Englewood Camera Club Newsletter Vol 63, No 10 October 2015

Editorial method a bit toward the other side. If you’re usually by RAF, try to be a little more free and spontaneous. If Brenda Frezeman you’re RFA, slow down a little and concentrate more on the composition. See how the change in style “Ready, aim, fire.” vs “Ready, fire, aim.” affects your images. Which style shooter are you? If you return from a few hours of shooting with 100-200 images, you’re likely in the first group. If your memory card is jammed with 400+ images and you have a cramp in your trigger UPCOMING MEETING finger, it’s a pretty sure bet that you’re of the latter The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, persuasion. Both styles have their advantages and October 13th at the Lutheran Church of their drawbacks. the Holy Spirit in Centennial. Dan Ballard will discuss techniques to create inspired and Photographers following the “Ready, aim, fire” powerful images. method are slower and more deliberate. They plan the composition before they press the shutter and The competition subject is Colfax Ave (within have little, if any, cropping to do later. They diligently one block) & PSA Creative. practice border patrol, making sure there are no extraneous elements at the edges of the viewfinder. Taken to the extreme, though, this group may be a bit too deliberate, missing out on any quick-breaking action and perhaps not fully experiencing the joy of INSIDE... the moment. Club Information & Officers...... 2 “Ready, fire, aim” shooters are quicker and more spontaneous. They shoot as the spirit moves them Presentation Recap...... 2 and don’t worry too much about what the final crop will be. Able to switch to a different subject Competition Winners...... 3 very quickly, they’re likely to capture the unforeseen and unplanned moments. But they have a lot of Outings, Events & Photo Ops...... 4 processing work to do once they get home, sorting Photo Destination...... 5 through hundreds of images to find the diamonds in the rough. And by not analyzing the composition Out and About...... 6 before shooting, they may sometimes miss the best angle. Competition Information...... 8

Try an experiment the next time you go out shooting. Whichever group you’re in, vary your shooting

CLUB PRESENTATION RECAP INFORMATION Apropos to the season, our September presenter, Englewood Camera Club has been serving south Andy Long, discussed ways to change our perspective Denver and the foothills since 1952. The club is a in shooting fall color. In addition to shooting a member of Photographic Society of America and hillside of yellow aspen trees, consider these options: Colorado Council of Camera Clubs. • Abstracts -- Try in-camera multiple exposures. MONTHLY MEETINGS Most cameras have controls to accommodate this Unless otherwise specified, meetings are held on and will calculate the proper exposure for the the second Tuesday of the month at number of shots desired. Andy recommended six the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 exposures as that number has given him the best S. University Blvd, Centennial. Meetings start at results. For other interesting effects, try moving the 7:00pm. camera during a long exposure or zooming while the shutter is open. MEMBERSHIP DUES Individual- $30, Student- $20, Family- $45 • Clouds -- include clouds in your images to add layers and texture. If you’re shooting at sunrise or ECC OFFICERS FOR 2015 sunset with colorful clouds, underexpose by 1/3 stop President: Dick York to saturate the colors. VP Programs: Steve Johnson • Isolation -- get close and eliminate everything VP Competition: Larry Stearns that doesn’t add to what attracted your eye. Another VP Meetups: Quade Smith way to isolate a subject is with contrast. Andy Secretary: Merlin Peck Treasurer: Tony Hober showed an example of one green pine tree amidst a large group of yellow aspen. APPOINTEES FOR 2015 • Layers -- Look for layers to add depth to your Membership Chair: Susan Propper image. Receding hilltops are great. Publicity Chair: Steve Johnson Hospitality Chair: Jim Esten • Leaves -- Do some macro shots of leaf details. Score Keeper: Larry Stearns Try to find backlighting for interesting effects. Council Reps: Billie Campbell & Quade Smith • Panorama -- For a different perspective, try a PSA Rep.: Fred Luhman panorama. Hold your camera vertically to capture Web Master: Rod Troch more information. Andy recommends Panorama Photo Editor: Billie Campbell Factory as an easy-to-use software option for Newsletter Editor: Brenda Frezeman stitching the images together. Projectionist: Fred Luhman Executive Committee Members-At-Large: • Snow -- if you’re lucky enough to get snow along Lee Urmy & Ellie Colitti with fall color, it will provide tremendous contrast. • Structures -- Look for old barns and other WEBSITE www.englewoodcameraclub.net dilapidated structures to provide additional interest to wide views. EMAIL ADDRESSES General Questions ...... [email protected] Submitted by Brenda Frezeman Program Suggestions...... [email protected] ...... or [email protected] Membership...... [email protected] Newsletter Contributions [email protected]

2 CLUB COMPETITION– SEPTEMBER 2015

Thanks to Andy Long our judge for this month’s competition. The subject was Open.

MONOCHROME PRINT 1 Blaine Blaesing Just Hangin’ Around 2 Joe Razes Serenity 3 Brenda Frezeman Window to the Future

COLOR PRINT 1 Larry Stearns Waterfall Lace 2 Joe Razes Boy in a Balloon 3 Dick York The Mittens Just Hangin’ Around HM Brenda Frezeman Remains of the Day by Blaine Blaesing

DIGITAL PROJECTION 1 Lee Urmy Sunflower Sunset 2 Tim Kathka A Lesson in Urban Geometry 3 Dick York How Small We Are HM Blaine Blaesing Car Show HM Fred Luhman Out for a Stroll

Waterfall Lace by Larry Stearns

Sunflower Sunset by Lee Urmy

3 OUTINGS. EVENTS & PHOTO OPS

PUMPKIN PATCH & CORN MAZE Now through October 31st HANDMADE IN COLORADO Denver, CO October 3rd & 4th Rock Creek Farm will have three large corn mazes Boulder, CO and a100-acre pumpkin patch. It’s located at 2005 S This event will be held in the 1100 to 1400 blocks 112th St in Broomfield and is open 9am to 6:30pm of the Pearl St Mall from 8am to 4pm daily. It will daily but may close for inclement weather. For more showcase Colorado’s best fine art and contemporary information and directions, visit www.rockcreekfarm. crafts in a variety of mediums such as metal, paper, com/plan-a-visit/hours-and-directions glass, fiber, food, fabricated objects, clay, paint, wax, Submitted by Lee Urmy gems and more. More info can be found at http:// handmadeincolorado.com. Submitted by Lee Urmy PHOTO MEETUP – ELK VIEWING October 3rd WOMEN’S RANCH RODEO ASSOC WORLD FINALS Estes Park / RMNP October 16th The group will depart Denver at 9:00am from Loveland, CO RTD park n ride at 4300 E Colorado Center The second time this event will be held in Colorado, Drive for Estes Park in search of elk and it will be at the Ranch Events Complex at 5280 fall colors. Car pooling is suggested. Contact Arena Circle in Loveland. Admission is $10 per Quade Smith to sign up. performance or $25 for all three events. For more info, visit www.womensranchrodeo.org/ Submitted by Lee Urmy

ELK FEST EMMA CRAWFORD COFFIN RACES October 3rd & 4th October 24th Estes Park, CO Manitou Springs, CO The 18th annual festival will be held in Bond The 21st annual race runs from 12pm to 4pm. The Park. In addition to the elk wandering around the 195-foot race includes teams of five--four pushing town, there will be bugling contests, elk seminars, a and one in the coffin--all dressed in costumes. Visit Mountain Man Rendezvous, elk viewing bus tours, www.manitousprings.org for more info. crafts and a beer garden. For more info, call 800- Submitted by Lee Urmy 443-7837 or go to http://visitestespark.com/events- calendar/special-events/elk-fest. Submitted by Lee Urmy

ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FIESTA Cctober 3rd - 11th Albuquerque, NM This is a big event that draws a huge crowd. Over 700 balloons are expected. It’s a long drive but interested members may be able to carpool. For more information, go to www.balloonfiesta.com. Submitted by Lee Urmy

4 PHOTO DESTINATION – Caribou Ranch in Boulder County

Nederland, Colorado is home to a gem of a park: Getting there: From the CO 93/CO 72 junction Caribou Ranch in Boulder County Open Space. (about eight miles north of Golden), follow Coal This gently rolling terrain is easy walking – top Creek Canyon (CO 72) west to Nederland. At the elevation gain for the park is less than 500’ and roundabout—the CO 119 junction—continue west on some trails are even less. The park offers 2151 acres CO 72 for two more miles. Turn left onto CO 126 at with wetlands, the sign for Caribou Ranch Open Space. Follow this meadows, good dirt road for 0.9 miles, and then turn right into streams, and the obvious parking lot. forests. A bright red barn on Logistics: Caribou Ranch Open Space is closed each the property year from April 1 through June 30 to protect wildlife, is a favorite of including calving elk and their offspring. Dogs and photographers, mountain bikers are not permitted. especially this time of year when the aspens are Photo by Tom Giordano changing.

Caribou Ranch offers a glimpse into music history. Music producer James William Guercio built a recording studio that attracted many well-known artists. Elton John, Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, and Amy Grant all recorded there. The studio was damaged in a fire in 1985.

We have enjoyed Caribou Ranch in the fall Photo by Pam Giordano and winter. There are wonderful aspen views, multicolored foliage near the creeks, and trees and fences. We’ve seen moose in the area. It’s an easy For more information: http://www.bouldercounty.org/ snowshoe during the winter months. os/parks/pages/caribouranch.aspxws

Photo by Pam Giordano

5 OUT AND ABOUT

FALL COLORS AND STRANGE SOUNDS The bugling starts early in the morning, drops off Everyone associates fall with cooling temperatures and then begins again in the evening, but it can be and the color changes taking place in the trees. heard all day long. The other interesting thing is to Deciduous trees in particular start to move sugar watch a dominant bull do his lip curling and tasting. from their leaves to their root for storage and food He puts his head down and curls his lips up to help during the winter. These sugars leave at different him catch the scent of a female is estrus, which times and from different layers within the leaf and signals she is ready for mating. You will also see thus provide us with beautiful shades of colors him sticking his tongue out, especially if he is close ranging from greens to yellows, oranges and reds. to a cow. He may even go over to her and lick her The only thing that can change the developing colors rump. He is checking on her condition, to see if she and how long they last is weather and disease. Here is ready for mating. in the west we have a predominance of aspen and cottonwoods that change. With unfavorable weather These things happen every conditions, aspen can get brown spots in the leaves, year from mid-September which is generally caused by disease. Another to mid-October and are condition that is commonly seen is black leaves wonderful to view and hear. or leaves with black edges, which indicate a hard There are two places near freeze. These leaves will not develop a golden yellow Denver where you can find color. One other factor to be aware of is wind. High both aspen and elk. Rocky winds, common in the Rocky Mountains, can blow all Mountain National Park is the leaves away in a single night, leaving a patch of the most famous and has Photo by Lee Urmy naked white trunks and branches. Timing is critical hundreds of elk in and out in viewing and especially photographing them. of the park, including the town of Estes Park. Ask a ranger at the entrance, they know where Something else in nature takes place at the same the elk are and will tell you. The other place is time as the leaf change in the fall. This is rut Evergreen and its neighbor, Bergen Park. Both have season for elk (wapiti is the Indian name for them) an abundance of elk, but they are harder to find. in which the males are competing for the females. The dominant bull will gather his harem of cows If you have never heard an elk bugle, go to http:// and defend them from all other bulls. It is this time soundbible.com/tags-bull-elk-bugle.htm to hear of year that the wapiti come down from the high them. country to mate with the cows that are ready. Many Submitted by Lee Urmy odd actions and noises occur at this time and it very interesting to see and hear. In fact people CHARGING BULLS come from Steve Johnson journeyed to RMNP as well, and hundreds of captured images of bull elk along with cows and miles away just calves. This is a very large seven-point bull. He to hear the elk charged a lady that got bugling. The way too close to him. bugling serves People with cell phones as a challenge put themselves in a lot to other bulls of danger trying to get and to keep Photo by Lee Urmy close to wildlife. the ladies in line. Photo by Steve Johnson 6 OUT AND ABOUT

Just before this LITTLETON SUNSET image was taken, Matthew Wert recently captured this colorful sunset the calf was over the South Platte River in Littleton. He’s been separated from his notified that he mother. She had will again have a stayed behind while photo in the City of this calf joined the Littleton’s annual bull and part of his calendar. He’s also harem on the meadow side of the road. This calf was taken photos of crying out for its mom. aspen at Boreas Pass but hasn’t had The first bull had a harem of about 25 cows. Only 12 time to process them Photo by Matthew Wert of them went over into the meadow with him. As soon yet. Stay tuned. as he was over in the meadow, another bull came into the area and started rounding up the females left on THE BENEFITS OF INSOMNIA the hillside. Lee Urmy recently woke up at 5:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep. Rather than tossing and turning, he On the same day as decided to drive to Red Rocks for a possible sunrise the elk photos, Steve shot. He definitely picked the right day to have captured this image of insomnia! And he processed the image and sent it out fall color taken near all before breakfast. Brainard Lake. He’s already sold a print of it! Photos by Steve Johnson

SIGHTINGS NEAR GRANBY Steve has been quite busy this month! He was in the Granby area over Labor Day weekend and found osprey, hawks fox and pronghorns.

Photo by Lee Urmy

COOL CLASSICS Blaine Blaesing visited the Clive Cussler Car Museum in Arvada, along with Brenda Frezeman, Lee Urmy and Cathie McLean. He’s convinced he should become a mystery writer... in order to afford even one of the Photos by Steve Johnson many classic cars on display.

Photo by Bliane Blaesing 7 ECC COMPETITION INFORMATION

ECC MONTHLY 2015 COMPETITIONS your image entries as e-mail attachments directly Month Subject to [email protected], thus bypassing the club January Open + PSA Creative website. Images sent directly to the projectionist February Open + PSA Open MUST adhere to the following requirements. March Creative + PSA Creative • Filename format: Last name_First name-Title.jpg April Open + PSA Open For example: Luhman_Fred-Boat_Wake.jpg (This May Sunrise/Sunset is the same format the club website upload page June Mechanical generates automatically.) July Nature (PSA def - no hand of man) • Resolution: not to exceed 1024 pixels in width August Night and not to exceed 768 pixels in height. September Open + PSA Open • Indicate which image is for PSA, if applicable. October Colfax Avenue + PSA Creative November Open + PSA Open PSA INTERCLUB COMPETITIONS December End-of-year judging On select months, six images will be selected by the judge to represent ECC in one of of seven You may submit a total of four photographs each competitions for the 2014-2015 season. ECC month, with no more than two entries in any one participates in the PID Open (four competitions) and category. The categories are monochrome prints, PID Creative (three competitions). See the website’s color prints, and digital projection. Competition Information for further details.

Detailed information and instructions for club YEAR END COMPETITIONS competitions are posted on the club website at www. The Year-End and Versatility Competitions are englewoodcameraclub.net. Click on the Competition presented during the year-end banquet. A panel of Information tab, then the Membership Information three judges will determine the awards. document. REGULAR YEAR-END COMPETITIONS PRINTS Entries must have been entered in the ECC For color and/or monochrome prints, fill out two monthly competitions during the current calendar photo entry forms. Blank forms are available at year; however, they need not have won an award. http://www.englewoodcameraclub.net/cgibin/ Entries for digital and prints may be submitted in competitions.cgi. Attach one entry form to the back each of the following categories: Monochrome Prints: of the print in the upper left corner and show the Nature-3 entries, Open-3 entries image’s orientation. Give the other form to the Color Prints: Nature-3 entries, Open-3 entries scorekeeper. Digital Projected: Nature-3 entries, Open-3 entries

DIGITAL PROJECTED IMAGES VERSATILITY COMPETITION Submit up to two JPG image files for the monthly The versatility competition subjects for 2015 are: competition and one image for the PSA Creative Wind Pink (no flowers) competition via the Digital Projection Monthly Rust A Meeting Place Upload page of the club website no later than Friday, Sky October 9th. Entries have no time limit and need not have been submitted in a monthly competition. However, no If the projectionist receives the images, he will send image that was part of a group of versatility images an e-mail reply indicating OK. If you do not receive that won an award in a previous versatility competition can be entered. an OK e-mail reply within a day or two, then send 8