Marauders Outings

The information below is also posted on the club   calendar.   Additional details will be provided by email to all club members before each outing.

Saturday, January 17th (3:00 pm – 5:15 pm)  Bernardo Waterfowl Management Area (BWMA), which is part of the Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex, Bernardo, Socorro County for the Sandhill Cranes, Snow Geese and more. Join us for an afternoon/evening outing of birding at the world-class and famous Waterfowl Complex for Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese, nature, environment and landscape photography. And don’t forget the camaraderie with fellow photographers! 

At 3:00 PM, meet at the first two story steel viewing stand on your left as you enter the main Refuge entrance.  Here’s a chance to use your new Christmas photography gear!  Mike McGovern and Mike Story will give a brief intro on the Ladd Gordon facility and photographing cranes, geese and other denizens (deer, raptors, roadrunners, meadowlarks and more)!  Golden Hour starts at 4:41 PM on Jan. 17th, so we will get some of the great light for our shots as well.  We’ll also try to get Mike Chavez, the NM Game & Fish Manager of the Ladd S. Gordon Complex and other nearby NM state facilities to brief us on their operations when we arrive as well.                 

 Optional dinner on the way home at about 5:30-5:45 pm at La Dos Gringos in Belen.  2100 Camino Del Llano, Belen, NM 87002

Wednesday, January 28th (10:00 am – 11:30 am)   Mama’s Minerals to photograph rocks, minerals, fossils, beads, etc.  Great opportunities for macro photography.  located at 2500 12th St NW Ste F, Albuquerque, NM 87104.  You may use tripods, monopods, and a flash / LED lights.  All the owners ask is not to include persons shopping in the store in our images.  At 11:30, walk south for a great lunch at the 12th Street Laguna Burger, located in the Avanyu Plaza on 12th Street, just north of Interstate 40.  The Mama’s Minerals  website is https://www.mamasminerals.com/.

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The Marauders have one (and sometimes more) photo outings each month, mostly on Wednesday, with some weekend outings.  We choose locations within about a 1 hour drive from Albuquerque. 

Attendees are members of the Enchanted Lens Camera club, and their invited guests. Marauders outings are communicated by Club e-mail and the outing is also posted on the Club Calendar. Photographs of attendees of Marauder Outings may be posted on the ELCC Marauder Flickr Group site, as well as included in photo collages which are distributed to club members via email. 

   

Barry Schwartz and Earl Schwers, are the Marauders Co-Chairs.  Team members are: Mike McGovern, Joanne Ladisa, Stephen Foiles, Carla Chirigos, Jan Ward, Laura Munzlinger, and Tom Kilroy.  

We encourage members to post their Marauders images on Flickr, in the Marauders Group. You can join the group by following these instructions:

Once you have joined Flickr, go to your new home page.  At the top of their page there is a search box that says “Photos, people, or groups”. Enter “ELCC” and then click the “groups” drop down. You should get all of the ELCC’s Groups with those letters.  Click the join button for the “ELCC Mid-Week Marauders” and Tom Kilroy will approve your entry to the group when he gets the Flickr’s auto email.  Once you are approved as a member of the Flickr Marauders Group, when you are uploading an image, click on the “Add To Groups”  and select the Marauders Group. For images already posted in Flickr, scroll down to the “Add to Group” box, and a list of your groups will open – and select the Marauders Group and the image will be added to the Flickr Marauders Group.

                           

Contact Marauders
Attend a Marauders Outing to:
·  go to places and photograph interesting things and places
·  enjoy the camaraderie with people who share your interest in photography
·   accumulate photos for the Club’s Photography Exhibition, Portfolio, Casual Critique, and any reason you choose
·  have fun while you learn about photography from others and try out what you’ve learned