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Colorado Plateau Photography Meetups Connecting photographers through photo meetups, workshops, and shared adventures across the Colorado Plateau & Western Colorado.

All experience levels are welcome.

What a fun evening of photography! 📸🩰A big thank you to Juanita Brennan for joining us tonight all the way from R***e fo...
09/20/2026

What a fun evening of photography! 📸🩰

A big thank you to Juanita Brennan for joining us tonight all the way from R***e for our Capturing Dance gathering. It was such a great opportunity to work with lighting, experiment with different camera settings, and—of course—try to catch those split-second moments of movement!

A special thank you to Aaron Acker for sharing his knowledge, helping us work through the lighting setups, and guiding us throughout the evening. And a huge thank you to our wonderful dancer/model for giving us so many beautiful moments to photograph. She definitely made the hard part look easy!

These are just a few behind-the-scenes and quick captures from tonight. Now comes the fun part—we are so excited to see what everyone captured!

For us who attended, please share some of your favorites in the comments or on the group page. Don’t worry about having them perfectly edited—we’d just love to see the evening through everyone else’s lens.

Here's just a few to recap our eve.

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You may have noticed things have been a little quiet on the Colorado Plateau Photographers page lately. We haven’t disap...
09/10/2026

You may have noticed things have been a little quiet on the Colorado Plateau Photographers page lately. We haven’t disappeared—We’ve just been out traveling, exploring, and spending a lot of time behind the camera!

Been taking advantage of these beautiful late-summer days to photograph more of the landscapes around the Colorado Plateau, including this view of Factory Butte near Hanksville, Utah.

Sometimes getting away, exploring new places, and simply creating is the best inspiration—and I’m looking forward to bringing some of that energy back to the group.

We have more opportunities to get together, photograph, learn from one another, and explore coming up. I’m excited to reconnect with everyone and see what you’ve all been photographing lately, too.

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Photo: Factory Butte, Utah - Taken via "My Little Pretty" Mavic 4 Pro drone. Sept 8 2026.

We’d Love Your Input!As Colorado Plateau Photographers continues to grow, we want to make sure the events and opportunit...
09/02/2026

We’d Love Your Input!

As Colorado Plateau Photographers continues to grow, we want to make sure the events and opportunities we’re planning reflect what our members actually want from this group.

We now have 42 people following the page (absolutely appreciate each of you) and while we’ve enjoyed some great gatherings, attendance has remained fairly small. Rather than guessing about what everyone is looking for, we’d really like to hear from you.

What would make you more likely to participate?

Are you interested in photo outings, hands-on workshops, guest speakers, editing sessions, landscape or wildlife photography, night photography, model shoots, casual photographer get-togethers—or something we haven’t thought of yet?

Are certain days, times, locations, or other factors making it difficult for you to attend?

Please feel free to comment below or better yet send Colorado Plateau Photographers a private message. We especially want to hear from those who have joined the page but haven’t had an opportunity to attend yet.

This is our photography community, and your feedback will help shape where we go from here.

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Photo taken with my Sony A 6700 this past March 2026 in South Africa.

08/29/2026

SAVE THE DATES — TWO FALL COLORS PHOTO OUTINGS

Fall color season is coming, and Colorado Plateau Photographers is planning two separate full-day photography outings in the San Juan area!

Saturday, September 26 — Full-Day Fall Colors Photography Outing San Juan

Saturday, October 3 — Full-Day Fall Colors Photography Outing San Juan

We plan to head out on both Saturdays regardless, so you’re welcome to join us for one outing or both. Our goal is to pick a new location for our second time around.

The exact locations will be announced closer to each outing. We want the flexibility to follow the fall colors and choose the areas where they’re looking their best throughout the San Juans. Monica Voehringer is based in Montrose and will help keep us informed as conditions develop.

Ridgway will likely be our meetup location for both outings. Once we know who will be joining us and where we’re headed, we can coordinate caravans and arrange shared rides for anyone who would like to carpool.

These will be full-day photography adventures, so please plan accordingly.

For now, save the dates! Separate events for September 26 and October 3 will be posted soon so everyone can RSVP for the day—or days—they’d like to join us.

We’re looking forward to getting out, exploring, and chasing some beautiful San Juan fall color together!

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A Little Update from Colorado Plateau PhotographersAs we head into the fall and winter months, Colorado Plateau Photogra...
08/28/2026

A Little Update from Colorado Plateau Photographers

As we head into the fall and winter months, Colorado Plateau Photographers will be making a small shift in how we gather.

For the past three months, we’ve held one classroom-style meeting each month, along with additional presentations, photography outings, and learning opportunities at other locations. These gatherings have helped us get to know one another, share knowledge, and begin building a wonderful photography community here on the Western Slope.

Going forward, regularly scheduled classroom meetings may become less frequent. Finding consistent meeting space can be challenging, but this also gives us an opportunity to focus even more on what Colorado Plateau Photographers was created for in the first place — bringing photographers together.

Presentations and learning opportunities aren’t going away. When we have a great presenter, topic, or location, we’ll continue to make those opportunities available. They simply may not always happen in a classroom or on a set monthly schedule.

Instead, expect to see more photo walks, photography outings, sunrise and sunset shoots, location meetups, technique-focused gatherings, informal discussions, and opportunities to simply get out with other photographers and create.

And we’d love for everyone to help shape what comes next.

If you have an idea for a gathering, know a great location, have a photography interest you’d like to share, or would like to lead or oversee an outing, please reach out through the page. You don’t need to be an instructor or an expert. Members are encouraged to bring ideas forward, get involved, and help create opportunities for the group.

This is a community, and the more interests, experiences, ideas, and perspectives we bring together, the stronger it becomes.

Sometimes we’ll have a presenter. Sometimes we’ll have a planned photography activity. And sometimes we’ll simply meet somewhere with our cameras and enjoy photographing together.

That’s what Colorado Plateau Photographers is all about.

Connect • Explore • Capture • Inspire

Photo taken at Looking Glass Rock, Moab just yesterday via "My Pretty!! (aka Mavic 4 Pro)"

08/25/2026

What’s Coming Up with Colorado Plateau Photographers!!!!

September is shaping up to be a fun month! We have several opportunities coming up to learn, get behind our cameras, and spend time together.

Here’s what’s on the calendar:

September 19 — Capturing Dance: Movement & Studio Lighting 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. With Aaron Acker of Two Ackers Media!

We’ll meet at Studio 7 in Grand Junction for a special hands-on session photographing a ballerina in a dance-studio setting. Aaron will walk us through working with controlled lighting, camera settings, composition, and capturing movement before everyone has an opportunity to put what we learn into practice.

September 25 — Street Photography at the Fruita Fall Festival
5:30 PM. until your done.....

Jennifer Maxfield will introduce us to street photography before we head out into the Fruita Fall Festival with our cameras and put those ideas into practice.

September 30 — Colorado Plateau Photographers Meetup
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM • Grand Junction

We’ll wrap up September with a very practical, photographer-to-photographer evening led by Aaron Acker.

What happens after you press the shutter?

We’ll talk about the entire process—from getting your images off the camera to processing, organizing, storing, and backing them up. We’ll also have time to talk about the gear, software, and systems everyone uses and exchange ideas about what works and what doesn’t.

Come prepared to share your own workflow and learn from how other photographers handle theirs.

A QUICK NOTE ABOUT RSVPs!!!!

If you plan to attend one of our events, please select Going on the event invitation rather than only Interested.

“Interested” is perfect if you’re still deciding, but once you know you’re coming, changing your response to “Going” gives us the headcount we need — especially when we’re coordinating studio space, models, presenters, and hands-on opportunities.

We have a lot happening, and I’m excited about the variety of photography experiences we’re able to offer our growing community. I hope to see you at one — or all — of them!

Colorado Plateau Photographers
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What an absolutely amazing evening at Connected Lakes!Tonight’s Silhouettes & Reflections meetup was such a fun evening ...
08/21/2026

What an absolutely amazing evening at Connected Lakes!

Tonight’s Silhouettes & Reflections meetup was such a fun evening of photography, learning, experimenting, and simply enjoying time together behind the camera.

A huge thank you to Jarico Ford Rouse for joining us and sharing his knowledge and creativity with the group. Having someone willing to share what they know, answer questions, and help everyone experiment is what makes evenings like this so worthwhile.

A very special thank you also goes to Kiersten M Gurulé who was absolutely wonderful to work with. She gave everyone so many opportunities to experiment with different poses, reflections, movement, and compositions in the water — and she was such a good sport through it all!

And we had an unexpected bonus thanks to Aaron Acker, who brought along his flash setup and showed us how adding flash could completely change the scene and give us another creative option to work with. Thank you, Aaron, for bringing your gear, jumping in, and sharing your knowledge with everyone!

Most of all, thank you to everyone who came out tonight. It was so much fun watching everyone photograph the same scene in their own way, share ideas, try something new, and help one another along the way.

I’m sharing a few photos from Joe Miller’s photographs from tonight to get us started — and now I want to see everyone else’s! including my own. LOL

A big thank you to Aaron Acker for joining us this evening and sharing his knowledge with Colorado Plateau Photographers...
08/19/2026

A big thank you to Aaron Acker for joining us this evening and sharing his knowledge with Colorado Plateau Photographers!

Aaron’s presentation focused on shooting with intent—understanding not only how to adjust ISO, aperture, and shutter speed, but why we make those choices and how they ultimately affect the image we create.

And yes, Aaron definitely geeked out on us a little! We got into bits, numbers, and the technical side of how our cameras actually capture information. Seeing how all of that technical information translates into the final photograph really helped bring everything together.

One of the things I love most about this group is that we can bring together photographers with different levels of experience and different ways of approaching photography, and we all walk away having learned something new.

Thank you, Aaron, for taking the time to share your knowledge, answer questions, and help us better understand what’s happening behind the camera.

And thank you to everyone who joined us tonight! This is exactly what Colorado Plateau Photographers is about—connecting, learning, sharing, and growing together.

Connect • Explore • Capture • Inspire

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