About Us

The Ames (Iowa) Camera Club is a community group for those interested in photography — the fun, the artistry, and the gadgetry. The membership ranges from professionals to complete beginners. We all have something to learn from each other.

Meetings are generally held the second Thursday of each month between September and May, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room upstairs in the Ames Public Library. Topics in the past have included presentations by wildlife, news and sports photographers, discussions about photography techniques, and software tutorials; sometimes we gather just to show each other pictures we've taken.

Announcements

• Dolittle Prairie outing coming up on Saturday, July 11
  See details on the schedule page.
• ACC is in new hands
  
  

  New club officers were elected in May. Larry Vallery is the new club president, Andrew Koppenhaver the new vice president; Gloria Johnston and Luke Healey remain as secretary and treasurer, respectively. The new positions took effect July 1.

• Participants in May's scavenger hunt: if you would like your pictures to be displayed here on the ACC website, please send Mark your JPEG files. Please name the files in a way that assigns them to the scavenger list items. We have pictures from several members up on the history page.
• Courtesy Tom Andre: check out these images that look altered but are not.
• Results of the club contest (held in Feburary and judged by Mark Peterson) can be seen here.
• We now have more complete information about the upcoming fall 2009 N4C convention. (PDF)
  
  2009 N4C Convention Announcement from Luke Healey on Vimeo.

All meetings are free to the public; there is no charge to attend. You will, however, need to join before entering the club's contests or exhibitions. For details please contact Luke Healey, or you can ask pretty much anyone at one of the regular meetings.

We are a member of the North Central Camera Club Council, which encourages activity among the various regional clubs and organizes contests.