I live in Palatine. I am a member of the Des Plaines camera club-great club- you can google it. Meetings on 2nd and 4th Mondays near River Rd. and Oakton. Jerry Hug, past president has a very good web site- google him. He is into HDR, IR and other unique images.
I am the only Pentax shooter in the club-would like to have others join.
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