Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be at the Pin & Cue Bowling Alley in Whitefish, MT. at 6:30PM Thursday, January 12th, 2012.

Minutes from August by Adele Scholl.
We had a nice holiday meeting last month with our gift exchange.

Gordon Sullivan a well know writer, photographer, and workshop teacher from Libby will do a presentation on his work and book ideas for January meeting.

Gary will show images from Bosque del Apache, in the South were thousands of Sandhill Cranes stop during their migrations.

Jerry and Rhona Meislik will do a presentation of images from their journey to Africa for the February meeting. They are both very talented photographers and I am looking forward to seeing their shots.

Dee Blank showed the club some of her images from a hike to Jackson Glacier. Incredible look into a hard to reach area of the park.
Jane showed some images from summertime in Glacier National Park.
Sandy finished off the images with some nice flower and follage shots and a couple of nice barn shots too.

Lyle Olson has completed a website (www.Larchfire.com) which is mainly photos and perspectives of Eastern Traditions, but also has photos from the West. 1200 photos. There is also the start of a photoblog (www.Larchfireblog.com) that is mostly stories and photos from India, plus some from the West. And Facebook gives an outlet for stuff I don't know what else to do with.

Wishing you quality time.

More than 20,000 photographs, from over 130 countries were submitted to the National Geographic Photography contest, with both professional photographers and amateur photo enthusiasts participating. The grand prize winner was chosen from the three category winners: Nature - Shikhei Goh, People - Izabelle Nordfjell, Places - George Tapan. Shikhei Goh, of Indonesia, took the grand prize honors with his amazing photograph of a dragonfly in the rain and will be published in the magazine. The competition was judged on creativity and photographic quality by a panel of experts composed of field biologist and wildlife photojournalist Tim Laman, National Geographic photographer Amy Toensing and National Geographic nature photographer Peter Essick. The winning submissions can be viewed at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/. - Paula Nelson

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01/national_geographic_photograph.html?s_campaign=8315