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• 2026 Membership Renewal Now Open!

  • When
    31 Dec 2025
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    11:59 PM

  Win a $100 Service Photo Gift Card!!!

  We will again be running a Membership Drive Raffle. If you renew or join, and pay your 2026 dues by December 31st, 11:59pm, you'll automatically be entered to win a $100 gift card to Service Photo! 

  The drawing will be held at our January 7th online meeting; you do not need to be present to win.

  RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY:

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  2026 Membership Dues Remains at 2025 Prices!

  Regular Membership $40

  Family Membership $60

  Student Membership $20

  
  

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• CMPG January General Meeting: 10 Habits for Creative Photography

  • When
    07 Jan 2026
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    ONLINE
  • Registered
    24 registrants

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  Join us for our next General Meeting, Wednesday, January 7th, at 7pm.  This will be an ONLINE ONLY meeting. Our speaker is from Backcountry Journeys.

  We will start our meeting off by drawing the name of the lucky "2026 Membership Renewal Drive" winner of a $100 Service Photo gift card! 

  10 Habits for Creative Photography

  
  

  A special live ZOOM session with Grant Ordelheide

  
  

  Let’s start the new year talking about good habits! This presentation focuses on 10 habits that will be beneficial to photographers of all skill levels. These habits help to hone in your skills, promote creativity, and grow as a photographer.  It touches on creative composition, technical precision, and big picture goals. This is a broad topic but speaks to advanced and beginners alike. 

  Grant Ordelheide is a Montana-based outdoor and adventure photographer and is a photography trip lead for Backcountry Journeys. Growing up in the Colorado Rockies instilled in him a profound reverence for the landscape. Grant’s love of nature and wild places preceded his love of photography, which emerged as a natural extension and by-product of his adventures in the mountains as an avid backpacker, climber, and snowboarder. 

  Following his passion, Grant earned a Bachelor’s degree in photography with an emphasis in business from Pacific Union College. In 2016, Grant was a recipient of the Art Wolfe Next Generation Photographer Grant organized by Luminous Landscape. His work has won numerous awards, including one of the top honors in the U.S. Landscape Photographer of the Year contest. His photos have been published in National Geographic Traveler, Backpacker, Outside, Climbing, The New York Times, The Yosemite Journal, and many other print and online publications. Grant’s fine art prints hang in gallery, corporate, and private collections across the country.  For several years, Grant has shared his eye, expertise, and contagious passion for photographing the outdoors, teaching photography workshops throughout the country. Grant currently resides in Columbia Falls, Montana with his wife Alexis.

  His work can be viewed at grantordelheide.com

  Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85142164636?pwd=d3JiMU1WUlRORDBlbUxiTnNxU3hJdz09

  
  

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• CMPG Feb General Meeting: Ben Williamson, "Guide to Landscape Photography"

  • When
    04 Feb 2026
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    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    ONLINE
  • Registered
    Be the first

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  Join us for our next General Meeting, Wednesday, February 4th , at 6:30pm.  This will be an ONLINE ONLY meeting.

  Ben Williamson is returning to speak on a "Guide to Landscape Photography". He was last with us in 2022, where shared several weather apps and their usefulness in photography. 

  Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85142164636?pwd=d3JiMU1WUlRORDBlbUxiTnNxU3hJdz09

  Ben's Bio:

  I am not your traditional landscape photographer. Instead of seeking places devoid of human presence, I like to showcase our relationship to the environment through images that often include man-made objects. I want to understand where we fit in, to celebrate humanity as well as the obvious wonder we associate with the natural world. My lifelong love of history and culture are one side of the coin that drives me to capture these scenes. The other is weather. I've been a weather nut since I was very young, and my obsession has really informed most of my imagery. As you can see in my galleries, I prefer to work when most people stay away, during the off-season of winter along the coast and during inclement weather.

  I am largely self-taught — I began taking pictures in 2012 while working nights tending bar. At first I simply wanted to capture what I was coming across on hikes and walks in these beautiful places near my home. From there I realized that there were many expressive possibilities and that photography didn't have to be purely documentary, it could be creative. Within two years of picking up a camera, this hobby had evolved into a full-time profession. I'm now the staff photographer for a medium sized regional magazine and run my own business selling prints, running workshops, and licensing images for many different uses.

  When I find something I enjoy, my first instinct is to share it. That's why I think teaching has been such a natural part of my practice. I hope that my enthusiasm and energy are infectious, and that instead of trying to get others to see the way I see, I help them trust their own instincts to capture what makes their own hearts sing.

  I'm a native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, now living in Bath, Maine with my wife, 3-year old daughter, newborn twins, two dogs and a cat. Yes, life is busy!

  benjaminwilliamsonphotography.com

  
  

  
  

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