2022-01-11 FCDCC Meeting Notes

About 34 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.

Club officers for 2022 are :
President - Mike Dunetts
President Elect - Albert Wang
Secretary - Mike Barry
Treasurer - Dave Chamness
Facebook Page Moderators - Mike Barry, Mike Dunetts
Photo Submissions Editor - Jim Limburg
Website Manager - Mike Barry

Please welcome Jack and Jenny, they were visiting our meeting on Tuesday.

Pay your dues for 2022 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 currently have $4167.85 in the club account. Dues are down, but our expenses are down even more.

We will continue to hold our club meetings on ZOOM until further notice due to the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic.

Mike Dunnetts held a FCDCC Planning Meeting in January to decide the club's direction for 2022.

Discussed the SSN attached to the bank account:
- Agreed it is likely that of Ted Sandalund (I didn’t get his last name accurately)
- Determined that Dave Chamness would investigate the process to change the SSN with the bank and the potential impact on the individual who provides his/her SSN
- Determined that Guy would ask Ted if it is his SSN and whether or not he is impacted financially

Discussed potential impact of becoming a non-profit:
- Agreed that the work to do so may be significant, and that we didn’t have a complete understanding of the nature of this work
- Determined we would not pursue this at this time

SIGs:
- Discussed how to encourage more participation, given SIGs are an important part of our club, and acknowledged the significant impact COVID has had on club activities
- Agreed that SIG meeting notices should be sent to the entire membership, thereby encouraging members to participate
- Encouraged SIGs to present the results of outings/activities at our monthly meetings
- Judy stated the Video/Go Pro SIG is in operation, the Mobile SIG has been discontinued
- Discussed the challenges in outings/activities:
-- Recommended that members be fully vaccinated in order to participate in in-person outings/activities
-- Acknowledged that verifying vaccination status was a challenge and that this would be taken off-line for additional discussion; Mike Dunetts to bring a recommendation back to the club
-- Agreed that traditional activities, such as car-pooling to events, would have to be modified to address potential COVD risks
-- Acknowledged that participation is an individual decision, and that members should participate to the extent they feel safe to do so
- Mike Barry agreed to follow-up with Vern Kellie on the Events and Sports SIG
- The Photography 101 SIG leadership and direction is a work in process – more to come later

January Planning Meeting highlights included
- How to encourage more SIG participation and hold outings/activities to the extent it is safely possible to do so
- Encouraging more member presentations (given the expertise we have within the club) vs. use of external speakers
- Discussing the July picnic and agreeing to book a shelter; note the shelter reservation can be cancelled should the COVID situation not improve
- Agreeing to defer a decision on the December meeting/party until later in the year
- Reviewing recent Facebook changes which allow anyone to join our public group, but that require review and approval before being allowed to post
- Confirming that non-paying members will be reminded of their $25 dues in the April/May timeframe, and removed from the club list after two years (i.e. current + past year) of non-payment

Briefly discussed the upcoming Ghost Signs outing, to be held January 23 at 9 am, in Old Town Ft. Collins

Reviewed December's Activities

January Activities
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Tue 1/11 @6pm - club meeting ZOOM (Bird Photography)
Tue 1/18 @9am - coffee meeting ZOOM
Tue 1/18 @6pm - Fine Art SIG meeting ZOOM (ORBs)
Sun 1/23 @9am - club outing to photograph Ghost Signs in Old Town Fort Collins, meet at fountain in Old Town Square
Thu 1/27 - The Artistic Vision Summit by Blake Rudis

February Activities
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Sun 2/6 @1pm - Portrait SIG model shoot in Old Town (models in murals)
Tue 2/8 @6pm - club meeting ZOOM (Creative Photography)
Tue 2/15 @6pm - Fine Art SIG meeting ZOOM (TBD)
Wed 2/16 @9am - coffee meeting ZOOM

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

Send your photograph submittals (corrected fix-it-photos, club outings, challenge topics, old and new, or your favorite images) (up to 8 images) to Jim Limburg at jlimburg1@gmail.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 Jim has time to create the slideshow.

Please add captions to the pictures that you submit for the monthly slideshow, and clearly note which picture they pertain to, by stating the filename if possible.

February meeting challenge topics:
1. "M" is for...
2. Wild
3. Your best image taken or processed between the January and February meetings.

The February Fix-It-Photo is "Young Buck #2" by Cecil Hellyer. You can find it on the club website. https://fcdcc.com/images/fix-it-photos/2022-01-young-buck-2-by-cecil-hellyer-large.jpg

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 Brian Holliday for his presentation on "Bird Photography".You can see more of Brian's work on his website at: bryanholliday.com

Ed Goodman will discuss "Creative Photography" at our January club meeting.

Our members contributed images to the January slideshow, and you can find it on the club website on the January 2022 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.