{"id":19334,"date":"2012-01-18T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=19334"},"modified":"2012-01-26T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:47:38","slug":"19334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/01\/18\/19334\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Celebrations’ highlighted at club meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rex Dolby <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wedding flowers on chair (Photo by Jodi Hattery)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Wassenberg Camera Club\u00a0held its first meeting of the new year on\u00a0Thursday, January 12, at the Wassenberg Art Center.\u00a0Possibly due to the forecast for blowing and drifting snow, no out-of-town members attended.\u00a0The competition for the evening was Celebrations.\u00a0Jodi Hattery won the print division with a picture of a bouquet of flowers lying on a white folding chair at an outdoor wedding in Ada.\u00a0Rex Dolby won the slide competition with a picture of his wife holding their baby daughter on her first time at church. President Heckler announced that newly retired treasurer, Karl Gribler, has agreed to serve as acting treasurer until the new one is elected.\u00a0\u00a0 Secretary Rex Dolby distributed an Activity Calendar and Membership Directory 2012. Heckler then opened discussion by asking about improving membership retention.\u00a0The consensus seemed to be that new members may have\u00a0attended to learn more about taking better pictures and getting more from their equipment, but found most of the meeting being devoted to<\/p>\n

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Baby granddaughter goes to church (Photo by Rex Dolby)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

competition, which may have been intimidating to them.<\/p>\n

He then asked for\u00a0input on\u00a0what\u00a0we need to do\u00a0to attract and\u00a0retain new members. One suggestion was\u00a0to have more teaching opportunity where more experienced members\u00a0will need\u00a0to openly share their knowledge\u00a0and experience.<\/p>\n

Possibly some of the 2nd monthly meetings might deal with how to set up to shoot the subject of the next month’s competition. That meeting\u00a0could also be used for field trips, speakers,\u00a0photo shoots, and slide programs by members who have a special series to share such as a\u00a0vacation, or other major event.<\/p>\n

The question whether a Facebook account would be a good idea was answered with the opinion that\u00a0the Wassenberg Art Center\u00a0may be\u00a0developing a Camera Club page.<\/p>\n

Our next\u00a0meeting on January 26 at 7 p.m. will be open to the public and\u00a0organized to answer visitor’s questions about their photography\u00a0equipment, how to set it,\u00a0and\u00a0other related questions.<\/p>\n

This meeting\u00a0is free, with no obligation to join, and will be organized into small groups based on camera makes.\u00a0Here’s your chance to ask the questions you’ve always\u00a0wondered about\u00a0in a small group setting with others who would like to know the answer also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rex Dolby The Wassenberg Camera Club\u00a0held its first meeting of the new year on\u00a0Thursday, January 12, at the Wassenberg Art Center.\u00a0Possibly due to the forecast for blowing and drifting snow, no out-of-town members attended.\u00a0The competition for the evening was Celebrations.\u00a0Jodi Hattery won the print division with a picture of a bouquet of flowers lying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 18:43:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}