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.
Independence Lean-to
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.
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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
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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.
Community Ditch, Marshall Mesa
Michael McCrea will present at the February 2010 CNCC meeting this Thursday. He is a Realtor and lives in Boulder with his wife Jessica and daughter Sara. He has a background in film and television production and has lived in Los Angeles for 18 years.
His recent focus with photography has been 6×9 black and white pinhole landscapes of the ditches around Boulder County. Some of these were in the Ditch Project at the Dairy Center last year. He will share images from this portfolio and discuss the benefits and challenges of shooting with a Zero Image pin hole camera as well as the options for printing these images.
Gregg Lowrimore spent a cold December evening photographing the lights of Denver’s City and County Building in Downtown Denver.
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