Jacksonville Camera Club General Meeting Minutes
Shepherd of the Woods, 7860 Southside Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32256
Date: Feb 19, 2026
Call to Order
President Jim Angelo called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m..
Announcements
-Craig Shier reported that there were some problems with the digital entry form of Google’s end but that he got the problem resolved. He also noted that the website entry form does not work well on phones.
-Young McQueen had a slide presentation on the updates made to the competitions. Notably, the Monochrome competition has been eliminated but a monochrome category has been added to all the print competitions. He walked through the new look for the entry process for both print and digital. He emphasized the importance of properly formatting the image name as explained on the website.
-Jim Angelo announced that SOTW is moving our storage space and asked that members take home things that were cleaned out from the cabinet otherwise the items will be trashed.
New Members and Visitors
-Linda Tranter reported no new members. Two visitors were our speaker, Patrick Brady and friend Tasha Pitts
Raffle 50/50
-collected $43; winner $22 to Dave Wholey; $21 to Club
Club Outings
-Ted Floore: March 14 Lanakila Gardens is full but interested members should sign up so a second outing might be planned; Apr 9-12 Ft DeSoto/Tampa/St Pete
Other Photo Opportunities
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People’s Choice
–Tina Jordan: Feb winners 3rd Peter Fitzpatrick, 2nd Ernie Mistr, 1st Ted Floore
-March theme: Deterioration
Competitions
-Digital: results Apr 2nd
-Prints: collect dates Feb 19 and March 5; results Apr 16
-F3C T3 Print: submissions Feb 9-March 9
-F3C T3 Digital: submissions Apr 8-May 8
Program
-“Creative AI in Photography”
Adjournment
President Jim Angelo adjourned meeting at 850pm
Submitted by Peter Fitzpatrick, secretary