Coachella Valley
Desert Camera Club
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NOTICES
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MARCH 16 SPEAKER MEETING RECORDING-JON NORRIS
A recording of our January speaker meeting with Jon Norris ("Seven Years in the Desert-A Photographic Journey") is now available for members in the past meetings viewer. Unfortunately, due to a recording glitch , the audio was recorded but not the correct images during the first 2 minutes. To view the recording, |
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NEW!! MAR 1, 2023 PHOTOCHAT: "TOKYO STREET PHOTOGRAPHY" BY JAN LYALL:
A video recording of Jeanne's January 4 PhotoChat is available for club members. To view it, open the PhotoChat Viewer in your member home page.
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NEW!! END OF YEAR 2022 AWARDS PRESENTATION FROM 2/17 Club Banquet
The Awards Presentation of our best images of 2022 was held on February 17. It was well attended with a great dinner at the Oasis Country Club. This after a 3 year absence due to Covid restrictions. If you didn't attend, you can see the results of the EOY competition judging on the link below.
Congratulations to our 3 medal and 7 Honorable Mention winners in each of our 6 competition categories; plus our Photographers of the Year and Summer WOW winners. See the entire presentation on our EOY Awards page of this website.
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New!! February 16 COMPETITION RECORDING AND GALLERY CATALOG:
A video recording of our February 16 competition judged by Lillian Roberts is available for club members. To view it, open the meetings viewer in your member home page.
The Feb 16 competition awards catalog, as well as previous ones, are available to the public on our Gallery Page |
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SIX OF OUR MEMBERS DID VERY WELL IN THE RECENT FEBRUARY 2023 S4C COMPETITION.
Six of our members received Awards or HM's!! Congratulations to John Beishke, Charles Stricker, Barbara Burke, James Wat, Eloise Carson, and Thomas Hill.
To view their accomplishments, Click Here
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MEETINGS SCHEDULE-2023
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January 2023 PhotoChat |
Wed, Jan 4, 6:00PM |
Host: Jeanne Scott Topic: "How To Be Successful in Competitions" Location: Video Conference |
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January 2023 Speaker Meeting |
Thurs, Jan 19, 6:00PM |
Speaker: John Martin Topic: "A Case for Black & White Travel Photography" Location: Portola Community Center |
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January Field Trip-Lake Havasu (AZ) Balloon Festival |
Fri-Sat, Jan 20-21 |
Two Day Photo Outing-Members only: Contact Craig Toms or Greg Lilly |
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February Peer Review |
Wed, Feb 8 |
Host: Jeanne Scott Location: Video Conference Image uploads: Feb 1-6 |
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February Competition Meeting |
Thurs, Feb 16, 6:00PM |
Judge: Lillian Roberts Location: Portola Community Center Image uploads: Feb 1-12 |
| End of Year (2022) Banquet | Fri, Feb 17, 6:15PM |
Host: Charles Stricker and Gary Vandemark Location: Oasis Country Club, Palm Desert |
| March PhotoChat | Wed, Mar 1, 6:00PM |
Host: Jan Lyall Topic: "Tokyo Street Photography" Location: Video Conference |
| March Speaker Meeting | Thurs, Mar 16, 6:00PM |
Speaker: Jon Norris Topic: "Seven Years in the Desert-A Photographic Journey" Location: Portola Community Center Speaker will be present at PCC. |
| Desert Circuit Equestrian Photoshoot | Sun, Mar 19, 8:00AM |
Organizer: Greg Lilly Competitions: Hunter-Jumper Location: Desert Int'l Horse Park, Airport Drive in Thermal |
| April Peer Review | Wed, Apr 12, 6:00PM |
Host: Jeanne Scott Location: Video Conference Image uploads: Apr 1-10 |
| April Competition Meeting | Thurs, Apr 20 6:00PM |
Judge: TBD Location: Portola Community Center Image uploads: Apr 1-16 |
| May PhotoChat | Wed, May 3, 6:00PM |
Host: TBD Topic: "TBD" Location: Video Conference |
| May Speaker Meeting | Thurs, May 18 6:00PM |
Speaker: Rick Hulbert Topic: "The Joy of Symmetry in Photographing the Natural and Constructed Environment" Location: Portola Community Center. Speaker will be connected via Zoom |
| May "Chuckle" Competition | TBD |
Judges: Charles Stricker, Greg Lilly, Jeanne Scott |
| June Peer Review | Wed, June 7 6:00PM |
Host: Jeanne Scott Location: Video Conference Image uploads: June 1-5 |
| June Competition Meeting | Thurs, June 15 6:00PM |
Judge: TBD Location: Portola Community Center Image uploads: June 1-11 |
| July-August | Summer Wow Competition |
Judges: CVDCC Board Members |
OUR REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS are held on the 3rd Thursday of every month (except during our summer break in July and August) at 6:00 PM as either a virtual meeting via Zoom (video conference) or in-person meeting at the Portola Community Center. Please note that the Peer Review meetings (formerly called CRITSIG) and PhotoChats are also virtual meeting via Zoom. Please check this website often as meeting sites may change pending ongoing health conditions and CA regulations.
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 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. Due
to COVID, all 2020 and 2021 meetings were held via video conference and future meetings may be held in person or via Zoom (see schedule above).
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.