InFocus NewsletterJuly 2019

Photos in this issue are from last month's 'Open' competition.

Happy Fourth!

Here’s hoping you had a great Fourth of July. We are in for hot sunny days, alpine wildflow-ers, BBQ’s with the neighbors, family vaca-tions, hanging out by the pool...ah, summer.

Make sure you have a pocket sized camera with you everywhere you go. Lots of great photo opps with family and friends happen in summertime.

Winning Images...

Our Open competitions bring out a great vari-ety of image subjects and styles.

See them here.

In This Issue

Winning Images......................................2

Program & Competition Meetings. 3

June ‘Open’ Competition Results....4

Photo Contests.......................................5

Local Photo Opps & Events...............5

Frame #37.................................................6

Focus Camera Club Officers and Committee members

Officers

President: Clint Dunham

Vice President: Joe Bonita

Treasurer: Kim Ross

Secretary: Bill Williams

Committee Chairs & Members

Executive: Clint Dunham, Joe Bonita, Kim Ross, Bill Williams and the Committee chairs listed below

Competitions: Larry Hartlaub & Dave Hull

Programs: TBD

Membership: Gwen Piña

Special Projects: Dick York

Newsletter/Website: Karl Peschel

Our MissionThe purpose of the Focus Camera Club is to further its members’ enjoyment, knowledge and mastery of photographic skills through cooperative efforts and fellowship.

Focus Camera Club Monthly MeetingsMeetings are held the Second Friday & Fourth Wednesday of each month. Our meeting place is Lone Tree Civic Center, 8527 Lone Tree Pkwy, in Lone Tree. Meetings start promptly at 6:30 PM and will end by 9:00 PM after we breakdown the chairs and tables in the room. Get a Google Map by clicking here.

Cuban taxi In waiting by Gwen Paton

InFocus – The monthly newsletter of the Focus Camera Club July 2019

Winning Images...

There were a great mix of images in our last competition. Here are some of the winners.

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InFocus – The monthly newsletter of the Focus Camera Club July 2019

Program & Competition Meetings

Program Schedule Competition Schedule

07/12/19 Program –"Who Needs Color? Seeing In Monochrome” by Mike Stebritz

07/24/19 Subject – Flowers

07/31/19 Member Critique meeting

08/09/19 Program –“Low Light & Night Photography” by Joe Klocek

08/28/19 Subject – Vehicle / Transportation Details

09/13/19 Program – TBA 09/25/19 Subject – Night Images

July 12 Program with Mike Stebritz

It’s about learning to see in black and white. It asks the question, “How exactly, does a person with color vision in a full-color world “see in black-and-white”?

Mike Stebritz is a log-time member of the Denver Photographic Society and is also their webmaster.

This Month's Competition is Flowers

The official definition: Images of any type of flower, groups of flowers, abstracts of flowers, etc. See the General Information listed on our website for editing and print-making.

Judge will be Jesse McLaughlin

If you need the Competition Entry forms or the template for the stick-on labels, you can get both from the Focus website on the Competition Rules page.

July 31 Member Critique

If you want more feedback on your images in a small group, conversational setting, plan to attend the July 31st meeting. As tradition goes, this meeting will be a “critique session” where we’ll break into small groups, share images and discuss how they might be improved.

Bring 1-2 images (printed or electronically) that you can easily pass around to members of your group. We will meet at the same time (6:30pm) and same location as regular meetings.

Critique sessions are a great way to build confidence for entering competitions and an opportunity to learn from your talented peers. See you there!

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Pursuit by Oz Pfenninger

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June ‘Open’ Competition Results

Media Artist Image Title Score

f5.6 Digital William Williams Chair to Nowhere 9

William Williams Running Water 9

f8 Digital Shawn Slade The Armadillo 9

Ernie Kuemmerer Big Blue 10

f11 Color Carl Paulson Steadfast Illumination 9

Digital Bill Dickson We Can do This! 9

Larry Hartlaub Don't Worry, Be Happy 9

Sam Alexander Kind Wisdom 10

Sam Alexander Foggy Morning Color Burst 10

Ally Green Masai Mara Sunrise 10

Dave Hull Spring Runoff 10

Gwen Paton Cuban taxi In waiting 10

f16 Color Cliff Lawson Once a Marine, Always a Marine 9

Gary Witt Working Hands 9

Gary Witt The In-Between 10

Digital Travis Broxton along the thames 9

Brian Donovan Resting Gladiator 9

Butch Mazzuca Eyes of the huntress 9

Butch Mazzuca Mountain Shadows 9

Nancy Myer Historic Ixworth Windmill, Suffolk, England 9

Oz Pfenninger Pursuit 9

Dick York The Mill 9

Joe Bonita Black Harbor 10

Joe Bonita Ridge Hikers 10

Travis Broxton streetlight crooner 10

Brian Donovan Mountain Train Station 10

Dan Greenberg Intersection of Land, Sea and Sky 10

Danny Lam Royal Gorge 10

Todd Lytle Stonehenge Sunrise 10

Mary Paetow The Boardwalk 10

Gwen Piña Bountiful View 10

Dick York The Dunes 10

Monochrome Travis Broxton Rainy Day Woman #9 & #19 9

Danny Lam The Art of Aging 9

Cliff Lawson Yeah, That Was 75 Years Ago 10

Judge for this competition was Paul Weinrauch. See all the winning images in the Online Gallery.

Remember to send your winning Print images to Webmaster@FocusColorado.com for the online galleries. And please use the same naming conventions and image sizes as we do for Digital Submissions.

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Photo Contests

The Sublime Landscape

Deadline: July 31st, 2019

Juror: Laura Valenti

The sublime landscape is defined as having the quality of such greatness, magnitude or intensity, whether physical, metaphysical, moral, aesthetic or spiritual, that our ability to perceive or compre-hend it is temporarily overwhelmed. According to aesthetic philosophy, sublime landscapes can in-clude any of five visual components: 1) great ideas, 2) passion, 3) the appropriate use of figures, 4) the right aesthetic diction, and 5) a skillful composi-tion.

Visit the Praxis Arts Center (Minneapolis) website for details and to submit your images.

American Photography Open

Deadline: August 31, 2019

Welcome to American Photography Open 2019, our competition to celebrate the best pictures submitted by world-wide photo enthusiasts taken with any device.

For over 30 years American Photography has been holding a juried competition for pro photographers. Now with the proliferation of so much great photography taken by everyone we are celebrating our second year of of-fering a new competition for photo enthusiasts at all levels.

Visit the AP Open website for details, submissions, prize info, etc.

Local Photo Opps & Events

Colorado Dragon Boat Festival

Come for the races, the food and entertainment, or the cultural experience. Join Colorado's annual cele-bration of Asian and Asian American heritage with the biggest Dragon Boat Festival in the US!

When: July 27th & 28th, 2019

Races: Sat & Sun, 8AM-6PM Stages: Sat 12-7PM, Sun 10AM-5PM

Marketplace and Food: Sat 10AM-7PM, Sun 10AM-5PM

Visit the Dragon Boat Festival website for details, parking info, and the schedule of events.

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Bountiful View by Gwen Piña

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Frame #37

A collection of extra tidbits I've discovered during the past few weeks.

— Winners of the NatGeo Travel contest for 2019 have been announced and images posted on the NatGeo site. Go have a look.

— Photographers get gear obsessed. Mostly from social and online pressure. You don’t need the newest or most expensive gear to make great images. Read this, and pay attention to item #7.

— “Picturesque Lake Popular on Instagram Actually a Chemical Waste Dump” Yeah, that’s a real headline on a real post online. Apparently. Some people only care about getting Likes on photos and are not worried about trespassing, possible health concerns, etc.

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”

– Lewis Hine

Kind Wisdom by Sam Alexander Historic Ixworth Windmill, Suffolk, England by Nancy Myer

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