2023-03-14 FCDCC Meeting Notes

About 25 FCDCC members met online using ZOOM software. Please login between 6:00pm and 6:30pm. The social part of the meeting starts at 6:00pm, and the business part of the meeting starts at 6:30pm. Paul will email meeting invitations for the monthly club meetings and the monthly coffee meetings to all club members. If you haven't received your invitation by the day of the meeting, please send an email to info@fcdcc.com, and either Paul or I (Mike Barry) will send you the meeting ID and password. You will also find a link to the ZOOM meeting on the club website.

If you ever have any problems getting into a club ZOOM meeting, please email me at info@fcdcc.com. I try to monitor the club's email account during the monthly meetings and will help you get into the meeting if you have any problems. You can also find the meeting ZOOM link on that month's page of our website.

Please welcome Jenhe, Susan and Jack who were attending our club meeting for the first time.

We need someone to volunteer for club president for 2024.

Pay your dues for 2023 to Dave Chamness (3854 Braidwood Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524) if you haven't already paid. Annual dues are $25/member with $15 for a spouse and $10 for each additional child under 18. You can now pay your dues ONLINE with PayPal!!!

We will continue to hold our club meetings on ZOOM until further notice due to the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic. We may try a hybrid meeting in May.

When you hear about interesting upcoming events, please email Mike Barry (info@FCDCC.com) and give me details so they can be listed on the website.

Events from previous month - before 2023-03-14
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2/17-19 @7am Show Me Reptiles & Exotics Show at the Ranch in Loveland
2/18 @9am Macro SIG and club Outing at CSU
2/21 @6pm Fine Art SIG meeting on ZOOM
2/22 @9am Coffee meeting at Panera Bread Company in Front Range Village
2/23 @7pm Infrared SIG meeting on ZOOM
2/24 @2:30pm Wildlife SIG outing to the Butterfly House at Spring Creek Gardens
3/3 @6pm First Friday Art Walk in Old Town Fort Collins
3/5 @1pm Portrait Shoot at Mike's studio (Renaissance Fair)
3/14 @6pm March club meeting

Events future - after 2023-02-14
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3/17-19 Frozen Dead Guy Days in Estes Park
3/19 @1pm Order of Epona Fundraiser
3/21 @6pm Fine Art SIG meeting on ZOOM
3/21 Photography 101 meeting on ZOOM
3/22 Club outing to Duraplaq in Longmont
3/23 @9am March Coffee meeting at Panera Bread Co in Front Range Village
3/23 @6:30pm Video SIG meeting on ZOOM
3/28 @7:30am Landscape SIG outing to Colorado Railroad Museum
3/31 - 4/2 Whimsycon in Northglenn
4/2 @1pm Portrait Shoot (flowing fabric)
4/7 @6pm First Friday Art Walk
4/11 @6pm April Club Meeting on ZOOM

Check out the website SpaceWeather.com for space weather information.

Please email info@fcdcc.com if your SIG will be meeting soon so I can add the meeting to our website.

Send your photograph submittals (club outings, challenge topics, old and new, or your favorite images) (up to 5 images) to Jim Limburg at jlimburg1@gmail.com. Remember to send in before and after versions of your pictures so we can learn about post processing. Please send them by Sunday evening so Jim has time to create the slideshow.

Please add captions to the pictures that you submit for the monthly slideshow, and clearly note which picture they pertain to, by stating the filename if possible.

April 2023 meeting challenge topics are:
1. Signs of Spring
2. Your best image taken or processed since the last meeting.
3. Whatever moves you
(submit up to 5 images total)

If you don't already have a headshot on the website, please send one to Mike Barry at info@fcdcc.com.

Many thanks to Kristi Odomfor her wonderful presentation on "Photographing the Birds and Bees".

Our members contributed images to the February slideshow, and you may be able to find it on the club website on the March 2023 page.

Please check out our club Facebook page by searching on Facebook for "Fort Collins Digital Camera Club". You are welcome to post challenge topic or anything that you want on our Facebook page. I would like to see more pictures from our SIG outings on Facebook.

Email Mike, info@fcdcc.com, when you find mistakes, missing information or if you have suggestions for the website and I will try to address the issues.