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June 2014 Volume 38, No.6 www.mhwpc.org MHWPC N ews MHWPC Meeting located at The Wildlife Experience • 10035 Peoria St., Parker, CO M i l e H i g h W i l d l i f e P h o t o g r a p h y C l u b Wild About Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:00 PM C olleen Miniuk-Sperry, co-author and photographer of the award-winning guidebook, Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers A Guide to When, Where, and How, brings to MHWPC an exciting presentation aimed at taking your flower photography to the next level. Miniuk-Sperry’s program will include photography featured in her Wild in Arizona guidebook. Attendees will learn practical resources to help predict when and where the wildflower, cactus, shrub and tree blooms will occur throughout Arizona; notable locations in Arizona in bloom; and wildflower-specific techniques for capturing memorable landscape and macro photographs of this ephemeral event no matter the location or time of year. Colleen Miniuk-Sperry is a full-time outdoor photographer and writer whose publication credits include National Geographic calendars, Arizona Highways magazine, calendars, and books, Outdoor Photographer, AAA Highroads, AAA VIA, Smith-Southwestern calendars, and many other outlets. In late 2011, she co- authored, Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers, A Guide to When, Where, & How. Her second guidebook, Photographing Acadia National Park: The Essential Guide to When, Where, and How, released in early February 2014. She also serves as an enthusiastic photography instructor for Arizona Highway Photography Workshops, Maine Media Workshops, The Nature Conservancy, Through Each Others Eyes, and private clients. Colleen is an active Associate of Through Each Others Eyes (TEOE) and a Board Member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA). To learn more, visit www.cms-photo.com. © Colleen Miniuk-Sperry Guest Speaker: Colleen Miniuk-Sperry C

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June 2014 Volume 38, No.6www.mhwpc.org

MHWPC News

MHWPC Meeting located at The Wildlife Experience • 10035 Peoria St., Parker, CO

Mile High Wildlife

Photography Club

Wild About Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:00 PM

Colleen Miniuk-Sperry, co-author and photographer of the award-winning

guidebook, Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers – A Guide to When, Where, and How, brings to MHWPC an exciting presentation aimed at taking your flower photography to the next level.

Miniuk-Sperry’s program will include photography featured in her Wild in Arizona guidebook. Attendees will learn practical resources to help predict when and where the wildflower, cactus, shrub and tree blooms will occur throughout Arizona; notable locations in Arizona in bloom; and wildflower-specific techniques for capturing memorable landscape and macro photographs of this ephemeral event no matter the location or time of year.

Colleen Miniuk-Sperry is a full-time outdoor photographer and writer whose publication credits include National Geographic calendars, Arizona Highways magazine, calendars, and books, Outdoor Photographer, AAA Highroads, AAA VIA, Smith-Southwestern calendars, and many other outlets. In late 2011, she co-authored, Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers, A Guide to When, Where, & How. Her second guidebook, Photographing Acadia National Park: The Essential Guide to When, Where, and How, released in early February 2014.She also serves as an enthusiastic photography instructor for Arizona Highway Photography Workshops, Maine Media Workshops, The Nature Conservancy, Through Each Others Eyes, and private clients. Colleen is an active Associate of Through Each Others Eyes (TEOE) and a Board Member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA). To learn more, visit www.cms-photo.com.

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Annual Membership Dues$35 Individual • $10 Additional Family Member • $15 Students 21yrs & under

Renew club dues by sending your payment to:Sam FletcherAttn:MHWPC

11831 E. KokomoFranktown, CO 80016-8562

Current members: please update your account and contact information on the MHWPC website.

A Warm Welcome for New MHWPC MemberDavid Topping

Snacks and Beverages June Meeting: Ken Winner, Bob Cross

July Meeting: Chuck Winter

TWE Exhibit: H2 Ohhh!Exhibit dates: May 10 – July 6

During the break at our June monthly meeting, club members and guests will be able to view the twenty-six photographs competitively selected by MHWPC for the The Wildlife Experience museum H2 Ohhh! exhibit.

Library NewsLibrary items will be available at the June meeting. Please stop by during the break to browse our items and check out any of the books, magazines or dvds.

Karen Fiant, Librarian

JUNES M T W TH F S

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Club Meeting

Club Field Trip

Club Digital Meeting

Board MeetingXNewsletter Input Deadline

Club Competition Submission Deadline

JULYS M T W TH F S

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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

Interactive session with live demonstrations. Everyone is invited to bring a photo on a flash drive to the meeting. One of the experienced members of the group will apply their magic to the photos using Photoshop, Elements, Nik, On One, Topaz, etc. It can be worked on as a fix OR brought to a new version for the OPEN cat-egory. All members will see in real time, what goes on to make a photo presentable for a slide show, competition, or to be hung on the wall.

MHWPC Upcoming Programs7:00 to 10:00 PM at TWE

June 11, 2014 Colleen Miniuk-Sperry and Paul Gill, Authors/PhotographersTitle: Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers

This program will integrate the presenter’s award-winning guidebook about photographing Arizona wildflowers. The program will cover techniques for including wildflowers in landscape images and macro photography of flowers.

July 9, 2014 Blaine Harrington III, Travel PhotographerThis program will be in conjunction with an exhibit of Blaine Harrington’s work that will be on display at The Wildlife Experience.

More information about this MHWPC program to be announced at the meeting.

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.

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May Club Field Trip: Belmar Park

Ten club members met at Belmar Park, in Lakewood, May 17th, for another nice MHWPC field trip. May has proven to be an extraordinary month for bird photography around Belmar Park’s Kountze Lake with two nests of avocets, young killdeer, nesting great blue heron and cormorants. Also, several families of ducks and geese with their young were easily accessible.

Neal and Justin

Roger

Chuck

Bob, Lara, Chuck and Steve

Werner, Chuck, Bob, Steve and LaraFred, Werner, Chuck, Steve and Dale

Photos courtesy of Fred Krampetz, Lara Hardesty and Chuck Winter

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Upcoming MHWPC Field Trips

Saturday, June 21, 2014 Mount EvansWeather permitting as road must be open all the way to the top of Mt. Evans.Field Trip contact: Chuck Winter [email protected]

Contact Steve Harbula [email protected] if you are interested in a sunrise shoot. Steve will be at the Dinosaur/Wooley Mammoth Park-n-Ride at 3:45AM, the carpool will leave for Mt. Evans at 4:00AM sharp. Those interested in a post-sunrise shoot will meet Chuck Winter and leave at 6:00AM.

Carpool: The group will carpool from the RTD Park-n-Ride, Dinosaur/Woolly Mammoth Lot, located at the NW area of I-70 and Hogback road (Hwy 93). 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 Dinosaur Lot.

We will look for marmots, mountain goats, bighorn sheep and maybe ptarmigan. If planning to join this field trip please email 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.

Dinosaur Lot Park-n-Ride

GOOGLE MAPS

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May MHWPC Program Summary

Our May program featured travel and landscape photographer, Dan Ballard. The driving point of Ballard’s presentation was that HARD WORK and PRACTICE are key to creating outstanding images and key to what makes a great photographer.He discounted the notion of inborn “talent” using Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as an example, a child prodigy who had in fact been tutored incessantly by his music teacher father at a very early age. Analogically, Ballard insists that for a photographer to have a “good eye” and create good images there is simply no escaping the thousands of hours of practice required to produce meaningful work.

To emphasize this point Dan willingly showed us many of his early “bad” images.Using this approach in his presentation we were shown side by side images of the same scene accompanied with an explanation of what made one image better over another, along with the thinking process used to create the images. Important points covered by Ballard included: working with good light; simplifying images to include minimal elements; learning to distinguish the difference between design elements and composition; using design concepts to create balance in composition; continually looking closer at the world and being critical of every element in our images. Once these practices become ingrained a good photographer will know when it feels right to “break the rules.”

Barbara Fleming has a two page spread of her three Raccoon Kits image published in the 2014 April/May issue of National Wildlife Magazine.

Barbara also had two images chosen, Snowy Owl and Saddle-billed Stork, into the Top 100 Gallery of the 2013 National Audubon Magazine photography contest.

Bragging Rights

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Roxborough Park State Park Photo Hike & Class“How to Photograph Wildflowers Close Up”

June 21, 2014 • 9AM - 11 AMThis hike will be led by MHWPC member Derald Hoffman, Naturalist and

photographer at Roxborough State Park for the last five years.$7.00 State Park fee and registration required • Class size limited

Meet at the visitor center • Phone 303-973-3959 to reserve your spot.

4th Annual Colorado Photography FestivalJune 7 – 14, 2014

American Mountaineering Center • Golden COOptional field workshops and classes also offered.

For more information and registration visit:www.coloradophotographyfestival.com

Washington Park Photo ContestDeadline for photo entries June 8, 2014

More information can be found at:www.fanswashingtonpark.org/2014-photo-contest-1.html

National Geographic Traveler Photo ContestSubmissions deadline June 30, 2014

www.travel.nationalgeographicmagazine/photo-contest/2014

The Butterfly PavilionJune 7, 2014 7:45 AM • Tripod photography before doors open to public.

June 21, 2014 8:30 AM Macro Photography Class with Bob KrugmirePre-payment and pre-registration required www.butterflies.org

6252 W. 104th Avenue • Westminster, CO

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 and Opportunities

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N’gurro & Mama Kali Storyby Butch Mazzuca

We were out on a late afternoon game drive and hoping to see a lion hunt. We were in luck because the Enkoyeni pride, a pride comprising 8 adult females, 10 sub-adults and two huge

pride males hadn’t eaten in a few days and they were hungry.

It was shortly before sunset and we were watching the Enkoyeni pride, watching a herd of about 500 wildebeests on a ridgeline. The lions were taking up ambush positions when our guide Pingua suddenly became very agitated and exclaimed, “They’re going to die; they’re all doing to die.”

Our guide, Ping was referring to the two nomadic lionesses and their three young cubs that had wandered between the wildebeests on the ridgeline and the stalking lions.

The two lionesses were well known in the area as “scrappers,” having had many violent encounters with other lions. The Massai named them N’gurro (Short Tail in Swahili) and Mama Kali (Fierce Mother.) No one really knew which of the three cubs belonged to which lioness, but in lion families, sisters will often assist in raising each other’s cubs.

“N’gurro” had part of her tail bitten off (hence the name “Short Tail”) in a fight with other lions some time back and was known not to back down from fights, even when outnumbered. And on this evening, the odds were 18 against 2.

When the Enkoyeni pride spotted the two interlopers with their cubs we knew there would be no wildebeest hunt. The big pride immediately changed direction and began moving towards the intruders when something very strange happened.

Instead of running and leaving the Enkoyeni pride’s territory, N’gurro and Mama Kali turned to face the 18 pursuing lions and initiated an attack. Ping surmised N’gurro and Mama Kali knew that if they ran away, their cubs wouldn’t be able to keep up and would surely be killed by the Enkoyeni pride.

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The fight was in a word, horrific and something I’ll never forget. Mama Kali took on 12 of the rival pride while N’gurro charged the rest. The fight was over within minutes, and when it ended, Mama Kali was mauled and would never leave the spot where she lay, but N’gurro and the cubs escaped into the adjoining territory of the Moniko pride.

Being caught between two rival territories had always kept the two nomadic lionesses (and their cubs) in great jeopardy, as lions are most protective of their territories. And without a pride male to protect them, the two lionesses and their cubs were always at risk.

However, in this case, being so close to another pride’s territory was a blessing because as much as the Enkoyeni lionesses wanted to kill N’gurro and the three cubs, they weren’t about to cross the imaginary line and encroach upon the Moniko pride’s territory.

The image seen above was taken the day after the fight and as you can see, the young cub was still terrified as evinced by his body language (one paw over N’gurro’s.) We left Kenya the next day and assumed the other two cubs that were now missing had been killed in the melee.

But shortly after returning home, the camp manager emailed a photo of N’gurro and all three cubs. While no one knows for certain, the local guides suspect one of the Moniko pride males fathered N’gurro’s cubs and therefore was allowing them to remain in the relative safety of his territory so long as they didn’t approach any of the Moniko pride females.

Scenic — Club1st Jeanne Frasse Serengeti Sunrise2nd Robert Lieber Monument Valley Sunrise3rd Neal Fedora Footprints in the SandHM Werner Baumgartner False Klamath Cove Beach SunsetHM Tammy Hammond TranquilityHM Richard Seeley Morning Mittens

Wildlife — Club1st Steve Goodman Gotcha2nd Larry Thompson Blue Heron3rd Dawn Wilson All Views CoveredHM Robert Lieber Female Wood DuckHM Butch Mazzuca Evening StalkHM Terry Mieger AttackHM Thomas Redd Great Bule Herons Nest BuildingHM Bob West Quad MomHM Ken Winner Lunch time . . .HM Richard Seeley Hawk Owl Hover

May Monthly Competition ResultsJudge: Dan BallardTo view all winning images please visit the beautiful galleries on the MHWPC website.

© Jeanne Frasse

© Steve Goodman1st Place

1st Place

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Creative — Club 1st Tammy Hammond Blood Moon Spires2nd Nancy Stocker Oropendola at Sight of Frog3rd Terry Mieger Old Man of the Forest

Wildlife — Masters1st Roger Clark Touching the Water2nd Russ Burden Cheetah Stretch3rd Fi Rust Red-eyed Tree FrogHM Richard Goluch Greater Prairie Chicken FightHM James Hager About To Drink

© Roger Clark

© Tammy Hammond1st Place

1st Place

Creative — Masters1st Rita Summers Zebra and Wildebeest Gather2nd Roger Clark Lunar Eclipse Composite

Scenic — Masters1st Cathy Illg White Sands Pre-Sunrise2nd Cathy Illg Night Snow3rd Gordon Illg Shape of the WindHM Rob Palmer Double Rainbow

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© Rita Summers

1st Place

1st Place

May competition results continued...

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Mentors for MHWPC Members

Seeking Newsletter Editor Volunteer

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 account 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 have an interest in volunteering as the MHWPC Newsletter Editor please contact Tammy Hammond at [email protected] for more information.

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Image Size Change 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• Color Profile: 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

June Wildlife, Scenic, Wildlife CC May 15 through June 7July 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 6

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.

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Workshops and Tours offered by MHWPC Members

Russ Burden’s Photography Tours [email protected] phone 303-791-9997 2014 Schedule• Tetons and Yellowstone NP, June 14 - 20• 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

Cathy & Gordon Illg’s Adventure Photography [email protected] phone 303-237-70862014 Schedule:• Wildlife Babies, June 15–18• Scotland Birds & More, June 20-July 1• 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

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.

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Guest Speaker Promotion

Guest Speaker Promotion

Guest Speaker Promotion

Guest Speaker Promotion

Club Meetings are held at 7:00 PM on the second Wednesday of each month, located in the theater of The Wildlife Experience (10035 South Peoria • Parker, CO) unless otherwise stated. Meetings end at 10:00 PM, or earlier depending on the agenda. Visitors are always welcome.

Digital Training Meetings are held from 7:00 – 9:30 PM on the fourth Wednesday of odd numbered months. The meetings are open to paid members only. The Digital Training meetings are held in the Classroom or Great Hall of TWE, dependent on planned events.

MHWPC Newsletter submission deadline for the July 2014 newsletter is Monday, June 30th.

Sarah Marino is offering MHWPC members a 15% discount on her newly released e-book, Beyond the Grand Landscape: A Guide to Photographing Nature’s Smaller Scenes. Visit her website at www.naturephotoguides.com and enter the code MHWPC at check out. This eBook discount may be applied to her co-authored Death Valley and Iceland location guides as well.

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

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Mile High Wildlife Photography ClubVolunteer Contact Information

President Bob Stocker [email protected] 303.759.4056

Vice-President Chris Frazier [email protected] 303.356.2399

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