2020-12-09 FCDCC Meeting Notes

About 30 of our club members 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 Mark, Kevin and Stephen who were visiting our club meeting.

Pay your dues for 2021 to Dave Chamness (3854 Braidwood Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524) at the next meeting if you haven't already paid. Annual dues are $25/member with $15 for a spouse and $10 for each additional child under 18.

Our club now has $3555 in our bank account, and our expenses have been minimal for this year.

We have a new set of club officers for 2021, and they will be starting in January
President: Ralph Smith
President-Elect: Mike Dunetts
Secretary: Mike Barry
Treasurer: Dave Chamness
Photo Editor: Walt Lyons

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
- Tue 12/15 at 6pm, We will be discussing frequency compensation and constructive criticism of current work when requested. We will be meeting using ZOOM. Contact Mike Barry if you wish to attend the meeting.
Drone Photography - Steven Eis
Event Photography - Vern Kellie
Landscape Photography - Ken Eis
- Wed 12/16 at 7pm-9pm, Ken Eis will present members' pictures of the fires in a slideshow on ZOOM. ZOOM meeting ID and passcode will be available soon. Contact Ken Eis for details. Ken is starting to plan a trip to the Paint Mines near Colorado Springs for the Spring.
Macro Photography - Paul Marcoux
Paul is planning a ZOOM meeting where members can discuss their individual projects.
Mobile Photography - Judy Cannon
Night Sky Photography - Ralph Smith
12/14 New Moon, 12/13-14 Meteor Shower
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

December Activities

12/08 @6pm on ZOOM, December Club Meeting
- Contact Paul Marcoux or Mike Barry if you need contact info

12/13-14 Meteor Shower

12/14 New Moon

12/15 @6pm on ZOOM, December Conceptual SIG Meeting
- Contact Mike Barry if you need contact info

12/16 @7pm on ZOOM, "After the Fire" images presentation
- Contact Ken Eis if you need contact info

12/17 @9am on ZOOM, December Coffee Meeting
- Contact Paul Marcoux or Mike Barry if you need contact info

January Activities

1/12 @6pm on ZOOM, January Club Meeting

1/19 @6pm on ZOOM, January Conceptual SIG Meeting

1/19 @9am on ZOOM, January Coffee Meeting

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.

January meeting challenge topics: "A is for ..." and "Dark TImes" and "Unusual Angles".

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 Ed Ogle for his "Fern Lake Fire and Recovery 2012 to 2020" presentation.

11 members contributed images to the November slideshow, and I have saved the Member Submissions part of our club meeting to a PDF file and you will be able to find it on the club website on the November 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.