Mission To encourage and help members to achieve high quality images of wildlife and scenic subjects. The Club offers the fellowship of nature photographers, promotes education, personal growth, and the enjoyment of photography.
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Match Grun will present a program on High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. Check out his gallery of imagery on his web site here.
Originally born in England, Match has lived in Malaysia, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa. Match worked in the gold mines of South Africa and later switched to software engineering. Match moved to the United States with his family in 1994. After spending a few months in New Jersey, the family settled in Colorado. Software engineering continues to be the day job.
Match’s first encounter with a camera was a Kodak (with 120 film). Later he graduated to an Instamatic that started the path into photography. At school, Match was introduced to the darkroom by a fellow student. “It was amazing to experience an image appearing during development process. From that point, there was no turning back.”
“In South Africa, I was briefly a member of a photographic club. Here was the first opportunity that I had to show my work to fellow members. The quality of my images improved. However, I soon tired of the competitive nature of the club scene.”
“I have always been fascinated by the natural world – the wildlife, the grand landscape, the intimate landscape, the abstract. Also fascinating is the urban landscape that man has helped to create. My focus is to attempt to capture the landscapes.”
“I have always enjoyed sharing and exhibiting my work. Prints are an ideal medium for showing one’s work. Much better than projection of transparencies in a dark place! I had produced monochrome prints in the wet darkroom. Color prints were just too complicated to produce. I had ceased to do any darkroom work prior to leaving South Africa. However, with the advent of the digital photography revolution, producing prints became so much easier.”
“Here in the western United States, we are fortunate to have some of the most unique, beautiful and diverse landscapes on planet earth. While discovering the landscape around us, I have attempted to capture this beauty to share with others.”
Match has been an active member with the Denver Digital Photography Club for the last 5 years. It is here that Match became actively involved in the sharing and teaching photography related topics to fellow members and other clubs. He has given many presentations that include panoramas, HDR, infra-red and monochrome prints. Recently, Match has also run informal workshops on Lightroom and Photoshop.
During 2010, Match started and completed “Project-52″, where he shot, processed and uploaded images to his blog on a weekly basis. Images were taken at many locations and have been posted at: http://matchgrun.com
Match and his wife Angela live in Englewood, Colorado, with their two cats Punkin and Jasper. They have two daughters, Susan and Nicola. Match can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
 XNMA03 10_2051 On January 20th, CNCC will have Weldon Lee present: The Wild Horse: Symbol of the American West
Mr. Lee will present a program about the wild horse, their origins and the problems they are facing in today’s world. You’ll learn how he is using his images to help protect them, which in turn will give other photographers ideas on how they can use their images for the preservation of wild places and the protection of our wild brothers and sisters.
Weldon Lee Wildlife Photographer, Writer, & Photo Tour Operator
 Weldon & Diana - © Randy Wegener Weldon Lee travels around the globe to the world’s most exotic locations photographing wildlife and capturing the essence of their personalities in his images. He has a special way of communicating with animals and his images depict that relationship.
Weldon’s work has been exhibited in the Denver Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. A University of Northern Iowa photography professor ranks Weldon among the top five wildlife photographers in North America.
Weldon’s early work focused on wildlife in the Rocky Mountains. His first book, Watchable Birds of the Rocky Mountains, initially published in 1992, contains over 50 photographs depicting a cross-section of the avian species found throughout the Rocky Mountains. Erwin and Peggy Bauer, friends and lifelong wildlife photographers, had this to say about his second book, “No region of North America offers so many opportunities for wildlife photographers as the Rocky Mountains. No one has ever described its wildlife and captured their natural beauty so thoroughly as Weldon Lee in A Guide to Photographing Rocky Mountain Wildlife.”
Weldon’s images and articles have appeared in numerous magazines including Mature Outlook, National Wildlife, Backpacker, National Parks Magazine, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Outdoor Photographer, Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic, and Nature Photographer. In addition, his photos illustrate text and natural history books by Macmillan, Westcliffe, Falcon Press, and Roberts Rinehart to name just a few. Weldon’s work has been featured on all the major television networks including ABC, CBS, and NBC.
In January, 1995, Weldon was elected Chair of the Education Committee of the North American Nature Photography (NANPA) and served three years in that capacity. In addition to being a charter NANPA member, he is also a member of Rock Mountain Outdoor Writers & Photographers and in 2007 received that organization’s Selected Works Award for Excellence in Photography. The American Bald Eagle Foundation recently honored Weldon as the 2010 Photographer of the Year.
“Unless we act now, many wildlife species face extinction during this century,” proclaims Weldon. “Hopefully, others will feel the passion I have for our wild brothers and sisters and will motivate them to become involved in wildlife preservation. Maybe, just maybe, my photography and writing will be the tipping point necessary to make that happen.”
Henry David Thoreau wrote, “In wildness is the preservation of the world. ” Let us cherish and protect those wild places and the creatures that inhabit them.”
Together, we can save our wild brothers and sisters. The time to act is NOW!
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Our November presenter is Richard Van Pelt presenting - of this special place – photographs of local natural history.
I remember seeing Boulder for the first time, over sixty years ago. My father was driving west, cresting the hill at Legion Park on Arapaho Road. Through the windshield of the car was framed a community set within a special landscape. This was, to my memory, my earliest appreciation of a landscape, of place, and it was beautiful.
I have lived within sight of this locality all of my life. It is my home in the fullest sense that I can know. The pictures that I have made here are informed by those histories, understandings, and memories that accrue from living settled and in place.
As documents of natural history, these photographs do not proclaim toward some fact; they are, rather, a telling-in-shapes whose truths are formal and conceited. The meanings of the pictures are appropriable and general – they are, after all, pictures: poetic and whimsical.
In viewing these photographs you may notice an evenness to the way they look. In all of them, the viewpoint is human and the rendering is literal. I want the pictures that I make to be clear and authentic; they should be readable and trustworthy, well formed in shape and idea. A responsible pride, and trust in the practice of my craft, brings me to the expression of this involvement – the made object, the print itself. It must compel its own autonomous existence, and be fitting and worthy of this special place.
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Our October presenter is Rich Wolf who will present Panoramic Colorado: Capturing Giant Vistas. Rich will demonstrate his techniques for creating very large panoramic images of Colorado’s natural world. He will walk through the process from multiple image capture and rendering through post processing and printing.
Rich attended the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Northwestern University, where he received a B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E degrees in 1966 and 1968. He was employed by Bell Laboratories from 1966 to 1998 where he toiled in the research and development world of communication technology. His interest in photography goes back as far as he can remember. As a teen growing up in Brooklyn, he converted his closet into a darkroom which suggests both his interest in photography and the quality of his wardrobe in high school. Thanks to digital photography he has his closet back!
His current photographic adventures are motivated by living in the most beautiful place in North America. He moved here 6 years ago and soon discovered that every genius photo he took had been taken thousands of times. Then he realized that when it comes to Colorado photography, bigger is the way to avoid clické. Now he specializes in large nature panoramas. His work can be viewed at Wolf Gallery and he also writes a hiking blog, Tales from the Trail.
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Russ Burden will present an entertaining slide show entitled Majestic Icons of the US. The show is comprised of images from four of the locations to where he leads nature photo tours in addition to a lot of wildlife photos from his tours and his own travels. Set to music that accompanies his slides, the blend of songs to photos allows the viewer to escape life’s worries and temporarily get lost in the images and song.
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About Russ Burden
Russ is the owner of Russ Burden Nature Photo Tours and runs workshops around the country to the best locations at the times they appear in their utmost glory. His stock work is sold through Photo Library and often shows up in magazines and advertisements around the world. Russ teaches classes of all levels for the Panasonic Digital Photo Academy in addition to writing all the curriculums for the national program. Russ has been published numerous times in Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, and Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic. He writes a weekly Photo Tip and a monthly Photoshop column for TakeGreatPictures.com. He has two books to his credit. Russ is a multiple time winner of the prestigious Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice Award in the Art In Nature category in addition to the Backyard Habitat category. He also won Highly Commended honors in a number of other categories. As a result, his images have appeared in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
Natural Treasure: Photographing Open Space Habitat Conservation Areas
 Thicket Hairstreak butterfly - Long Canyon HCA
 White Evening Primrose - North Foothills HCA
Boulder is located at a biological crossroads: along the Front Range, where the ocean of Midwestern prairie crashes into the Rocky Mountains. Plants and animals from both East and West mingle here, as well as rare and unique species. The city’s OSMP department has designated Habitat Conservation Areas (HCAs) as a way to protect places that provide a home to some of Boulder’s rarest and most sensitive creatures, including some trees and flowers so unusual that they are found nowhere else in Colorado!
Join naturalist Dave Sutherland for a slideshow tour of these special places, and learn how you can visit and photograph their beauty while protecting them for future generations.
 Male bobolink singing - Tallgrass West HCA
 Striped Chorus Frog, Cottonwood HCA
 mali niger river sunset and herons  mali tessit sunrise 25 Glen Delman is our May program presenter.
Glen’s recent travels took him to West Africa, to the countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal. Traveling by motorcycle, on top of cargo trucks, buses, boats and overcrowded buses, Glen went to visit the nomadic Fulani, camel herding Tuaregs and cliff dwelling Dogon people who inhabit one of the most raw, difficult regions on earth, the Sahel. This region that borders the Sahara desert has only 2 to 3 months of rain, can have temperatures soar above 100 degrees almost year round, and blinding sandstorms. Come get a glimpse of life in this harsh environment.
 False Kiva Bob Maynard launched Colorado Plateau Photo Tours in 2008 specializing in photography tours and workshops in the Desert Southwest, primarily around Moab but also getting into some of the more exotic, out-of-the-way ruins in Southern Utah such as Moon House, Horse Collar and Bear Paw. He’s added Colorado-based workshops for 2010 and does one day, one-on-one workshops around Boulder and in Rocky Mountain National Park. His 2008 Desert Southwest exhibition was featured in 2009 at Boulder’s Highland Gallery and in the Wright Kingdom Gallery. His 2009 exhibition, The Colorado Rockies: Sunsets, Sunrises and Reflections is currently featured at the Wright Kingdom Gallery. Bob likes to joke about being “the low-tech photographer”, shooting a 10 mpx Nikon D80. His slide presentation will include examples from his 2008 Costa Rica Series, 2008 Desert Southwest series, 2009 Colorado Rockies series and the just-completed 2010 Florida Everglades series.
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 Morning Glow Mondragon Fine Art Presents: The Hybrid work flow from exposure to print.
Carl Mondragon will be discussing the Hybrid work flow he uses to create Natural Resource Fine Art. This includes the complete Analog capture combined with a Digital back end. He will include discussions on the 6 film formats he shoots for various jobs from 35mm – 8×20.
He will also be presenting a slide show of 90 images taken with the Hasseblad 6x6cm camera and the famed Zeiss 350mm Superachromat lens! This combination will be at full resolution equal to a 130 Megapixel camera! This is the same size film used in a IMAX presentation and will not be hindered by the limitations of a digital projector.
When the slide show is complete he will give a demonstration of the Large Format 8×10 film camera he uses for the ultimate in landscape photography. The demo will include the numerous camera movements available to control depth of field, perspective and composition.
The presentation will conclude by opening the floor to any analog, digital or workflow questions the group may have.
 Click to Enlarge We’ve been invited to a wonderful opportunity to hear renowned photographer / scientist James Balog talk about his Extreme Ice Survey photographic project that tracks glacial recession around the world. He will also facilitate a Q&A session.
What
James Balog
Extreme Ice Survey
Multi-media Presentation with Q&A
When
Thursday, March 4, 7:00pm-8:00pm
FREE & open to the public.
Where
Coronado High School Auditorium
1590 West Fillmore Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80904
Map
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For more information about James Balog’s work, please visit:
James Balog website -or-
Extreme Ice Survey website.
For more information about James’ exhibition in Smokebrush Gallery, or other upcoming exhibitions or projects:
SmokeBrush.org website.
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