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2016-06-14 FCDCC Meeting Notes We met in the Community room of the Coloradoan Newspaper, 1300 Riverside Ave. Fort Collins. Please pay your dues for 2016 to Rich Ernst at the next meeting 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. Please send your SIG outing schedules to info@fcdcc.com so I can add them to the website. Send your photograph submittals to Walter Lyons at photoeditor@fcdcc.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 Walt has time to create the slideshow. We also accept short videos for the slideshow. July challenge topic: "Patriotism", send your pictures to photoeditor@fcdcc.com August challenge topic: "Flowers", send your pictures to photoeditor@fcdcc.com Please send Fix-it-photos to Mike Barry at info@fcdcc.com. We are looking for photographer volunteers for the Christmas Homeless shoot in November or December. Stephanie Cox spent a year photographing the stories at Hearts and Horses Therapeutic Riding Facility near Loveland. The grand opening of the show will be on July 1 from 6pm to 9pm in the Merchant Room Gallery avobe Walnut Creek (next to the Silver Grill Cafe) at 222 Walnut St. in Fort Collins. The exhibit runs from July 1 to July 7 and is free to the public. Ken Eis is planning a Fall Color trip for October with the Landscape SIG. 6/3 Colorado Medieval Festival, 1750 Savage Road in Loveland, CO 6/4 11am-6pm Poudre River Fest in Legacy Park 6/5 @1pm-5pm Portrait SIG model shoot at Mike's studio, "Dance" theme 6/5 10am-3pm Vintage Motorcycles Show, Colorado National Speedway at 4281 Graden Blvd, Dacono, CO. Contact Ron Sweetin for more info. 6/14 @6:30pm June FCDCC club meeting at The Coloradoan Newspaper office 6/18 Wildlife SIG Outing to Denver City Park Zoo. Meet at 5:45AM at the NE corner of the Harmony Transit Center. 6/23 @9:00am June Coffee Meeting at Dazbog Coffee Shop, Cherry and Mason. 6/25 June club outing to Never Summer Rodeo in Walden, CO. Details TBD. 7/12 @6pm, Annual FCDCC Family Picnic at Rolland Moore Park (shelter #2) at 2201 Shields St. (between Prospect and Drake). Surnames A-M should bring salads to share, and surnames N-Z should bring desserts to share. *********************************************************************** The Backporch Cafe is displaying some of our member's prints. Please consider supporting them. Double Bar G Rodeo almost every Friday evening in May, June and July in Pine, WY. Email Randy Miller for more information Many thanks to Valerie Mosely for his presentation on "Photojouralism and Event Photography". Thanks to Phil Shaw for taking notes during the June Club Meeting. 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. |