Brian Leonard opened the meeting at 7:00 p.m.
Banquet Recap – Jan Vallely – Gave recap of the 2018 Annual Awards Banquet.
Brian Leonard thanked everyone for their help in presenting the banquet.
Website – Young McQueen – Digital Contest – has changed supporting legs of because the provider is going bankrupt. Will be changing to new system and will be easier and up and running and will go live in March – about 2 weeks from now. Sign up for testing new system and you will be sent an link to test the new system out.
Birding Festival – St. Augustine – talked to Erin – will be able to get free admission for the camera club by going in and registering on line and submitting code CAM2018 and will get the free admission only you will still need to pay for the individual programs that are being presented.
Outings – Olustee February 17th – Mike Rexroad – John Neel will be the leader for this outing. If you get there between 7:00 – 7:15 a.m. can get a parking space close to the entrance of the event. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Can park at Baker County Correctional parking lot and take shuttle to entrance for $2.
F3C Information-Competitions and News – Julius Dean – Results for prints completed for year end competition and 2 ribbons received by club members – Blue Ribbons
1st Place – Color Category
Caroline Peppiatt – Golden Moment
2nd Place – Monochrome Category
Julius Dean – Standing Ovation
F3C – Annual Conference – March 9-11, 2018 at Fort Myers, handouts are available if needed.
Charisse Tanner – Presented Annual HM to member in attendance at meeting.
Glennie Competition- Craig Shier – Collecting images and have til Friday to turn image. Club can submit up to 10 images and right now Craig has more than enough to select for this contest. If you want to submit go to website to go contest to Glennie to check and email for link to submit.
Prints Competition – John Neel – Collecting for 1st quarter prints. Last date to turn in is the Feb. 21st meeting. Go to wubsite to submit a digital copy for your print and print label out and bring into John for submission. You can do two different ways on line and for those that can’t submit on line bring into meeting and will submit it and then will get a digital copy for the submission.
New members and Visitors – Jennifer Thompson – No visitors
Brags – No brags
Raffle ¬- Anita Fanic – 50/50 winner – $27.50 to club and $27.50 to Andrea Wilsie
People’s Choice – Winner & Next (March) Months Theme is Clock/Clocks – Tina Jordan
Holiday Theme
1st place – Phil Cope – Sunset on Flag Day
2nd place – Jon Montigny – Howling Day of the Dead
3rd place – Mark Phillips – Christmas in the Dark
April’s Theme is Bottles, Jars, Glassware
Tonight’s Meeting Program – Beyond the Post Card Shot – Doug Roane-Introduction by Craig Sheir
Next Meetings Program – February 21st Cuba – Julius Dean
Brian Leonard closed the meeting at 8:20 p.m.