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.
Apr 27 – Field Trip – Sunday – Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island
210 New York Ave, Staten Island, NY
Located on the northeastern shore of Staten Island, Fort Wadsworth is a 226-acre public park that was once the longest continually operating military fort in the nation. Fort Wadsworth comprises several fortifications, including Fort Tompkins and Battery Weed. We will go on ranger-led tours so we can access the interiors of Fort Tompkins and Battery Weed which are not open to the public.
Fort Wadsworth
Meet at the Rodda Center at 8:30 am to leave at 8:45.
Apr 29 – Competition – Pictorial – Judge David Mills
Submit 3 images for digitally projected pictorial competition via PhotoContestPro.
The subject matter is open and allows for creative post-processing. You must be registered with PhotoContest Pro to enter images.
If you are entering a competition for the first time, please follow all the instructions on this page: Digital Image Competitions. You should start this process a week before the images are due.
See general rules for competition: Rules of Competition.
Images must be uploaded by midnight Saturday, April 26.
May 4 – Field Trip – Sunday – Island Beach State Park
2401 Central Ave., Seaside Park, NJ
Let’s go to the beach before it gets too hot! Island Beach State Park is a narrow barrier island that stretches for 10 miles. We’ll see beautiful beaches, sand dunes, marsh trails, osprey platform nests, and not far across the inlet is the Barnegat Lighthouse. If we are really lucky, we might see foxes!
Island Beach State Park, New Jersey
Meet at the Rodda Ctr at 8:30 am to leave at 8:45.
May 6 – Program – “The Four Seasons of Macro” by Mike Moats
Are you stuck on always shooting flowers and bugs with no imagination on what else there is to shoot. Mike will cover each season of the year and show the life cycles of the plants and many other subjects that create amazing artistic photos.
Mike Moats
May 13 – Executive Board Meeting
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
Meet at the Rodda Ctr at 8:45 am to leave at 9.
May 20 – Program
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 1 – Field Trip – Sunday – Untermeyer Gardens
945 North Broadway, Yonkers NY 10701
This 43-acre public garden, created in 1917 by Samuel and Minnie Untermyer, combines exceptional horticulture, monumental architecture, and multicultural design in a majestic natural setting overlooking the Hudson River.
Untermyer Gardens Conservancy
Meet at the Rodda Ctr at 8:45 am to leave at 9.
June 3 – No Meeting
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 22 – 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.
June 24 – Executive Board Meeting