The club will meet in the Vail room at LFP on the first and third Tuesdays of the month with the following exceptions - June, July, and August when we only meet on the 3rd Tuesday. The Vail Room is located on the first floor of Lake Forest Place, 1100 Pembridge Dr, Lake Forest, IL 60045.
Please note there could be changes to the scheduled events.
2023 Dates
September 8 Breakfast, 10:00 am Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
September 19 Program -7:00 pm, Sheri Sparks: Landscape shooting- gearing up for the fall shooting season Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
October 3 Competition, 7:00 pm, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
October 13 Breakfast, 10:00 am Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
October 17 Program 7:00 pm – Frog Lady - Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
November 7 Competition, 7:00 pm, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
November 10 Breakfast, 10:00 am Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
*November 28 Program, 7:00 pm, Critique Night on previous competition images
Vail Room, Lake Forest Place *- This date has been moved back one week due to Thanksgiving.
December 5 Competition, 7:00 pm, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
December 8 Breakfast, 10:00 am Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
December 12 Holiday Party, 6:00 – 10:00 pm, White Deer Run Golf Club, 250 W. Greggs Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL
December 19 No meeting on this date – Enjoy the holidays!
2024 Dates
*January 9 Competition, 7:00 pm, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place *- Please note this date has been moved back one week due to New Year’s.
January 12 Breakfast, 10:00 am, Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
January 16 Program, 7:00 pm Scott McNeill/Venu Tummalapalli - Preparing for the Total Eclipse/Milky Way/Solar Eclipse on April 8th- Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
February 6 Competition, 7:00 pm, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
February 9 Breakfast, 10:00 am, Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
February 20 Program: Don DeDonato - The Anatomy of an Image: How to Create Award-Winning Images Using Basic Photoshop Tools*.
March 5 Competition, 7:00 pm, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
March 8 Breakfast, 10:00 am, Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
March 19 Program – 7:00 pm Walter Cap – Advertising Photography
April 2 Competition – 7:00 pm, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
April 12 Breakfast – 10:00 am, Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
April 16 Program – 7:00 pm “How did I get that shot” with 10-15 on Solar Eclipse, Vail Room,
May 7 Members’ Choice Competition – 7:00 pm, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
May 10 Breakfast- 10:00 am, Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
May 21 Program – 7:00 pm Ralph Durham, Scott McNeill, Liz Rose Fisher, Tim Elliott - Portrait/Cosplay, Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
June 14 Breakfast- 10:00 am, Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
June 18 Photoshoot MIddlefork Savanna –6:00 pm, Middlefork Savanna, 1401 MIddlefork Dr., Lake Forest, Ilinois. For those interested we will meet for dinner at El Norte located at 303 N. Waukegan Rd, Lake Bluff, IL at 4:45 p.m. before the shoot.
July 12 Breakfast – 10:00 am, Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL
July 16 Program – 7:00 pm Jerry Hug - iPhone Photography Vail Room, Lake Forest Place
August 9 Breakfast – 10:00 am, Country Kitchen, 446 Central Ave., Highland Park, IL:00
August 11 Picnic - 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Lake County Forest Preserve, Old School Shelter "B", 28285 N. St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, IL 60048
August 20 Program –TBA, Photoshoot – Chicago Botanic Gardens, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois 60022. ( more information will be sent to members)
September 17- Program- Jack Ingold- You have a lot of competitions - where can they go? Learn all the competitions and exhibits that you can participate in.
October 1 - First Competition of the season