Eastside Camera Club - Upcoming Events (Printable Version)

Color key:   [Monthly Meeting]   [Group Shoot]

Sat, Aug 16, 2025: Armada Fair , Meet at 11:30 AM outside the Beer Tent, expect $10 entrance fee + parking

Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 6:30-9:00 PM, Monthly Meeting: Group Shoot, Very Best, Special Assignment "Flowers/Floral/History/Old"

• Where: Room 1 of the Shelby Township Activities Center, 14975 21 Mile Rd (north side of 21 Mile Rd, just west of Hayes)
• Photo Categories (please read and follow these guidelines):
  • Group Shoot (up to 2 photos can be submitted in this category)
  • Very Best (up to 1 photo can be submitted in this category)
  • Special Assignment "Flowers/Floral/History/Old" (up to 2 photos can be submitted in this category)
• Email photos to EccMacombMi@gmail.com by 11:59 PM the night before the meeting.

Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 6:30-9:00 PM, Monthly Meeting: Nature, Very Best, Special Assignment "Rural"

Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 7PM: ECC Member Germaine Finley will be giving a presentation at the Seven Ponds Photography Club about the Waterfalls of Upstate New York.

Sat, Sep 20, 2025: Detroit Night Shoot: Bring your appetite and your tripod for a dinner downtown and lit up nighttime buildings surrounding Grand Circus Park and a few blocks north and south along Woodward. Below is a quick outline of the plan, and here's the detailed itinerary

• Bring: Normal lens, 200 or 300 mm lens, Tripod, Remote Shutter Release, Jacket
• 3:15 Carpool leaves Panera Bread, Van Dyke & 16 Mile
• 4:00 Park at One Campus Martius Garage, 1140 Farmer St, Detroit (the price from 3PM to 1AM is only $10)
• 4:15 Meet outside the Cadillac Square People Mover Station, walk 1/4 mile to the Detroit Beer Company
• 5:00 Dinner at Detroit Beer Company, 1529 Broadway Ave, Detroit (25-person reservation made as Jeff Bondono, jeff.bondono@gmail.com, 586-20...)
• 6:15 Photograph Grand Circus Park and surroundings, sunset at 7:32
• 8:00 (*) Walk 1/4 mile north on Woodward to Fox Theater, then 1/4 mile back
• 9:00 (*) Walk 1/3 mile south to Library Park
• 10:00 (*) Night shots in Library Park
• 11:00 Drive back to Panera
  * This is an opportunity to leave the group shoot via People Mover or Q-Line, if you drove yourself.

Sat, Oct 4, 2025: Belle Isle [October 2024 Map] [October 2024 Photos] [December 2024 Photos].

Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:30-9:00 PM, at Room 1 of the Shelby Township Activities Center, 14975 21 Mile Rd (north side of 21 Mile Rd, just west of Hayes), Print Competition Mounting - bring your print and we'll help you do the rest to mount your print on foam-board and trim it to size.

Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 6:30-9:00 PM, Monthly Meeting: Color Creative, Very Best, Special Assignment "Detroit/City/Urban" see Color Creative with a Twist

Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 6:30-9:00 PM, Monthly Meeting: Monochrome, Very Best, Special Assignment "Reflections" (preferably upside down) [Example1] [Example2]

Sat, Dec 6, 2025, at 7:45 AM: Click to see our 2025 Itinerary for Pere Marquette 1225 - the North Pole Express from Owosso to Ashley - ECC's fifth (almost) annual extravaganza! (and a stop at the Holly Dickens Festival on the way home). This is our first ever attempt at photographing the Pere Marquette 1225 from an amazing 4 different locations between Owasso and Ashley, so buckle up! [Our cancelled 2025 itinerary] [Photos from our 2023 trip] [Photos from our 2019 trip] [Photos from our 2018 trip]

Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 6:30-9:00 PM, Annual Pizza Party for Paid-Up Members Only: submit 10 more photos taken (preferably) during 2025.

Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:30-9:00 PM, Monthly Meeting: Group Shoot, Very Best, Special Assignment "Trains/Trams/Buses"