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March Program

Our speaker for March is John Kieffer. John started his photo career in 1987 as a professional photo assistant, working with top commercial photographers. He has expanded his horizons and now represents their imagery through his stock agency, OutsideImagery.com. John will show nature photos along with some tips and anecdotes, hopefully showing us how to not only increase enjoyment, but have the chance of making money.

Dues

Once again dues are due! Our "fiscal year" runs from March to February. Dues are still $15.00 per family unit (single, couple, family, or whatever). Please renew this month. If you aren't sure, I'll have a list at teh March Meeting! Anyone who joined since last November is covered through the 2010 year.

Monthly Critique Images

Please submit up to 3 images, for normal critique and 1 image for theme. Please remember to size the images to less than 500kB and send them before the meeting (a week is good, not later than the Sunday before) to uwpcimages@comcast.net so we can include them in the monthly program. If you need help on the sizing process, go to the page on our website on “digital submission specs”. The theme for March is animals in winter! PLEASE include your name (not just initials) in the image file name so we can give credit!!!

Field Trips

We are working on the 2010 field trip schedule as well!! We have volunteers to help organize trips. Jim Esten is the primary contact. We'd like to do a March trip to Monte Vista to see and photograph the sandhill cranes. Stay tuned for news!

Glennie Exhibition

On the subject of volunteers, many thanks to Curtis Johnson for taking on our club's possible
submission to the 2010 Glennie Nature Interclub Exhibition. Curtis has been contacting members with information on how and what to submit. Curtis will compile the entries into a short program for March so we can, as a group, decide on our final submission. This exhibition is, as is mentioned in the name, and interclub event. We have never done one of these so it could be interesting and a lot of fun!

Digital Corner

This month I sat down to write the Digital Corner column and had a serious case of writers block. Those of you who know me will be a bit surprised as I'm usually never at a loss for words. I did the usual stuff when I'm searching for a topic, surf the web, peruse my photo library, look through recent copies of photo magazines and so forth. I didn't really get excited about any specific topic so I consulted with my wife! She had a great idea. She suggested that I look into how to do something different with photography besides shoot with the hope of selling images (that does sort of fit with
this month's speaker!). As we talked about that, we reminisced about some of the club's projects over the years. I'm not sure if the folks who have joined over the past few years are really aware of the things that we have done to contribute to the community as a whole. The club did start as temporary group to accumulate photos of a book on Urban Wildlife! That's how we got our name. The book did come to fruition, and rather than disband we moved on to other projects. We did a state-wide children's art contest on urban wildlife, helped the DOW with a code of ethics for watching and photographing wildlife, supported several events at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and a few other things.

That got us to thinking, why not see if we can re-kindle that spirit of community we have so long ago? We all shoot a lot (or hope to), so why not see if we can do something with our images that's unique and is an asset to Colorado? I'm open to just about anything. If you have ideas, pass them on. Nothing is too crazy (well almost nothing - it would have to be legal and match our incorporation rules!). Think about the things you'd like to do, see if a group could do it and more. get back to me either by email or at the March meeting with ideas. the only thing I ask is please write them down on a piece of paper or an index card. I am notorious for writing stuff in my note book and not getting back to it!