2021-01-12 FCDCC Meeting Notes

About 33 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.

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 $3549.22 in our bank account and $100.00 in petty cash, and our expenses have been minimal for this year.

We have a new set of club officers for 2021
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.
Fine Art Photography - Mike Barry
- Tue 01/19 at 6pm, We will be discussing compositing and constructive criticism of current work when requested. We will be meeting using ZOOM. Contact Mike Barry if you wish to attend the meeting.
Landscape Photography - Ken Eis
- Ken is going to arrange a meeting to share Christmas and Holiday photographs. Contact Ken Eis for details.
Macro Photography - Paul suggested that members shoot some tabletop images and present them at our monthly club meeting. - Paul Marcoux
Night Sky Photography - Ralph Smith
5/26 Lunar eclipse
Wildlife Photography - Rocky Mountain Arsenal has bison and black-footed ferrets - Guy Turenne

January Activities

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

1/14 @5pm, Art of Travel Photography presentation by Tamron

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

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

1/21 @5pm, Up Close with my Macro presentation by Tamron

1/28 @5pm, Food and Product Photography presentation by Tamron

February Activities

2/4 @5pm, Bird Photography presentation by Tamron

2/9 @6pm on ZOOM, February Club Meeting

2/16 @6pm on ZOOM, February Fine Art SIG Meeting

2/11 @5pm, Airshow Photography presentation by Tamron

2/17 @9am on ZOOM, February Coffee Meeting

2/18 @5pm, Night Sky Photography presentation by Tamron

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.

February meeting challenge topics: "B is for ..." and "S Curves" and "The Backyard".

The February Fix-It-Photo is "Sunrise" by Jim Limburg.

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 Doug Hutchinson for his presentation "Two Summers on White Pine Fire Lookout 1964-1965".

13 members contributed images to the November slideshow, and I will save 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 January 2021 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.