2022-04-12 FCDCC Meeting Notes

About 25 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.

If you ever have any problems getting into a club ZOOM meeting, please email me at info@fcdcc.com. I try to monitor the club's email account during the monthly meetings and will help you get into the meeting if you have any problems.

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

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!!!

Collected 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.

John Fielder will speak to our club at the May meeting. John is Colorado's Premier Photographer. If you are unfamiliar with his work you should check out his website: https://www.johnfielder.com

We are considering holding an in-person Coffee Meeting in May. You will be notified by email after we have made a decision.

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.

April Activities
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Fri 4/1 @6pm - First Friday Art Walk (Ralph's work will be at the Bloom Flower Shop)
Sat/Sun 4/2-3 - Portrait SIG Shoot (Wicked West Comic Expo)
Sun 4/10 @8:30am - Horsetooth Half Marathon
Tue 4/12 @6pm - Club Meeting ZOOM (Mood and Emotion)
Thu 4/14 @6pm - Night Sky Photography 101
Thu 4/14 - "Early Photography in Colorado" at the Loveland Museum
Tue 4/19 @6pm - Fine Art SIG meeting ZOOM (Artistic Vision)
Tue 4/19 @9am - Coffee Meeting ZOOM
Fri-Sat 4/22-23 - FOCOMX
Sat 4/23 @11am-5pm - Earth Day at Civic Center Park
Mon 4/25 @7pm - Photography 101 Meeting
Tue 4/26 @6:30pm - Video SIG meeting (TBD)
Sat 4/30 @9am - April Club Outing to Chapungu Sculpture Park (Centerra)

May Activities
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Sun 5/1 @1pm - Portrait Shoot (Cosplay) at Mike's studio
Mon-Fri 5/2-6 - Photoshop Virtual Summit 4
Fri 5/6 @6pm-9pm - First Friday Art Walk
Tue 5/10 @6pm - Club Meeting ZOOM (John Fielder - Colorado Nature Photography)
Wed 5/18 @9am - Coffee Meeting (ZOOM?)
Tue 5/17 @6pm - Fine Art SIG meeting ZOOM (topic TBD)
TBD - May Club Outing

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.

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

The May Fix-It-Photo is "Snowy Egret" by Cecil Hellyer. You can find it on the club website.
https://fcdcc.com/images/fix-it-photos/2022-05-snowy-egret-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 Ed Goodman for his presentation on "The Power of Story and Emotion in Photography".

John Fielder will discuss "Colorado Nature Photography" at our May club meeting.

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