Photo Club at Mile Hi History

At a Mile Hi Church Couples Club brunch in 2009, two senior members of the Denver Photographic Society (DPS) popped up and asked for a show of hands of “who’s interested in starting a Photo Club?". A month later a couple dozen aspiring shutterbugs with a wide range of subject interests and expertise convened in an an office meeting room. Our Club was born.

A year later, we moved the meetings to the youth classrooms on the Mile Hi Campus and opened membership to the larger public. Then on to a Chapel and finally to the Community Center’s conference rooms where we’ve met monthly since November 2014. Mile Hi’s generous offering of a meeting place and AV equipment has been instrumental in our growth and viability. Over twenty of our Club member’s images have been featured in the Mile Hi Journals and juried Annual Club Show on gallery walls thoughout the campus. We’ve been included in the much respected Bi-Annual Month of Photography (MoP) website gallery showcasing the Photographic Arts along the Front Range.

While we welcome guests to attend as often as they like cost free, we began annual dues in 2017 to build a treasury to pay our Featured Speakers and Guest Critiquers a small Honorarium. We have offered off site, cost free member field trips and skill building small group workshops on topics from Lightroom and Photoshop to Model Shoots and Composites Creation.

We’ve been honored to learn & grow from expert area photographers including: