Coachella Valley
Desert Camera Club
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NEWS AND NOTICES
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JANUARY 2025 SPEAKER MEETING RECORDING
A recording of our January speaker meeting with Sandi Wheaton("Route 66 Adventure") is now available for members in the past meetings viewer. To view it login and select the Past Meetings Viewer,
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JAN 8 PHOTOCHAT: "OK TO AWESOME-INTRO TO PHOTOSHOP IMAGE BLENDING " BY CRAIG TOMS:
A video recording of Craig's Jan 8, 2025 PhotoChat is available for club members. To view it, open the PhotoChat Viewer in your member home page.
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DECEMBER 2024 COMPETITION RECORDING, AWARDS CATALOG AND SPECIAL "COLORS OF AUTUMN" IMAGE CONTEST:
A video recording of our December competition judged by Hutch Hutchison is available for club members. To view it, open the past meetings viewer in your member home page.
The December competition awards catalog, as well as previous ones, are available to the public on our Gallery Page
A slide show of our December Special "Colors of Autumn" contest is available for members and the public on our Club Awards Page |
2024 CALENDAR (July-December)
2025 CALENDAR (January - ?)
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January |
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| PhotoChat |
Wed, Jan 8, 4:00PM!
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Host: Craig Toms Topic: "OK to Awesome!" An Intro to Photoshop Image Blending "Make your images POP!" Location: Video Conference |
| Speaker Meeting |
Thurs, Jan 16, 6:00PM |
Speaker: Sandi Wheaton Topic: Route 66 Photography Location: Video Conference |
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February |
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Photochat |
Wed, Feb 5th |
Host: Darcy Quimby Topic: Handicamerable Location: Video Conference |
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NEW! Photo Safari |
Fri-Sat, Feb 7 & 8 |
Old Route 66: A 2 day excursion, led by Sandi Wheaton, with 1 night stay in Needles - lotsa fun! 12 people maximum. Contact: Craig Toms: ctoms@dc.rr.com
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Peer Review |
Wed, Feb 12, 6:00PM |
Host: Jeanne Scott Location: Video Conference Image Uploads: Feb 1-10 |
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Competition Meeting |
Thurs, Feb 20, 6:00PM |
Judge: Location: Video Conference Image uploads: Feb 1- 17 |
ABOUT OUR MEETINGS AND EVENTS
OUR MONTHLY COMPETITION AND SPEAKER MEETINGS are held on the 3rd Thursday of every month (except during our summer break in July and August) at 6:00 PM as a virtual meeting via Zoom (video conference). Peer Review meetings (formerly called CRITSIG) and PhotoChats are also virtual meetings via Zoom. Many other events are being added to the calendar that are in-person events. Please check this website often as meeting dates and locations may change.
By agreement of your Board in May 2021, the age of competition images has been modified for the unforseeable future. In the Reality divisions (Nature, Photo Travel, PJ General, and PJ Human Interest) there is now no time limit (prior restriction was 18 then 36 months) of the date of competition. Images in Monochrome and Pictorial divisions also still have NO TIME RESTRICTIONS so these images could have been taken at any previous time.
Peer Review meetings are a group session where members submit images for others in the group to suggest constructive improvements. Peer Review now meets as a
virtual meeting via Zoom in competition months at 6:00PM on the Wednesday (8 days) before the competition
judging.
IMAGE SIZE REQUIREMENTS FOR CLUB COMPETITIONS EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2018.
Images must be not more that 1400 pixels in width and 1280 pixels in height.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Change in definition of Nature now no longer permits flower images, hybrid or not, except in specific circumstances. Click here.
Click here for details of S4C and S4C competitions.
CHECK THE OUTINGS AND EVENTS PAGE FOR UPCOMING CLUB OUTINGS AND PHOTO SHOOTS.