Hello Everyone!!!



Okay everyone,life has been hectic busy and I am sorry I have not had much time to be here on the club. I feel terrible about it, I love the concept of this club, but I also know that with the way my schedule is lately, it is going to be challenge to run it by myself and do it properly, so I am putting out the request right now, for anyone interested in being a co-admin, please send me a note.

You would help in submitting to the club gallery, helping promote the club and its guidlines, along with helping come up with new ideas and paths the club will take. I only need one or two co-admins at this time, so feel free to note me. I fear that if I just run this place on my own, it will not get all the attention it needs, plus having an extra pair of hands to help submit to the gallery will help keep this place fresh!

Based on response feedback concerning challenges and votes, I am holding off on posting a new challenge for now and just will leave things open in the club for normal gallery submissions. Also as an FYI, I just renewed the subscription for the club for another month, so enjoy!

UPDATE: Welcome New Members!





Club Update: New Forum started, feel free to comment and post to your hearts content! [link]

Also, new polls coming soon, so stay in tune and watch for those, you early club members are going to help dictate how this club evolves into the awesome photographic club you want it to be!

Current active poll here: [link]

Finally, great news, our club chatroom is live, it must have members at least actively checking into it and using it, even for a little bit, if it goes 2 weeks without use, DA automatically deletes it.

Here is the link to our very own chatroom: [link]

Stop by and say hi!!, I do want to schedule at least our first club chat soon, sometime during the next week or so, so watch for a new poll coming your way soon for what time and day will be good for you!



Many club members responded to the past poll What types of Tutorials, Tips and Tricks, News Articles, Features, would you like to see? [link] wanting to know pretty much all the basics and beyond about photography for club tutorials, etc. Well with that said, I did some digging, I figured there had to be a ton of really great photography tutorials out there, so why not do some digging and gather them up for the club to reference first. Then, once everyone has read them, we could discuss questions and comments in our forum or via comment replies to this journal entry.

Here is the direct link to all the really great photographic tutorials I found and fav'd to our club: [link] If you really liked one, feel free to fav or comment the artist who created them for all their hard work and generosity in sharing what they know with us and the world. (Cheesy, I know but it's true! )

I will perodically look for more tutorials and fav them as needed, I will notify you via journal entries whenever great and beneficial new tutorials are found.

With that said, club members are also more than welcome to submit tutorials themselves. I am already thinking about the first tutorial I will create for the club. For any tutorials submitted, the club member will submit it through their own gallery, then you can notify our club via a note and we can add it as a club submission, this will probably be the best way to get your tutorials to the rest of the club. Sound good?

So stay tuned, more polls will be coming your way soon since we had such a great response on the last one!!! Muhaha! Also as an FYI, I have found that when someone comments on a poll, nothing shows up in my inbox, so I wil be making it a habit to check periodically on our polls, forums, etc for comments, sorry if I was delayed in responding to a poll comment because of not knowing you had posted anything new! lol

Also, please remember to all prospective members, to JOIN the club, you HAVE to send a note to the club titled Join, along with place a link to the club somewhere in your journal, via our club stamp or icon. It is the only way we know who our members are, plus you HAVE to be a member to submit work for submissions, etc.

Here is a current list of our members, [link] If you are missing, please let me know via a note or comment and I will add ya!

Those not wanting to be members and just want to watch the club gallery for submissions, you are more than welcome to do so, just please remember to fav the artist's direct work, not our club gallery submissions.

Please see the following link for details on membership rules and club rules: [link]

Thank you and happy photo hunting Wisconsin!!