2022-11-08 FCDCC Meeting Notes

About 32 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. You will also find a link to the ZOOM meeting on the club website.

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 2023 are :
President - Albert Wang (New president in 2023)
President Elect - TBD
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 2023 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.

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.

Events from previous month
=================================
10/18 @9am Coffee Meeting
10/18 @6pm Fine Art SIG Meeting
10/18-20 Adobe Max Online Training
10/25 @6:30pm Video SIG Meeting (slow motion)
11/4 @6pm First Friday Art Walk
11/8 Lunar Eclipse
11/8 @6pm FCDCC November general meeting

Events coming up - after 11/8/2022
=================================
11/11-12 Taurids meteor shower
11/15 @6pm Fine Art SIG meeting on ZOOM (Abstract Photography)
11/15 @6pm Photography 101 meeting on ZOOM
11/16 @9am Coffee meeting
11/17-18 Leonids meteor shower
11/19 Wildlife SIG outing to Rocky Mountain Arsenal (Deer Rut)
11/19 Neighbor to Neighbor shoot (see Albert Wang for details)
11/29 @6:30pm Macro SIG presentation on insects and new technology

12/2 @6pm First Friday Art Walk in Old Town Fort Collins
12/4 @1pm Portrait SIG shoot (Steampunk)
12/7 full moon
12/9-11 Nutcracker Ballet at the Lincoln Center
12/13 NO CLUB MEETING IN DECEMBER
12/14-15 Geminid meteor shower
12/20 @6pm Fine Art SIG meeting on ZOOM (Abstract Photography)
12/21-22 Ursids meteor shower
12/22 @9am Coffee meeting

2023
1/6 @6pm First Friday Art Walk in Old Town Fort Collins
1/10 @6pm January club meeting
1/17 @6pm Fine Art SIG meeting on ZOOM (TBD)

NCAS and many astronomers use the Xasteria Plus app to predict weather conditions for night sky viewing. ClearDarkSky.com is also useful for forecasting weather conditions for astronomincal observing.

The first Infrared photography SIG meeting will be delayed until January 2023. If you are interested in Infrared Photography please send Walt an email to join his new SIG.

Joan and Ed will host a ZOOM meeting about insects, spiders and new technology on 11/29 at 6pm on ZOOM. Paul will send details by email.

The Neighbor to Neighbor Family Portrait Shoot will be in November. Please contact Albert Wang if you would like to help out.

We will not have a club meeting or Christmas party in December.

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.

January 2023 meeting challenge topics are:
1. "V" is for...
2. Christmas Card Image/Layout
3. Your best image taken or processed since the last meeting.

The December Fix-It-Photo will be found on the club website soon.

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 Guy Turenne for his wonderful presentation on "Southwest Art and Ruins".

Our members contributed images to the October slideshow, and you can find it on the club website on the November 2022 page soon.

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.