Welcome to Charlottesville Camera Club

Our judge this month is Sandi Croan. Sandy is a fine art photographer who specializes in landscape, nature, and travel photography. She has won numerous competitions and awards for her fine art photographs, including Best Landscape and People’s Choice awards at Nature Visions Photography Expo and Best in Show and 2nd Place at the Meadowlark Photo Expo.

Her images are on permanent display at the Fair Oaks Hospital Cancer Center and Inova Schar Cancer Center. Sandi was a featured artist in Elan Magazine and has had photographs published in other local and national magazines. Additionally, she was a finalist in Outdoor Photographer Magazine’s Nature’s Colors in 2021.

Sandi has been a member of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society since 2004 and has served in a variety of board positions.

You can see a sample of Sandi’s work on www.sandicroanphotography.com

Got some photos you'd like to share with your fellow members? Want some helpful suggestions on how to improve your photography skills? Just want to see what others in the club are shooting these days, and how they're using editing software to optimize their photos? Then our photo review sessions are a great place to spend some time.

If you haven't yet joined us in these Zoom gatherings, you should at least give it a try. Just show up and see what you think. Then, if you decide you want to show some of your own photos, go to the CCC website (www.cvillecameraclub.org) and click on Competition Info > Uploading in the left-side column for more information. (Don't worry: The photo reviews are not at all about competition!)

Wide-angle lenses . . . telephoto lenses . . . macro lenses . . . prime lenses . . . zoom lenses . . . So many choices, but also so much potential confusion for so many photographers.

This workshop, presented by a host of your fellow CCC members, will clue you in on which lenses they use for which subjects (why and how), how to get the most from the lenses you have, how best to care for them, when you might want to upgrade, how to save money on good used lenses, and more.