Hello to all and a very happy, safe and prosperous New Year to all!
Our first meeting of the new year had our new officers in place: Judd as President and Jerry as Vice President. Marcia retained her position as Secretary. A big welcome goes out to all of you! Judd and Jerry presented their ideas and views for taking our club forward in the new year. Judd thanked Debbie and Rosalie for the tremendous job they had done for the past 3 years.
We had Show & Tell with Kelly, Larry, Debbie and Jerry participating. Kelly had pictures of the eclipse that she took and we were so proud of her; she is using the manual settings on her camera!!!! Good job Kelly! Larry showed us a picture that he took where he stitched 12 photos together to create a panorama. It was a wonderful picture! Debbie had some light trail pics and some that she had taken at the Christmas party with Anne storytelling. That was fun.Jerry is on a quest for sharpness and brought his new toy, a head band magnifier that he is using. It will really come in handy for him and we had fun trying it out.
Judd and Jerry formed a new Steering Committee with Larry, Debbie and Connie as the new members. They will be meeting on Tuesday, January 18th for a short session after our meeting that evening. Good luck to all of you and we are excited to hear what ideas you come up with.
Judd passed around a paper and will do so at our next meeting also to get ideas from everyone of things you would like to discuss or do at our meetings this year. He also is going to have a Q & A section at our meetings to answer any question that someone might need help with. If you are having trouble with something or just need a question answered throw it out there. Many heads are better than one!
Our first field trip will be Saturday,January 15th. We are going to Branson for the Ice Sculpture event that is held in the parking lot at the Titanic Museum. It is a free event and is held from 9-4 that day. Bring a tripod and your camera or just your camera. There will be a lot of people roaming around this event but we should still be able to get some good pics. Just let someone know that you want to go and you can always call Judd or Marcia at 933-5450. We can carpool for this. So far Debbie, Jerry, Judd, Wade, Connie and Marcia are wanting to go. The more the merrier so all are welcome!!!!
Judd also asked Larry if he would be in charge of field trips. Larry has some good ideas for this; he would like to have a monthly field trip and then quarterly have us do a big field trip. This should be a lot of fun.
Our Challenge for the next meeting is Light Trails; Judd handed out a guide for doing this to help us. If you weren't at the meeting and would like a copy of this please let me know; 933-5450 and I will make sure you get one. The pics for this challenge must be new; no archived ones; get out and use your cameras!
Judd also handed out a January calendar to each of us for a 52 week challenge that we will be doing this year. Each month we will receive a new calendar. For January we have 5 weekly challenges; the first week we are to take a picture of your interpretation of cold. The second week is breakfast, the third week is macro, the next is tired, the next is sleep. Take your pictures (new, not archived) and bring them to the next meeting. For our meeting on January 18th we should have cold and breakfast done. This should be a fun challenge and make some of us (ME), use our cameras. Also, put your camera settings on the back of these pics.
Judd also wants us to do a 1 year challenge: He wants you to go out and find a spot that you can go to in every season and take a picture in the same spot. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Then we will bring those pictures to club, say, our last meeting of the year???, and show them. Larry had a good idea; mark the spots where your tripod legs are so that you are in the same spot for these pics.
It was also discussed that we enter contests and that there are contests that we can enter as a club. We are checking on that also and will have more info on that.
Rosalie is going to call and have a representative from the Marshfield Mail come to talk to us about the club signing up for N2Marshfield. This will get the club out there in the news and let people know what we are about.
Dean let us know that the Lions Club is having a spaghetti supper on Saturday, Jan. 8th at the Lions Club building at 210 Maple St. from 4 to 8 p.m. The charge is $5.00 per person and 6 and under is free. You can pay at the door. The food is always good at these events and what a great organization!
Larry let us know about an art gallery in town called Local Unique. You can take your pics there to display for sale or anything for that matter, he says they have a lot of different venues there. There is a 20% commission fee on anything sold. The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday.
We again talked about having another Workshop like we did in January 2010. This venture will take a lot of work and Judd is wanting to find out if anyone is interested in doing this; he will be bringing this up again as there seems to be a want to do this again. We gained members by the last one and the community really seemed to enjoy it.
Tom will be letting us know about a contest that is going on right now pertaining to a steam engine of the Union Pacific RR. If the Kansas City to Little Rock one wins it could be close enough for us for a field trip. (did someone say field trip?) He will let us know more so that we can vote too and maybe help this one to win.
On that note Judd closed the meeting. Welcome Judd & Jerry; you guys are going to make a great team!!!
Til the next time,
Marcia
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