Retzer
Nature Center
Camera
Club
December
Newsletter
December Meeting – Wednesday, December
4th, 2019, 7:00 PM
Program – Holiday Party: Our December meeting will be our annual
Holiday Party. Spouses and guests are
invited to join in this event, so make sure you invite them. This will be a good opportunity for them to
meet your fellow club members and see some of the wonderful images our club
members create.
As in the
past, we will give members a chance to show off some of their best images from
the year. This year each member may submit up to ten of their
favorite images from 2019. Please
include only images taken in 2019! We
will put your images into a program for the evening. Images should be sent to
Rick Vollbrecht (Rvollb@wi.rr.com). Please
send them now to give us time to create the program for the evening! The deadline for submitting images is
Monday, December 2nd. Please rename your images to include your
name or initials at the beginning of the image name to make individual images
easier to identify.
We will also
be asking members to bring some light refreshments – cookies / bars, chips
& dip, cheese & crackers, soft drinks, etc. Please send an email to Rick Vollbrecht ( Rvollb@wi.rr.com ) to let us
know what you will bring.
2020 Club Programs:
Our 2020 programs and meeting
dates are listed below. Our program chairman, Randy
Scherkenbach, is looking for your ideas for programs for 2020. If you have a topic you would like to see
presented, please let Randy know now.
Please forward your ideas to Randy (rscherkenbach@gmail.com ).
2020 Program Schedule:
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January 1, 2020 – Happy New
Year! – no meeting
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February 5, 2020
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March 4, 2020
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April 1, 2020
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May 6, 2020
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June 3, 2020
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July 1, 2020
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August 5, 2020
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September 2, 2020
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October 7, 2020
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November 4, 2020
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December 2, 2020
Membership Dues:
Membership dues for 2020 may be paid to our Treasurer, Jim Edlhuber, at
the meeting. Annual dues are
$15.00/member or $25.00/couple. Our dues help to provide an honorarium to
outside speakers and pay minor club expenses.
Field Trips:
Photo field trips are a great way
for us to share our common enjoyment of photography, learn some new techniques
and share in camaraderie while getting to know our fellow club members. Our Outings Co-chairs, Elizabeth Whitcomb and
Caryl Sedushak, are working on a schedule that will include some of our
traditional outings plus a few new ones. They are always looking for your ideas
of some places you would find interesting for a club outing. If you have any ideas of places you would
like to have us shoot, please send your ideas to our Outings Chairperson, Elizabeth
Whitcomb (lizannwhit@gmail.com) Better yet, why not offer to coordinate a
field trip. It's not hard - find a place
you would like to go, pick a date and we can announce it to the club. Perhaps you have a favorite place for fall
colors or winter scenery.
2020 Field Trips: None are scheduled at this time.
Facebook:
Our camera
club now has a Facebook page! If you are
on Facebook, simply put Retzer Nature Center Camera Club in the search box and
you will find us. Click on the Join
button and Elizabeth or Randy will approve you.
This is a Closed Group and open only to club members. This means that anything posted here can only
be seen by members of the group. You can
feel free to share your work here without fear that someone outside the club
will have access to it. Anything posted
here is private, so feel free to ask questions – don’t be embarrassed or shy
about it. The monthly Newsletter,
meeting topics and outings will also be posted here. Check it out!
Future Events of Interest:
WACCO Photography Seminar by John Gerlach – March 7,
2020: Sponsored by the Wisconsin
Area Camera Club Organization, this annual seminar brings in quality
professional photographers at a very reasonable price. This year John Gerlach will cover topics
including Wildlife Photography, Equipment, Close-up in Nature, Composition and
Landscape Photography. The cost will be
$50.00 for registration before 2/5/20, $75.00 after 2/5/20. For more information and to register, go to
the WACCO website: www.wicameraclubs.org.
If you are aware of any events of
general interest, please let us know so we can share them with the club.
Photo Contests and Exhibits:
Retzer Club Page on
WACCO Website: The WACCO website
(www.wicameraclubs.org) has pages for each member club to
display photographs from club members.
Check it out to see what our members and other clubs are shooting. If you would like to see some of your images
on our club page, please send several of your images to Caryl Sedushak ( caryl.sedushak@me.com ).
The images should be 2100 pixels on the long side and no larger than 1
mb. Let’s see some of our great member
photos on the WACCO site!
Wisconsin Public TV Garden &
Landscape Expo – February 7-9, 2010: Entry deadline is December 15, 2019.This competition is in conjunction
with the annual Garden & Landscape Expo. All photos must include plant
material. Categories include Macro,
Landscape, Food and Abstract. Additional
information contest rules are available at www.wigardenexpo.com.
If you are aware of any photo
contests or exhibits, please forward the information to Rick Vollbrecht at Rvollb@wi.rr.com
Photo Ops:
As a club, our members have a
wide variety of subjects that we enjoy photographing. This newsletter can serve as an excellent way
to share various photo opportunities with club members. If you know of interesting subjects or events
that may interest other club members, please forward those to Rick Vollbrecht (Rvollb@wi.rr.com) so they can be included in
future Newsletters. If you are
interested in having others join you, that information can also be
included. It is fun to shoot with a
group.
Photography
Classes:
Art’s Cameras Plus and Mike Crivellos Cameras have an
extensive list of classes covering everything from camera basics to
photographing in a variety of situations and use of Photoshop Elements. Check out their web sites: www.Artscameras.com and www.MikeCrivellos.com
for updated lists of available classes.
If you are aware of other
photography classes or seminars, please forward the information to Rick
Vollbrecht
Websites of
Interest:
Friends of Retzer Nature Center: www.FriendsofRetzer.org
Club
Organization:
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Our club officers are:
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President
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Tom Wright
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Vice
President
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Jim Hobbick
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Treasurer
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Jim Edlhuber
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Program
Chair
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Randy
Scherkenbach
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Outings
Chair
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Elizabeth
Whitcomb, Caryl Sedushak
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Members should feel free to contact the officers with any
questions and suggestions they may have for the club.
Annual dues:
$15.00 / member, $25.00/ couple.
