Regular Club Meeting
Doors open at 7pm and the regular meeting starts at 7:30pm.

2nd Digital Cycle Deadline
Our club's second Digital Cycle images are due! Email them to William Haun or use the online form in the Member's Only area.

Regular Club Meeting
Doors open at 7pm and the regular meeting starts at 7:30pm. We will be viewing & discussing a presentation from Photographic Society of America. The topic is the "Best of the Best" 2009 winners and the images you see will awe & inspire.

We will also be reviewing club members' photos from our July/August theme of "Vacation"

Regular Club Meeting
Doors open at 6:45pm for a workshop on how to prepare your photographs to enter in the Georgia National Fair Photography Competition and how fill out the required pre-registration forms. Everyone is invited to participate. Those who have never entered images in the Fair competition are encouraged to attend.

The regular meeting starts at 7:30pm. We will be showing the Third Cycle Print submissions and awarding ribbons. We will also review members' images from the Juliette field trip we did in conjunction with the Warner Robins DIPG for the 3rd Annual Worldwide Photowalk.

GA Natl Fair Photo Competition Workshop
Before our regular club meeting this Thursday we will have a free workshop on how to prepare your photographs to enter in the Georgia National Fair Photography Competition and how fill out the required pre-registration forms. Everyone is invited to participate. Those who have never entered images in the Fair competition are encouraged to attend.

Workshop begins promptly at 6:45pm.

3rd Print Cycle Deadline
Our club's third Print Cycle images are due! For information on rules & procedures visit our Members Only section of the web site.

Regular Club Meeting
Doors open at 7pm, meeting starts at 7:30pm. Come join us!

NO Regular Club Meeting
Due to the holiday and members traveling for vacation, there will be no July 1st meeting.

Regular Club Meeting
Doors open at 7pm, meeting starts at 7:30pm. Come join us!

Field Trip to Indian Springs State Park
Save this date for our MGCC picnic at Indian Springs State Park just north of Forsyth. Edna Dean our Field Trip Coordinator will provide details at a later date.

Regular Club Meeting
Doors open at 7pm, meeting starts at 7:30pm. Come join us!
- Show 1st Cycle Print Competition Images
- Show “Still Life” in a Bag Images

Still Life in a Bag images due
Email “Still Life in a Bag” images to Diane Flynn at dmflynn@mac.com
If you participated in the Still Life in a Bag event choose no more than 5 of your favorite images color and/or mono and email them to Diane Flynn at anytime, but not later than midnight on May 29th. They will be shown at the June 3rd meeting.

Regular Club Meeting
Doors open at 7pm for camera focus groups, meeting starts at 7:30pm. Come join us!

- Guest Speaker Lynn Barta will present a program on composition tips and "seeing" in photography.
- Members will turn in prints (mono and color) for Cycle 2 competition
- Members will return Still Life Bags collected at the last meeting

2nd Print Cycle Deadline
Our club's second Print Cycle images are due! For information on rules & procedures visit our Members Only section of the web site.

Regular Club Meeting
We will be reviewing the submissions to our first Digital Cycle competition and hearing feedback from the judges. Ribbons will be awarded to the winners.

Doors open at 7pm, meeting starts at 7:30pm. Come join us!

Still Life in a Bag
At out May 6th regular meeting we are asking each member to bring 3 still life items to swap with another member. Over the next two weeks members will photograph the items they received then return them on May 20th at the next regular meeting. We will then share the photos we all took with each others' still life items.

GA Forestry Assoc Photo Contest Deadline
More info at

1st Digital Cycle Deadline
Our club's first Digital Cycle images are due! Email them to William Haun or use the online form in the Member's Only area.

Regular Club Meeting
A presentation on "Judging Images." If you have ever wondered how a Judge looks at an image this program is for you !!

Hope to see you Thursday. Doors open at 7 p.m. Meeting is at 7:30

Field Trip to Dauset Trails Nature Center
We have a field trip planned for our camera club to Dauset Trails Nature Center near Jackson, Georgia, on Saturday, March 27. We will meet at the entrance at 11:00 a.m and have a picnic lunch together and then go into the center. Their website, dausettrails.com, gives good information about the center and directions on how to get there; there is a printable map on the website.
There are no entrance or parking fees, but donations are appreciated. No animals, even on a leash, are allowed inside the center.

1st Print Cycle Deadline
Our club's first Print Cycle images are due! For information on rules & procedures visit our Members Only section of the web site.

Regular Club Meeting

Regular Club Meeting
Our guest speaker will be Miriam Langley from "F-Stop", a new photo business on Northside Drive in Macon. Miriam will be telling us about the services available. She has much to offer and will be an asset in the community for the club members and photographers in general.

As a follow up to our program "Up Close and Personal With Nature" presented in February by George Bradfield and Gail Stewart, everyone is encouraged to share some of your Nature images at this meeting. You may bring photos (any size) to the meeting or submit digital images to William Haun. William will prepare the images for viewing on the screen. Part of the "fun" in photography is looking at each others images.

Regular Club Meeting - Presentation on Google's Picasa
Our own Binks Solomon will be giving a presentation on using Google's FREE software Picasa 3 to manage, edit, and share your digital photos. You can download the software yourself (again, for FREE) at http://picasa.google.com/ and test it out before the meeting.

How to Use Flash with your Camera
This class will include:

1. how to use Speedlights


2. understanding speedlight


3. simple accessories that make artificial light better


4. using the built in camera flash.

Regular Meeting - "Up Close and Personal with Nature"
Join us for a special presentation by Gail Stewart and George Bradfield of "Thru Nature's Eyes Photography"

Coffee and goodies will be served beginning at 7 p.m

Regular Meeting
William Haun, our Digital PSA Representative, will review last year's 3rd Cycle Digital Competition and share the feedback from the judge. He will also review how to submit images for the Digital Cycles in 2010.

MGCC Awards Banquet

Annual Christmas Party
Our annual Christmas Party with gift exchange and pot luck dinner.

Regular Club Meeting

Regular Club Meeting
For our first meeting in November, we'll welcome Marti Jeffers. Marti works with Craig Tanner of The Mindful Eye. Topic is to be announced. Visit their website at www.TMELive.com. Check out their daily critique for good tips.

Regular Club Meeting
Club member and world traveler, William Haun, will be presenting a program on travel photography. Listen to great tips and techniques while viewing his travel photos from Peru.

Regular Club Meeting
Frank Dean will walk us through several recommended methods for cleaning your digital camera's sensor. He'll also give us tips on the best ways to clean our lenses and provide us with info about where to buy the latest gadgets associated with keeping our gear in top condition.

Regular Club Meeting
John Stokes will show the PSA print cycle competition results and William Haun will show the PSA digital cycle competition results.

Regular Club Meeting
Rick Freeberg will show photos from our field trip to Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Alan Thiese will show us winning images from numerous PSA-affiliated clubs from all over the world.

Regular Club Meeting
We are pleased to have guest speaker, Richard Bernabe with us tonight. Richard is a professional photographer from South Carolina specializing in outdoor images. Not only does he teach workshops, he's been published over 7500 times within the last 10 years or so, including his own photo book on South Carolina. Check out his website at www.richardbernabe.com.

Regular Club Meeting
For Part Three of our pre-competition program, we will present the "blind critiques," inviting attendee comments. After the critiques, three of our experienced members will be available for "mentoring" and will be glad to offer suggestions for any photographs you bring in. Goodies and refreshments will be provided at this meeting.

Blind Critique Deadline
This is the DEADLINE to submit your digital images to Diane Flynn if you would like to participate in the "blind critique". Your photos will be viewed and critiqued by four award-winning photographers without any information identifying who you are. E-mail no more than 10 photos to Diane at this e-mail address. Experienced club members are encouraged to participate.

Regular Club Meeting
For Part Two of our pre-competition program, award-winning photographer Chris Overcash will give us his opinion about what makes a winning photograph and describe how he chooses which photos to submit for competition. Frank Dean will show us how to mount our photos to gator board and will show us some other ways to present our photos for competition. Jerry Beasley will show us how to cut photo mats & backs for presentation with and without framing.

Regular Club Meeting
This is our first of three programs to prepare you for the upcoming national photo competition. Award-winning photographer Michael Williams will present a program giving us his opinion as to what makes a competition-worthy photograph. Printer extraordinaire, Jim Messer, will show us two different photographs printed on several different types of paper, allowing us to see the benefits of different photo papers. Our Vice President of Programs, Diane Flynn, will discuss the new competition rules for the national fair. If time allows, she will also show you some award-winning photos from other clubs.

Regular Club Meeting
Our PSA representative, William Haun, will show the results of our 1st digital cycle results. William has arranged to have PSA Judge Joanne Stolte live over the phone to explain the judging system and help us improve our images with personal critiques. Check out Ms. Stolte's profile here.

Regular Club Meeting
Rick Freeburg will show photos from our field trip to Sprewell Bluff State Park.

Theme Assignment Due
Turn in images to Diane Flynn for your special Theme Assignment that was given out at the April 16th meeting.

Regular Club Meeting
Guest Speaker: Professional photographer, Andrew Brooks will visit our club and share some of his knowledge.

Regular Club Meeting
Our webmaster, Nathaniel Demere, will give a brief presentation about our Club's web site.
Gather some objects together and get ready to swap them out. It's time for "Still Life in a Bag."

Regular Club Meeting
Diane Flynn will show the "Promises" Theme Assignment photos and will present awards to the top three winners. We will also show photos from the Calloway Garden field trip as well as about 40 Cherry Blossom images taken by our members.

Regular Club Meeting
• Member Speaker William Haun will be instructing us how to stitch together photos for panoramics. You can see his presentation notes on his web site.
• Deborah Cruce will present the latest EID competition images.

• This is the deadline to e-mail your Theme Assignment images to Diane Flynn, for the "Promises" assignment.

Regular Club Meeting
Guest Speaker Delaney Holliman will talk about flash, both on and off the camera.

Regular Club Meeting
• Before & After: Binks Soloman will be our first presenter. She'll be showing us how she converts images form color to black & white.
• Of special interest to anyone planning on attending the February field trip to Calloway Gardens, Jerry Beasley will show us tips for getting good shots of butterflies.
• Sandra Brown will offer suggestions to change our current Honors/Points Program

Regular Club Meeting

Regular Club Meeting