Olympia Camera Club

Upcoming Meetings

Due to COVID-19,  in-person meetings of the Olympia Camera Club are canceled until further notice.  We are now scheduling virtual OCC meetings and will be releasing meeting information as it becomes available.  Watch this space.

Tuesday, September 22 – General Meeting – This month our presenter will be Dr. Kah-Wai Lin and the topic will be seeing the unseen and crafting better images in landscape photography. Dr Lin is a professional landscape photographer and goodwill ambassador for PSA based in New Jersey.

All meetings are at 7:00 p.m. using the
GoToMeeting teleconferencing software.

New to GoToMeeting?  Get the app now and be ready when the meeting starts: https://global.gotomeeting.com/install/177630701

To participate you will need a microphone.  A headset with an attached microphone is helpful. Most laptops come equipped with a built-in microphone. If you are not familiar with the GoTo Meeting application, you may want to log into the meeting 5 minutes early and familiarize yourself with the interface.

Meeting Link:
Members, if you have misplaced the link to the teleconference, you can find the link posted in the “Members Only” area on the OCC Webpage.

If you are not a current member of the Olympia Camera Club but would like to join our “virtual” meetings, please visit the Membership page of our website and choose an option for paying your annual dues.  Once you have joined, you’ll receive a “Welcome Letter” that will include the link to our meetings.

Virtual Field Trips

No field trips are scheduled at this time due to COVID-19.  Instead we will conduct a series of virtual field trips in the monthly newsletter and with Field Trip Galleries.

A Day in the Life of OCC

The OCC motto is “Photographers Helping Photographers and Their Community Since 1935.” To help camera club members keep on shooting, our next virtual field trip is your new normal –  “A Day In the Life of OCC.” Go out, or stay in and show us five photos from any given day before the due date of October 8th. You are encouraged to pick a day, see what the day brings, take photographs during that day, and after post-processing, share with fellow OCC members. Tell us about yourself, your life, and your photographs.

GUIDELINES for IMAGES:
Images are due by October 8, 2020.  Members may contribute up to 5 images per person to the newsletter for each virtual field trip, but you may also upload up to 10 of your images to the club’s website gallery by logging into the website and choosing ‘ADD IMAGES TO GALLERIES’ from the Member’s Only Area.

Please size your images to 2048 pixels on the long side and reduce the file size to 2MB or less. Put a watermark on the image and title each image. Example for the title: Milky Way over Mt Rainier_Pam Hoaglund. Please send the images as an attachment to an email to [email protected]

Planning Ahead:  We’ll have one Virtual Field per month.  Here are the titles & due dates for the next few months.  See the calendar for more details.

• November 5: Starry Starry Night – astrophotography
• December 3: Gratitude in the time of Covid19