Welcome to Our Site!

Our Web Site is open for business with a contemporary design and consistent look. More content has been added to promote interest in the club and provide value to our members.  Bookmark this page and check back frequently for updates.  

  • Coming Up...
  • Join Us in May
    Its a Shootout!

    During our next meeting (May), the club will be judging a photo competition between the Greater San Antonio Camera Club and the Houston Camera Club. Each year one of the clubs chooses the location for the “Shoot-Out”, a date and determines the assignment categories. The photographers meet at the chosen location and have from sun-up to sun-down to photograph the selected assignments.

    Also on hand will be Kent Nickell who will share his images with the club.  All this and more is in the May newsletter.
    Posted May 14, 2013, 4:13 AM by Creative Camera Club
  • Insect Salon
    In March club president Tom Myers will present the 53rd North Central Insect Photographic Salon. The presentation includes outstanding examples of close up nature photography.
    Posted Mar 17, 2013, 3:44 PM by Creative Camera Club
  • MSS
    Member Slide Shows are brief (5-7 minute) presentations by club members of their personal photographic interests and endeavors.  Sign up sheets are available at regular club meetings (3rd Thu).  We will endeavor to make several of these presentations available on our website using YouTube services.

    Nancy Dawson is doing the MSS for March.

    Jennifer Lackey is doing the MSS for April.
    Posted Mar 7, 2013, 12:12 PM by Creative Camera Club
  • First Thursday in March
    Allen Dawson will explain and give examples of the new features in CS6, and then review some of the basics of Photoshop generally, emphasizing the three things to make your Photoshop experience more enjoyable, more efficient, and more likely to make your pictures look better - keyboard shortcuts, understanding and using layer masks, and making your own actions. The best workflow starts with using RAW processing before taking the picture into Photoshop proper, and examples of that will be presented. Feel free to bring your own laptop that has Photoshop on it (any version, not just CS6), but that is certainly not necessary.
    Posted Mar 7, 2013, 6:33 AM by Creative Camera Club
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  • What's New?
  • iPad/iPhone Support
    Please read the tips in this section if you are having trouble viewing the site using Apple products.  This site utilizes Adobe Flash technology to make rich Internet content available.  Most browsers such as Internet Explorer or Google Chrome support Flash via a plugin module added to the browser.  Popular products from Apple including the iPad and iPhone do not provide native support for Flash.  You can read more about why here.  This site has been tested on both the iPhone and iPad using the Puffin browser which provides native support for Flash technology.  Puffin is available in the App Store.  For other Flash plugin support check here or send us email with specific usability issues.
    Posted Apr 9, 2013, 11:21 AM by Creative Camera Club
  • Website Storage
    The website will not run out of space anytime soon. Most of the content is stored on the Google Drive of the club's account. Currently even with the expanded content (like the flash slideshows) the site is only at 1.5% of capacity. Keep those images rolling in!
    Posted Mar 17, 2013, 1:25 PM by Creative Camera Club
  • Image Protection
    The club's Board of Directors decided to provide additional protection for all images on the website by adding a watermark to each image file.  This includes all images submitted for competition.  If a member desires to include their own watermark on images they may submit an additional watermarked version of their image at the time of the competition.  Additional protection is afforded using Flash technology for slideshows, embedded metadata and the footer notice at the bottom of each page on the website.
    Posted Mar 17, 2013, 12:41 PM by Creative Camera Club
  • Under Construction
    The Camera Club site is under active construction.  The Web site team is busy working to modernize and organize the site and to make for the best user experience possible,  Stay tuned to this space for updates on the web site.
    Posted Mar 7, 2013, 6:13 AM by Creative Camera Club
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  • News & Announcements
  • May Meeting Recap
    Mark Buerger, Communications Director for the Special Olympics Kentucky, made a short presentation enlisting club volunteers to photograph the upcoming Kentucky Special Olympics summer games at EKU on June 1st.

    Club members judged the photo competition (shootout) between the Greater San Antonio Camera Club and the Houston Camera club.    Ruth Oremus and Charlie Zehnder did a great job presenting the photographs and tabulating the results of the shootout based on a program developed by Jeff Lackey.  Hats off to all of them!

    Kent Nickell presented a slide show entitled "Pictures From The Side Of The Road", which included photographs from Morgan County, Italy, Haiti and favorite sports, beach and motion images.  His enthusiasm for photography was evident in the introduction and in the question and answer session that followed.

    contributed by Maryann Mills
    Posted May 20, 2013, 5:50 AM by Creative Camera Club
  • Insect Salon Results
    The results are in.  Congratulations to all who participated in the 53rd North Central Insect Photographic Salon including members of the Creative Camera Club!  Click to see additional winning images from the salon.  A complete list of entrants and winners is available here.
    Posted May 11, 2013, 10:17 AM by Creative Camera Club
  • April Meeting Recap
    We had a full house in April with several new members and visitors.  Jennifer Lackey presented a wonderful member slideshow "California: Reloaded".  It can be viewed on the Member Slideshows & Videos page.

    John Snell presented a revised definition of still life for our annual print competition.  The new definition was approved by the membership.

    Congratulations to all participants and winners in the Religious Places competition.  A flash slideshow of the winning images can be found in the Archives section of the site.  Jeff Lackey critiqued the images.
    Posted Apr 21, 2013, 9:05 AM by Creative Camera Club
  • Best Bug Mug
    The club has voted!  Winner of Best Bug Portrait from the March meeting was image #20 by Annale Schijndel from Hilton South Africa.  The runner up was image #8 by Shaoyang Lin from Hangzhou, China.  Both images are depicted below.  It really shows the international draw for the Insect Salon.

    Best Portrait Winner

    Runner Up


    Posted Apr 3, 2013, 11:33 AM by Creative Camera Club
  • March Meeting Recap
    Nancy Dawson presented a member slideshow of images of Architectural Gems of the Gilded Age from locations in Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Cynthiana and Harrison County. A version of the slideshow may be viewed here.

    Dave Richardson addressed the club and showed a few slides last night about the upcoming trip to Tennessee on April 13th and 14th.  Included in the plans are the Alvin C. York homestead and mill, Burgess Falls, and Taylor Hollow state natural area which the group had received special permission to enter.  Dave also mentioned the possibility of a sunrise shoot on Sunday morning which is still in the planning stages. Members interested in signing up should contact Dave via Facebook.


    Tom Myers presented the 53rd North Central Region Insect Photographic Salon.  The club voted on the "best bug" from a collection of 20 portrait images - the winner will be posted here soon.  Congratulations to club members who submitted images which were accepted to the Salon including Nancy Dawson, Judith Lesnaw, Jenny Fowler and Jan McKinney.

    Posted Mar 22, 2013, 9:00 AM by Jeff Lackey
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Club Competition Information

The Creative Camera Club generally holds five bi-monthly club competitions each year every other month starting in February.  The club Vice President is responsible for conducting all meeting competitions and is in charge of tabulating results of voting.  All competitions are by digital submission.  

The email address for image entry submission is ccclexcontest@gmail.com.  All entries must be received by 11:30 pm on the Tuesday of competition week.  No exceptions will be allowed for entries received after the deadline or entries which were emailed to an incorrect address.

Tips for image preparation are located in Member Tips section of the Resouces page.  Detailed competition rules may be found on the Compete page.

The competition topics for 2013 are

    February     Fences and Gates
    April           Religious Places
    June           Barns
    August        People at Work
    October       Storms/Weather
Club Calendar 

Our new interactive club Calendar shows all CCC sponsored events and activities. Click on a calendar item for additional details. If you are a Google Calendar user you may add the club calendar to your own.

If you add the calendar to your own Google Calendar you will be able to view the club calendar using a mobile calendar application (IOS or Andriod). You can also add event reminders (pop-ups or email) for scheduled events, and receive either email or SMS notifications to event changes, cancellations, responses and additions.

Creative Camera Club Calendar