The Pagosa Springs Photography Club will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. at the Community United Methodist Church, located at 434 Lewis St.
Feel free to arrive anytime after 6 p.m. to socialize; the program will begin at 6:30 p.m. Our topic this month is “Iceland in Winter,” presented by club member Dave Anderson.
Anderson’s presentation will include photography and description of a trip he took to Iceland last year. Winter presents a variety of unique photo opportunities in Iceland, facilitated by a relative lack of tourists compared to the rest of the year.
In 2025 a normally snow-covered winter landscape in a number of places was bare or had spotty coverage, revealing interesting textures. Normally frozen lakes now accommodated a variety of birds.
For this sparsely-populated volcanic North Atlantic island, some of the most scenic places were coastal, included waterfalls, melting glaciers and ice caves, rural farms, small fishing villages, features along the mid-Atlantic rift, and moss-covered lava fields.
The capital, Reykjavik, has a mixture of modern architecture (e.g. the glass concert hall Harpa), more historic buildings (e.g. the Hallgrimskirkja), Swiss chalet-style houses, rows of pastel houses and art-covered buildings.
The talk will include images from a tour around the ring road mainly at the periphery of the island.
Photography club members are invited to bring up to five recent images to show and discuss with the group following the presentation.
This meeting will also be available on Zoom. Club members will receive the Zoom link via email. If you’re not on the list, you can request it by emailing abutler@mac.com.
February Virtual Shutter Therapy
For February, the club’s online challenge is abstract.
In your abstract, vision step away from the obvious. Use light, shadow, color, texture, motion or extreme close-ups to transform ordinary subjects into unfamiliar shapes and patterns. Let your image be a question for the viewer to answer.
Please participate in the challenge by commenting on the post about this topic on the club’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/PagosaPhotoClub. All photographers are welcome to share up to three photos. Don’t forget to like and comment on the work of others.
For more details about the photography club and information on joining us, see our website (pagosaspringsphotoclub.org/about/) .
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