Fort Collins Digital Camera Club

Please pay your dues for 2020 to Dave Chamness at the next meeting if you haven't already paid. You can find him at most meetings. Annual dues are $25/member with $15 for a spouse and $10 for each additional child under 18. Dues are prorated based on the month you join.

Check out the SIGs (Special Interest Groups); they have been holding lots of meetings and going on lots of outings. Participating in a SIG is an excellent way to develop your skills.

Conceptual Photography - Kai Frawg
Drone Photography - Steven Eis
Event Photography - Vern Kellie
Landscape Photography - Ken Eis
Macro Photography - Paul Marcoux
Mobile Photography - Judy Cannon
Night Sky Photography - Ralph Smith
Portrait Photography - Mike Barry
Post Processing - Harry Strharsky, Rich Ernst, Stephanie Cox and Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Videography - Judy Cannon
Wildlife Photography - Guy Turenne

Please send your SIG outing schedules to info@fcdcc.com so I can add them to the website.

Sun 3/1 @1pm - March Portrait SIG Shoot (Dance)

Sat 3/7 @9am - February club outing - Macro Photography Shoot at CSU
Organizers: Paul Marcoux and Jerry F. Magloughlin, CSU Associate Professor
Location: CSU Natural Resource Building Rooms 301, 316 and 345.
Hours: Set up time: 9:00 am to 9:30 am Photo-shoot: 9:30 am to early afternoon
Topic: Macro Photography: Flowers, oil in water, various small objects, etc.
Attendees are encouraged to bring appropriate items to photograph: feathers, leaves, water drop set up, focus stacking set up, etc.
Additional information will be available in early February.

Tue 3/10 @6pm - March club meeting at The Aztlan Center

Sat 3/14 @9am - March Club Outing to Bear Lake in RMNP
Explore natural ice features in RMNP. We will be hiking short distances around the Bear Lake area. Please bring crampons because we will be walking on ice. We may even see some elk.
Meet in the Front Range College (Harmony and Shields) parking lot SW cornor at 9AM. We can carpool from there.
Let me know if you plan on participating. Event is subject to weather.
Ken Eis
keneis@comcast.net

Thu 3/19 @9am - Coffee Meeting at Fort Collins Coffee House

Tue 3/24 @6:30pm - March Mobile SIG Meeting

Sun 3/29 @1pm - March Conceptual SIG shoot at Kai's house

Sun 3/29 @6:30am - March Wildlife SIG outing to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal for Bison Calving

Sun 4/5 @1pm - April Portrait Shoot (Scary Things)

Fri 4/??? - April Landscape Outing to the Paint Mines in Colorado Springs

5/??? - May Landscape Outing to Horsetooth Falls

Sat 8/1 - Night Sky Outing to Truth or Consequences NM for "Bats and Brews"

CSU Athletic Events

Music @ Odell's Brewery

Music @ New Belgium Brewery

Music @ Equinox Brewery

Send your photograph submittals (corrected fix-it-photos, club outings, challenge topics, or your favorite images) to Walter Lyons at photoeditor@fcdcc.com. Remember to send in before and after versions of your pictures so we can learn about post processing. Please send in 3 or fewer pictures for the slideshow, and send them by Sunday evening so Walt has time to create the slideshow. We also accept short videos for the slideshow.

March meeting challenge topics: "Springing" and "Longshots".

Send your pictures to Walter Lyons at photoeditor@fcdcc.com
Please send ideas for challenge topics to Walter Lyons at photoeditor@fcdcc.com

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.

We didn't have a club presentation this evening, we had our annual gear swap instead.

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.