October 20, 2023

 

The Valencia Palms Photography Club held its 1st meeting of the season on October 19th @ 4:00 PM in the classroom.

In attendance were:
Gary Scherer
Gerald Levine
Bob Seidman
Jerry Avergon
Beth Levy
Mary Ramamurthy
Diane Wolfe
Carol Cukras
Shari Rosenblatt

Some members shared their images.

One of the topics discussed was the creation of the Valencia Palms Photo Club website. Everyone agreed with the idea. The beta version was shown to the members attending. The cost to create the site is $ 30.00 for the purchase of the domain name. We are fortunate and grateful to Jerry Levine’s daughter who has graciously volunteered to host the website on her company’s server at the cost of zero.

Gary will be developing the website and add relevant topics.
To name a few items to be include:

  • Calendar
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Field trips | Upcoming | Photos of past ones
  • Quotes and Inspiration
  • Gallery

 

On the topic of the Gallery …

Each member of the club that has paid their yearly dues of $ 25.00 will have the option to contribute to the website and have their own gallery to display any pictures of their choice.

If you are interested in having your own gallery …
Please submit a maximum of 20 images

Images should be jpg. | Maximum upload file size: 16MB

Please upload images via WeTransfer sending to gary.scherer@gmail.com

http://www.WeTransfer.com  is a free service to bulk send large files.
There is no need to create an account.
 If you have any questions, please contact Gary 212 819-0350

We would also like to create themed galleries for members to contribute to.

For starters, if you are interested in participating I this project
send a maximum of 4 images
Images should be jpg. | Maximum upload file size: 16MB

The first two themes are:
Color and Texture
Two pretty broad topics to give you the opportunity to participate.

The URL for the website is https://valenciapalmsphotoclub.org
No password is required. This is a work in progress. Your thoughts, ideas and criticism are welcome.

Our field trip to Bedner’s Farm on Thursday October the 26th was changed to
Friday October 27th. We will be meeting at the entrance to Green Cay @ 8:00 AM

We briefly discussed the possibility to have a charitable sale of members images.
More discussion needed to make this happen.

Next scheduled meeting is Thursday November 16th @ 4:00 PM in the classroom.