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PHOTO CLUBhttp://flatironsphotoclub.orgFebruary 2016

Competition WinnersAmong winning photos in the Flatirons Photo

Club’s February competition were, clockwise from top: Gliding, by Cal Whitehall; Dive! by Peter Bandurian; Lone Pine by John Kieffer; and Beartooth Falls by Kent Copeland. The judge was Bob Maynard.

FLATIRONS PHOTO CLUB

Robert Morrissey featured speaker March 10

NEWS AND NOTES

Commercial photography director also is author of iPhone bookRobert Morrissey, director and executive

photographer of Morrissey and Associates, a Longmont-based commercial photography organization, will be the featured speaker at the Flatirons Photo Club meeting and com-petition at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 10, at Har HaShem Synagogue in Boulder.

Morrissey is the recipient of numerous awards from Canon and Kodak and is a Phase One featured photographer. Published internationally more than 100,000 times, he holds a degree in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute and has more than 25 years experience in the field. He has been published in almost every photographic genre and style there is.

Morrissey also is the author of iPhoneogra-

phy Pro: Techniques for Taking Your iPhone Photography to the Next Level; Commercial Photographer’s Master Lighting Guide; and Master Lighting Guide for Commercial Photographers.

His company specializes in product pho-tography, medical photography, 4K video

production, portrait photography, fashion photography, catalog photography, advertis-ing photography and food photography. His national clients include: FDC Chassis, Golite, Albertsons, Kraft Foods, Horizon Dairy, Pearl Izumi, Celestial Seasonings, Case Logic, Devilbiss Medical, Novocol, Sunrise Medical, Longmont Dairy, Ultimate Elec-tronics, Sony, Olympus Cameras, Chimera Lighting, Schneider Optics, GE, Disney, Kyocera, AJA, University of Colorado-Den-ver, University Colorado-Boulder, University of Missouri, KACI, and more.

His company website is at http://www.morrisseyphoto.com and his Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/Robert-Mor-rissey-Collection-62327716796/.

Flatirons Photo Club member Mia Mes-tagh is organizing a club trip to the Monte Vista Crane Festival from March 11-13.

Each spring, some 20,000 Sandhill Cranes arrive near Monte Vista for a two-month stop before migrating to their breed-ing grounds further north.

The festival includes guided sunrise and sunset bus tours, full-day photography workshops (limited to 8 peiple each day), as well as workshops, movies, expert pre-

sentations and a craft fair.Monte Vista is located in the San Luis

Valley in Colorado and is about a five-hour drive from Boulder. Suggested lodging is at http://mvcranefest.org/lodging-and-dining/.

More information as at http://mvcrane-fest.org or email Mia at mmestdag@ya-hoo.com.

The photo above was taken by Mia during last year’s Crane Festival.

Monte Vista Crane Festival March 11-13CRANE FESTIVAL: Some 20,000 Sand Hill Cranes stop in Monte Vista every spring on their way to breeding grounds further to the north.

DARKROOM PHOTO GALLERY CONTEST OFFERS $1,000 PRIZE: The Darkroom photo gallery in Longmont is sponsoring a photography competition with a $1,000 cash prize for first place, cash prizes for second and third place, honorable mentions and an exhibition. The theme is “Architecture. Structure. Form.” and is open to entries nationwide. The judge is national award-winning architec-tural photographer Kate Zari Roberts, who has been a presenter and judge at Flatirons Photo Club meetings. Submissions are ac-cepted from March 1st through April 18th. See the Darkroom website for exhibition dates and guidelines at http://thedarkroom-longmont.com/photo-contest/.

•CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR NCAR GAL-

LERY: Artists interested in a solo or group exhibition in the two public galleries of the National Center for Atmospheric Re-search (NCAR) in Boulder will be selected on Saturday, April 16. Individuals inter-ested in submitting their work for consid-eration may register via http://scied.ucar.edu/exhibits/community-art-program. The deadline for registration is April 11 at 5pm. There is no fee.

•SPECIAL TOPICS COMPETITION

SCHEDULE: The Special Topics for the Flatirons Photo Club monthly competitions are: March 10: Boulder Flatirons; April 14: Macro; May 12: Trains; June 9: Birds; July-August: NO meeting; September 8: Mem-bers Show; October 13: Bicycles; Novem-ber 10: Fall Colors; December 8: Year End Competition.