2016-09-13 FCDCC Meeting Notes

We met in the Community room of the Coloradoan Newspaper, 1300 Riverside Ave. Fort Collins.

Please welcome William, Deborah, Paul, Ramone, Beth and Betsy, who were visiting our club.

Please pay your dues for 2017 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.

Bob Gobeille has created a new SIG, the Experimental SIG. Please contact him if you want to join the Experimental SIG, bobgob@gmail.com.

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.

October meeting challenge topic: "Costumes", 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.

Kevin Cook would like more bird pictures to supplement his programs.

We will be electing new club officers at the October meeting. Randy Miller will become the president starting January 2017, and we need to elect a new President-Elect along with the other club offices. Please email Harry, our current president, if you are interested in holding a club office in 2017.

Sat 9/3 @10am Tour de Fat in Old Town Fort Collins

Sun 9/4 @1pm-5pm Portrait SIG shoot, theme is "Bikinis" at Mike's studio

Tue 9/13 @6:30pm Monthly Club Meeting at The Coloradoan Newspaper office

Sat 9/17 @11am-10pm - Fortoberfest in Old Town Fort Collins

Sun 9/18 @6am - September Club Outing to Rocky Mountain National Park to photograph the elk rut. Meet at the southwest corner of the FRCC parking lot before 6am to arrange carpools and leave at 6am.

Thu 9/22 @9am - September Coffee Meeting at the Fort Collins Coffee House on Lemay

Sun 10/2 @1pm-5pm - Portrait SIG model shoot, theme is Costumes

Fri-Sun 10/7-8-9 - Cross of the North, Cyclocross near The Ranch in Loveland

Tue 10/11 @6:30pm - October Club Meeting

Sat 10/22 @5pm - Zombie Crawl, Old Town Square in Fort Collins

Many thanks to Rob Palmer for his presentation on "Photographing Burrowing Owls". If you would like to learn more, check out Rob's website http://www.falconphotos.com.

Just for future reference: We use the projector that The Coloradoan provides during our meetings, and it requires an HDMI connector if you plan to use your own laptop for your presentation. If you don't have an HDMI connector, you can put your presentation in PDF format on a USB memory stick and play it on the laptop that we use for the club information.

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.