Jacksonville Camera Club
General Meeting Minutes
Shepherd of the Woods, 7860 Southside Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32256
Date: February 15, 2024
President Ted Floore called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. The Club has obtained a new microphone that is in use tonight.
Ted announced that the Friendship Fountain in Jacksonville is reopening after a long period of time. This should be a good photo opportunity.
Ted noted that when we submit digital images for competition we should check carefully for sharpness. One of our recent judges stated that they may enlarge digital images to determine their sharpness.
Ted discussed awards received by members in the F3C first triannual print competition. In Color Lloyd Granat won 2 Blue ribbons and Paula Griffin won one Blue Ribbon. In Documentary Paula Griffin won a White ribbon and Tim Davis won 2 Blue ribbons. In Mono Karen Sernick and Charise Tanner won red ribbons.
Ted stated that John Reed will conduct a sunrise workshop at the Okefenokee NWR on April 21st. Information is available on John’s Facebook page.
People’s Choice – The February theme was Nature. The winners were: 1st place, Jim Angelo, 2nd place (3) Christine Cramer, Charise Tanner, Dan Robusto, and 3rd place, Anita Fanic. The theme for March is Non Flower Close Up.
Volunteers are needed for: Vice President /Programs, Education Chair, and editor for the Weekly. Peter Fitzpatrick will be the Print Competition Assistant Chair.
Jenn Samsel is in the process of setting up a new Club public Facebook page.
Ted announced that the Annual Banquet on February 10 was a great success; he thanked Anita Fanic and all the volunteers who helped make it happen. The President’s Service award went to George Hoskins who volunteered to be Acting Secretary, and who completed the work on the points and Progressive Awards. Tim Davis was announced as the winner of the Shutterbug Award. However, it was determined later that an error in calculating points occurred and that Julius Dean is the Shutterbug Award winner.
Brian Leonard is collecting prints for our first competition this year. Brian stated that if you enter prints, you must also submit digital images of them as soon as possible.
The themes for the first digital competition are General, Sun and/or sky, and Human Portrait of One Person. Digital competitions are a great way for newer members to begin participating in competitions.
Raffle 50/50: $13 went to the Club and $12 went to Brian Leonard.
Visitors – None
New Members – None
Anita Fanic discussed outings and activities. The Olustee reenactment will be February 16 – 18, although rain is expected this weekend. The Scottish Games and Festival will be in Clay County, February 24th. A Celtic Festival will be in St. Augustine March 9-10.
Program The first part of the program was a discussion of several images by members that related to the theme of “What’s the Story”, which was the program at the previous meeting.
The second part of the program was a general discussion of ideas for future programs, with suggestions brought up by many members in attendance. One main idea is to have programs by outside speakers, as well as video/internet programs. Another idea is to have programs by a small group of our own members, presenting on a specific subject/topic. At a later time we will produce a separate document regarding this discussion and make it available to Club members.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m.
George Hoskins, Secretary