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.
• There should be some way of identifying the photographer (either with a watermark or by including your name in the title).

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Theme For May 7th Meeting - 7:00-9:00 PM EST

The theme for May's Digital Diner is "April Showers(and other bodies of water)".

Weather in April tends to feature lots of precipitation, and so far this month we've had no shortage of that! For this challenge, images can be taken of rain (or snow), in rain, or of creeks, rivers, lakes, or even puddles. Just be careful around stream banks.

If you're housebound, even water from a shower or kitchen tap would work.

For upload, images can be no larger than 1600 x 1200, and should contain some way of identifying the photographer, whether by using a watermark or including your name in the file title. 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 EST) on Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2025.

View Images

• Go to SmugMug to view all Digital Diner submissions.

Uploading Your Images

• Go to the menu Programs, Digital Diner, Upload Challenge Images in order to upload your images. As this is only available to ECC club members only, you must be logged in to gain access to this link.

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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