Fort Collins Digital Camera Club

We 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.

We had about 25 club members and no visitors at the meeting.

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. You can now pay your dues ONLINE with PayPal!!!

The club has $3717 in our bank account. We have collected about $1000 in dues for 2021.

Since most of our club members have been fully vaccinated, we are starting to discuss meeting in-person again. Dave Chamness will check on venues for in-person meetings.

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.

Fine Art Photography - Mike Barry
- Tue 5/18 at 6pm, We will be discussing creativity, edges & borders, 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.

GoPro/Video - Judy Canon
- Tue 5/25 will be the first meeting of the GoPro/Video SIG this year. Please email Judy Canon by 5/21 if you are interested in joining the group. We may have an outing over Memorial Day weekend.

Macro - Paul Marcoux
- The Macro SIG met last thursday at the Gardens on Spring Creek to take pictures of flowers and butterflies. Paul Marcoux is planning a May outing to Long's Gardens in Boulder. Contact Paul Marcoux if you wish to participate in the Macro SIG.

Landscape - Ken Eis
Ken is planning an overnight outing to the "Paint Mines" near Colorado Springs. The May project for the Landscape SIG is to take pictures of Horsetooth Falls by 5/21, and present them at a ZOOM meeting the next week. Please contact Ken Eis if you are interested in the outing or project.

Night Sky - Ralph Smith
Tuesday 5/11 was a new moon night.

Wildlife - Guy Turenne
No plans for this month. Most of the areas burned last Summer are still closed.

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

May Activities

5/3-7 The Lightroom Virtual Summit, free training online

5/6 May Macro Outing to The Gardens on Spring Creek

5/11 @6pm on ZOOM, May Club Meeting

5/11 New Moon

5/18 @6pm on ZOOM, May Fine Art SIG Meeting

5/19 @9am on ZOOM, May Coffee Meeting

5/21 May Landscape Outing to Horsetooth Falls (on your own), anytime before 5/21

5/25 GoPro/Video SIG meeting

Future Activities

6/8 June Club Meeting, with Rick Dunnahoo

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.

June meeting challenge topics:
1. "F is for..."
2. "Reflections"
3. "Bokeh"
4. "Oldies but Goodies" .

The June Fix-It-Photo is "Waxwing" by Jolene Jernberg.

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 Connie Ruddfor her presentation "Conservation Photography: Pictures for a Purpose".

Rick Dunnahoo will talk about "Photography" at the June meeting.

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

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SPECIAL SPEAKER FOR OUR JULY MEETING
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David duChemin will give his "The Heart of the Photograph" presentation to our club at our regular July club meeting.

David's "calling is to help photographers make photographs that light a spark in people, that communicate clearly, that captivate imaginations and grab the attention and hearts of the people who will see them".

He is a photographer, workshop leader, book author, creative instigator and stand-up comedian.

The Heart of the Photograph is a 90 minutes long with some time for Q&A. During the presentation David will explore 10 powerful ideas about creating more engaging photographs...
- techniques and ways of thinking about creating images
- how to engage human imagination and emotion
- vision and intent
- use of space and time
- creation of depth
- use of point of view
- mood, mystery and storytelling
- creative use of exposure tools, composition...

Everyone who attends his presentation will be given 2 FREE eBooks, and the presentation will be recorded and made available for club members to watch later.

David has reserved July 13 for us, but we still have to work out some of the logistics...
details TBD