2014-04-08 FCDCC Meeting Notes

We met in the orchestra room at Ridgeview Classical School
Ridgeview Classical School on the southeast corner of Lemay and Stuart (1800 S. Lemay) Enter through the east side of the building.

Please welcome Leo, Prim and Bill who were visiting our club meeting.

Please pay your dues for 2014 to Harry Strharsky if you haven't already paid. You can find him at most meetings. Annual dues are $25/member with $15 for each additional spouse and $10 for each additional child under 18. Dues are prorated based on the month you join.

Check out the SIGs (Special Interest Groups); they have been holding lots of meetings and going on lots of outings. Participating in a SIG is an excellent way to develop your skills.

This month send your photograph submittals for the meetings to Gerry Cashman at gcash357@gmail.com. Remember to send in before and after versions of your pictures so we can learn about post processing. Please send in 3 or fewer pictures for the slideshow, and send them by Sunday evening so Gerry has time to create the slideshow.

The club members should try out some of the new features that Rich Ernst is proposing that we add to the club website, Forum, Photo Gallery, and Calendar. These tools can help our membership communicate, but they require much more effort to keep running. In a couple months we will ask the membership if they want to add these features to the club website, or replace the club website with a Joomla version, or if they prefer the current website and implementing the Forum, Photo Gallery and Calendar in external tools like Google+. You can find the new features at: http://fcdcc.com/Joomla3/ - Please check it out.

We need volunteers to help out with a few Ridgeview Classical Schools events:
May 10 - Prom at Fort Collins Country Club starting at 5:30pm
May 24 - Graduation at Summit View Church on Drake starting at noon

We need photographers and helpers at each of these events.Ridgeview helps us a lot by providing a meeting room for free so we should help them out when we can. If you are willing to help please email Mike Barry at info@fcdcc.com.

Please send in pictures for our "Fix-It-Photo" section. We need 6 more for 2014, and we can use any extra for 2015.

Pat Gaines will be speaking about Astrophotography at the May meeting.

Contact Lynne Lewis if you are willing to help out judging the annual Library Photo Contest in August.

Larimer County is running a photo contest now, and you are welcome to enter.

The April alternate topic is "Earth Day".

4/12 Doors Open Denver - This is a great opportunity to photograph Denver mansions. The event is free, open all day on Saturday and Sunday. More details are available at http://www.doorsopendenver.com. Plan to meet at the Harmony Transportation Center at 8am on Saturday 4/12, carpool to Denver, tour in the morning, stop for lunch, tour in the afternoon, and return when the venues close. Email Mike Barry at info@fcdcc.com if you want to carpool.

4/19 April Club Outing - Club Portrait/Model shoot at Ridgeview Classical School. For more details. Email Mike Barry at info@fcdcc.com if you want to model or take photographs.

4/24 Travel Slideshow - time TBD at Mulligans on College Ave. Please send your images to Dawn by 4/19 so she can add them to the slideshow.

4/29 April Coffee Outing - 9am at the Fort Collins Coffee House on South Mason.

May 17-18 May Club Outing - Landscape and Star photography at the Vedauwoos. We will be camping out.

Many thanks to the Portrait SIG (Jim Piraino, Bob Gobeille, Ken Eis, Monique Renee, Pat Gaines and Mike Barry) for telling us about "Portrait Photography".

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 issue.