Retzer
Nature Center
Camera
Club
August
Newsletter
August Meeting – Wednesday, August 5th, 2020, 7:00 PM
Club Meeting Covid Safety Procedures: Our
club meetings will continue to be conducted in a manner that will provide a
safe environment for all. The following
guidelines will be used for our meetings until further notice:
1.
Under recently announced
orders from Gov, Evers, face masks are now mandatory for indoor
gatherings. Please bring your mask to
the meeting.
2.
The
Retzer Nature Center is open for meetings, Standard 6-foot social distancing must
be followed..
3.
Chairs
will be spaced out to allow members to keep an appropriate distance from each
other.
4.
Hand
sanitizer will be available.
5.
We
will not be using name tags in order to avoid personal contact.
6.
The
attendance sign-in sheet will be at the door.
Please sign in as you enter so we can avoid passing it among members.
7.
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: Are you using Lightroom but tired
of paying the monthly fee? Jim Kurovsky
and Randy Scherkenbach will discuss alternatives On1Sofware and Luminar 4 that
may meet your needs. They will also
touch on several other programs that may work for you. Join us to hear about these options.
Member Image
Sharing:
Members
are encouraged to submit several (up to five) images to share with the club for
gentle critique. This is a great way to
get suggestions for improving your images and developing your photographic
skills. In order to give everyone a chance to
share their images during the year, we will select several individuals who will
be featured at each meeting. Other
individuals may also provide images which will be shared as time permits.
The following members will
be featured this month: Kurt Huebner, Terry Hughes, Karren Jeske, Michael
Jeske, Craig Kasseckert.
In addition, any members who
attended the Retzer Wildflower Shoot with Jim Edlhuber on July 22nd
should submit some of their images.
Please
email your images to Jim Hobbick ( jim-dawn-hobbick@wi.rr.com ) by Tuesday, August
4th. When submitting your images,
please change the file name to include your name as the first information in
the file name. This will help to streamline the process of viewing
member images. We look forward to seeing your images
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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September 2, 2020
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October 7, 2020
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November 4, 2020
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December 2, 2020
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:
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:
Wisconsin Print Circuit – Congratulations to Karren Jeske who earned an
Honorable Mention for one of her prints!
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:
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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
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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.
