Focal Points Magazine
Focal Points Magazine is the official publication of the Camera Committee. Produced in full color (or lush black+white) in a high-resolution electronic magazine, it is always available here and is delivered six times a year to each subscribing member by email. FPM is 70+ pages of illustrated articles, programs announcements, outings announcements, travel reports, how-to's, committee and member news, and pages upon pages of wonderful member photographs delivered in even-numbered months. Subscribe by joining the Camera Committee.
- Cover Story: Winter in Yellowstone - 2026
Patience pays off as SCCC photographers get close to wolves and a terrified coyote during an unseasonably warm January in the Lamar Valley.
By John Nilsson, John Fisanotti, Basil Katsaros, and Brent Paull - Trip Report: Chasing Fuji: Photographing Japan's Sacred Mountain From Every Horizon by Greg Metro
- How It Was Done: Photograph of the Lunar Eclipse by John Fisanotti
- Camera Committee Outings Reports: Malibu Creek State Park by Joe Doherty and Downtown LA At Night by John Nilsson
- And member photos!
All images in this publication have copyright retained by the photographers.
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Joe's Newsletter
Twice each month, Joe Doherty sends the Camera Committee Newsletter to members with committee announcements, links to past programs, and items Joe thinks will be of interest to our members like photo exhibits, nature photography articles, calls to enter. You have to be a member to receive this newsletter! Subscribe by joining the Camera Committee
Social media
The Camera Committee social media includes our news and we cross-promote meetings and outings from other groups, along with items we think will be of interest to our members such as photo exhibitions, nature photography articles, calls to enter, etc.
- Our Instagram account Sierra Club Camera Committee
- Keep up with our members and friends on Instagram with hashtag #SierraClubCameraCommittee
- We use MeetUp to announce outings and post photo galleries afterward Sierra Club – Angeles Chapter: Camera Committee
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A frog peeks out from the lotus pond at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Photograph copyright Velda Ruddock, 2023.