Denver photographic society www.denverphotosociety.org Applewood Valley United Methodist Church 2035 Ellis Street Golden, Co February 2016 Newsletter editor Hello everyone and welcome to the February issue of the Denver Photographic newsletter. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and a great start for 2016. The board had a planning meeting on January 5 to discuss future events for the upcoming year, that is, field trips, assign subjects, and topics for our program night. On January 7 fourteen members came and voted for events for 2016. The assign subjects this year will be : Fog/Soft Focus, Reflections, Old/Weathered Wood, and Fruits/Vegetables. Plan on bring your slides on the first Thursday for the months of February, April, August and October. This year we plan on having 9 field trips throughout the front range and a few trips in Colorado. Mark your calendars for the Swap meet on May 1st and September 25th. Our Scavenger hunt will be in Idaho Springs on September 17th. Also that evening talk about the new voting machine that we will use this year. Like to thank Terri Kindsfather for volunteering for managing and handing out the ribbons for the winning images. January 14 we had our competition night 16 members attended. Dee Beneda gave us an update on Cheryl Bokros, she is doing much better (God speed Cheryl). We used the new voting machine with a few hiccups, it went smooth toward the end of the meeting. Billie Campbell was the judge for the evening and gave us good and honest critiques. Like to thank Mike and Brandi Stebritz for furnishing the snacks. We had a new guest this evening, Dick Hatz, welcome Dick, hope you will attend future meetings. Page 1 of 5
Winning Print Images Foggy Morning at The Arsenal Pam Mono images #12 closeup Brandi Stebritz Mandarin Color images Stairway to Heaven Comical Horses Creative images Page 2 of 5 Dancing Water Jets
Winning Digital Images A Creepy Motel Super Chief Frank Weinzapfel Dee Beneda Unspoken Wisdom Boots On The Fence Mono images Dingman s Falls Give It To Me Frank Weinzapfel Sunset On A Foggy Day Dee Beneda Catch The Early Flight Color images Disturbed Signal Brandi Stebritz IR Train Creative images Page 3 of 5 Mysterious Lights
Images of Club Members and Prints Events for DPS Please join us for are 1st field trip on January 30th to the Botanic Gardens at 9:00 A.M. They are showcase their annual orchid exhibit, through February 22. On February 4th we will have our slide competition, and program. Our guest speaker and judge for the evening will be, Sonya Shannon, the presentation will be Behind the Art. Here is a short biography of her work. Sonya Shannon is a Canadian-American visionary artist & author. Her work explores mystical subjects through art photography and hand-rendered effects. A classically trained animator (meaning pencil and paper!), her career highlights include special effects on Star Trek III, creative direction at Broadway Video (home of Saturday Night Live }, and a pioneer digital version of Josef Albers Interaction of Color shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Sonya developed the MFA Computer Art degree curriculum at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn) and School of Visual Arts, New York, and has lectured internationally on digital special effects. Early computer art and animation deeply shaped Sonya s decision to use digital tools in a photographically-based cinematic process to create fine art. These influences give rise to lavishly illuminated images that conjure up highly realistic-looking metaphysical realms of imagination and fantasy. Between late April and early August, 2014, Sonya created 40 of the 44 photo-paintings and all of the messages in the Transformation Oracle, a divination tool for reading life s changes. She is currently working on the Crystal Angels Oracle, due out in 2016, and a photographically-based graphic novel about childhood abuse. Sonya lives in Lafayette, Colorado with her husband, the philosopher and artist Timothy Binkley. CONTACT INFORMATION http://sonya-shannon.com - main website http://sonya-shannon.com/oracle - Buy the Transformation Oracle boxed set http://facebook.com/sonyashannonartist - please LIKE! Page 4 of 5
DPS Events cont. Be sure to have your digital images to the web site entries@denverphotosociety.org. February 5th. Make sure your images do not exceed 1024 for horizontal, 768 for vertical and 72 pixel. To learn more visit www.denverphotosociety.org. Our competition night will be on February 11, Nancy Myer will be the judge. Remember the dimensions for matted prints are maximum 16x20 minimum11x14. We will have a field trip on the 20th of February to the City Floral Garden Center at 9:00 A.M. 1440 Kearney street in Denver. Just a reminder that March will be are first assign subject, Fog/soft focus. I hope you all enjoy this month s newsletter and as always you may connect me at schultzjhn@yahoo.com, or on my cell 303-506-1745. Hope to see you all at our events this month, be safe out there. Brandi Stebritz-President - creativefateco@gmail.com -Vice President - sakgr8@gmail.comf Dee Beneda-Secretary - deebee36@msn.com -Treasurer - photoguy34@msn.com -Digital Competition Manager & Council Representative Diana Brent-Member Representative Cheryl Bokros-Website Manger -Newsletter Editor & Assistant Council Representative Page 5 of 5