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2022-02-08 FCDCC Meeting Notes 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 : Please welcome Tracie and Mark, 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!!! Dues are down, but our expenses are down even more so our club is doing well financially. We will continue to hold our club meetings on ZOOM until further notice due to the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic. Briefly discussed the upcoming Loveland Photowalk outing, to be held sometime in February, after Loveland thaws out, in Old Town Loveland, and led be Ed Ogle. Paul Marcoux would like suggestions for the Macro SIG outings, specifically "Which topics interest you?" and "Where should we shoot?". Ed Ogle would like suggestions for the Landscape SIG outings, "Where should we go?". George Theodore will take over the Photography 101 SIG. Contact George if you would like basic photography help. Mike Barry will contact John Fielder, and ask if he would speak to our club. When you hear about interesting upcoming events, please email Mike Barry (info@FCDCC.com) and give him details so they can be listed on the website. We have decided to only add photos taken by our members to the website. Our website is not private, we try to block BOTs, but don't put anything that you want kept private on the website. Most of our website information is available to the public, to provide value to our photographic community and generate interest in our club. Mike will delete the PIWIGO gallery and Joomla from the club website. We are going to update the images shown on the Home page, so each club member can submit up to 3 images for possibly including on the Home page. Reviewed January's Activities February Activities March Activities 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. March meeting challenge topics: The March Fix-It-Photo is "Town Square" by Patricia Limburg. You can find it on the club website. https://fcdcc.com/images/fix-it-photos/2022-02-town-square-by-patricia-limburg-large.tif 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 Mike Barry for his walk through of the club website, FCDCC.com". We found lots of items that need to be updated and Mike will get to them as soon as he can. If you find anything on the website that is out of date, please notify Mike Barry. Deb Caldwell will discuss "Bosque del Apache Natinal Wildlife Refuge" at our March club meeting. Our members contributed images to the February slideshow, and you can find it on the club website on the February 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. |