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Shared Interest Group Announcements
Line Dancing
We are all asking, "when can we get back to our group activities?"
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it will be anytime soon. Hang in there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UwTwjpE6E. And here is one final site
As soon as it is known when we can resume the Line Dance class, you
will be notified. In the meantime, remember to count your blessings.
Orchid Group
The Orchid Group wishes you all a healthy and safe shelter in place.
While you're home you may be thinking it would really be great to have
a new hobby since you have more time on your hands than usual. And
what could be more rewarding than growing an orchid! They bring a lot
of happiness and peace to an otherwise hectic and stressful life. When
you're ready to take your orchid growing to the next level (learn how to
help them thrive and rebloom), join us at one of our future meetings
which happens the first Saturday of the month every other month.
Shutter Bugs
Hello fellow Shutterbugs.
Our next meeting is scheduled for August 6th at 2pm.
We will be conducting this meeting using Zoom. An
invitation will go out to all Shutterbug members with
the link for the meeting.
As a follow on to the very interesting article shared to
us by Norm Vig, this Month’s presentation will be from our resident
Black & White Pro Gary Wagner.
iPhone Photography for Everybody: Black & White Landscape
Techniques (iPhone Photography for Everybody Series)
Gary Wagner will make a presentation on taking black and white
landscape photos using the iPhone camera. The material for his
presentation comes from Gary’s new book, titled: “iPhone Photography
for Everybody: Black and White Landscape Techniques”. The book was watch your email for future updates. Continue to be safe and stay
published in May 2020 by Amherst Media and is available at Amazon.
His book is intended for use with the iPhone but the techniques will
apply to almost any phone camera. The presentation will cover: photo
capture, processing apps and popular subject material for black and white
photography.
For this month’s theme we are encouraging you bring a couple of your
favorite photos that you turned in to B&W for our show and tell. We
would like to hear why you chose the ones our chose and how did
changing them to B&W affect the feel and mood of your photo.
If you have questions about this assignment please reach out to one of
the steering committee members and we would be happy to fill in more
details.
We will then leave at least an hour to show some of our members work
from this project.
I would highly encourage you to test your knowledge of sharing using
Zoom. If you have not learned how to share or even if you have done
some limited sharing I strongly encourage you to watch these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaEHmwQvQxY. There are some
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very useful training videos on YouTube. Here is one more: https://
from Zoom that has many great tutorials you may want to review. This
site is great for all or us to learn more about using Zoom Controls etc.
If you still have questions please contact me or one of the steering
committee members for assistance “PRIOR” to the August meeting.
All club members are encouraged to make sure they become a member
of our Facebook Group at: https://www.facebook.com/
groups/436603713658143
Singles
Join us for fun and games at our next Zoom
Singles meeting on Sunday August 23 at 5 pm.
Bring a cocktail or food or both to enjoy while we
participate in a couple of fun games and activities.
Please prepare for the fun by having an 8 1/2 X 11
sheet of paper, a pen, and a pencil (both) handy
before the meeting begins. Zoom information will be sent to members
several days before the meeting.
Team Trivia
A big shout-out to everybody from your Team Trivia hosts! We miss
you all and hope you are staying safe and healthy.
Wii Bowling
The Wii Bowling Group usually plays on the first Saturday of every
month. We are on hold until such time as The Retreat re-opens. Please
healthy.
Wine Appreciation (WAG)
Hello WAG Members! Well here we are in the middle of July and the
beginning of August with no end in sight of getting back to anything
“normal”. It was so disappointing to not have our annual WAG BBQ
and it looks like there will be no annual Food & Wine Festival this year.
Although we are missing out on these events, the most important thing
through all of this is to be safe and take good care.
For a short period of time some of the local wineries were able to reopen,
but as of the writing of this article, Placer County has had to shut down
again. Right now, El Dorado, Amador, and Nevada Counties remain
open with restrictions. Thanks to Dee & Brian Parry, they provided these
tips: If you belong to any wine clubs call to see if they are open and
arrange a pick up. Bring a lunch and eat at a park. You can go online and
see which local wineries are open for tasting. Bring a lunch and eat on
the grounds if they permit it or order food from them and eat there. One
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