Brian Leonard called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m.
Thanked nominating committee and the people that agreed to accept the positions for 2018.
Next program – January 17, 2018 – Chris Moore presentation “Looking Beyond the Camera”
Competitions – 1st quarter digital is open and goes until January 31st – the themes are General, Faces, and Water Reflection
Outings – January 13th and 14th – Mike Rexroad & Sylvia Greda-Kostin will be the leaders – WW Ranch Motocross, check out website and make sure you sign up so that your name can be given to the ticket person and you will be able to get in for $10.00 . Gordan gave directions on how to get to the Motocross site.
Announcement – Jacksonville Zoo with John Reed – John Neel will be the leader for this outing – approx. $30.00 and $ to get into the Zoo. Friday night, May 4, will meet at church and John Reed will give information on shooting at the Zoo. Saturday morning, May 5, will meet at Zoo around 7:30 a.m. John will get us in early to miss the rush of people. Will need to stay together so John can give instructions as needed. At the end will go to lunch to Trout River and be able to discuss and ask questions. Then on May 16th John Reed will critique some of the images that are submitted in their RAW format.
F3C Information – Julius Dean only had one blue ribbon left to be given out and that was to Browyn Horvath.
Digital Competition Info – All galleries – Digital, Print and Monochrome are on the website. Digital competition gallery includes judge commentary. Brian wanted to thank all those who put this together – still need digital copy of some of 2017 print winners.
Christmas Party – Brian gave a thank you to Browyn and Chris for hosting the Christmas party and also said that they will not be able to host 2018 Christmas party and ask for the club members to be thinking of hosting the party.
Annual Banquet – Will be on January 27th – go to website for Banquet Signup. Please register and submit payment. Need to start finalizing the count. If you have not attended you are missing a special and fun time. It is a great event to attend.
Young McQueen – go to website for digital competition which is open – it is the same way to submit images as last year but with a change there is no spreadsheet as was previous contests. Jan Valley will email/phone if you are successful or if you receive phone to help you submit. Banquet – Will Dickie will be the judge for the prints for the annual contest. Will speak about 20 minutes. Physical hard copies of sign-up sheets for banquet are available. Also, for new procedure on submitting prints. Gordan set up committee for digital entry for the prints. John Neel will be giving additional instructions on submitting your entries for prints when the it gets closer to turning in the images. Will still pay when you turn in your images. Clicks had its final monthly issue in December but Clicks Weekly is up and running.
New Members and Visitors – Jennifer Thompson said that we had 2 guests
Art Hughes
Bryan Malin
Brags – none
Craig Shier – Glennie Saloon – photograhpy competition – need 10 images at least 2 per person so at least 5 people or any combination of images. Information on website under contests look for Glennie Saloon – images need to be nature, animals, birds, etc.. Also info on how much post-processing can be done to the image. Will be collecting images thru February 9th. Will get group together for selection of 10 images.
People’s Choice – January – Fall Colors – Tina Jordan announced the winners
1st Place – Phil Cope – Cotton Wood Country
2nd Place – Anita Fanic – Jennie Farms
3rd Place – Gail Means – Autumn Mist Morning
2nd People’s Choice from December 2017 will be on January 17 – Dogs, Cats, Pets (any person’s)
February – holiday colors
March –
Raffle – Anita Fanic – collected $31.00 = $15.50 to club and $15.50 to winner of drawing.
Kathy Jaworski won the 50/50
Meeting Program – 2018 Outings – Mike Rexroad
Motorcross – January 13th & 14th – Mike Rexroad & Silvia Agreda-Koshin
Olustee – February 17 – John Neel
St. Augustine Celtic – March 10 – leader needed
Savannah – April ???? – leader needed
Jax Zoo – May 4-5 and May 16 for critiques – John Reed & John Neel
Boneyard Beach Sunrise – May 19 – leader needed
NCFA Corvette Show – June 16 – leader needed
Photography Small Groups – July 14 – Kathy Jaworski
Avonlea Antique Mall – August 18 – Mike Rexroad
Jax Architecture – Friendship Fountain – September 15 – leader needed
Franklin, N.C. – October 19-22 – leader needed
St. Augustine Pirate Festival – November ??? – leader needed
Jax Christmas Lights – December ??? – leader needed
Mike asked for volunteers to lead some of the outings.
Brian – outline some things that he has planned for going forward for the club.
• Finding and retaining new members
• Work on club participation
• Changing on digital competition
• Website
• Library
Continue to build on what the club has accomplished
Enhance standing of club
Work on sharing information
Making camera club better
New members – chairperson to get more members to join
Put pictures out in the community
Finding new members and retaining them
Develop understanding the interest of new memebers
Creating orientation packets and giving them to new members
Set up website training
Member participation on working/volunteering for different positions within the club
Digital and print competitions on new procedures . Developing digital competitions more like print competitions
Digital copies for print competitions. Having images for galleries for the website.
Making People’s Choice a source of letting members submit their images.
Website continue efforts to improvement.
Increasing writing on the blogs for places to shoot.
Building our own personal galleries for website to be viewed by potential members.
Website – presentations on images from outings on how the image was shot
Library – try to revisit on how to get books, magazines, etc on the aspects of taking images
Brian dismissed meeting at 8:30.