2020-09-09 FCDCC Meeting Notes

We met online using ZOOM software. Please login before 6:30pm when the official meeting starts. The social part of the meeting runs from 6:00pm to 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.

Please welcome Rich Johnson who was visiting our club meeting.

Pay your dues for 2020 to Dave Chamness at the next meeting if you haven't already paid. Ask Dave for his address and the current amount of dues so you can send him a check in the mail. Annual dues are $25/member with $15 for a spouse and $10 for each additional child under 18. Dues are prorated based on the month you join.

Our club finances are looking good, we have $3200 in the treasury and we are not paying rent while we hold our meetings online.

Some of the SIG meetings and outings are being held on ZOOM, but many of them are on hold until the COVID-19 Pandemic is over.
Conceptual Photography - Kai Frawg and Mike Barry
- Mike will be helping Kai with the Conceptual SIG, and he will send out an invitation to the next Conceptual SIG ZOOM meeting soon.
Drone Photography - Steven Eis
Event Photography - Vern Kellie
Landscape Photography - Ken Eis
- Ken Eis has suggested that we take pictures to document the burned areas after the fires are out.
Macro Photography - Paul Marcoux
Mobile Photography - Judy Cannon
Night Sky Photography - Ralph Smith
Portrait Photography (on hold during the pandemic)- Mike Barry
Post Processing - Harry Strharsky, Rich Ernst, Stephanie Cox and Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Videography - Judy Cannon
Wildlife Photography - Guy Turenne

Tue 9/8 @6pm September club meeting using ZOOM, hosted by Paul Marcoux

Thu 9/17 @9am September coffee meeting using ZOOM, hosted by Paul Marcoux

Tue 9/15 @6pm September Conceptual SIG meeting using ZOOM, hosted by Mike Barry

Send your photograph submittals (corrected fix-it-photos, club outings, challenge topics, old and new, or your favorite images) (up to 8 images) to Walter Lyons at walyons@frii.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 Walt has time to create the slideshow. We are working on adding videos to the slideshow, but we haven't figured out how to do that yet.

October meeting challenge topics: "Panoramics" and "Funny".

Please send images (Fix-It-Photos) that you would like everyone to try "Fixing" to Mike Barry at info@fcdcc.com.

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

Many thanks to Vic Schendel for his "Wildlife Photography as Art" presentation, narrated by Ralph Smith. Vic reports that he is out of the hospital and doing better. Check out his website at: http://vicschendel.com for more examples of his photography.

We have saved the Member Submissions part of our club meeting to a PDF file and you can find it on the club website on the September 2020 page.

Please check out our club Facebook page by searching on Facebook for "Fort Collins Digital Camera Club". You are welcome to post fix-it or 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.