The next meeting of the Pagosa Springs Photography Club will be held on April 10 at the Community United Methodist Church on Lewis Street.
We will have social time at 6 p.m., and the program will begin at 6:30 p.m. This month’s program will be a discussion of “Building Your Photographic Website,” presented by Andy Butler and Doug Coombs.
The meeting will also be available on Zoom.
If you are a photographer, the chances are you like to share your images with others. Whether you just want to show off your photos to family and friends, want to reach a wider audience, or perhaps sell your work, there are numerous online tools available to help.
The choice of which of these tools you might use will vary depending on your goals. For some, social media may be enough. But if part of your audience doesn’t partake in social media, or you want a platform where you have more control over your images and their presentation, building your own website to share your photos may be the best choice.
Butler will briefly discuss a variety of different platforms available for photographers to display their images and considerations for choosing between them. Most of the choices make it reasonably easy to create a personalized, attractive site for displaying your photos without a lot of technical knowledge.
Coombs will then demonstrate the basics of creating a site using one popular photo hosting service. Coombs has built a preliminary version of a site which is available to members of the Photo Club to highlight some of your own images, which he will also discuss.
Following the presentation, we’ll have our usual image share. Members may bring up to five of their images on a flash drive to share and discuss with the group. If attending by Zoom, please email your photos to abutler@mac.com by April 9. Please save your images as JPEG files, at a resolution of around 2,400 pixels on the long dimension.
Membership renewal
Thanks to many of you who have already renewed your Photography Club membership for 2024.
Membership remains at $25 per calendar year or an individual, or $35 for a family. If you have not already done so, you may bring your membership payment to any club meeting, or mail to Susanne Russell (our treasurer) at 84 Chipper Court, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147, or take to Susanne at her shop, Art and Framing of Pagosa, near City Market.
Because of the nature of the club checking account, please make checks payable to Susanne Russell.
If any of your contact information has changed, please let us know by providing a revised membership application form. You can download this from our website at https://pagosaphotoclub.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/pspc-memberappliciation-2024.pdf .
