Welcome back everyone, and welcome new members! For those of you who could not attend the September 5 meeting, we have several new and very talented members.

Remember to grab your name tag at the beginning of each meeting. We will get new ones for the new members. The club president stressed that people should speak out and ask lots of questions throughout the evening and at every club meeting.

We reviewed how to submit, where to submit, and how many submissions we can have in each N4C competition. Please refer to the competition page on our website for more information: dubuquecameraclub.com/competition

Don’t forget that submissions are due this Sunday night before. And there cannot be any spaces between words in a file name. You can use commas instead to separate things out.

The N4C 2017 Convention will be in Rapid City, South Dakota. Eleanor, Lois, Jennifer and Ron will be in attendance.

An official announcement will be made soon, but Ron let the group know that the 2018 N4C convention will be in Dubuque, Iowa on September 14 and 15th, 2018. We will be sponsoring this event, and we will need some help coordinating things. Jennifer Tigges will have an update at the next meeting.

We have five new members as of tonight. Several have excellent talents as videographers, bloggers, and filmmakers. It is always great to have some new talent to learn from and participate with us. Andreas Exner (a new member) has a website you can check out here.

Ongoing: The Dubuque Camera Club exhibit continues at the Dubuque Museum of Art. Thursdays are free days. Please enjoy three other photographic exhibits and take a friend. On October 11 at 1:00 p.m., Ron Tigges will be doing a lunch and learn presentation there on a camera technique used in one of the pieces.

Our next meeting will be held on Monday, September 18th at 6:30 p.m. We will be judging the Digital Travel category of the N4C competition. To qualify to be a judge, you need to be a member for at least a year. Stop out and see how it is done. It is very helpful to know the judging process so you know what to submit.

Thank you to John Leicht and Sue Vise for taking notes for us.