Be Determined)
Workshops and Tours offered by MHWPC Members
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Workshops and Tours offered by MHWPC Members
James Hager Photography www.JamesHagerPhoto.com 720-219-4248Tanzania in February 2015• 3 full days in Ngorongoro Crater• 10 days in Serengeti National Park• only 3 photographers per vehicle• learn more at JamesHagerPhoto.com/tours/tanzania_feb15.php
Gorillas in February 2015 / Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda• 5 days of mountain gorilla trekking• learn more at JamesHagerPhoto.com/tours/gorillas_feb15.php
Rita Summers [email protected] phone 303-840-3355Tanzania: February 24 – March 11, 2015Sixteen day safari visiting Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti at the height of the wildebeest migration.We will be staying in Serena Lodges and camping in private luxury tents. $7420 includes all in-country transportation, accommodations, meals, park fees and even tips for driver/guides, camping staff and waiters.
Barbara Fleming [email protected] phone 719-332-9875Honduras: March 2015Fi Rust and I will again lead a workshop to The Lodge at Pico Bonito where we will photograph the birds and wildlife of Northern Honduras.
Tanzania:The Serengeti April 11 – 22, 2015Come join me to experience and photograph one of the most magical and dynamic destinations in Africa. The Serengeti ecosystem in April is full of new life with plenty of action as the Migration lingers in the southern and central areas of the park. You will not be disappointed! Price is $7,500.00 per person.
Botswana: September 20 – 30, 2015This tour will focus on the African Wild Dog during their denning season. We will be able to spend time with and photograph the dogs with new pups and will also follow them on their hunts. The location will be in a private concession area of Northern Botswana which will allow us to drive off road. There will be an optional two day extension (there is an additional cost to this) to photograph Meerkats in the Kalahari Desert.
Cathy & Gordon Illg’s Adventure Photography [email protected] phone 303-237-70862014 Schedule:• South Dakota / Badlands, September 7-12• Alaska Eagles, November 2-7 or 3-8• Arches & Canyonlands National Parkst, December 2-7
Dawn Wilson Photography www.dawnwilsonphotography.com phone 970-567-6109Polar Bears in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Kaktovik, Alaska September 21 – 26, 2014
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Mile High Wildlife Photography ClubVolunteer Contact Information
President Bob Stocker [email protected] 303.759.4056
Vice-President To Be Determined
Treasurer Sam Fletcher [email protected] 303.688.5107
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