2021-08-10 FCDCC Meeting Notes

About 17 FCDCC members met online using ZOOM software. Please login between 6:00pm and 6:30pm. The social part of the meeting starts at 6:00pm, and the business part of the meeting starts at 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) if you haven't already paid. Annual dues are $25/member with $15 for a spouse and $10 for each additional child under 18. You can now pay your dues ONLINE with PayPal!!!

We will probably continue to hold our club meetings on ZOOM through at least the end of 2021 due to the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic. We are still investigating a venue for next year.

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, and a few outings have been held in person and outside.

We have $3854.46 in the club bank account.

Fine Art Photography - Mike Barry
- Tue 8/17 at 6pm, We will be discussing disintegration effects, and personal projects, with criticism of current work when requested. We will be meeting using ZOOM. Contact Mike Barry if you wish to attend the meeting.

Portraits - Mike Barry
- Sun 8/1 at 5pm in Old Town.
- Sun 9/5, details TBD.

GoPro/Video - Judy Canon
- Tue 8/24 at 7pm, Please email Judy Canon if you are interested in joining the group.

Landscape - Ken Eis
Ken would like to take a break from leading the Landscape SIG, so we need a new leader. Please contact Ken or Ralph if you are interested in leading the Landscape SIG.

Please email info@fcdcc.com if your SIG will be meeting soon so I can add the meeting to our website.

August Activities

8/1 @5pm August Model shoot in Old Town (Fort Collins)

8/6-10 Larimer County Fair at The Ranch

8/7-8 Sculpture in the Park, Benson Sculpture Park

8/10 @6pm on ZOOM, August Club Meeting

8/17 @6pm on ZOOM, August Fine Art SIG Meeting

8/18 @9am on ZOOM, August Coffee Meeting

8/24 @7pm on ZOOM, August Video/GoPro SIG meeting

Future Activities

9/5 September Model Shoot (details TBD)

9/14 @6pm September Club 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.

September meeting challenge topics:
1. "H is for..."
2. "The Pandemic"
3. "Doors and Knobs"
4. "Oldies but Goodies" .

The September Fix-It-Photo is "Mt. Evans" by Cecil Hellyer.

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 Mark Sauerfor his presentation "Sports Photojournalism".

Our members contributed images to the August slideshow, and you can find it on the club website on the August 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.