President's Corner

Our Next Meeting is April 27 AT La CROSSE FLORAL. Early start time is 6:00. Our Educational Topic is PHOTOGRAPHING FLOWERS by John Zoerb. Bring your camera & tripod and shoot some flower photos. Also at this meeting we will have our raffle drawing.

Next up is the La Crosse Fitness Festival May 1 & 2. We have 6 members signed up to shoot photos as volunteers. If you wish to volunteer to shoot for Fitness Fest let me know. It is not too late.

We have had a couple meetings in the smaller room at Myrick Hixon which is less comfortable. We hope to be back in the main meeting room in February. On the plus side, we have not had to pay the room rental for our “back room” meetings.

The La Crosse Winter Rec Fest is the final camera club activity for January. Our volunteers will shoot all events. This effort helps the La Crosse Park & Rec Department. It also gives members a chance to hone their skills and create some competitive images. We can look forward to a few of these images in coming competitions.

Myrick Hixon Ecopark as our meeting place is proving quite nice! Lot’s of room, a great screen, and a reasonably central location for members. We may have to use the smaller room occasionally, but it will still be larger than our old location at the church. And, use of the smaller room is free (compared to $20 for the large meeting room.) In the spring we will have lots of photo opportunities as the days get longer.

The days are getting shorter and making it easier to shoot photos in the sweet light of early and late day. We should also see more foggy mornings which will provide good photo opportunities. Our club has volunteered to be Official Oktoberfest Photographers and six club members have volunteered so far. We will be given “official Buttons” that will give us a free pass into Fest Events to shoot photos. If you have not signed up and wish to join our “Fest Photo Team” send an email to me.