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Focal Points Magazine

Focal Points Magazine is the official publication of the Camera Committee. Produced in full color (or lush black+white) in a high-resolution electronic magazine, it is always available here and is delivered six times a year to each subscribing member by email. FPM is 70+ pages of illustrated articles, programs announcements, outings announcements, travel reports, how-to's, committee and member news, and pages upon pages of wonderful member photographs delivered in even-numbered months. Subscribe by joining the Camera Committee.   

A tall white chapel with a slate roof is perched atop a green mountain with pearly blue sky in the background

 

Cover photo: Before dawn not far from the Cortina d' Ampezzo. Copyright John Nilsson

In the July-August issue:

  • Cover Story Peaks and Chapels: A trip to the Dolomites
    Six SCCC members take what the author describes as "the trip of a lifetime" to the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy. By John Nilsson
  • Trip Report: Rafting the Colorado River, Part 2. By John Fisanotti
  • Tulare Lake: A Ghost Returns. By Peter Bennett
  • Archiving Family Memories. By Thomas Loucks

All images in this publication have copyright retained by the photographers.

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Joe's Newsletter

Twice each month, Joe Doherty sends the Camera Committee Newsletter to members with committee announcements, links to past programs, and items Joe thinks will be of interest to our members like photo exhibits, nature photography articles, calls to enter.  You have to be a member to receive this newsletter! Subscribe by joining the Camera Committee

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A frog peeks out from the lotus pond at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Photograph copyright Velda Ruddock, 2023.