Teaneck Camera Club 2024 – 2025 Calendar
Some meetings are held at the Richard Rodda Community Center, 250 Colonial Court, Teaneck, NJ 07666.
Some meetings are on Zoom. Club members are emailed a link to Zoom meetings.
All meetings occur on Tuesday nights at 8 PM, except where noted.
All Programs and Competitions are on Zoom unless noted otherwise.
May 18 – Field Trip – Sunday – Willowwood Arboretum
14 Longview Rd, Far Hills, NJ 07931
This incredible arboretum offers beautiful vistas, formal and informal gardens, meadow paths, and woodland trails. With more than 2,100 plant species dispersed among the property, there is color every month of the year. Within the core garden area surrounding the residence are several formal gardens: Pan’s Garden, the Cottage Garden and the Rosarie. The wisteria should be blooming around this time.
willowwoodarboretum.org
Garden Descriptions
We may possibly also visit Frelinghuysen Arboretum.
353 East Hanover Ave, Morris Township, NJ
Frelinghuysen Arboretum – Morris County Park Commission
Meet at the Rodda Ctr at 8:45 am to leave at 9.
May 20 – Membership Meeting – at the Rodda Center – 8 pm
A Membership Meeting is a chance for club members to ask questions, make suggestions, and discuss their thoughts about club events and policies.
Refreshments will be served.
May 27 – Year End Pictorial and Nature Digital Competitions – Judges Jim Alfano, Jordan Basem, Arik Gorban
The Year End Competition is held to determine which are the best of the images submitted in monthly competitions within the past club year. (September 2024 to May 2025)
A three judge panel will choose a Best of Year image from each category (Pictorial & Nature) and class (Beginner, Advanced and Salon).
Club members who qualify may submit up to 4 images regardless of score in each category.
To qualify you must have entered a total of 8 NEW entries in each of the Pictorial and Nature categories you wish to enter. Images must be from the September to May competitions of the current club year (2024-2025).
Contact the Scorekeeper (Joe Giordano, joegrdano@aol.com) if you are unsure if you qualify.
Images must be uploaded via PhotoContestPro by midnight Saturday, May 24.
Images submitted must be exactly the same as when entered in the past year’s monthly competitions. They cannot be altered or changed in any way.
Awards will be distributed at the Year End Dinner.
June 3 – No Meeting
June 8 – Field Trip – Sunday – Wave Hill
4900 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY
A 28-Acre Public Garden and Cultural Center Overlooking the Hudson River.
Wave Hill
Wave Hill Images
Meet at the Rodda Ctr at 8:45 am to leave at 9.
June 10 – Year End Dinner and Award Presentations
June 17 and 18 – The Bild Expo Photo and Video Show at the Javits Ctr, NYC
Get inspired by world class speakers, fine tune your talents through hands-on experiences and workshops, and try the latest gear at the industry’s largest brand expo.
Free to attend, but register before to receive QR code for quicker entry.
About Bild Expo
June 24 – Executive Board Meeting
June 29 – Field Trip – Sunday – Battle of Monmouth Reenactment
The Park’s GPS address is: 16 Highway 33-BR, Manalapan, NJ 07726
Travel back in time to the American Revolution and the year 1778 as Continental and British armies prepare to do battle. See battle reenactments along with military encampments.
Meet at the Rodda Ctr at 8:45 am to leave at 9.
Reenactment of the Battle of Monmouth
July 13 – Field Trip – Sunday – Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY
Snug Harbor is the result of more than four decades of restoration and development to convert a 19th century rest home for sailors to a regional arts center, botanical gardens, and public park. Snug Harbor consists of 28 buildings, fourteen distinctive botanical gardens, a two-acre urban farm, wetlands and park land on a unique, free, open campus.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
Meet at the Rodda Ctr at 8:45 am to leave at 9.
July 27 – Field Trip – Sunday – Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park, NY
4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY
The town of Hyde Park is home to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s home, “Springwood”, and the Presidential Library and Museum. Tours are available at both the home and library, and visitors are invited to stroll the grounds, gardens, outbuildings, and trails of this 300-acre site.
If you have a National Parks Pass, it can be used here.
Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service
Meet at the Rodda Ctr at 8:45 am to leave at 9.