Retzer
Nature Center
Camera
Club
June
Newsletter
June Meeting – Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020, 7:00 PM
Welcome Back!: After
several months of “stay-at-home”, we are ready to resume our club
meetings. We will do so in a manner that
will provide a safe environment for all.
The following guidelines will be used for our meetings until further
notice:
1.
The
Retzer Nature Center is open for meetings of 50 people or less, Standard 6-foot
social distancing must be followed.
2.
The
use of personal masks is strongly recommended.
3.
Chairs
will be spaced out to allow members to keep an appropriate distance from each
other.
4.
We
will not be using name tags in order to avoid personal contact.
5.
The
attendance sign-in sheet will be at the door.
Please sign in as you enter so we can avoid passing it among members.
6.
And,
as always, if you are not feeling well or are experiencing symptoms of
Covid-19, please stay home. We will miss
you, but it is better to remain safe.
Program: We will not have a speaker this
month as we are gradually working our way back to a normal meeting
schedule. We will resume with speakers
next month. We will use our program time
for members to share some of their experiences during the past several months. All members are asked to send in 3-4 images
for sharing, perhaps showing some of the things you did in the past few
months. Images should be sent to Jim
Hobbick ( jim-dawn-hobbick@wi.rr.com ). It will be
good to see what you have been up to.
As part of the meeting we
will also share the results of the Wisconsin PSA Club Showcase. Join us and find out how our club scored this
year.
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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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
·
December 2, 2020
Membership Dues: Membership dues for 2020 are due now. 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:
It has been very
quiet as far as in person events have been concerned, but there have been a
number of online webinars and training events at low or no costs. 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!
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:
Our club officers are:
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President
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Jim Hobbick
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Vice
President
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Elizabeth Whitcomb
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Treasurer
|
Jim Edlhuber
|
Program
Chair
|
Randy
Scherkenbach
|
Outings
Chair
|
Elizabeth
Whitcomb, Caryl Sedushak
|
Members should feel free to contact the officers with any
questions and suggestions they may have for the club.
