Color key: [Monthly Meeting] [Group Shoot]
Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 6:30-9:00 PM, Monthly Meeting: Nature, Very Best, Special Assignment "Rural" [Example1] [Example2]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):Nature (up to 2 photos can be submitted in this category)Very Best (up to 1 photo can be submitted in this category)Special Assignment "Rural" (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.
Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 7PM: Waterfalls of Upstate New York: 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, 3:15PM: 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 PM 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, on the non-event dates I've gone before) 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 (but please ride/walk back with a buddy).
Sat, Oct 4, 2025: Belle Isle [October 2024 Map] [October 2024 Photos] [December 2024 Photos].
Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:30: Print Competition Mounting: bring your print(s) to our normal meeting location and we'll help you do the rest to mount them 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, and remember, today is the Print Competition submission deadline. Please also have mercy on our Treasurer and bring $25 cash to this meeting to renew your dues for 2026.
Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 6:30-9:00 PM, Monthly Meeting: Monochrome, Very Best, Special Assignment "Reflections" (preferably upside down) [Example1] [Example2]. Please also bring $25 cash to this meeting to renew your dues for 2026, if you didn't already. WARNING: If you don't, then no pizza for you!
Sat, Dec 6, 2025, 7:45AM: Pere Marquette 1225 - the North Pole Express from Owosso to Ashley: Check out our itinerary for the ECC's fifth (almost) annual extravaganza! (and a possible 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 hurry back into the car and buckle up! [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) this year.
Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:30-9:00 PM, Monthly Meeting: Group Shoot, Very Best, Special Assignment "Trains/Trams/Buses" [Example1] [Example2]
