Week 33 - Aug9, 2026 Mike Mercadante Highlights Event Reminders August Newsletter New Members Highlights Q3 Image Competition and Monthly Critique Participation in the Image Competition or our Monthly Critique is a great way for members to accelerate their photographic learning. Putting your work in front of others for feedback helps you focus on refining your capture and processing techniques. Q3 Image Competition Images will be reviewed and scored by a 3-judge panel of cer

Week 32 - Aug2, 2026 Mike Mercadante Highlights Event Reminders Recent Blog Posts New Members Highlights Q3 Image Competition and Monthly Critique Participation in the Image Competition or our Monthly Critique is a great way for members to accelerate their photographic learning. Putting your work in front of others for feedback helps you focus on refining your capture and processing techniques. Q3 Image Competition Images are due to Dan Holmes by Aug 6th, 2026 by Midnight Ins

Week 31 - July 26, 2026 Mike Mercadante Highlights Event Reminders Recent Blog Posts Website Directions Highlights CCP Website Update - This week, we introduced phase 1 of a CCP Members contact list on the website. This list is accessible only to CCP members who have logged in. Each member's contact card displays their name, phone number, email, city, and state. Additionally, the card includes sections for your preferred genres and the camera brand you use. Click here to view

Week 30 - July 19, 2026 Mike Mercadante Highlights Event Reminders Recent Blog Posts Website Update Highlights Getty Outing Video - Last weeks workshop at the Getty Study room was an inspiring look at Landscape images from 1830s forward. John Grusd selected a series of images and shared his insights about the images and the state of the art at the time. A fun educational outing with friends! Ventura County Fair Volunteers: The County Fair is rapidly approaching. We need volun

Week 29 - July 12, 2026 Mike Mercadante Highlights Event Reminders Recent Blog Posts Website Update New Logo / CCP Branding Highlights Event Ideas - We want to hear your ideas on events that you would like to see on our calendar. We are already looking at 2027. So, we created a simple page on the site where you can share your ideas with us. Click here, or go to the Events Menu, and select the Submit Event Ideas item Ventura County Fair Volunteers: The County Fair is rapidly a

Week 25 - June 15 Mike Mercadante Highlights Event Reminders Recent Blog Posts Member Recognition Website Update - We have shifted our event ticketing to our Wix Website during the first week in June. Bob Turk has done a great job of switching all the events over from LearnDesk. Thanks, Bob! Please read the blog post dated June 5th to learn how to book any upcoming event. Click here Next week, we will post a TechTalk to illustrate the process and answer questions and remind

Week 24 - June 7 Mike Mercadante Highlights Event Reminders Recent Blog Posts Member Recognition June Edition of the Newsletter - Shortly, you will receive a copy of the monthly newsletter "Coastal California Journal", which is the first newsletter of our combined organizations. Enjoy the content, and give us feedback on how we could improve our newsletter. Website Update - Given the maintenance issues with LearnDesk this week, we implemented a contingency plan to create an e

Week 23 - June 1 LearnDesk - Is currently down for maintenance. I will send out a message when maintenance is complete. Website Update - A series of minor updates have been made to the website this week. Some Menu modifications reflecting the future content will be rolled out in the next couple of weeks. You will see some new pages marked as Under Development. The Blog is now located in the Resources Menu We added a monthly critique menu, where we will post galleries of merit