Fifteen club members and one guest attended the Dubuque Camera Club virtual meeting on May 3, 2021. Many topics were discussed, including the two club exhibits that are coming up this year.

Smokestack. Remember, the Smokestack exhibit in July will be an eclectic exhibit, so everyone will need to get their own prints made! (Or unbury them from your closet!) Up to around 30 large prints may be displayed, along with a digital slideshow. The club still needs to figure out the submission and jurying process. Prints can be for sale, minus a commission. Be prepared to submit photos of existing framed prints. More info at the next meeting.

Trees at DuMA. Club members, be sure to check what you sent in last year for the Trees exhibit at DuMA. If you want to add, change, or delete your image from consideration, let Ron or Ken know. [Note: Scroll down to the 2020 album in the club’s online gallery to see those submissions.] The curator from the art museum will jury this show, and we’ll have photos printed as a group, as in previous years. The opening is scheduled for November 13th, so there is still time to prepare or make changes.

Digital Travel judging. Our club will judge the N4C Digital Travel (DT) competition this month. Cara Pusateri, one of our club’s N4C reps, will facilitate the judging. Thanks to three courageous volunteers who stepped up to serve as virtual contest judges: Bob Felderman, Stephonie Schmitz, and Chuck Isenhart. The club voted to reschedule the next meeting to Monday, May 24th to better fit with the judging schedule.

Photo Caravan. At tonight’s meeting, we also finalized plans for the upcoming Photo Caravan through Jo Daviess county on Wed. May 19. It will be led by Dubuque Camera Club member Henry Matthiessen III. We’ll meet in Galena and drive or carpool to several photo destinations.

April returns. The club went over returns from the April N4C contests. Our club had a dozen top-rated images last month, including another 2nd place! Yay, Ron! That’s pretty good for a club our size! [Imagine the ding-ding of a pinball table as the points ring up!] Congratulations to the following Dubuque Camera Club photographers!!

Congratulations to April winners!

• Ron Tigges – Digital Travel, 2nd place for “Chicago River Wrigley Building View”
• Lori Burrows – Digital Travel, merit award, “Winter Morning at the Arboretum”
• Ken Kiss – Digital Travel, merit award, “Storm Clouds, Stanley, Idaho”
• Jim Durrant – Digital Travel, merit award, “Evening, Grand Canyon”
• Stephonie Schmitz – Digital Journalism, merit award, “Daily Chores in the Masai Mara”
• Bob Felderman – Digital Journalism, merit award, “Hot Summer in Chicago, Living Water”
• Kevin McTague – Digital Altered Reality, honorable mention, “Guess Who is Coming to Dinner?”
• Ron Tigges – Digital Pictorial, merit award, “Matthiessen State Park Waterfall”
• Stephonie Schmitz – Digital Pictorial, merit award, “Giraffe Pool, Massai Mara, Africa”
• Stephonie Schmitz – Digital Nature, honorable mention, “Costa Rican Pygmy Owl”
• Kevin McTague – Digital Nature, honorable mention, “Male House Finch”
• Andreas Exner – Digital Black and White, merit award, “Barn in Snowy Landscape”