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2021-12-14 FCDCC Meeting Notes About 24 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. Please welcome Kevin McCaghren to our club, he was 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 $3676 in the club account. Dues are down, but our expenses are down even more. We will have a new President and a new President Elect in January. Thank you Ralph for being our president for 2021. We will continue to hold our club meetings on ZOOM until further notice due to the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic. Mike Dunnetts will hold a FCDCC Planning Meeting in January to decide the club's direction for 2022. Ralph has suggested a "Ghost Signs of Old Town" club outing. He will investigate a guide to the Ghost Signs of Fort Collins. Paul suggested a "Keenesburg Animal Sanctuary" club outing. Cost is $50/each (discounts available for 70+ and children). 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. Portrait SIG - Mike Barry Fine Art SIG - Mike Barry Landscape SIG - Ed Ogle Please email info@fcdcc.com if your SIG will be meeting soon so I can add the meeting to our website. December Activities 12/5 @1pm Portrait SIG "Winter Fashion" model shoot 12/14 @6pm December Club meeting 12/18 @just after sunset - Comet Leonard - look below Venus 12/22 @6pm Fine Art Photography SIG meeting (Water Splashes) 12/23 @9am December Coffee meeting 1/2 @1pm Portrait SIG details TBD Christmas Lights at the Gardens on Spring Creek and around town 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. January meeting challenge topics: The January Fix-It-Photo is "Tom Larkin Mini Jet" by Albert Wang. You can find it on the club website. https://fcdcc.com/images/fix-it-photos/2022-01-tom-larkin-mini-jet-by-albert-wang-large.NEF 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 Kelley for his presentation on "Alaska's Wild Wonders".You can see more of Mark's work on his website at: MarkKelley.com Brian Holliday will discuss "Bird Photography" at our January club meeting. Our members contributed images to the December slideshow, and you can find it on the club website on the December 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. |