What Is The Digital Diner?
The Digital Diner is a monthly photo challenge open to all ECC members. The aim is to try to improve our ability to create interesting images by taking photos on a given theme, providing a chance to experiment with different techniques and subjects. The images are uploaded to the ECC website and a Zoom meeting is held at the end of each challenge for viewing and discussion. It's not necessary to have contributed any images to take part in the meeting.
The Diner is completely non-competitive and provides an opportunity for members to share with others how and why they took their images, and to get some feedback. Although some images have gone on to ECC competition, many are less polished. The only requirement is to be willing to pick up your camera and experiment!
There are a few standing rules:
- Images are to be taken during the time frame of each challenge - generally one month. The intent is to give some thought to a new project, so submitting older images is not encouraged.
- Unless otherwise specified, you can upload up to three images per challenge.
- Maximum image size is 1600 x 1200 pixels.
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Theme For December 3rd Meeting - 7:00-9:00 PM EST
The theme for December's Digital Diner is "Natural Graphics".
We're in between peak fall colours and snowy landscapes. But before the
winter weather arrives and only the real diehards want to go out with
their cameras, November can still offer some interesting outdoor
photography opportunities. For this challenge, look for patterns and
textures rather than full landscapes - things like the silhouette of
bare branches against the sky, lacy leaf skeletons, an ice-rimmed puddle
or the contour lines of an empty field.
Images can be taken anytime between now and December.
For upload, images can be no larger than 1600 x 1200. Viewing and upload links can be found on the ECC website, under the Program tab (you must be logged in, in order to upload).
Images must be uploaded before the Digital Diner Zoom meeting begins (7:00pm EDT) on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025.
Upload/View Your Images
Meeting Zoom Link
- Go to the menu Zoom Links, Digital Diner Zoom Link, and click on the current date to join this month's zoom meeting. As this is only available to ECC club members, you must be logged in to gain access to this link.
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